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    Historical Fiction

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    City of Flick­er­ing Light: A Novel
    Juli­ette Fay
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    Fic­tion
    The Lost Girls of Paris
    Pam Jenoff
    Cover of The Nice Little Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovner Jewish Miss Marple Novel
    Fic­tion
    The Nice Lit­tle Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovn­er Jew­ish Miss Marple Novel
    Lin­da Frank
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    Poet­ry
    Deaf Repub­lic
    Ilya Kaminsky
    Cover of Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Bit­ter­sweet Brook­lyn: A Novel
    Thel­ma Adams
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    Chil­dren’s
    Chelm for the Holidays
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Cover of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
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    The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of Kava­lier & Clay: A Novel
    Michael Chabon
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    Zip­po­rah, Wife of Moses
    Marek Halter; Howard Curtis, trans.
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    The Five: A Nov­el of Jew­ish Life in Turn-of-the-Cen­tu­ry Odessa
    Vladimir Jabotinsky; Michael R. Katz, trans.
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    Lion’s Hon­ey: The Myth of Samson
    David Grossman; Stuart Schoffman, trans.
    Cover of Lilah: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Lilah: A Novel
    Marek Halter; Howard Curtis, trans.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Lib­er­ty on 23rd Street
    Jacqueline B. Glasthal; Alan Reingold, illus.
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    Rav His­da’s Daugh­ter: A Nov­el of Love, the Tal­mud, and Sorcery
    Mag­gie Anton
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    A Day of Small Beginnings
    Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum
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    A Delight­ful Com­pendi­um of Con­so­la­tion: A Fab­u­lous Tale of Romance, Adven­ture and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean
    Bur­ton L. Visotzky
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    1940
    Jay Neugeboren
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