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Product Description: In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them; taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel...read more

Hardcover:

9780670785964 | Viking Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $22.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504690775 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 26, 2016), cover price $29.95
9781504690768 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 26, 2016), cover price $29.95

Library:

9781628999907 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2016), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine.

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Product Description: From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan comes a timely moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine by the tens of thousands...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504690751 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 26, 2016), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan comes a timely moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.

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Hardcover:

9780765332332 | Forge, June 5, 2012, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9780765380081 | Reprint edition (Forge, January 27, 2015), cover price $15.99
9780765368904 | Reprint edition (Forge, July 30, 2013), cover price $7.99

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Return to World War II Shanghai in Dan Kalla's thrilling historical novel Rising Sun, Falling Shadow, the sequel to The Far Side of the SkyIt's 1943 and the Japanese juggernaut has swallowed Shanghai and the rest of eastern China, snaring droves of American and British along with thousands of "stateless" German Jewish refugees. Despite the hostile environs, newlyweds Dr. Franz Adler and his wife, Sunny, adjust to life running the city's only hospital for refugee Jews.Bowing to Nazi pressure, the Japanese force twenty thousand Jewish refugees, including the Adlers, to relocate to a one-square-kilometer "Shanghai Ghetto." Heat, hunger, and tropical diseases are constant threats. But the ghetto also breeds miraculous resilience. Music, theater, sports, and Jewish culture thrive despite what are at times subhuman conditions. Navigating subversion and espionage, Nazi treachery and ever-worsening conditions while living under the heel of the Japanese military, the Adlers struggle to keep the hospital open and their family safe and united.

Hardcover:

9780765337641 | Forge, September 24, 2013, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Return to World War II Shanghai in Dan Kalla's thrilling historical novel Rising Sun, Falling Shadow, the sequel to The Far Side of the SkyIt's 1943 and the Japanese juggernaut has swallowed Shanghai and the rest of eastern China, snaring droves of American and British along with thousands of "stateless" German Jewish refugees.

Paperback:

9780765371041 | Forge, November 25, 2014, cover price $7.99

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Hardcover:

9781410467133 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 26, 2014), cover price $30.99

Paperback:

9781594486432 | Riverhead Books, September 3, 2013, cover price $16.00

Prebinding:

9780606322409 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, September 3, 2013), cover price $28.20

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It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.This title has Common Core connections.Is It Night or Day? is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Paperback:

9781250044211 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, March 18, 2014), cover price $7.99

Miscellaneous:

9781429934138 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 16, 2010), cover price $9.99

School and Library:

9780374177447 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 16, 2010, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois.

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Hardcover:

9780765327345 | Forge, July 17, 2012, cover price $25.99

Paperback:

9780765327369 | Reprint edition (Forge, January 7, 2014), cover price $14.99

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Product Description: What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when a young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazis retaliated with Kristallnacht—“Night of Broken Glass”—the beginning of the Holocaust...read more

Hardcover:

9780299208103 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 15, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when the young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out?

Paperback:

9780299208141 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 20, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when a young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out?

Describes the flight of Jews from areas such as the ghettos of Russia and Poland to find haven and a homeland in Israel.

Hardcover:

9780517207987 | Random House Value Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $11.99
9781568493534 | Buccaneer Books, November 1, 1983, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Describes the flight of Jews from areas such as the ghettos of Russia and Poland to find haven and a homeland in Israel.
9780553110906 | Ballantine Books, June 1, 1959, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: An American nurse becomes involved in the dramatic events leading to the establishment of the Israeli nation
9780385050821 | Doubleday, June 1, 1958, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Describes the flight of Jews from areas such as the ghettos of Russia and Poland to find haven and a homeland in Israel

Paperback:

9782221098622 | Distribooks Inc, December 23, 2002, cover price $62.95
9780553258479 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: An American nurse becomes involved in the dramatic events leading to the establishment of the Israeli nation

Reinforced:

9780606006217 | Demco Media, September 1, 1989, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: An American nurse becomes involved in the dramatic events leading to the establishment of the Israeli nation

Prebinding:

9781439513293 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $16.99
9780808515036 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: An American nurse becomes involved in the dramatic events leading to the establishment of the Israeli nation

The author of Will and My Father Had a Daughter revisits Shakespeare's controversial play, The Merchant of Venice, in the story of a young Jew, Shiloh ben Gozán, who flees the Spanish Inquisition with his infant daughter and a valuable turquoise ring that has a profound influence on his life and those of five remarkable women. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780425202487 | Berkley Signature, May 1, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Revisits Shakespeare's play, 'The Merchant of Venice,' in the story of a young Jew, Shiloh ben Gozâan, who flees the Spanish Inquisition with his infant daughter and a valuable turquoise ring that has a profound influence on his life.

Paperback:

9780425206669 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, April 4, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author of Will and My Father Had a Daughter revisits Shakespeare's controversial play, The Merchant of Venice, in the story of a young Jew, Shiloh ben Gozán, who flees the Spanish Inquisition with his infant daughter and a valuable turquoise ring that has a profound influence on his life and those of five remarkable women.

In 1944, ten-year-old Lillian and her mother join other Jewish refugees invited to the United States on temporary visas to stay at Fort Ontario, New York, but even with the better living conditions, they worry about what will happen to them after the war.
By John F. Martin (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781893110465 | B&t Database Management/Cip, April 1, 2006, cover price N/A
| About this edition: In 1944, ten-year-old Lillian and her mother join other Jewish refugees invited to the United States on temporary visas to stay at Fort Ontario, New York, but even with the better living conditions, they worry about what will happen to them after the war.

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Forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis, grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler, her diminutive husband Berti, and their elfin piano prodigy daughter Gerta confront the bitterness, pleasure, and fates of their lives. By the author of The Dorp. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781587249563 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 20, 2005), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Thirty-five years after publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, 86-year-old Frieda Arkin returns to the literary world with a darkly humorous and clever novel that unfurls the saga of a grandly Teutonic woman, Hedwig Kessler, and her diminutive cousin/husband Berti.
9780312333546 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis, German Jews Hedwig Kessler, her husband Berti, and their piano prodigy daughter, Gerda, confront the trials and tribulations of becoming immigrants.

Paperback:

9780312333560 | Reprint edition (Griffin, March 21, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis, grandly Teutonic Hedwig Kessler, her diminutive husband Berti, and their elfin piano prodigy daughter Gerta confront the bitterness, pleasure, and fates of their lives.

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James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series 'The Bear Boy,' has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy, in a novel of Depression-era New York.

Hardcover:

9780618470495 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series 'The Bear Boy,' has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy, in a novel of Depression-era New York.

Paperback:

9780618618804 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 1, 2005), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series 'The Bear Boy,' has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy, in a novel of Depression-era New York.

Miscellaneous:

9780547526799 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2005, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: A Mystery Guild Featured AlternateAs an oil painting ages the paint may become increasingly transparent, revealing the ghost of a previous image beneath. These images are called "repentances" - as is this haunting novel in which the sins of the past will not stay buried...read more

Hardcover:

9780786265749 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Mystery Guild Featured AlternateAs an oil painting ages the paint may become increasingly transparent, revealing the ghost of a previous image beneath.
9781410401878 | Five Star, March 1, 2004, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781410402066 | Five Star, April 2, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A Mystery Guild Featured AlternateAs an oil painting ages the paint may become increasingly transparent, revealing the ghost of a previous image beneath.

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Product Description: Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of Hitler's Third Reich...read more

Paperback:

9781414301099 | Tyndale House Pub, March 30, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of Hitler's Third Reich.
9780764224294 | Bethany House Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: One Signature Could Seal the Fate of Europe Under Hitler's Tyranny.
9781556610790 | Bethany House Pub, April 1, 1990, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: One Signature Could Seal the Fate of Europe Under Hitler's Tyranny.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781589260177 | Abridged edition (Oasis Audio, July 1, 2002), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Leah and Louis attempt to escape Austria and Nazi terrorism by traveling over treacherous alpine foot paths.

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By Raymond Federman and Steve Murez (photographer)

Paperback:

9780970316547 | Ill edition (Starcherone Books, January 1, 2005), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg, a novel that explores the possibility of pure moral murder, and with more than a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...read more

Hardcover:

9780786712014 | Carroll & Graf Pub, April 7, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr.

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Product Description: In 1928, a young man has just discovered the devastating truths of his mother's disappearance four years earlier. So begins a dramatic and emotional tale of one man's life—trade union strikes in Poland before the war; spring Warsaw nights where he finds love; the arduous trek in the winter of 1942 through Russia in search of his father who had disappeared in the First World War, and their bittersweet reunion...read more

Paperback:

9781550650372 | Vehicule Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1928, a young man has just discovered the devastating truths of his mother's disappearance four years earlier.

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The author's debut novel introduces readers to a seemingly placid town in the Catskill Mountains that is brimming with tension as World War II is about to erupt overseas as anti-Semitism, a land-grabbing conspiracy, and murder threaten to tear Chicken Corners apart. A first novel.

Hardcover:

9780312281533 | Minotaur Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Introduces readers to a seemingly placid town in the Catskill Mountains that is brimming with tension as World War II is about to erupt overseas while anti-Semitism, a land-grabbing conspiracy, and murder threaten to tear Chicken Corners apart.

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In 1947 two teenagers from different backgrounds are thrown together once again as the United Nations votes to create the state of Israel.

Paperback:

9780764222993 | Bethany House Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In 1947 two teenagers from different backgrounds are thrown together once again as the United Nations votes to create the state of Israel.

Prebinding:

9780613945462 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.45 | About this edition: In 1947 two teenagers from different backgrounds are thrown together once again as the United Nations votes to create the state of Israel.

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Product Description: A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end...read more

Hardcover:

9780394572291 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An outsider in India, where he has fled from Nazi Germany, Hugo Baumgartner finds his painful past dredged up when he offers to help a wild young German hippie

Paperback:

9780618056804 | Houghton Mifflin, May 19, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles.
9780140114744, titled "Baumgartners Bombay" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1990), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India.

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In 1947, two young people--one a Polish Jew and the other the daughter of a British major--make their way to Palestine for very different reasons and under very different circumstances. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780764222962 | Bethany House Pub, May 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In 1947, two young people--one a Polish Jew and the other the daughter of a British major--make their way to Palestine for very different reasons and under very different circumstances.

Prebinding:

9780613939942 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.45 | About this edition: In 1947, two young people--one a Polish Jew and the other the daughter of a British major--make their way to Palestine for very different reasons and under very different circumstances.

Peter, a sports journalist, flees Nazi Germany and travels to Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Belgrade, and, finally, the Caribbean in search of sanctuary

Hardcover:

9780810114470 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Peter, a sports journalist, flees Nazi Germany and travels to Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Belgrade, and, finally, the Caribbean in search of sanctuary

Paperback:

9780810114487 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Peter, a sports journalist, flees Nazi Germany and travels to Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Belgrade, and, finally, the Caribbean in search of sanctuary

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Raised by her aunts after her father's death, Polly Flint spends the rest of her life in their home, emotionally shipwrecked like her hero, Robinson Crusoe

Hardcover:

9780689117923 | Atheneum, March 1, 1986, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Raised by her aunts after her father's death, Polly Flint spends the rest of her life in their home, emotionally shipwrecked like her hero, Robinson Crusoe

Paperback:

9781609450694 | Reprint edition (Europa Editions Inc, April 24, 2012), cover price $16.00
9780349114101 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 11, 1992), cover price $11.50 | About this edition: In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts.

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