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Our Little Histories

By Janice Weizman - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Every human being has their own little history. The seven little histories in this book come from imagined characters in an extended Jewish ...Read Review

Married Life

By David Vogel (trans. Dalya Bilu) - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance

Vienna of the 1920s is the palpitating backdrop for this tale of an obsessive, destructive marriage between a secular Jewish intellectual and a ...Read Review

Preliminaries

By S. Yizahar (trans. Nicholas de Lange) - Published 2007

Genres:

Alternate HistoryInspirational

Called “the founding Father of Israeli literature…and master of prose fiction,” Yizhar produced Preliminaries at a time when the majority of scholars ...Read Review

Catalina, A True Story

By Markus Orths (trans. Helen Atkins) - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This novel was inspired by the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso, who was born in Basque country around 1592. Known in her own time ...Read Review

A Cabinet Of Wonders

By Renee Dodd - Published 2006

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Narrated by a dwarf, a wolf-woman, conjoined twins, a tattooed man, and an individual of ambiguous sex – and a few more of God’...Read Review

The Dawning Of The Day: A Jerusalem Tale

By Haim Sabato (trans. Yaacab Dweck) - Published 2006

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The Dawning of the Day is a tale of understanding another culture, told in a graceful, charming and intelligent prose. Ezra Simon Tov ...Read Review

The Choiring of the Trees

By Donald Harington - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

The Choiring of the Trees, set in 1914 in an Ozark town, opens at sundown as Nail Chism is being led to the electric ...Read Review

Lightning Bug

By Donald Harington - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

It’s July, 1939, when Every Dill returns to Stay More, Arkansas, to reclaim his true love, the town’s attractive postmistress, Latha Bourne. ...Read Review

An Apology for Autumn

By David Turrill - Published 2004

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Jim Gudsen’s older brother Herkimer was always destined for something greater than an ordinary life. Devout from an early age, Herkimer knew ...Read Review

Love, the Painter’s Wife, & the Queen of Sheba

By Aliette Armel - By trans. Alison Anderson - Published 2004

Genres:

Romance

To keep her husband, the Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesco, amused and inspired, the shy and subdued Silvia reads him the story ...Read Review