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21) Refugiado
Author
Publisher
Editorial Santillana
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
"Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paris, 1940: German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris, forcing frightened citizens to flee. But not everyone has the luxury to leave. Camille Lacroix, a chambermaid at the world-famous Ht̥el Ritz, must stay to support her family back home in Brittany. Desperate to earn money, Camille also acts as a lady's maid for longtime guest Vivian Miller, a glamorous American widow--and a Nazi sympathizer. Despite her distrust of the woman, Camille...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy and falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Hannah Cooper and her frontier children often urge their Jewish friend, Jacob Kates, to consider Jesus' claim to be Messiah. Thirteen-year-old mary Beth even tels Jacob she would give her very life if it meant he would become Christ's follower. Only when Mary Beth's words are put to a fearful test does Jacob recognize he's on his own Damascus journey.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in...
26) Kissing kosher
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It's all she can do to manage her family's kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing. She needs hired help. And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit. Except Ethan isn't there to work--he's undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though...
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Leah and little Louis attempt to escape Austria over treacherous foot paths in the Alps while Murphy and Elisa begin their trip toward New York. While Jewish refugees from Germany float on the open seas, Elisa stands precariously between Hitler's domination of Europe and the possibility of destroying his power once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman's past is torn apart in a heartbeat. Herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to...
Author
Series
Rashi's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Joheved finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she becomes betrothed, she is forced to choose between marital happiness and being true to her love of the Talmud.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris--and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther...
32) The human stain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk, a distinguished professor at a small New England college where he has managed over the course of fifty years to make a lot of enemies, experiences a sort of personal liberation when he is forced from his job on false claims of racism -- a charge made all the more ironic due to a secret Silk has been keeping nearly his entire life.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality, and that they're the reason she must conceal her real identity. But in befriending...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife.
Author
Publisher
Banot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of 'Rashi's Daughters,' Maggie Anton, has written a wholly transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in Brooklyn in the 1950s, a time of Elvis & Marilyn, communist scares & polio vaccines, Jewish migration & American integration. When Hannah Eisin, a successful journalist, interviews Rabbi Nathan Mandel, a controversial Talmud professor, she persuades him to teach her...
37) Shmutz: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An arranged marriage is expected for Raizl, but she's not like the other young women in her Hasidic sect in Brooklyn. Raizl has a college scholarship to study accounting, a part-time job that supports her family, and a hidden computer making it all possible. That's where she finds the porn, through the slippery slope of an innocent Google search. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. The porn is...
38) The Innocents
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Language
English
Description
Newly engaged, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is a prized catch in his tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, but as the plans for his wedding with his high school sweetheart, Rachel Gilbert, begin to close in around him, Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York and she unsettles Adam with her beauty and independence, showing him what freedom is all about.
39) Alibi
Author
Language
English
Description
Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany during World War II, travels to Venice in 1946 to meet up with his wealthy expatriate mother, and finds the city untouched, but the people deeply ravaged by the war, a fact that becomes dangerously clear when his lover Claudia, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust, meets up with the Venetian doctor who happens to be his mother's new suitor.
Author
Publisher
[Debra Doxer]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meira Sokolow had the misfortune of being born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland, in 1912. Before she took her first breath, her fate had been sealed. Residing in the Jewish Quarter of the city, Meira's early life was typical. She fell in love with a local boy, got married, and had a daughter. Then the German army marched into Warsaw, and everything changed. Forced into the ghetto with her family, she found survival to be a daily struggle. Hunger,...