Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland – 320 pages ARC provided by Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review.Book Blurb: Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the...
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On Division by Goldie Goldbloom
On Division by Goldie Goldbloom – 288 pages Book Blurb: In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws,...
The Prophetess by Evonne Marzouk
The Prophetess by Evonne Marzouk – 320 pages ARC courtesy the author in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: The Prophetess tells a modern story about Rachel, an American teenage girl called to join a secret community of Jewish prophets. The story weaves Jewish...
The Third Daughter by Talia Carner
The Third Daughter by Talia Carner – 512 pages ARC provided by William Morrow for an honest review. Book Blurb: The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her...
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel BarenbaumBook Blurb: In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible...
All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio
All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio – 240 pagesWhen Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she's confused to learn that she's lived a sad, reclusive life for years in a sprawling apartment on the Seine. Slowly regaining vague...
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris ARC courtesy of St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Book Blurb: Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau,...
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Sharpiro – 252 pagesBook Blurb: In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was...
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner – 416 pages Book Blurb: Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair;...
The Crate: A Story of War, A Murder and Justice by Deborah Vadas Levison
The Crate: A Story of War, A Murder and Justice by Deborah Vadas Levison – 358 pagesBook Blurb: After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps – a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new...