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Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With its tree-lined streets, vibrant downtown and curbside planters of spring bulbs, Amberley, Massachusetts, seems a good place for Cate Saunders to start over. It's been two years since her husband, John, was killed in Iraq and life has been a struggle. Her new job as a caregiver doesn't pay much, but the locals are welcoming. In fact, Cate has barely unpacked before she's drawn--reluctantly at first--into a circle of friends. There's diner-owner...
62) Paper is white
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead. As the two young women beat their own early path toward marriage equality, Ellen's longing to plumb that voluminous silence draws her into a clandestine entanglement with a wily Holocaust survivor--a woman with more to hide than tell--and...
63) Meshugah
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A romantic triangle involving survivors of the Holocaust, set in New York City in the 50s. It was serialized in the Yiddish newspaper, Forward, under the title Lost Souls.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest until he has killed his brother's murderer, a concentration camp guard nicknamed the Rat, also from Heidelberg"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are becoming a reality. With Zalman's help, they build a house for...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Stone, now a successful New York City journalist, was smuggled out of Poland as a child with her parents after surviving the Holocaust. They remade themselves in America, harboring the deep scars of stories never told. Now in her thirties, Hannah learns a family secret that sends her back to where she came from, on the investigative journey of her life. Replayed in cinematic flashbacks, of the family's immigrant experience and war years on...
68) Three muses
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past. Katya Symanova...
Author
Publisher
Bridge Works Pub
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The loves and hates of residents of a New York retirement home. The leading man is Otto Korner, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who is directing an in-house play. Korner's love life receives added zest with the arrival of a new physical therapist, the spitting image of an old love from his Zurich days.
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A former Israeli special forces man helps his brother in Sardinia find his kidnaped son. In the process he discovers a plot by ex-Nazis intent on reviving the Third Reich. He destroys the plotters with the help of a beautiful Arab interpreter.
74) The iron tracks
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A Jew who survived the Holocaust obsessively rides the trains of postwar Europe in search of a Nazi concentration camp guard. The guard murdered his parents and he intends to kill him.
75) Pink slip
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An Italian-American woman falls in love with her boss, a much older Jew. The couple are Lisa Diodetto and Eben Strauss, a director of a pharmaceutical company, and what brings them together is that in her previous job, which was in publishing, she edited some of his writings on the Holocaust.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience-unearthing a remarkable story that becomes the subject of his magnum opus. At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet with his Dutch...
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