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Items with the category:

Historical Fiction

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Fic­tion
The Red Balcony
Jonathan Wil­son
Interview

Gen­der and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty as Part of the Recipe: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nieke Cohen

Emi­ly Schneider
February 9, 2023
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Fic­tion
Code Name Sapphire
Pam Jenoff
Cover of The Boy Behind the Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis
Fic­tion
The Boy Behind the Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis
David Tabatsky
Cover of Cradles of the Reich: A Novel
Fic­tion
Cra­dles of the Reich: A Novel
Jen­nifer Coburn
Cover of The Night Travelers
Fic­tion
The Night Travelers
Arman­do Lucas Correa
Cover of The Boston Chocolate Party
Chil­dren’s
The Boston Choco­late Party
Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Deb­o­rah R. Prinz
Cover of The Village Idiot
Fic­tion
The Vil­lage Idiot
Steve Stern
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Fic­tion
This Rebel Heart
Kather­ine Locke
Cover of The Prisoner and the Writer
Chil­dren’s
The Pris­on­er and the Writer
Heather Camlot; Sophie Casson, illus. 
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Fic­tion
The Antiphonary of Love: The Call of the Scroll
Jacque­line Semha Gmach
Stephanie John­stone Steinberg
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Chil­dren’s
The Great­est Song of All: How Isaac Stern Unit­ed the World to Save Carnegie Hall
Megan Hoyt; Katie Hickey, illus.
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Fic­tion
The Win­ter Orphans
Kristin Beck
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Fic­tion
The Incan­des­cent Threads
Richard Zim­ler
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Fic­tion
Face­less
Kathryn Lasky
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Fic­tion
The Blumkin Project: A Bio­graph­i­cal Novel
Christian Salmon; William Rodarmor, trans.
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