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Woman of Valor
ISBN: 9789652296405 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. She was determined to be the best wife, mother, and professional; something had to give For weeks Woman of Valor topped Israel s best-seller lists, conquering hearts. In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding the strength to gather up the pieces and learn to smile again. Woman of Valor is a must-read for every mother. Lihi Lapid s best-selling novel starts where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. Woman of Valor...
She was determined to be the best wife, mother, and professional; something had to give For weeks Woman of Valor topped Israel s best-seller lists, co...
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A Life Less Lived
ISBN: 9781482761047 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Borskys are a Jewish family living in the world of an immigrant Chicago neighborhood in the 1940's. As the parents deal with all the problems of life in a new and strange culture, circumstances send the family into a tailspin. Life will never be the same for them again, as the novel follows the twists and turns that their lives take, set against the turbulent times of postwar America. All the while, Evelyn faces her growing up years, as the novel unflinchingly takes her from childhood to young womanhood, from high school to young marriage and beyond.
The Borskys are a Jewish family living in the world of an immigrant Chicago neighborhood in the 1940's. As the parents deal with all the problems of l...
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62,88 |
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The Keeper Of Secrets: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062240309 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations--from WWII to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today--and reveals the loss, love, and secrets of the families who owned it. Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations--from WWII to Stalinist Russ... |
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71,98 |
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Kalooki Nights
ISBN: 9780099501367 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewi...
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96,71 |
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The Elected Member
ISBN: 9780349130224 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father... Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes....
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50,28 |
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Last Train from Liguria
ISBN: 9781843549888 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, movingbetween fascist Italy and modern IrelandIn 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family s summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy...
A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, movingbetween fascist Italy and modern IrelandIn 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet ...
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45,24 |
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When Fishes Love Doves
ISBN: 9781482553369 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Fishes Love Doves is a dramatic, fictional love story with a special appeal for those in the Jewish community who attempted to bridge two worlds when they moved from large cities to suburbs in the 1960s. At this heady time in American history, traditional values were undergoing a dramatic, major paradigm shift. The marriage of two cultures is difficult, and Adina Greenfeld struggles to find out if, hard as she tries, it will ever be possible to live in a different way than her deep-rooted, traditional culture. This lesson will strike a chord for readers from many backgrounds, although it...
When Fishes Love Doves is a dramatic, fictional love story with a special appeal for those in the Jewish community who attempted to bridge two worlds ...
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79,56 |
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Many Seconds Into the Future: Ten Stories
ISBN: 9780896728592 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Moving stories of Jewish sensibility"
The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving, and worshipping. Clayton has published several novels, including "Mitzvah Man "(TTUP, 2011), but he is best known for his critically-acclaimed short fiction, which has been included in "O. Henry Prize Stories," "Best American Short Stories," and Pushcart Prize anthologies." "His collection... "Moving stories of Jewish sensibility"
The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and m... |
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94,57 |
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Retrospective
ISBN: 9780544157989 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose... A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewis... |
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75,77 |
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Between Friends
ISBN: 9780544227743 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, National Jewish Book Award
" A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings." -- Chicago Tribune In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to challenge his daughter's lover, an old friend, a man his own... Winner, National Jewish Book Award " A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings." -- Chicago Tribune |
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56,67 |
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Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780615699837 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,45 |
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The Greatest Jewish American Lover in Hungarian History
ISBN: 9780988692244 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "
Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed--and hardly any outside of it--and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips. She enjoyed it--this teacherly role--it had been a very long time since she had been able to practice the art of sexual instruction, and there was something exciting and alluring about this--all that innocence in a single place " A humorous and heartrending portrait of expatriate life, "The Greatest Jewish American... "
Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed--and hardly any outside of it--and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that ... |
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62,65 |
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Kaplan's Quest
ISBN: 9781530593743 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,81 |
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Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction
ISBN: 9780815634867 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MeIr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark's greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt's relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash. At the same time, he shows that Goldschmidt's midrashic style in a secular context predates certain narrative movements within Modernism that are usually... MeIr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark's greatest writers of the nineteent... |
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261,25 |
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Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction
ISBN: 9780815634720 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meir Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash. At the same time, he shows that Goldschmidt s midrashic style in a secular context predates certain narrative movements within Modern-ism that are usually associated...
Meir Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark s greatest writers of the nineteenth cen...
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116,06 |
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Forever Torn
ISBN: 9781517301071 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forever Torn is the true and amazing story of two brothers and three generations of one family - a family torn apart by deaths, poverty, deceit and a promise made by a small boy to his Grandfather over 80 years ago. It is the story of one man who refused to acknowledge his past and his brother who remained bound to protect the secret, despite his own pain. If you have enjoyed fictional epics such as Blood Brothers and Kane and Abel, you will love Forever Torn, which unlike the aforementioned is based on a true and tragic story.
Forever Torn is the true and amazing story of two brothers and three generations of one family - a family torn apart by deaths, poverty, deceit and a ...
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51,70 |
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Aimless Journey
ISBN: 9781484908051 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,76 |
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Case Unclosable
ISBN: 9781492306467 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anna is an American Jewish psychotherapist who lives in Vienna. Nearly twenty-five years after her father's untimely death, she is plagued by nightmares and feels compelled to solve the enigma of his unpublished, autobiographical novella, Tell Marvin. Dan Rosenberg, a New York attorney, is approached by a widowed Holocaust survivor who begs him to represent her son, Marvin. After returning safely from the war in Vietnam, he had been arrested on drug charges and imprisoned in Franco's Spain. Although Marvin faces a harsh sentence, he is headstrong and reluctant to accept the clever escape plan...
Anna is an American Jewish psychotherapist who lives in Vienna. Nearly twenty-five years after her father's untimely death, she is plagued by nightmar...
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Judah the Pious
ISBN: 9781480445499 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, "full of sudden delights and mocking humor" (The New York Times).
The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one man dares challenge the sovereign: the spindly old Rabbi Eliezer of Rimanov, whose eccentric habits conceal the mind of a dreamer and the curiosity of a child. The rabbi is reduced to laughter at the sight of the king, for... Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: A novel of a Polish king and a rebellious rabbi, "full of sudden delights and mocking humor" (The New ...
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71,98 |
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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780815610335 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction |
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113,53 |
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