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2017 – 2018 JBC Network Books These authors were a part of the 2017 – 2018 JBC Network season Nonfiction 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History Jay Winik Nonfiction 37 Seconds: Dying Revealed Heaven's Help--A Mother's Journey Stephanie Arnold Children's A Hat for Mrs. Goldman Michelle Edwards; G. Brian Karas, illus. Fiction A Narrow Bridge Janet B. Fattal Nonfiction A World Erased Noah Lederman Nonfiction About Economy and Sustenance Aharon Ariel Lavi Nonfiction Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life Sarah Kaminsky; Mike Mitchell, trans. Fiction After Anatevka Alexandra Silber Nonfiction After the Roundup Richard Kutner Nonfiction Ageproof Jean Chatzky, Michael Roizen Nonfiction Al Franken Giant of the Senate Al Franken Children's Almost a Minyan Lori S. Kline; Susan Simon, illus. Nonfiction Always a Bridesmaid (for Hire) Jen Glantz Nonfiction Ambition Addiction Benjamin Shalva Nonfiction American Dreamer: A Look Into the Life of My Father, Joe Baby Bill Sefekar Fiction An Address in Amsterdam Mary Dingee Fillmore Nonfiction An Oasis in Time Marilyn Byfield Paul Nonfiction Angels in the Sky Robert Gandt Fiction Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit Cookbook Backyard Kitchen: Mediterranean Salads Sarina Roffe Nonfiction Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press Eddy Portnoy Cookbook Bake Sales Are My B*tch April Peveteaux Fiction Barren Island: A Novel Carol Zoref Fiction Bashert Herb S. Freed Nonfiction Being There Erica Komisar Nonfiction Being There: Journalism 1978-2000 Tom Teicholz Fiction Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan Nonfiction Black Boychik Sarge Fiction Blue Field Elise Levine Fiction Bronx Heart, Jerusalem Soul Rayna Sue Harris Nonfiction Chancer - How One Good Boy Saved Another Donnie Kanter Winokur Nonfiction Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change David Jaffe Fiction Children of Lies Susan Lerner Nonfiction Choices J. E. Laufer Nonfiction Chutzpah & High Heels Jessica Sara Fishman Nonfiction Connecting with the Enemy Sheila H. Katz Fiction Conviction Julia Dahl Nonfiction Courage to Sparkle Lois Barth Nonfiction Crooked Cathryn Jakobson Ramin Nonfiction Dancing on a Powder Keg Michal Schwartz Nonfiction Dancing With God Mark Hillel Kunis Fiction David and the Philistine Woman Paul Boorstin Nonfiction Dear Cancer Love Stacy Stacy Middleman Nonfiction Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel Eli Valley Nonfiction Dictionary of Jewish David Kilimnick Fiction Dinner at the Center of the Earth Nathan Englander Nonfiction Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix Lynda Schuster Nonfiction Dolce Vita Confidential Shawn Levy Nonfiction Down City Leah Carroll Nonfiction Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! Sora Vernikoff Nonfiction Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul Naomi Levy Visual Arts Embroidery and Sacred Text Rachel Braun Fiction Enchanted Islands Allison Amend Fiction Esfir Is Alive Andrea Simon Nonfiction Extreme Measures Jessica Nutik Zitter Nonfiction Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos Nonfiction From Generation to Generation: Healing Intergenerational Trauma Through Storytelling Emily Wanderer Cohen Nonfiction Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life Justin Loeber Children's Get Ready For My Mani-Pedi! Shoshana Banana Nonfiction Ghetto to Ghetto: Yiddish and Jive in Everyday Life Herbert L. Foster Fiction Girl in Snow Danya Kukafka Nonfiction Gorbachev William Taubman Fiction Great with Child Sonia Taitz Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter Nonfiction Healthy Gut Flat Stomach Danielle Capalino Fiction Helen Anita Mishook Nonfiction Hell's Traces Victor Ripp Nonfiction Hidden Ones Marcia Fine Nonfiction High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Glenn Frankel Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross Nonfiction Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig Nonfiction Hot Mess to Mindful Mom Ali Katz Nonfiction Hot Pants in Hollywood Susan Silver Nonfiction How Does That Make You Feel? Sherry Ann Amatenstein Nonfiction How to Be a Financial Grownup Bobbi Rebell Nonfiction Human Rights after Hitler Dan Plesch Nonfiction Hybrid Judaism Darren Kleinberg Nonfiction I Feel Bad Orli Auslander Fiction I Hate Everyone But You Allison Raskin, Gaby Dunn Nonfiction If All the Seas Were Ink Ilana Kurshan Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction Improving Mental Health Lloyd I Sederer Fiction In Many Waters Ami Sands Brodoff Fiction In The Shadow of Alabama Judy Reene Singer Nonfiction Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction Jewish In America Richard L. Rubin Nonfiction Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, from Brandeis to Kagan David G. Dalin Nonfiction Jumping Over Shadows Annette Gendler Nonfiction Just Between Us: Grandmother and Granddaughter Meredith Jacobs, Sofie Jacobs Nonfiction K.I.S.S. Sharna Florence Fiction Kasper Mützenmacher's Cursed Hat (Life Indigo, Book 1) Keith R. Fentonmiller Cookbook King Solomon's Table Joan Nathan Children's Koala Challah Laura Gehl Nonfiction Last Girl Before Freeway Leslie Bennetts Nonfiction Last Things Marissa Ann Moss Fiction Leaving Lucy Pear Anna Solomon Nonfiction Let There Be Laughter Michael Krasny Nonfiction Lifesaving for Beginners Anne Edelstein Fiction Lift and Separate Marilyn Simon Rothstein Fiction Light Radiance Splendor Leah Chyten Fiction Lilli de Jong Janet Benton Nonfiction Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel Francine Klagsbrun Nonfiction MacArthur's Spies Peter Eisner Nonfiction Make Your Kid a Money Genius Beth Kobliner Nonfiction Man of the Year Lou Cove Nonfiction Managing Bubbie Russel Lazega Cookbook Matzo David Kirschner Cookbook Modern Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka, Bagels & More Shannon Sarna Nonfiction My Adventures with God Stephen Tobolowksy Nonfiction My Glory Was I Had Such Friends Amy Silverstein Nonfiction My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew Abigail Pogrebin Nonfiction My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life Peter Gethers Nonfiction Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations Mike Uram Fiction Night In Jerusalem Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy Nonfiction Not Even A Number Lindsay Preston Fiction On Blackberry Hill Rachel Mann Fiction On the Sickle's Edge Neville D. Frankel Fiction One Life David Lida Children's Ora de Despertar Sarah Aroeste Fiction Our Short History Lauren Grodstein Fiction Piece of Mind Michelle Adelman Fiction Pioneers: The First Breach Rose Waldman Nonfiction Poetry Will Save Your Life Jill Bialosky Poetry Poets of the Bible Willis Barnstone Nonfiction Problem Solved Cheryl Strauss Einhorn Nonfiction Quantum Fuzz Michael S. Walker Children's Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas Pamela Ehrenberg; Anjan Sarkar, illus. Nonfiction Schadenfreude, A Love Story Rebecca Schuman Cookbook Smitten Kitchen Deb Perelman Nonfiction Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil Yvette Manessis Corporon Nonfiction Sons and Soldiers Bruce Henderson Cookbook Souper Jenny Goes Vegan Jennifer Levison Nonfiction Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution Julia Alekseyeva Fiction Startup Doree Shafrir Fiction Stolen Beauty Laurie Lico Albanese Nonfiction Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18 Berlin Dina Gold Nonfiction Straight Expectations Peggy Cryden Nonfiction Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem George Prochnik Fiction Strangers in Budapest Jessica Keener Nonfiction Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past Fern Schumer Chapman Nonfiction Suzanne's Children Anne Nelson Cookbook Sweet Noshings Amy Kritzer Nonfiction Tales of a Bulimic Babe Iris Ruth Pastor Fiction Tell Me How This Ends Well David Samuel Levinson Nonfiction Ten Dollars to Hate Patricia H. Bernstein Nonfiction Thank You G-d For Making Me a Woman Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin Nonfiction The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah Adam Valen Levinson Nonfiction The Adulterer's Daughter Patricia Weiss Levy Fiction The Afterlife of Stars Joseph Kertes Nonfiction The Ageless Way Karen Sands Nonfiction The Arena Rafi Kohan Nonfiction The Body Builders Adam Piore Nonfiction The Book of Separation Tova Mirvis Nonfiction The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis David E. Fishman Nonfiction The Cape House Rea Bochner Nonfiction The Crime of Complicity Amos N. Guiora Fiction The Devil and Webster Jean Hanff Korelitz Children's The Dollmaker of Krakow R. M. Romero Fiction The Drowning King Emily Holleman Nonfiction The Fifth Trimester Lauren Smith Brody Fiction The Fix: A Father's Secrets A Daughter's Search Sharon Leder Fiction The Forever Summer Jamie Brenner Nonfiction The Forgotten Flight Stuart H. Newberger Fiction The Fortunate Ones Ellen Umansky Nonfiction The Future Tense of Joy Jessica Teich Nonfiction The Gene Machine Bonnie Rochman Fiction The Golem On Fire Mountain Charlayne A. Crawford Nonfiction The Good Book: Writers Reflect On Favorite Bible Verses Andrew Blauner Nonfiction The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums Will Friedwald Nonfiction The Happiness Prayer Evan Moffic Cookbook The Healthy Jewish Kitchen Paula Shoyer Nonfiction The House of Government Yuri Slezkine Jewish Text The Illustrated Pirkei Avot Jessica Tamar Deutsch Fiction The Imperial Wife Irina Reyn Nonfiction The Inheritors Gita Arian Baack Nonfiction The Joys and Oys of Parenting Maurice J. Elias Cookbook The Joys of Jewish Preserving: Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit Butters, and More--for Holidays and Every Day Emily Paster Nonfiction The Kelloggs Howard Markel Children's The Language of Angels Richard Michelson; Karla Gudeon, illus. Fiction The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo Nonfiction The Little Gate-Crasher Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer Nonfiction The Mighty Franks: A Memoir Michael Frank Children's The Mystery of the Missing Matzah Larry Epstein Nonfiction The New Old Me Meredith Maran Fiction The Orphan's Tale Pam Jenoff Fiction The Other Einstein Marie Benedict Fiction The Patriots Sana Krasikov Nonfiction The People and the Books Adam Kirsch Nonfiction The Power of Different Gail Saltz Nonfiction The Price of Illusion Joan Juliet Buck Nonfiction The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers Bryan Mark Rigg Fiction The Ruined House Ruby Namdar; Hillel Halkin, trans. Cookbook The Rye Baker Stanley Ginsberg Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds. Fiction The Saturday Evening Girls Club Jane Healey Nonfiction The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions Greg Marcus Nonfiction The Story of Hebrew Lewis Glinert Nonfiction The Third Reich Thomas Childers Nonfiction The Tincture of Time Elizabeth L. Silver Nonfiction The Tragedy of Moses Elliott Kanbar Nonfiction The Trial of Adolf Hitler David King Fiction The Trick Emanuel Bergmann Fiction The Trust Ronald H. Balson Fiction The Weight of Ink Rachel Kadish Fiction The Widow of Wall Street Randy Susan Meyers Nonfiction The World Broke in Two Bill Goldstein Fiction The Worlds We Think We Know Dalia Rosenfeld Fiction The Yid: A Novel Paul Goldberg Nonfiction This Close to Happy Daphne Merkin Nonfiction To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz Nonfiction Toward a Hot Jew Miriam Libicki Fiction Trail of Miracles Aloma Halter, Smadar Herzfeld Children's Tutti's Promise K. Heidi Fishman Nonfiction Twenty-Six Seconds Alexandra Zapruder Fiction Two Trickster Tango Mark London Williams Poetry Two Worlds Exist Yehoshua November Nonfiction Up Your Game! Gary Belsky Fiction Waking Lions Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Poetry War Cries Kerry E. Arquette Fiction We Were Strangers Once Betsy Carter Nonfiction Weigh Your Words and Throw Away Your Scale Gloria Davidson, Hope Stanger Nonfiction We'll Always Have Casablanca Noah Isenberg Nonfiction What Will They Say About You When You Are Gone Rabbi Daniel Cohen Children's What's YOUR Birthday Wish? J. E. Laufer Nonfiction When Basketball Was Jewish Douglas Stark Nonfiction Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth Rabbi Karmi David Ingber Nonfiction Wherever You Go, There They Are Annabelle Gurwitch Nonfiction Who Gave You Permission?: The Memoir of a Child Sexual-Abuse Survivor Who Fought Back Manny Waks Nonfiction Why Won't You Apologize? Harriet Lerner Nonfiction Why You Eat What You Eat Rachel Herz Nonfiction Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Peter Hayes Nonfiction Win at Losing Sam Weinman Fiction Windy City Blues Renée Rosen Nonfiction You Don't Own Me Orly Lobel Fiction Young Jane Young Gabrielle Zevin Fiction Zaylie W. H. Rosenthal
Nonfiction Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change David Jaffe
Nonfiction Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix Lynda Schuster
Nonfiction Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos
Nonfiction From Generation to Generation: Healing Intergenerational Trauma Through Storytelling Emily Wanderer Cohen
Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross
Nonfiction Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig
Nonfiction Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations Mike Uram
Nonfiction Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil Yvette Manessis Corporon
Nonfiction Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18 Berlin Dina Gold
Nonfiction Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past Fern Schumer Chapman
Nonfiction The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis David E. Fishman
Cookbook The Joys of Jewish Preserving: Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit Butters, and More--for Holidays and Every Day Emily Paster
Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.
Nonfiction To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz
Nonfiction Who Gave You Permission?: The Memoir of a Child Sexual-Abuse Survivor Who Fought Back Manny Waks
