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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class...
2) Trinity
Author
Language
English
Description
The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and valiant Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join him. Leon Uris has painted a masterful portrait of a beleaguered people divided by religion and wealth--impoverished Catholic peasants...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment-the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove-the men share a sweetly...
Author
Publisher
McWitty Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Watchmaker's Daughter tells the story of a child of two refugees: a watchmaker who saved lives within Dachau prison, and his wife, a gifted concert pianist about to make her debut when the Nazis seized power. In this memoir, Sonia Taitz is born into a world in which the Holocaust is discussed constantly by her insular concentration camp-surviving parents. This legacy, combined with Sonia's passion and intelligence, leads the author to forge an...
5) Bech is back
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Three illuminations in the life of an American author--Bech third-worlds it-Australia and Canada--The Holy Land-(etc.)
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son's cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. What role does a mother play, she asks, in raising thoughtful, generous children? Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? And how do the stories we tell inform who we become?.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the popular children's authors' childhoods and early life together, their travels and marriage in Brazil, and their dramatic escape from World War II-torn Europe on bicycles.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories satirizing the American literary scene. All feature Henry Bech, an obscure Jewish writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize. In Bech in Czech, he visits Czechoslovakia and discovers the ghosts of East European Jewry.
10) Night
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and describes how he and his family were forced from their town in Romania and brought to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the death of his father, and how he was able to survive.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A book of stories about how we bless one another without knowing it; and of how we are blessed at every moment, even in sorrow and difficulty; and that it is possible for each of us to uncover live's hidden wholeness and restore wholeness in the world.
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Language
English
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"A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two members of Freud's Circle try to keep themselves and their loved ones safe as the SS closes in. Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud's Circle--a unique group of the famed psychiatrist's...
18) Open heart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
19) Elie Wiesel
Author
Publisher
Dillon Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A biography of author and educator Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his writings and work on behalf of victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
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