The Red Balcony
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine…
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1. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
2. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
3. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
4. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
5. Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (Corie Geller, #2)
By: Susan Isaacs
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she sh… read more
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- fiction
6. Shanghai
By: Joseph Kanon
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Lost Wife
By: Susanna Moore
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
9. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
10. The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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- historical
- jewish
12. Night Flight to Paris (Kate Rees, #2)
By: Cara Black
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mis… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Scatterlings
By: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
15. The Unwanted Dead (Eddie Giral, #1)
By: Chris Lloyd
3.81
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the glo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. The Lost Americans
By: Christopher Bollen
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she trave… read more
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- fiction
17. The Only Daughter
By: A.B. Yehoshua
3.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
“An old-fashioned book, free of cynicism, encroaching technology and intricate plotting, but imbued… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
18. Paris Requiem (Eddie Giral, #2)
By: Chris Lloyd
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping World War II murder mystery—and a beautifully drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi occupat… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Vienna Writers Circle
By: J.C. Maetis
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two m… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
20. Promised Land
By: Martin Fletcher
3.92
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
From author Martin Fletcher comes Promised Land, an epic family saga that crosses the globeThe tumu… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
21. The Red Balcony
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine… read more
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