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Finalist for the 75th National Jewish Book AwardsThe awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe’s Jews left an indelible mark on history**, is expertly revealed “in cinematic detail” (The Wall Street Journal).**In the years before World War II, thousands of young Jewish men and women escaped Europe, seeking safety...

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must decide whether to risk even that to bring others to freedom.“We don’t choose how we feel, but we choose how we act.”It’s 1942. German N...

""Mess is a wonderfully artful book: a funny, sharp-eyed, finely observed, and precise satire of Hollywood and all the things we collect and covet. It is also a generous and tender examination of how we make meaning out of our material—our everyday—lives, our mess. The connection between who we are and what we accumulate becomes a delicate and intimate story in Michael Chessler's witty debut.""—Dana Spiotta, author of WaywardMarie Kondo me...

Dual NarrationFrom the author of the bestselling Daughters of the Occupation comes a novel based on real-life Russian female aviators and their history-making regiment whose night bombing missions helped defeat the invading German army during World War II.Marina Raskova, a divorced mother, is known as the “Soviet Amelia Earhart” for her long-distance world records as a flight navigator. In 1941, when the Germans attack her beloved ...

In the vein of Fleishman is in Trouble and Elif Batuman—an insightful, heartfelt, and hilarious debut exploring cultural diaspora through one teenager’s summer across Berlin, Jerusalem, and ChicagoIt’s another scorching summer in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents. All told, the plucky teen would much rather be at home in Germany, exploring Berlin with...

For fans of Pam Jenoff and Genevieve Graham, a novel based on the true story of a daring all-female aviation bombing unit called the Night Witches, who inspired fear in German soldiers throughout WWII1941: As the Nazis flatten her country, Maria Raskova, a record-breaking Russian flight navigator, receives permission to form the only all-female aviation regiment in the Second World War. From the start, the odds are against the women, who are forced to fly in deadly...

Welcome to your NEXT great audiobook! NEXT is an exciting new line that feature short, irresistible stories that's sure to keep you hooked. Once you've listened to one, you'll need to know what happens...NEXT! Mega-bestselling, award-winning authors Sarah Mlynowski and Christina Soontornvat are kicking off the fun with The Luckies #1: Rumor Has It, which follows two stepsisters who don't get along at all...From strangers to sisters...Annie

A romantic comedy of manners about a lavish wedding weekend gone very, very wrong with the slow-burn romance of Emily Henry and the fizzy humor of Sophie Kinsella.The Bride: Beautiful, seemingly carefree Marigold is tired of being treated like a shallow it-girl. That’s one of the many reasons she’s excited to marry Jonathan—the handsome, kind, respectable doctor of her dreams. So when a shocking secret from her past threatens to ruin her wedding, she’ll do anything...

Najwa Zebian, EdD, has been grappling with the concept of letting go for years, both in her own journey and in her interactions with community members, students, and friends. More and more, Najwa has observed that while our problems are personal, the themes surrounding them are universal. She concluded that letting go is a topic that deserves specific attention and consideration.Wanting a tool that is practical for as many people as possible, Najwa used her considerable platform to...

From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes a bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman**’**s past and future.In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the nightmarchers—ghosts of ancient warriors that rise from their burial sites on moonless n...

A stellar debut weaving a tale of survival through the interconnected stories of those affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.A teenage Olympic champion in Krakow, a stripper in New York, an American professor at Yale, a tech executive, and a doctor turned undocumented nanny—in a stunning collection of linked stories, Seagulls follows these women and men as they navigate exile, marriage, violence, and love in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

“Syrian Jewish culture gets the Jane Austen treatment, with sisters Nina, Fortune and Lucy—the rebel, the good girl and the baby of the family, respectively—all on the marriage market. What’s Mama Cohen to do? Chehebar’s witty debut dives deep into Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community.”—People (A Best Book of the Month)The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagem...