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    Historical Fiction

    Cover of The Time Keepers
    Fic­tion
    The Time Keepers
    Alyson Rich­man
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    Fic­tion
    Peg­gy
    Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison
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    Fic­tion
    The Many Moth­ers of Ivy Puddingstone
    Randy Susan Meyers
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    Fic­tion
    Mur­der in Constantinople
    A.E. Goldin
    Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
    Fic­tion
    The Love Elixir of Augus­ta Stern
    Lyn­da Cohen Loigman
    Cover of The Sound of a Thousand Stars
    Fic­tion
    The Sound of a Thou­sand Stars
    Rachel Rob­bins
    Essay

    My Grandfather’s Secret: Jew­ish Inside the Man­hat­tan Project

    Rachel Rob­bins
    September 30, 2024
    Interview—From the Journal

    Anne Frank Before the Diary: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

    Simona Zaret­sky
    September 16, 2024
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    Chil­dren’s
    An Etrog from Across the Sea
    Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Don’t For­get to Write
    Sara Good­man Confino
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    Fic­tion
    The Last Woman of Warsaw
    Judy Batal­ion
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    Fic­tion
    The For­got­ten Ital­ian Restaurant
    Bar­bara Josselsohn
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    Fic­tion
    The Right­eous
    Ronald H. Balson
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    Fic­tion
    Free­dom’s Game
    Rosanne Tolin
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    Fic­tion
    The Girls of the Glim­mer Factory
    Jen­nifer Coburn
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    Fic­tion
    Rebec­ca of Ivanhoe
    Ali­son Bass
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