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A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a âgeniusâ (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keretâs son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgarâs father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgarâs three-year-old sonâs impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. Thereâs Levâs insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgarâs siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his fatherâs shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoirâEtgarâs first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable styleâis full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
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9781783780464 | Granta Books, July 2, 2015, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a âgeniusâ (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
9781594633263 | Riverhead Books, June 16, 2015, cover price $26.95
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9780399576003 | Riverhead Books, June 7, 2016, cover price $16.00
9781783780471 | Granta Books, February 4, 2016, cover price $14.20 | About this edition: A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a âgeniusâ (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
9780395535165, titled "The Atlas of Middle-Earth" | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1992), cover price $24.00 | also contains The Atlas of Middle-Earth | About this edition: Maps illustrate the battles, journeys, cities, and territories described in Tolkien's fantasy series, as well as his mythical land's history, climate, population, and languages
Product Description: A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a âgeniusâ (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keretâs son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry...read more
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9780395535189, titled "Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery" | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | also contains Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery | About this edition: This modern interpretation of an ancient system for understanding human personality shows how the enneagram is consistent with modern psychological theories, including those of Freud, Jung, and Karen Horney
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9781611764161 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, June 16, 2015), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a âgeniusâ (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
Product Description: When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled. He never did. Mother and child moved first to the USSR and ultimately to Israel, where Zamir grew up on a kibbutz...read more
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9781559703093 | Arcade Pub, November 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The son of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist recounts his twenty years of separation from his father, their difficult reunion in 1955, and the thirty-five-year relationship that followed
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9789654943666 | 2 edition (Astrolog Pub House, May 1, 2015), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled.
9781559703536, titled "Journey to My Father: Isaac Bashevis Singer" | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1996, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled.
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9781580237154 | Jewish Lights Pub, November 15, 2013, cover price $18.99
Product Description: From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalevâs birth. Here we meet Shalevâs amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the familyâs biggest enemy in their new land: dirt...read more
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9780805242874 | Schocken Books, October 4, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalevâs birth.
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9780804762489, titled "The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner" | Stanford Univ Pr, October 21, 2009, cover price $67.50
Product Description: A Table for One is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950's and 1960's where the scent of fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture. The writer's son, Meir Appelfeld, paints cityscapes, vistas of the city, where he himself lives...read more
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9781592641109 | Toby Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Table for One is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950's and 1960's where the scent of fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture.
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9780815631309 | Syracuse Univ Pr, January 30, 2007, cover price $24.95
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9780151008780 | Houghton Mifflin, October 15, 2004, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: The award-winning author recounts his boyhood in war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, his mother's tragic suicide when he was twelve, his decision to join a kibbutz and change his name, and his participation in Israel's political upheavals.
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9780156032520 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A life story of the award-winning author of The Same Sea recounts his boyhood in war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, his mother's tragic suicide when he was twelve, his decision to join a kibbutz and change his name, and his participation in Israel's political upheavals.
The award-winning novelist recounts his miraculous survival of the Holocaust, from a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp at the age of seven, his escape from the camp, his life in hiding in the Ukranian forests, his negotiation of several displaced persons' camps, his 1946 arrival in Palestine and his struggle to build a new life on the fragments of his past. 12,500 first printing.
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9780805241785 | Schocken Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The novelist recounts his survival of the Holocaust and his struggle to build a new life on the fragments of his past.
Product Description: This collection of biographies is the first of its kind, as Israeli literature is almost devoid of author biographies. They are arranged chronologically and cover a hundred years of Israeli literature; the change of style and subject matter hints at the demographical and historical transformations that have occurred during this span of time...read more
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9780853034858 | Vallentine Mitchell, February 1, 2003, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This collection of biographies is the first of its kind, as Israeli literature is almost devoid of author biographies.
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9780853034865 | Vallentine Mitchell, February 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This collection of biographies is the first of its kind, as Israeli literature is almost devoid of author biographies.
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9780151002870 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1997), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A twelve-year-old boy dreams of fighting and dying heroically as part of an imaginary underground movement fighting English soldiers in Palestine during the British mandate
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9780156006309 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A twelve-year-old boy dreams of fighting and dying heroically as part of an imaginary underground movement fighting English soldiers in Palestine during the British mandate
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9780895561138 | Gateways Books & Tapes, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95
Product Description: The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as "The New York Review of Books" now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale...read more
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9780814778944 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work.
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9780062508706 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1989, cover price $16.95
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9780374216955 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1985, cover price $17.95
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9780899193083 | Ticknor & Fields, August 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of the preeminent Israeli poet also chronicles the history of En Harod, Israel's largest kibbutz, and the Zionist-socialist ideals that inspired and unified its members
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9780395286654 | Houghton Mifflin, May 29, 1981, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans.
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9780618126996, titled "Atlas of Middle-Earth" | Rev sub edition (Mariner Books, April 10, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Maps illustrate the battles, journeys, cities, and territories described in Tolkien's fantasy series, as well as his mythical land's history, climate, population, and languages.
9780395535165 | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1992), cover price $24.00 | also contains The Seven Good Years | About this edition: Maps illustrate the battles, journeys, cities, and territories described in Tolkien's fantasy series, as well as his mythical land's history, climate, population, and languages
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