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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)

by Marcel Proust

Published: 1982-08-12

Paperback: 1056 pages

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Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, l...

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In A Heartbeat (Rebel Walking #1)

by Hilary Storm

Published: 2013-06-17

Kindle Edition: 165 pages

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Eaven Bennett is a college student with a passion for photography. She has high hopes of completing college and starting a new life as she moves away from her hometown with her best friend, Ivy Adams. Her last boyfriend ruined any chance of her trusting ever again.Talon Walker is the dar...

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The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

by Gluckel

Published: 1987-12-27

Paperback: 295 pages

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Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an...

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The Oath: A Novel

by Elie Wiesel

Published: 1986-05-12

Paperback: 296 pages

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When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air and a pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward and c...

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My Mothers Sabbath Days

by Chaim Grade

Published: 1986-11-12

Hardcover: 397 pages

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This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems—the city of Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," during the years before World War II. Centered on the figure of Grade's mother, Vella—simple, pious,...

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The Prophet's Wife

by Milton Steinberg, Ari L. Goldman, Harold S. Kushner, Norma Rosen

Published: 2010-03-19

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A long-lost novel by the author of As a Driven Leaf. Infidelity, faith, and power all come together in a gripping story of the prophet Hosea and his wife, Gomer. This extraordinary literary find includes a foreword by Ari Goldman and commentaries by Harold Kushner and Norma Rosen. The Lord...

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The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner

by Eli N. Evans

Published: 1994-09-01

Paperback: 383 pages

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"(In) a multi-layered book of great warmth and feeling, (Evans) reminds us anew of the Jewish southern inheritance, its ancient intensities and rhythms and heartbeats. This is a very southern book, and also an immensely American one" (Willie Morris). "The Jews of the South have found their poet laureate."--Abba...

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (Chinese Edition)

by (Mei) Mi Le.

Published: 2010-01-03

Paperback: 199 pages

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Hassie Calhoun: A Las Vegas Novel of Innocence

by Pamela Cory

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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HASSIE CALHOUN, the first book of a trilogy, is a modern bildungsroman about a lovely, determined and talented teenager from the late 1950s/early 60s rural Texas, who flees a difficult family situation to seek fame and fortune as an entertainer in Las Vegas. Her beauty opens doors immediat...

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Until My Soul Gets It Right: The Bibliophiles: Book Two

by Karen Wojcik Berner

Published: 2012-05-23

Paperback: 292 pages

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This edition includes a Reader's Guide with book club discussion questions. 2013 Readers’ Choice Award Nominee—BigAl’s Books & Pals From the author of "A Whisper to a Scream" comes a story about growing up, making peace with your past, and finding a little love along the way. In her first novel,...