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A Cynthia
Ozick Reader ~ Cynthia
Ozick, Elaine
M. Kauvar (Editor) / Pub. 1996
Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is
represented in A Cynthia Ozick Reader, including the poems
"Greeks," "The Fish in the Net," and "When That
with Tragic Rapture Moses Stood" and the short stories
"Envy," "Virility," and "Puttermesser and
Xanthippe."
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The Actual
~ Saul Bellow / Hardcover / Published 1997
Chicagoan Harry Trellman, the story's narrator, is a semi-retired importer
whose cautious demeanor and unusual physiognomy have made him a kind of
outsider--from the centers of financial power and also from the
satisfactions of romantic love.
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Adam's Soul
: The Collected Tales of Howard Schwartz
~ Howard Schwartz / Hardcover / Published 1992
Howard Schwartz, the
author of this extraordinary collection of Jewish tales and parables, is one of the most
creative, inventive, and inspiring Jewish writers of our generation.
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As a Driven
Leaf ~ Milton Steinberg, Chaim Potok / Paperback / Published
1996
The magnificent work of modern fiction that brings the age of the Talmud
to life. The characters include the well-known historical figures: Akiba,
Yohanan, Joshua, Eleazar, Beruriah, and Elisha ben Abuyah, whose struggle
to live in two worlds destroyed his chance to live in either.
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Aurora
Dawn ~ Herman Wouk / Paperback
/ Published 1992
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The
Cannibal Galaxy (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) ~
by Cynthia Ozick (Paperback - October 1995)
This novel of Ozick's deals with the constant struggle of achieving
perfection. The main character, Joseph, is a Jewish-Frenchman living in
the middle of America. He had faced many hardships during the first
decades of his life
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Battle
Cry ~
Leon M. Uris / Paperback / Published 1982
Moving, shocking, tense, and glorious, here is a magnificent saga of men
at war--Leon Uris's famous novel about life in the jaws of death, in the
U.S. Marine Corps.
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The
Book of Lights
~ Chaim Potok / Mass Market Paperback / Published
1997
Gershon Loran, a quiet rabinical student, is troubled by the dark reality
around him. He sees hope in the study of Kabbalah, the Jewish bok of
mysticism and visions, truth and light.
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- The
Caine Mutiny : A Novel of World War II
~ Herman Wouk /
Paperback / Published 1992
- The
Caine Mutiny : A Novel of World War II (Classics of Naval Literature)
~ Herman Wouk / Hardcover / Published 1987
Novel by Herman Wouk, published in
1951. The novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Caine
Mutiny grew out of Wouk's experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in
the Pacific in World War II.
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The Chosen
~ Chaim Potok / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1995
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two
boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they
live.
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City Boy :
The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder : A Novel ~
Herman Wouk / Paperback / Published 1992
Herbie Bookbinder is a character that rings so true, you instantly
identify with him, whether or not you are a boy, or Jewish, or from New
York City, or lived your childhood in the 1920s
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Davita's
Harp
~ Chaim Potok / Paperback / Published 1996
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an
experience of joy and sadness.
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Don't
Stop the Carnival : A Novel ~
Herman Wouk / Paperback / Published 1992
DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL is Herman Wouk's comedy about living out your
fantasies on an exotic Caribbean island.
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Dubins
Lives (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
~ Bernard Malamud / Paperback / Published 1994
Malamud here introduces us to William Dubin, a popular biographer in his
late 50s whose life and work are in a serious slump. LJ's reviewer
described this as a "moving, compelling, and deeply personal
novel"
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Elijah's
Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales ~
Howard Schwartz, Linda Heller (Illustrator) / Paperback / Pub 1994
In Elijah's Violin, Howard Schwartz offers a sumptuous collection of
thirty-six Jewish fairy tales from virtually every corner of the world.
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Exodus
~ Leon Uris / Paperback / Published 1983
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering
novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon
Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of
enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.
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The
Four Who Entered Paradise : A Novella ~
Howard Schwartz, Marc Bregman / Hardcover / Published 1995
The Talmud tells of four great sages who entered paradise, Rabbi Akiva,
Ben Zoma, Ben Azzai and Elisha ben Abuyah. Of the four, one died, one went
insane, and one "cut the shoots". Only Rabbi Akiva "
ascended in peace and descended in peace."
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- Gabriel's
Palace : Jewish Mystical Tales ~
Howard Schwartz (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1993
- Gabriel's
Palace : Jewish Mystical Tales
~ Howard Schwartz / Paperback / Published 1994
Gabriel's Palace offers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales,
involving experiences of union with the divine, out-of-body travel,
encounters with angels and demons, possession by spirits holy and
pernicious, and more.
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- The
Gift of Asher Lev ~ Chaim
Potok / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991
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- Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev.
He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his
artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and
his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought
he had left behind forever.
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- The
Glory ~ Herman Wouk
/ Mass Market Paperback / Published 1995
- The
Glory : A Novel ~
Herman Wouk / Hardcover / Published 1994
This is the sequel to The Hope (1993), which dramatized the
unlikely course of modern Israel's history, ending with its smashing victory
over the Arabs in 1967.
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Ozick,
Cynthia -- Other Selections
-Bloodshed
and Three Novellas (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
by Cynthia Ozick (Paperback - October 1995)
-Levitation
: Five Fictions (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) ~ by Cynthia
Ozick (Paperback - October 1995)
-The
Messiah of Stockholm : A Novel ~ by Cynthia Ozick (Paperback -
March 1988)
-The
Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) ~ by
Cynthia Ozick (Paperback - October 1995)
-The
Shawl ~ by Cynthia Ozick (Paperback - August 1990)
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The
Puttermesser Papers
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by Cynthia Ozick (Paperback - July 1998)
The Puttermesser Papers collects the old stories, along with
several new ones, combined to create a funny and surreal picaresque
narrative.
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