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Abi thought she had a charmed life. She’s got her dream job, family and friends who love her, and she just bought a great old house! Everything would be perfect, if not for the logging company that’s just set up shop next door. And the guy she can’t seem to stop shtupping. Who just happens to be their chief tree cutter. Er, logger. Lumberjack?

His younger brother will be greater than he . . . With those words, Menashe's dreams collapse. As Yosef's eldest son, his position had seemed secure. But now Efrayim—bold, charming Efrayim, who's everything Menashe is not—is taking his place. With their people. With the pharaoh. With Jendayi, the slave Menashe loves. Efrayim, meanwhile, sees his dreams confirmed. Surely it's his destiny to unite the Egyptians and Hebrews. To marry a princess and achieve splendor surpassing that of his brother. 

The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep. “A devastating romp through history, a bonkers road trip through America, this...

Lauren Steele has always been grateful for her adoptive family’s love and support. So much so that she takes over the family floral business when her parents retire, despite her dreams of working on political campaigns. Instead of crafting clever speeches, she spends her days writing out romantic messages on behalf of her clients—a bittersweet reminder that she’s never been on the receiving end of one of these orders. She’s accepted her simple life—until the sexiest man she’s ever met walks into her shop looking for a job.

Nichelle Sampson is living the life she always dreamed of. She’s a political-science professor like her father, is in her sorority’s leadership like her mother, and has wonderful friends. The only thing missing is romance. But when a letter and mysterious ring arrive, Nichelle’s perfect life is shattered. She’s shocked to learn that she’s adopted and biracial and that her origin story isn’t what her parents claimed. Looking for the truth, Nichelle sets out to unlock the secrets behind her birth family through the heirloom ring.

Brought to you by Penguin. When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and...

Mark ist Mathematiklehrer an einem Warschauer Mädchengymnasium. Seine unauffälligste und schlechteste Schülerin heißt ausgerechnet Bella. Doch auf einem Gebiet ist sie überbegabt: auf dem der Gefühle. Ihre magischen Kräfte lösen in Mark eine leidenschaftliche Begierde aus. Hoffnungslos verfällt er dem jungen Mädchen … Geboren 1904 im polnischen Radzymin als Sohn eines Rabbiners und 1935 nach Amerika ausgewandert, machte Isaac Bashevis Singer die jiddische Literatur zur Weltliteratur.

In 1942 German-occupied Paris, 19-year-old Leah Manheim turns up the collar of her blue coat against a biting wind as she waits outside Saint-Ambroise Cathedral for English Marine Commando, Aidan McQueen. When she signed up with the resistance she knew all the risks. Luckily her friends smuggled her parents out of Paris and away from the looming danger of arrest and transport to a concentration camp. Leah must keep her wits about her, focus on her mission, and survive….

Artist and photographer Mikky dos Santos is brilliant, but rebellious. After a personal catastrophe in New York, she insists on going to Greece to authenticate a priceless 900-year-old Torah, where she makes a promise to return it to the Jewish museum in Rhodes.

One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all...

En el verano de 1943, Gina, una estudiante de familia acomodada, se enamora perdidamente de Betto, un intrépido muchacho judío que forma parte de una organización clandestina. Entre ambos surge una original, intensa y prohibida relación que transcurre en el devenir de una de las tragedias más impresionantes de la historia reciente de Europa.

Maremma toscana, novembre ’43. Le Case è un borgo lontano da tutto. René è il ciabattino del paese. Tutti lo chiamano Settebello, nomignolo che si è tirato addosso in tenera età, dopo aver lasciato tre dita sul tornio. Oggi ha cinquant’anni – schivo, solitario, taciturno. Niente famiglia. Ma c’è Anna, l’amica di sempre, che forse avrebbe potuto essere qualcosa di più... René non ha mai avuto il coraggio di dichiararsi. Poi ecco la guerra, che cambia tutto. Ecco che Settebello scopre la Resistenza. Possibile che una rivoluzione di questo tipo possa partire addirittura dalla suola delle scarpe?

Soon to be a major Netflix series 1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save? Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the...

"Zur Mittagszeit des 10. März 1902 ahnte niemand, dass der Untergang der Familie Kohanim von nun an seinen Lauf nehmen sollte." Samuel Kohanim, Oberhaupt einer der ältesten jüdischen Familien in Westpreußen, ist durchschnittliches Unglück gewöhnt. Seine Frau Mindel, schroff und wortkarg von Natur, gebar ihm sieben Mädchen. Die "sieben biblischen Plagen", wie die Kohanim-Töchter im Dorf genannt werden, strapazieren die väterliche Geduld.

“Hilarious, refreshing, tightly plotted, and vividly written. An irresistible read.”—Jonas Jonasson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared “A seriously funny take on death and dying.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review An...

Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they’re forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line.

Die "Lebensbilanz" der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin - und eine große Geschichte über Schuld und Schulden. Ein steuerliches Ermittlungsverfahren, das zwar inzwischen längst eingestellt wurde, das aber selbst intimste E-Mails auswertete, wird für Elfriede Jelinek zum Anlass, auf ihre "Lebenslaufbahn" zurückzublicken. Erstmals erzählt sie literarisch die Geschichte des jüdischen Teils ihrer Familie. In die persönlichen amtlichen Angaben schieben sich Berichte über das Schicksal von Verwandten, die während der Nazizeit aus Österreich fliehen mussten, die deportiert und ermordet wurden.

1931: Der Alltag im von der Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelten Berlin ist schwer. Fines Mutter Ulla Dehmel gelingt es kaum, für ihre Kinder zu sorgen. Schließlich ist sie gezwungen, Fine und ihre Geschwister bei einer Pflegefamilie auf dem Land unterzubringen. Zunächst ist Fine entsetzt, dass sie Berlin verlassen muss, aber nach und nach arrangiert sie sich mit dem neuen Leben. Dann kommen die Nazis an die Macht, und es zeigt sich, dass Ullas Sorge um ihre halbjüdischen Kinder berechtigt war. Schon bald wird Fine ihr jüdisches Erbe zum Verhängnis und droht, ihre große Liebe zu zerstören.

Quattro persone entrarono nel Pardès, nel giardino dell'Eden, è scritto nel Talmud, ma soltanto una ne uscì incolume. Le vie dell'Eden, infatti, dove maturano i frutti più preziosi della vita, sono lastricate di pericoli. Lo sanno bene i personaggi che compongono questo trittico dove, ancora una volta, Eshkol Nevo indaga dietro le maschere che vestiamo per gli altri, ma anche su quelle che indossiamo quando ci troviamo di fronte a verità troppo difficili, o pericolose, da accettare.

It's 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York. But when an uprising of 20,000 women vows to take down a greedy factory owner, can Ruth possibly stay away? Who will survive? And will they ever be the same again?