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Canadian Jewish Experiences Nonfiction A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Liel Leibovitz Nonfiction Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case Monda Halpern Nonfiction Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine Jonathan Garfinkel Fiction Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers Rhea Tregebov, ed.; Kathryn Hellerstein, intro. Fiction Baldwin Street Alvin Rakoff Nonfiction Between Gods: A Memoir Alison Pick Nonfiction Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Roberta S. Kremer Nonfiction Exiles From Nowhere: The Jews and the Canadian Elite Alan Mendelson Fiction Failure to Thrive Jeff Oliver Fiction Fault Lines Nancy Huston Fiction Fields of Exile Nora Gold Nonfiction Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels Children's Gravity Leanne Lieberman Children's Guttersnipe Jane Cutler; Emily Arnold McCully, illus. Nonfiction I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors Bernice Eisenstein Nonfiction I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons Nonfiction Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, Jewish Cultural Series, Volume Two Simon J. Bronner, ed. Fiction Kahn & Engelmann Hans Eichner; Jean M. Snook, trans. Children's Kanada Eva Wiseman Nonfiction Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery Helen Waldstein Wilkes Cookbook Modern Israeli Cooking: 100 New Recipes for Traditional Classics Danielle Oron Fiction My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story J. L. Witterick Fiction Natasha: And Other Stories David Bezmozgis Nonfiction Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War L. Ruth Klein, ed. Children's Once Morris Gleitzman Fiction Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Choir Sharon Kahn Children's Oy, Feh, So? Cary Fagan; Gary Clement, illus. Nonfiction Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny Pearl Goodman Children's Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz Carol Matas Nonfiction Playing With Matches Suri Rosen Nonfiction Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories From a Hassidic Household Malka Zipora Fiction Ravenscraig Sandi Krawchenko Altner Nonfiction Restitution: A Family's Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust Kathy Kacer Children's Rosie's Dream Cape Zelda Freedman; Silvana Bevilacqua, illus. Fiction Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000 Saul Bellow; James Wood, ed. Nonfiction Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen David Sax Nonfiction Sheymes: A Family Album After the Holocaust Elizabeth Wajnberg Fiction Shlepping the Exile: A Novel Michael Wex Nonfiction Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – The Creators of Superman Brad Ricca Nonfiction Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Sarah Leavitt Fiction Tell Me A Story, Tell Me The Truth Gina Roitman Fiction The Best Place on Earth: Stories Ayelet Tsabari Fiction The Betrayers David Bezmozgis Fiction The Big Dream Rebecca Rosenblum Fiction The Briss Michael Tregebov Fiction The Debba Avner Mandelman Fiction The Free World David Bezmozgis Fiction The Frumkiss Family Business Michael Wex Fiction The Imposter Bride Nancy Richler Nonfiction The Library of Author Biographies: Lynne Reid Banks Sherri Liberman Nonfiction The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 Zachary Leader Children's The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada's First Woman's Olympic Team Ron Hotchkiss Cookbook The Mile End Cookbook: Redefining Jewish Comfort Food from Hash to Hamantaschen Noah and Rae Bernamoff Fiction The Mystics of Mile End Sigal Samuel Nonfiction The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter Linda Grant Nonfiction The Volunteer: A Canadian's Secret Life in the Mossad Michael Ross; Jonathan Kay Nonfiction There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction Saul Bellow; Benjamin Taylor, ed. Visual Arts They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Fiction Transgression: A Novel of Love and War James W. Nichol Nonfiction What the Furies Bring Kenneth Sherman Nonfiction Where We Buried The Sun: One Woman's Gulag Story Alla Tumanov; Gust Olson, trans. Nonfiction White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion Fiction You Made Me Love You Joanna Goodman
Nonfiction A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Liel Leibovitz
Fiction Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers Rhea Tregebov, ed.; Kathryn Hellerstein, intro.
Nonfiction Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Roberta S. Kremer
Nonfiction Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, Jewish Cultural Series, Volume Two Simon J. Bronner, ed.
Nonfiction Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War L. Ruth Klein, ed.
Nonfiction Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen David Sax
Nonfiction Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – The Creators of Superman Brad Ricca
Cookbook The Mile End Cookbook: Redefining Jewish Comfort Food from Hash to Hamantaschen Noah and Rae Bernamoff
Nonfiction The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter Linda Grant
Nonfiction There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction Saul Bellow; Benjamin Taylor, ed.
Visual Arts They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Nonfiction White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion