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From New York Times bestselling author, Laurie Frankel, comes a propulsive, sharply funny, and strikingly tender novel about how families are sometimes formed in the most unexpected ways.India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards (which, torn into pieces, also function as make-shift confetti) and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star.But while promotin...

Windows show us the world outside. As Mark Cornish discovers, his classmate Glenda can create windows to other realms-not all of them friendly. A window offers people a view of the world outside. For Mark Cornish, seventeen, a high schooler with a wayward single mother and someone with no prospects, windows offer an escape from reality. That escape comes through the person of Glenda Cron, a classmate of his with an unusual ability. She can...

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy: Post-Holocaust Soviet tales, Yiddish science fiction from the 1980s, Mizrahi novels from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, and new themes and subgenres from Brazil to Morocco. This essay collection explores Jewish speculative fiction from every continent.

A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption, and human trafficking, Israeli intelligence agent Maya Rimon tries to stop the killer before his double-edged blade finishes off the entire family. A refugee's discovery of a buried diary in a UN camp holds the key to solving a s...

Set in modern Jerusalem and among the desert ruins of Qumran, this desperate hunt for an ancient treasure scroll pits a female Israeli intelligence agent against a religious fanatic hell-bent on bringing about the End of Days. An American professor's murder reveals his discovery of a lost Dead Sea Scroll, whose text encodes the secret hiding places of the lost Second Temple Treasures. Israeli intelligence agent Maya Rimon races against time t...

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Follow Bennie as he chases away his Monday blues and embraces some humor in this fun new book, What are Mondays good for, Anyway? Bennie hates Mondays. Mondays mean no more watching cartoons or eating choco-chip pancakes. Mondays mean only work and no play. As another Monday arrives and the day starts going downhill, Bennie begins to realize that if he allows it, belly laughs can happen on even the most dreaded weekday of all. "What are M...

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