ABOUT THIS BOOK Te 2016 – 2017 JBC Network Meet the Author Book Was Prepared by Jewish Book Council for Exclusive Use by JBC Network Members

ABOUT THIS BOOK Te 2016 – 2017 JBC Network Meet the Author book was prepared by Jewish Book Council for exclusive use by JBC Network members. It is intended to assist in the selection of authors and books to feature in book programs hosted by JBC Network member sites for the 2016 – 2017 program year.

Te JBC Network is a service provided by the Jewish Book Council, whose mission is to enrich Jewish communities through the literary arts and to encourage and promote the reading, writing, and publishing of books of Jewish interest in the English language. Trough the JBC Network, members become acquainted with writers of newly published books whose works are of specifc interest to JBC Network member organizations. Jewish Book Council does not approve or sanction any of the books or authors herein, but rather provides a platform for their exposure and promotion.

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• Authors included in this book are to be contacted through Jewish Book Council only, and not directly or through their publisher. • All authors (attending and non-attending) are available for travel unless otherwise indicated. • Additional information—including interviews, videos, articles, and reviews—are available to JBC Network members on the Jewish Book Council website, www.jewishbookcouncil.org. • All information in this book, particularly regarding author availability, is subject to change. • Authors living outside of North America are responsible for their own travel from their home country to the U.S. or Canada. • Author requests are due to Jewish Book Council by June 6 at 9:00 AM (by email: [email protected] or by fax: 212.532.4952).

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• Book Format: Books may be available for purchase in hard cover (HC), paperback (pbk), or e-book ([e]). • Co-Author: Each author registered for JBC Network has his or her own page in the Authors on Tour handbook. and online. In the case of a multi-authored book, the co-author is listed only when enrolled as a participating JBC Network authors. • Residence & RT Ground: JBC Network members cover the author’s travel expenses between home and the hosting city. “RT Ground” is the approximate cost of travel between the author’s home and his/her local airport and back. (Not applicable for authors living overseas.) • Notes: “Not Attending” indicates that the author listed is not presenting at the Meet the Author event, but is available for speaking engagements unless otherwise indicated. Michelle Adelman Piece of Mind A Novel Told with warmth and intelligence, Piece of Mind introduces one of the most endearing and heroic characters in contemporary fction. At 27, Lucy knows everything about cofee, comic books, and Gus—the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo—and she possesses a rare gif for drawing. But since she sufered a traumatic brain injury at the age of three, she has had trouble relating to most people. She’s also uncommonly messy, woefully disorganized, and incapable of Adult Ficton: Family & holding down a regular job. When unexpected Parentng, Jewish Identty circumstances force her out of the comfortable W. W. Norton & Company and protective Jewish home where she was raised Feb. 2016 $25.95 HC and into a cramped studio apartment in New York ISBN: 978-0393245707 City with her college-age younger brother, she must adapt to an entirely diferent life—one with Publicist no safety net. Over the course of a challenging Erin Lovet summer, Lucy is forced to discover that she has [email protected] more strengths than she herself knew. 212-790-5500 Residence & RT Ground Oceanside, CA $90 – $180 Availability Unavailable for tour untl late Sept. Website & Twiter www.michelle-adelman.com @michadelman Program Suggestons Michelle Adelman received her Literary Ficton, Local Book MFA in writing from Columbia Store Event, Writers’ Workshop University and her MS and BS in journalism from Northwestern Notes University. She lives in the Bay © Genevieve Moller Photography © Genevieve Moller Area.

8 Elizabeth Baddeley I Dissent Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere. Tis biographical picture book about RBH tells the Justice’s story through the lens of her many famous dissents, proving that disagreeing does Children’s Nonfcton: not make one disagreeable! Biography, Feminism & Women’s Studies, Politcs & Current Afairs

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Sept. 2016 $17.99 HC ISBN: 978-1481465595 Publicist Audrey Gibbons audrey.gibbons@ simonandschuster.com 212-698-2852 Residence & RT Ground Kansas City, MO $30 – 60 Availability Teaches Mon. and Wed. Website & Twiter www.ebaddeley.com @BizBeth Program Suggestons Elizabeth Baddeley graduated Children’s Program, Local Book from the School of Visual Arts Store Event, School Visits in New York City with a degree in Illustration as Visual Essay. Notes She is no stranger to biographies Not Atending Touring with Debbie Levy of powerful women and has illustrated two picture books: A Woman in the House (and Senate) and Women Who Broke the Rules: Mary Todd Lincoln.

18 Emily Barton The Book of Esther A Novel

In Eastern Europe, August 1942, an isolated nation of Turkic warriors is caught between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania and a city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad. Afer years of Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europe, Germany launches its siege on Khazaria. Only Esther, the daughter of the nation’s chief policy adviser, sees the ominous implications of Germany’s disregard for Jewish lives. Only she realizes that this isn’t just another Adult Ficton: Fantasy, war but an existential threat. Afer witnessing Kabbalah & Mystcism, the enemy warplanes’ frst foray into sovereign Literary Ficton Khazar territory, Esther knows she must fght for her country. She embarks on a perilous journey Tim Duggan Books across the open steppe, seeking fabled village of June 2016 $27.00 HC [e] Kabbalists who may hold the key to her destiny: ISBN: 978-1101904091 convincing her entire nation to join in the fght Publicist for its very existence against an enemy like none Liz Esman Khazaria has ever faced before. lesman@ penguinrandomhouse.com 212-257-6049

Residence & RT Ground Kingston, NY $100 Availability Emily Barton is the author of Open availibility Brookland and Te Testament Website & Twiter of Yves Gundron, which were www.emilybarton.com both listed as New York Times Notable Books. She has received Program Suggestons grants from the Guggenheim Martin © Greg Book Club, Literary Ficton, Foundation, the National Endowment for the Local Book Store Event Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Her essays, short stories, and reviews have appeared Notes in Story, Conjunctions, Te Massachusetts Review, Tablet, and Te New York Times Book Review, among other publications. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and sons.

23 Judy Batalion White Walls A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between Judy Batalion grew up in a house flled with piles of junk and layers of dust, sufocated by old magazines, swivel chairs, and VHS tapes obsessively gathered by her hoarder mother. At the frst chance, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity—made of order, regimen, and clean white walls—until she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest chaos: motherhood. Adult Memoir: Family & Confronted with the daunting task of raising a Parentng, Health & Medicine, daughter afer her own dysfunctional childhood, Holocaust Judy refected on her upbringing and the lives of her mother and grandmother, both Holocaust NAL/Penguin Jan. 2016 $16.00 pbk survivors. What she discovered astonished her. ISBN: 978-0451473110 Te women in her family were more closely connected than she knew—from her Bubbie Publicist Zelda to her daughter of the same name—and, Lauren Burnstein despite its hardships, it was Judy’s bond with lburnstein@ her mother that slowly healed her old wounds. penguinrandomhouse.com Told with heartbreaking honesty and plenty 212-366-2423 of humor, Judy’s poignant account of stuf and survival explores navigating the messiness Residence & RT Ground of motherhood, how trauma passes through New York City, NY $13 – $52 generations, and the indelible marks that mothers Availability and daughters make on each other’s lives. Open availability

Website & Twiter www.judybatalion.com @JudyBatalion Judy Batalion was born in Montreal, studied at Harvard, and Program Suggestons worked as a curator and comedian Book Club, Parents’ Groups, in London before settling in New Writers’ Workshop York City. She was a columnist for

© Sharon Edelstein © Sharon Te New York Times’s “Motherlode” Notes and her essays about parenting, relationships, religion, and health have appeared in Vogue, Te Washington Post, Te Jerusalem Post, Salon, Te Forward, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, and others.

24 John Benditt The Boatmaker A Novel

A strange, silent man builds a boat and sails away from the little island where he was born. On the next island over and on the mainland of his country, he encounters a more confused and complicated world than he could ever have imagined and discovers who he really is— including the possibility that he might be a Jew.

Adult Ficton: Antsemitsm, Historical Ficton, Jewish Identty Tin House Books Feb. 2015 $15.95 pbk ISBN: 978-1-935639-98-5

Publicist Lauren Cerand correspondence@ laurencerand.com Residence & RT Ground Brooklyn, NY $50 – 200 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www. johnbendit.com Program Suggestons Brotherhood, Library Event, Local Book Store Event

Notes John Benditt was a journalist and a magazine editor before his debut novel, Te Boatmaker, was published. He was an editor at Scientifc American, at Science © Credit magazine, and fnally editor-in- chief of Technology Review.

30 Romy Block The Vitamin Soluton Two Doctors Clear the Confusion About Vitamins and Your Health Are you confused about vitamins? Unsure which ones you need for optimal health and what levels are safe? Doctors Romy Block and Arielle Levitan provide a common-sense, medically sound approach to using vitamins to improve your diet, exercise plan, and overall health. Tey look critically at the vitamin industry and commonly sold of-the-shelf products. Tey scrutinize Adult Self-Help: Health & ingredients and explain in clear, accessible, Medicine, Elder Care and language which vitamins and supplements can Aging be helpful, which can be harmful, and which are altogether unnecessary; explore health topics She Writes Press including migraine, hair loss, fatigue, irritable Nov. 2015 $17.95 pbk [e] ISBN: 978-1-63152-014-3 bowel syndrome, hot fashes, and others; and address preventive care, providing insights on Publicist topics such as screening tests, weight loss, and Beth Richman preserving memory. Illuminating and accessible, [email protected] Te Vitamin Solution is an indispensable guide to 773-252-3069 safely incorporating vitamins and supplements Residence & RT Ground into any lifestyle, one that will leave readers Highland Park, IL $150 – $400 educated, informed, and armed with simple, everyday strategies for bettering their health. Availability Not available Mondays Website & Twiter Romy Block, MD is a board www.vousvitamin.com certifed specialist in endocrine and eetabolism medicine and Program Suggestons cofounder of Vous Vitamin, LLC. Girls’ Night, Seniors, Health and Wellness

She attended Tufs University f Cohen Photography © Je and Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Notes School of Medicine. She completed residency Touring with Arielle Levitan training in internal medicine at Northshore-Long Island Jewish and did an endocrine fellowship at New York University. She practices on the North Shore of Chicago, where she specializes in thyroid disorders and pituitary diseases.

37 Jennifer S. Brown Modern Girls A Novel

In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie has a steady beau, close girlfriends, and an eye for fashion. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful Jewish daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when afer a single careless night she is “in a family way” by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate— unwed, unsure, and running out of options. Afer 20 years as a housewife and mother of Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton fve children, Dottie’s immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return to the social activism of her youth. NAL With strikes and breadlines at home, National April 2016 $15.00 pbk [e] Socialism rising in Europe, and a brother unable to ISBN: 978-0451477125 escape Poland, she knows there is more important work to be done than cooking and cleaning. Yet Publicist when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she Lauren Burnstein lburnstein@ struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith. penguinrandomhouse.com Mother and daughter must confront their beliefs, 212-366-2423 the changing world, and the fact that their lives will never again be the same. Residence & RT Ground Arlington, MA $60 – $80

Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays and Sept. 10-18 Website & Twiter Jennifer S. Brown has published www.jennifersbrown.com @j_s_brown fction and creative nonfction in Fiction Southeast, Te Best Program Suggestons Women’s Travel Writing, Te Book Club, Library Event, Southeast Review, and Bellevue Writers’ Workshop

Literary Review, among others. Pogozelski © Jim Notes Her essay “Te Codeine of Jordan” was selected as a notable essay in Te Best American Travel Writing in 2012. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington.

43 Dovid M. Cohen

“We’re Almost There” Living with Patence, Perseverance and Purpose No matter our age, we are all like children. In many realms, we ask ourselves or even others, “Why aren’t we there yet?” especially when logic dictates that we should have already long arrived. At times, we continue to wait; at others we realize that we will never arrive in the way we had Adult Self-Help: hoped. It is in such instances that we need to gird Contemporary Jewish Life, ourselves for battle and ensure we aren’t crushed Family & Parentng, Love & for good; there will be other felds of play and Relatonships other meaningful opportunities if we can allow Mosaica Press ourselves to wipe of the dust and get of the mat. Jan. 2016 $22.99 HC Tis book is about developing patience, ISBN: 978-1937887599 perseverance, and purpose while navigating Publicist the roller coaster of life through the prism of Henya Storch anecdotal evidence and strengthening faith [email protected] through the light provided by Jewish faith. 862-206-9978 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $50 Availability Will present but does not Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen is Director travel on Shabbat of Community Outreach for Yachad and Director of Synagogues Website & Twiter for Manhattan, Bronx, Westches- www.rabbidovidmcohen.com ter and Connecticut, both newly @dmcohen613 created roles at the Orthodox © Credit Program Suggestons Union, afer nine years serving as Rabbi of the Torah Study, Panel, Scholar in Young Israel of the West Side. He holds a Juris Residence, Torah Study Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and a Notes Masters in counseling from University of North Texas, and he sits as a rabbinical judge for the Beis Din of America.

53 Felice Cohen 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet (...or more) Histapkut bamuat, being content with less, is considered a virtue in Jewish law. Felice Cohen would say that living in 90 square feet makes her pretty virtuous. 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet (...or more) is an inspirational self-help book that shows how living small for fve years made her life big. It also ofers lessons Adult Self-Help: Popular Culture & Current Events to help others downsize, organize, and realize the life they want to live, in whatever size space they Dividends Press (Self) choose. March 2016 $10.00 pbk [e] Felice moved into that tiny Manhattan studio ISBN: 978-1500657857 for one reason: to quit her full-time job and fnish writing her frst book, a memoir about Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $150 her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. But then strangers from around the world began to ask Availability for her advice on decluttering, praising her Unavailable June 21-25 philosophy about living large in a small space, and even hiring her to organize their homes. Website & Twiter People today want experiences over stuf. Here is www.felicecohen.com @FeliceCohen a “want-to” guide for making that life possible.

Program Suggestons Girls’ Night, Book Club, Local Book Store Event

Notes Felice Cohen is the author of 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet, What Papa Told Me, and Te Fancy Tales book series. She has written for the New York

54 Paulette M. Cooper Was Elvis Jewish? Plus Hundreds of Amazing & Amusing Anecdotes No Rabbi Ever Told You! Was Elvis Jewish? packs 16 chapters with short, interesting entries about Jewish-themed movies, shows, television programs, comedians, celebrities, history, royalty, politics, tradition, kosher food and wine, sports, holidays and holy days, pets, dating, prejudice, boycotts, Hebrew, Yiddish, Israeli innovations, Israeli life, Israeli inventions, and more. Written with a light and humorous slant, Was Elvis Jewish? aims to entertain and educate Adult Nonfcton: American readers of all ages while dazzling them with all the Jewish Studies, Contemporary wonderful things the Jewish people have done. Jewish Life, Popular Culture & Current Events

Polo Publishing (Self) Sept. 2015 $19.95 pbk ISBN: 978-0-9914013-3-8 Residence & RT Ground Palm Beach, FL $30 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.pauletecooper.com @pauleteCooper

Program Suggestons Girls’ Night, Local Book Store Event Paulette Cooper is the author of Notes 22 books, including the Scandal of Scientology and Te Medical Detectives. She also writes a column for Te Palm Beach Daily News and is the subject of a book written by © Credit Tony Ortega, Te Unbreakable Miss Lovely.

57 Saul David Operaton Thunderbolt Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

On June 27, 1976, an Air France fight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. Te plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, Uganda—ruled by the murderous despot Idi Amin, who had no interest in intervening. Adult Nonfcton: History, Days later, Israeli commandos disguised as Politcs & Current Afairs Ugandan soldiers assaulted the airport terminal, killed of the terrorists, and rescued all the Litle, Brown and Company Dec. 2015 $30.00 HC hostages but three who were killed in the crossfre. ISBN: 978-0316245418 Te assault force sufered just one fatality: its commander, Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of the Publicist current Israeli prime minister. Tree of the Israel’s Katharine Myers greatest leaders—Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, and [email protected] Yitzhak Rabin—planned and pulled of one of the 212-364-1588 most astonishing military operations in history. Residence & RT Ground Peasedown St John, UK $100 Availability Unavailable Apr. 29, June 13-20, July 23-Aug. 7

Program Suggestons Politcs and Current Events, College/University Event Notes Saul David is a military historian Not Atending and broadcaster. He is the author of Te Indian Mutiny, which was shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military

62 Susan David Emotonal Agility Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

Emotional agility is a four-step approach that allows everyone from business leaders to parents to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. In over twenty years of research, Susan David has found that, no matter how intelligent, resilient, or creative people are, when they ignore how situations or interactions make them feel, they miss opportunities to gain insight. Tey get hooked by thoughts, emotions, Adult Self-Help: Business & and habits that prevent them from reaching Economy, Family & Parentng, Health & Medicine their full potential. Emotionally agile people experience the same stresses and setbacks as Avery anyone else, but they know how to adapt, aligning Sept. 2016 $27.00 HC [e] their actions with their values and making ISBN: 978-1592409495 small changes that lead to a life of growth. Publicist Drawing on her extensive professional research, Casey Maloney international consulting work, and personal [email protected] experiences with hardship, David shows how 212-366-2213 anyone can become more emotionally agile Residence & RT Ground and thrive in an uncertain world. Written with Newton Lower Falls, MA $100 authority, wit, and empathy, Emotional Agility will Availability help you live your most successful life whoever Open availability you are and whatever you face. Website & Twiter www.eiconsortum.org/ members/david.htm Susan David, PhD is a psycholo- @susandavid_phd gist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, a cofounder Program Suggestons and codirector of the Institute Business and Professional of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Development, Mindfulness, Health and Wellness and CEO of Evidence Based © Credit Psychology. David has worked with the senior Notes leadership of hundreds of major organizations, including the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and the World Economic Forum, and has been featured in numerous leading publications.

63 Lawrence Douglas The Right Wrong Man John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial In 2009, Harper’s Magazine sent war crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of 89-year-old Ukranian- American John Demjanjuk. Te defendant’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker had collaborated in Nazi Adult Nonfcton: History, genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk Holocaust, Politcs & Current was twice stripped of his American citizenship Afairs and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as the “Ivan the Terrible” of Treblinka—only to Princeton University Press be cleared in one of the most notorious cases Jan. 2016 $29.95 HC ISBN: 978-0691125701 of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, afer 18 months of trial, a court in Munich Publicist convicted him of assisting Hitler’s SS in the Julia Haav murder of 28,060 Jews at the Sobibor death camp. [email protected] Te Right Wrong Man is both a gripping 718-715-1081 eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust Residence & RT Ground trial to galvanize world attention and a vital Sunderland, MA $60 meditation on the law’s efort to bring legal closure Availability to the most horrifc chapter in modern history. Unavailable June 11-27; July 5-8; Sept. 14; Sept. 20; Nov. 3-6 Program Suggestons Politcs and Current Events, Library Event, Local Book Store Lawrence Douglas is the James Event J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Notes Jurisprudence, and Social Tought at Amherst College. His books include Te Memory of Judgment:

Making Law and History in the © Credit Trials of the Holocaust and the novel Te Vices. His work has appeared in leading publications such as Te New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and Harper’s. He lives in Sunderland, MA.

67 David Eliezrie The Secret of Chabad Inside the World’s Most Successful Jewish Movement How did a small Chassidic group in Brooklyn become a Jewish powerhouse? A Chabad insider reveals the secret of Chabad’s worldwide success.

Adult Nonfcton: American Jewish Studies, Big Tent Judaism, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Toby Press Sept. 2015 $29.95 HC ISBN: 978-1-59264-370-7 Publicist Candace Sneider [email protected] 856-296-8824 Residence & RT Ground Yorba Linda, CA $80 Availability Does not travel or present on Shabbat; unavailable for Jewish holidays

Website & Twiter Rabbi David Eliezrie is a veteran www.secretofchabad.com Chabad emissary based in Orange County, CA. He is a noted speaker Program Suggestons and author. Previously he was Educaton, Book Club, Scholar Jewish Chaplain at the University in Residence of Miami. Notes

71 Ellen Feldman Terrible Virtue A Novel

Working as a nurse on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th century, Margaret Sanger saw countless women die in childbirth and botched abortions, and children go hungry and succumb to disease. Many of them were Jewish. Sanger, a lapsed Catholic, didn’t care about religious afliation. She cared about sufering. In 1916, she opened the frst birth control clinic in America. She chose an area inhabited by impoverished Jews and Italians, publicizing the Adult Ficton: Feminism & clinic and the then-illegal services it ofered with Women’s Studies, Historical Ficton posters printed in English, Yiddish, and Italian. Women pushing carriages and with children Harper in tow waited in line for hours to gain entry. March 2016 $25.99 HC [e] Tough her enemies would later accuse her of ISBN: 978-0062407559 trying to wipe out the Jewish population, Sanger Publicist brought many Jewish refugees to America before Katherine Beitner and during World War II, and earned the gratitude katherine.beitner@ of legions of women. harpercollins.com 212-207-7522

Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $120 – 180 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.ellenfeldman.com

Program Suggestons Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Girls’ Night, Dialogue Fellow in Fiction, is the author of on Women’s Health and Te Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, Reproductve Justce Next To Love, and Scottsboro, among others. Tough not all of Notes © Credit her books address uniquely Jewish issues, every one of them is infused with the experience and values of being a Jew.

74 Boris Fishman Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo A Novel

When Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin frst met, she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life. 20 years later, Maya is a medical worker in the suburbs, and Alex his father’s second in the family business. Te Adult Ficton: Family & great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year- Parentng, Literary Ficton, old son Max, adopted from two teenagers in Soviet Jewry Montana. Harper When Max suddenly starts acting feral, Maya March 2016 $26.99 HC convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip ISBN: 978-0062384362 to Montana to track down his birth parents—the frst drive west of New Jersey of their American Publicist lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the Jane Beirn journey, her own forgotten wildness summoned [email protected] 212.207.7256 for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family. Residence & RT Ground Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the New York, NY $30 – $100 mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong. Availability Open availability

Website & Twiter www.borisfshman.com @boris_y_fshman Boris Fishman was born in the former Soviet Union and Program Suggestons immigrated to the United States Book Club, Literary Ficton, at nine years old. His frst novel Parents’ Groups A Replacement Life was a New © Credit York Times 2014 Notable Book of Notes the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, among other honors. His journalism has appeared in Te New Yorker, Te New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.

76 Jonathan Safran Foer Here I Am A Novel

Unfolding over three tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, DC, Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion Adult Ficton: Israel & Zionism, a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. At stake is the Jewish Identty, Popular Ficton very meaning of home—and the fundamen- tal question of how much life one can bear. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sept. 2016 $28.00 HC Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, ISBN: 978-0374280024 hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, Here Publicist I Am is Jonathan Safran Foer’s most searching, Jef Seroy hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. [email protected] 212-206-5323

Residence & RT Ground Brooklyn, NY $100

Availability Unavailable Sept.-Oct.

Program Suggestons Popular Ficton, Literary Ficton Notes Jonathan Safran Foer is the author Not Atending of two bestselling, award-winning novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, and the bestselling work of © Credit nonfction, Eating Animals. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

78 Gayle Forman Leave Me A Novel Maribeth Klein is your typical overworked, overextended default parent. She’s so busy that she doesn’t realize she’s having a heart attack, and so depended upon by her family that afer heart surgery, she cannot recuperate. So she does the unthinkable: packs a bag and leaves. Only then does she begin to understand what she is really running from. Leave Me is about facing our fears, and big-hearted characters who stumble and trip, grow Adult Ficton: Popular Ficton and forgive. An irresistible novel that confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head-on. Algonquin Books Sept. 2016 $26.95 HC [e] ISBN: 978-1616206178

Publicist Michael McKenzie [email protected] 212-614-5639 Residence & RT Ground Brooklyn, NY $100 Availability Does not travel or present on Shabbat; unavailable July 30-Aug. 27

Website & Twiter www.gayleforman.com Gayle Forman is a bestselling @gayleforman and award-winning novelist. Her book If I Stay was a 2010 Indie Program Suggestons Choice Honor Award winner Girls’ Night, Book Club, Popular and was adapted into a movie in

© Credit Ficton 2014. Forman’s journalism have appeared in numerous publications, including Notes Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. Leave Me is her frst novel for adults. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two daughters.

79 Kim Friedman Mother, Can You Not?

Tere is nothing more wonderful than a mother’s love. Tere is also nothing more annoying. Who else can proudly insist that you’re perfect while simultaneously making you question every career, fashion, and relationship decision you have ever made? No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel and her own Adult Memoir: Family & mother, who drove her so crazy that she decided Parentng, Humor, Love & to broadcast their hilarious conversations Relatonships on Instagram. Soon, hundreds of thousands Crown Archetype of people were following their daily text April 2016 $22.00 HC [e] exchanges, eager to see what outrageous thing ISBN: 978-1101907047 Kate’s mom would say next. Now, in Mother, Can You Not?, Kate pays tribute to the woman Residence & RT Ground who invented the concept of drone parenting. Northfeld, NJ $80 From embarrassing moments (like crashing Availability Kate’s gynecological exams) to outrageous stories Open availability (like the time she made Kate steal a cat from the pound) to hilarious celebrations (including but Website & Twiter not limited to parties for Kate’s menstrual cycles), www.kateesiegel.com @kateesiegel Mother, Can you Not? lovingly lampoons the lengths to which our mothers will go to better our Program Suggestons lives—even when it feels like they’re ruining them Girls’ Night, Young Adult in the process. Program, Parents’ Groups Notes Touring with Kate Siegel Kim Friedman is an Emmy -nominated director of primetime television, including Beverly Hills 90210, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Sabrina the © Credit Teenage Witch, Square Pegs, and Lizzie McGuire. Kim is also a distinguished theater director, having received two Obie nominations in New York and two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards. More recently, Kim moved back to the East Coast in an efort to more efectively nag her daughter.

84 Matti Friedman Pumpkinfowers A Soldier’s Story

It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. Tis hill in Lebanon was called the Pumpkin; “fowers” was the military code word for casualties. Award-winning writer Matti Friedman recreates the harrowing experience of a band of young soldiers—the author among them— charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conficts the United States would soon Adult Memoir: Jewish Identty, confront in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Politcs & Current Afairs, Part memoir, part reportage, part military history, Israel/Zionism this powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a 21st Algonquin Books century type of war in which there is never a clear May 2016 $25.95 HC [e] victor and media images can be as important as ISBN: 978-1616204587 the battle itself. Raw and beautifully rendered, Publicist Pumpkinfowers is an unfinching look at the way Jackie Burke we conduct war today, sure to take its place among [email protected] classic war narratives. 212-614-5640 Residence & RT Ground Jerusalem, Israel $100 Availability Available for tour Nov. through mid-Dec. Website & Twiter www.matfriedman.com Matti Friedman is the author of @MatFriedman 2014 Sami Rohr Prize-winning Te Program Suggestons Aleppo Codex. A former correspon- Brotherhood, Politcs and dent for the Associated Press, his Current Events, Dialogue on reporting has taken him from Israel Israel to Morocco to Washington, © Credit Notes DC, and his work has appeared in Te Atlantic, Not Atending Te New York Times, Tablet, and elsewhere. He was born in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem.

85 Rita B. Gabis A Guest At The Shooters’ Banquet My Grandfather and the SS, My Jewish Family, A Search For The Truth Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. Six years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: from 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian region of Adult Memoir: Crime & Svencionys, near the killing feld of Poligon, where Mystery, Holocaust, Jewish 8,000 Jews were murdered in the fall of 1941. Gabis Identty felt compelled to fnd out the complicated truth Bloomsbury of who her grandfather was. Original research, Sept. 2016 $16.00 HC pbk [e] eyewitness testimony, survivor interviews, and ISBN: 978-1632866233 her own relentless search from Eastern Europe to Israel led Gabis to break her family’s silence Publicist surrounding “the Holocaust by bullets” in the Marie Coolman [email protected] borderlands under her grandfather’s control. 212-419-5318

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86 David J. Gerber The Inventor’s Dilemma The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber H. Joseph Gerber, a Jewish refugee, was widely considered to be one of the greatest American inventors, technolo- gists, and businessmen of the 20th century. Te Inventor’s Dilemma: Te Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber is the defnitive biography of a man who transformed modern manufacturing and the products that fll Adult Nonfcton: Biography, our everyday lives: clothes, cars, eyeglasses, Business & Economy, electronics, signs and printing, and more. Holocaust Written by his son David, the book intimately Yale University Press chronicles not only Gerber’s professional life, Oct 2015 $38.00 HC but also his remarkable personal journey as ISBN: 978-0300123500 a Holocaust survivor, and penniless boy who became an eminent inventor. He used his success Publicist in America to assist a young Israel to rise to Margaret Kingsbury technological prominence, while also coming to [email protected] 512-904-9255 terms with the impact of his boyhood experiences under Nazi rule and his Jewish identity. Residence & RT Ground West Hartord, CT $85 Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays; unavailable Oct. 11-12, Jan. 9, May 4, 27, Aug. 1-14 David J. Gerber has handled legal, Website & Twiter technical, and business responsi- @davgerb bilities for Gerber Scientifc and Program Suggestons was a Fellow at the Yale School of Seniors, Book Club, Panel Management and an attorney for Notes © Credit Dewey Ballantine. David holds degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Columbia University. He has also published on competition law, receiving the American Society of Legal Writers Prize.

88 Alan Robert Ginsberg The Salome Ensemble Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jeta Goudal Te Salome Ensemble presents the history of a group of storytellers who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Tis book recovers, recounts, and reinterprets the entangled lives of four remarkable Adult Nonfcton: American Jewish women, three immigrants from the Russian Jewish Studies, Arts & Culture, Pale and one from Holland. A political activist, a Feminism & Women’s Studies, novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress together History created the shape-shifing, genre-crossing Salome Syracuse University Press of the Tenements, frst a popular novel and then a April 2016 $34.95 HC pbk [e] Hollywood movie. Teir creative process doubled ISBN: 978-0-8156-1065-6 as a process of self-creation. Te title character Publicist was a controversial combination of Cinderella Larchmont Advisors and Salome—like the women who conceived her. [email protected] Teodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, John 917 414-1584 Dewey, and Cecil B. DeMille played supporting Residence & RT Ground roles while the women of Te Salome Ensemble New York, NY $100 took center stage. Tey pursued their own American dreams, escaped the squalor of Availability sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, Open availability and rose to prominence in politics, fashion, Website & Twiter journalism, literature, and flm. www.thesalomeensemble.com @AlanRGinsberg Alan Robert Ginsberg is a visiting Program Suggestons scholar and board member at Girls’ Night, College/University the Center for American Studies Event, Purim at Columbia University. He has contributed to several periodicals

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92 Ezra Glinter Have I Got A Story For You More Than a Century of Ficton from The Forward Te Forward is the most renowned Yiddish newspaper in the world. It welcomed generations of immigrants to the United States, brought them news of Europe and the Middle East, and provided them with everything from comic strips to noodle kugel recipes. It also published some of the most acclaimed Yiddish fction writers of all time, including Nobel Prize laureate Adult Ficton: Anthologies and Isaac Bashevis Singer, Forward editor Abraham Collectons, Literary Ficton, Cahan, and novelists Sholem Asch and Chaim Yiddish Grade. Ezra Glinter and the Forward staf have W. W. Norton & Company combed through the archives to fnd the best Nov. 2016 $27.95 HC [e] stories published during the newspaper’s 120-year ISBN: 978-0393062700 history, from wartime novellas to avant-garde fction to satirical sketches about immigrant life Publicist in New York. Tese stories, now presented in Rachel Salzman English for the frst time, expressed the concerns [email protected] of Yiddish writers and their millions of readers, 617-487-8660 including the challenges of immigration, both World Wars, and changing forms of Jewish Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $45 identity. Availability Unavailable Nov. 6-7 Website & Twiter www.forward.com/author/ Ezra Glinter is Te Forward’s ezra-glinter @EzraG deputy culture editor. His writing has appeared in Te New Republic, Paris Review Daily, Program Suggestons Book Club, Library Event, Local Bookforum, and Te Walrus. His Book Store Event biography of the Lubavitcher © Credit Rebbe is forthcoming from Yale Notes University Press.

95 Dina Gold Stolen Legacy Nazi Thef and the Quest for Justce at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin A nonfction historical narrative centered around one Jewish family’s legal battle to reclaim ownership of a building stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. Te building at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in Berlin was seized by a German businessman with direct ties to the very top of the Nazi Party hierarchy and German Railways. He was the head of the Victoria Insurance Company—then, as now, one of Germany’s top insurance companies. Written Adult Nonfcton: European by the daughter of one of the original owners of Jewry, History, Holocaust the building, Stolen Legacy details the history of the Wolf family’s ownership of the building, its Ankerwycke confscation by the Nazis, and the family’s legal Oct. 2016 $16.95 pbk fght to reclaim it. ISBN: 978-1-63425-427-4 Publicist Jill Bernstein [email protected] 202-413-8403 Residence & RT Ground Washington, DC $40 – $140 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.stolenlegacy.com @dina_gold Program Suggestons Seniors, Book Club, Shabbat Dina Gold is a former BBC Programming investigative journalist and television producer. She is now a Notes senior editor at Moment magazine. She is on the Board of the DCJCC and serves as co-Chair of the © Credit Washington Jewish Film Festival.

97 Amy Gottlieb The Beautful Possible

Spanning 70 years and several continents, moving from a traumatized refugee in 1938 Berlin to a discontented American couple in the 1950s to a young woman in modern-day Jerusalem, this enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters. In 1946, Walter Westhaus, a German Jew who spent the war years at Tagore’s ashram in India, arrives at the Jewish Teological Seminary in New York City, where he meets Sol Kerem, a promising rabbinical Adult Ficton: Conservatve student. A brilliant nonbeliever, Walter is the Judaism, Popular Ficton, Renewal Judaism perfect foil for Sol’s spiritual questions and an alluring paramour for Sol’s free-spirited fancée, Harper Perennial Rosalie. While Walter pursues an academic career Feb. 2016 $15.99 pbk [e] in Berkeley and Rosalie and Sol lead a congrega- ISBN: 978-0062383365 tion in suburban New York, the three of them Publicist remain yoked together in a complex web of desire, Nicole Smith heartbreak, and redemption. Te Beautiful Possible [email protected] explores the hidden boundaries of marriage and faith, and the mysterious ways we negotiate our Residence & RT Ground desires. Bronx, NY $120

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108 Melissa Fay Greene The Underdogs Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditonal Love

When Rabbi Harvey and Donnie Winokur of Atlanta brought home a son from a Russian orphanage in 1999, they plunged into a life of bedlam, exhaustion, confusion, and isolation: it turned out that Iyal was severely brain-damaged by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. When Iyal was nine, Donnie discovered 4 Paws for Ability, a service dog academy in Ohio training dogs for children. In time, the Winokurs were matched with Chancer, a big, self-confdent golden retriever Adult Nonfcton: Family & unfazed by Iyal’s meltdowns. Te household Parentng, Health & Medicine stabilized and Iyal had his frst-ever friend. Ecco Te Underdogs tells the story of the Winokurs May 2016 $27.99 HC [e] and half a dozen other families across the United ISBN: 978-0-06-221851-3 States contending with their children’s autism, attachment disorder, seizure disorder, or terminal Publicist illness. Te family stories are interwoven with Ashley Garland ashley.garland@ current science on the amazing capacities of dogs, harpercollins.com with experts exploring how a dog like Chancer is 212-207-7582 able to ofer safe haven, friendship, and fun to a boy like Iyal. Residence & RT Ground Atlanta, GA $30 Availability Will present but does not travel on Shabbat

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109 Adina Hofman Till We Have Built Jerusalem Architects of a New City

A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved cities, Adina Hofman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very diferent lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. Te book opens with the arrival in 1930s Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Adult Nonfcton: Arts & Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler’s Culture, Biography, Israel & Germany, who must reckon with a complex Zionism new reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect Farrar, Straus and Giroux from 1922 to 1937. Steeped in the traditions April 2016 $28.00 HC ISBN: 978-0374289102 of Byzantine and Islamic building, this “most private of public servants” fnds himself working Publicist under the ofen stifing conditions of British Stephen Weil rule. And in the riveting fnal section, Hofman [email protected] herself sets out through the streets of today’s 212-206-5338 Jerusalem searching for traces of a possibly Greek, possibly Arab architect named Spyro Houris. Residence & RT Ground New Haven, CT $30 – $240 A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, Till We Availability Have Built Jerusalem uncovers ramifying layers Available for tour mid-Oct. to of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it early Nov. and Jan. through means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong. June Program Suggestons Politcs and Current Events, Library Event, Local Book Store Adina Hofman is the author of Event three previous books, including Sacred Trash: Te Lost and Found Notes World of the Cairo Geniza with Peter Cole, which received the © Credit ALA’s award for the Jewish book of the year. Te recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she received a Windham Campbell Prize in 2013. She divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

124 Wendy Holden Born Survivors Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defance, and Hope Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have lef: their lives—and those of their unborn babies. Tat the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon B Adult Nonfcton: Biography, just afer the babies were born, before they and History, Holocaust their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all Harper Collins to survive and rebuild their lives afer World Oct. 2016 $15.99 HC pbk [e] War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers’ ISBN: 978-0062370259 incredible journey from Auschwitz, where Publicist they each came under the murderous scrutiny Alexis Shanley of Dr. Josef Mengele and endured the harsh alexis.shanley@ conditions of slave labor, to the hellish 17-day harpercollins.com train journey with thousands of other prisoners 212-207-7323 to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Residence & RT Ground A heart-stopping account of how three mothers Sufolk, UK $500 and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is a life-afrming Availability celebration of our capacity to care and love amid Limited availability inconceivable cruelty. Website & Twiter www.wendyholden.com @wendholden Wendy Holden is an experienced Program Suggestons author with more than 30 Local Book Store Event, books to her credit, including Museum Tour/Event, College/ ten international bestsellers. University Event A journalist for 18 years, she Notes © Credit covered news events at home and throughout the Middle East, Europe, and Northern Ireland; as acting New York bureau chief for the Telegraph she travelled across the United States and Central and South America.

126 Marjorie Ingall Mamaleh Knows Best What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creatve, Empathetc, Independent Children We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: needy, hectoring, guilt-inducing. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet columnist Marjorie Ingall argues that this stereotype is actually a product of a very brief period of Jewish history; it doesn’t refect the vast span of Jewish history and parenting. Adult Nonfcton: Feminism In fact, Ingall argues, Jewish mothers and their & Women’s Studies, History, child-rearing values are actually responsible for Parents Jews’ outsized success in a wide variety of felds over multiple eras and in all kinds of environments. Harmony Using personal anecdotes, historical texts, and Aug. 2016 $25.00 HC [e] research from leading academic experts, Ingall ISBN: 978-0804141413 lays out the ten commandments (why mess with Publicist a classic?) for bringing up self-sufcient, ethical, Lauren Cook and accomplished children. Ingall will make you lcook@ think, she will make you laugh, and she will make penguinrandomhouse.com you a better parent. 212-782-9486 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $100 Availability Unavailable Tuesdays Website & Twiter www.marjorieingall.com @MarjorieIngall Marjorie Ingall is a columnist for Tablet magazine; before that, she Program Suggestons wrote as “Te East Village Mamele” Panel, Local Book Store Event, at Te Forward. She’s a frequent Parents’ Groups contributor to Te New York Times Notes © Credit Book Review and has written for many other publications, including the late, lamented Sassy, where she was senior writer. She lives in New York with her husband, children, and two vocal cats.

128 Jesse E. Itzler Living with a SEAL 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet In 2011, former rapper and millionaire businessman Jesse Itzler approached an accomplished Navy SEAL with this proposition: to move into Jesse’s family’s Manhattan apartment and train him for 31 days. Te SEAL, widely considered “the toughest man on the planet,” agreed, but on one condition: Jesse would do everything he told him—and nothing was of the table. What ensued was a physical training regimen that included sleeping in a wooden chair, jumping into a frozen Adult Memoir: Health & lake, and running miles wearing a 50-pound Wellness weighted vest, with training occurring at all hours Center Street of the day and night. At turns hilarious (think Nov. 2015 $26.00 HC [e] Fresh Prince of Bel-Air goes to boot camp) and ISBN: 978-1455534678 insightful, Living with a SEAL tells the story of a ftness routine like no other—and the unlikely Publicist friendship it produced. Kate Broaddus [email protected] 917-538-1417 Residence & RT Ground Atlanta, GA $200 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.the100mileman.com @the100mileman Jesse Itzler cofounded Marquis Program Suggestons Jet, the world’s largest prepaid Business and Professional private jet fight card, before Development, Health and helping to pioneer the coconut Wellness, Sports water craze with Zico, acquired by © Credit Te Coca-Cola Company. He is a Notes former rapper and music producer. Jesse ofen can be found at the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks games, where he is an owner of the team. He is married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely; they have four children.

129 Claudia Kalb Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalites Did Albert Einstein have autism? Was Abraham Lincoln clinically depressed? What made Darwin so anxious? In Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder, Claudia Kalb delves into the minds of history’s most celebrated icons. Kalb uses historical records and interviews with leading psychiatric experts to meticulously assess the mental health Adult Nonfcton: Arts & of 12 individuals, from Einstein, Lincoln, and Culture, Biography, Health & Darwin to Fyodor Dostoevsky, Princess Diana, Medicine and Marilyn Monroe. Kalb’s nuanced analysis Natonal Geographic probes the intricacies of the brain and human Feb. 2016 $24.00 HC [e] behavior, weaving biographical information with ISBN: 978-1426214660 cutting-edge science to reveal both the torments and triumphs of these extraordinary fgures. Publicist Several of the individuals profled were Jewish Ann Day and each had unique ties to the religion. Einstein [email protected] was raised in a secular home in Germany and 202-457-8477 was later invited to be president of Israel; George Residence & RT Ground Gershwin grew up in the immigrant streets of Alexandria, VA $30 – $130 New York City and frequented Yiddish theaters; Availability Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism when she Unavailable Aug. 1-8, 18-25 married Arthur Miller. Although not the book’s focus, these Jewish themes will be featured in Website & Twiter discussions with Jewish audiences. www.claudiakalb.com @claudiakalb

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132 Ben Kamin I Don’t Know What to Believe Making Spiritual Peace with Your Religion Americans—especially young people—are less afliated with organized religion now than at any other time in our history. I Don’t Know What to Believe addresses that decline and presents an insightful examination of authentic spirituality for those who desire answers, guidance, and perspective regarding an important aspect of their lives: their beliefs Adult Nonfcton: Big Tent and their relationship to a higher power. Judaism, Interfaith, Jewish Why does my parents’ religion have to defne Identty, Spirituality me? Am I God’s child even if I don’t go to Central Recovery Press religious services? Does Scripture include me in Feb. 2016 $16.95 pbk [e] its ideology regardless of how much scripture I ISBN: 978-1-942094-04-3 know? How do I follow my own spirituality while Publicist still respecting my parents’ traditions? Rabbi Ben Patrick Hughes Kamin addresses questions he has received from [email protected] real people over the 30 years of his ministry. 702-868-5830 Residence & RT Ground Oceanside, CA $140 Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays Website & Twiter www.benkamin.com Rabbi Ben Kamin is a teacher, clergyman, and counselor, and Program Suggestons the prize-winning author of eleven Young Adult Program, books on human values, civil Mindfulness, Teen Program, rights, and spirituality. He has led Parents’ Groups, College/ congregations in Toronto, New © Credit University Event York, Cleveland, San Diego, and Laguna Woods Notes since his ordination in 1978, and has published hundreds of articles about community life in newspapers around the world, including Te New York Times and Te International Herald-Tribune.

133 Leah F. Kaminsky The Waitng Room Te Waiting Room tells the story of Dina, an Australian doctor born to Holocaust survivors who struggles to cope with life in Haifa during the ever-present threat of a terrorist attack. While dealing with difcult patients, a six-year-old son, and a marriage under strain, Dina is haunted by the dead mother she would rather forget.

Adult Ficton: Holocaust, Israel & Zionism, Literary Ficton Harper Perennial Nov. 2016 $15.99 pbk [e] ISBN: 978-0062490476 Publicist Kathryn Ratclife-Lee 212-207-7810 Residence & RT Ground East Brighton, Australia $60 Availability Available for tour Nov. 14-Dec. 8 Website & Twiter www.leahkaminsky.com @leahkam Program Suggestons Book Club, Panel, Popular Leah Kaminsky, physician and Ficton award-winning author, is Poetry Notes Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia. Her books include We’re All Going to Die, Writer MD, and © Credit Cracking the Code. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

134 Janice Kaplan The Grattude Diaries How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life Gratitude is a very Jewish concept. When we say a blessing over bread, it raises the moment from the ordinary to the extraordinary. It makes us appreciate the specialness of what we have. Te many blessings Jews say every day are expressions of gratitude. A mix of serious research study, personal memoir, and prescriptive advice, Te Gratitude Adult Self-Help: Business & Diaries takes readers on a smart and witty journey Economy, Family & Parentng to discover how gratitude can transform every aspect of life: marriage and friendship, money and Duton ambition, and health and ftness. Aug. 2016 $16.00 HC pbk [e] ISBN: 978-1101984147 Publicist Liza Cassity [email protected] 212-366-2554 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $75 – $150 Availability open availability

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135 Martha Hall Kelly Lilac Girls A Novel

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate, but her world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939 with its sights set on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. For the ambitious young German doctor Herta Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton Oberheuser, an advertisement for a government Ballantne Books medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate April 2016 $26.00 HC [e] life. Once hired, though, she fnds herself trapped in ISBN: 978-1101883075 a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. Te lives of these women are set on a collision Publicist course when Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the Melanie DeNardo notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. mdenardo@ penguinrandomhouse.com Teir stories cross continents as Caroline and 212-782-9047 Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. Residence & RT Ground Atlanta, GA $50 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.marthahallkelly.com @marthahallkelly Program Suggestons Girls’ Night, Book Club, Popular Martha Hall Kelly is a native New Ficton Englander now living in Atlanta, GA, where she is writing her next Notes book. Lilac Girls is her frst novel. © Credit

138 Adam Kirsch The People And The Books 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

Jews have long embraced their identity as “the People of the Book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains less known. Te People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are refected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Adult Nonfcton: Bible & Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores 18 classic texts Rabbinics, History, Jewish including Deuteronomy and Te Book of Esther, Identty the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiogra- W. W. Norton & Company phy of the medieval businesswoman Gluckel of Oct. 2016 $28.95 HC [e] Hameln, and the Zionist manifestos of Teodor ISBN: 978-0393241761 Herzl. From the Jews of ancient Rome to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, Publicist Te People and the Books brings the treasures of Elizabeth Riley Jewish literature to life and ofers new ways to [email protected] think about their enduring power and infuence. 212-790-9452 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $45 Availability Will present but does not travel on Shabbat; unavailable for Jewish holidays

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143 Amy Koppelman Hesitaton Wounds A Novel Dr. Susanna Seliger is a renowned psychiatrist who specializes in treatment-resistant depression. Te most difcult cases come through her door, and Susa is always ready to discuss treatment options, medication, and symptom management, but draws the line at engaging with feelings. A strict adherence to protocol keeps her from falling apart. But her past is made present by one patient, Jim, whose struggles tear open Susa’s hastily stitched- up wounds, revealing the latent feeling that she Adult Ficton: Popular Ficton could have helped the people closest to her— especially her adored, cool, talented grafti-artist The Overlook Press brother. Spectacularly original and gorgeously Nov. 2015 $25.95 HC [e] unsettling, Hesitation Wounds is a novel that ISBN: 978-1468312188 will sink in like a persistent scar or a dangerous, Publicist glow-in-the-dark memory. Abigail Novak [email protected] 212-673-2534 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $45 Availability Teaches Mon.-Wed. evenings May 23-July 6

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146 Amy Kurzweil Flying Couch A Graphic Memoir

Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy’s coming of age as a young Jewish artist weaves into the narrative of her mother, a therapist, and her Bubbe, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbe’s story, Amy turns to her sketchbooks to preserve and record the Crossover Graphic Novel: past, teaching herself to draw as a way to cope Graphic Novel & Comics, with what she discovers. Entwining the voices and Holocaust, Jewish Identty histories of these three wise, hilarious, and very Black Balloon diferent women, Amy creates a portrait not only Oct. 2016 $17.95 pbk [e] of what it means to be part of a family, but also of ISBN: 978-1936787289 how each generation bears the imprint of the past. Publicist A retelling of the inherited Holocaust narrative Alyson Sinclair now two generations removed, Flying Couch uses [email protected] Bubbe’s real testimony to investigate the legacy 612-201-3867 of trauma, the magic of family stories, and the Residence & RT Ground meaning of home. With her playful, idiosyncratic Brooklyn, NY $100 sensibility, Amy traces the way our memories and families shape who we become. Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.amykurzweil.com @amykurzweil Program Suggestons Girls’ Night, Young Adult Program, College/University Event Amy Kurzweil’s comics appear Notes regularly in Te Hufngton Post and are soon to appear in Te New Yorker. In 2013, she was the recipient of a Norman Mailer © Credit Fellowship. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons, Te New School for Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

152 Harold S. Kushner Nine Essental Things I’ve Learned About Life As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of 12 books on faith, ethics, and how to apply the timeless wisdom of religious thought to everyday challenges, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner has demonstrated time and again his understanding of the human spirit. In this compassionate new work, his most personal since When Bad Tings Happen to Good People, Kushner relates how his time as a contempo- Adult Nonfcton: rary rabbi has shaped his senses of religion and Autobiography, Philosophy & morality. He elicits nine essential lessons from Ethics, Spirituality the sum of his teaching, study, and experience, Anchor Books ofering a lifetime’s worth of spiritual food for Sept. 2016 $15.00 HC pbk thought, pragmatic advice, inspiration for a more ISBN: 978-0804173452 fulflling life, and strength for trying times. Publicist Mandy Licata [email protected] 212-572-2016 Residence & RT Ground Natck, MA $50 Availability Open availability Program Suggestons Big Ten, College/University Event, Dialogue on Coexistence

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153 Debbie Levy I Dissent Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere. Tis biographical picture book about RBH tells the Justice’s story through the lens of her many famous dissents, proving that disagreeing does Children’s Nonfcton: not make one disagreeable! Biography, Feminism & Women’s Studies, Politcs & Current Afairs Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Sept. 2016 $17.99 HC ISBN: 978-1481465595

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164 Lynda Cohen Loigman The Two-Family House A Novel A moving and evocative debut set in a two-family brownstone in 1950s Brooklyn, unraveling a multigenerational story woven around a deeply-buried family secret. In the midst of a blizzard in Brooklyn, 1947, two babies are born only minutes and a shared wall Adult Ficton: Historical apart to two women, sisters by marriage with Ficton, Literary Ficton an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night. But as the years progress, St. Martn’s Press small cracks start to appear and their once deep March 2016 $25.99 HC [e] friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, ISBN: 978-1250076922 and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; Publicist one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with Jessica Preeg happiness—and almost wins. [email protected] 646-307-5555 Residence & RT Ground Chappaqua, NY $25 Availability Unavailable Aug. 20-Sept. 3 Website & Twiter www.lyndacohenloigman.com @lyndacloigman Program Suggestons Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Book Club, Library Event, Local Longmeadow, MA. She received Book Store Event a BA in English and American Notes Literature from Harvard College and a JD from Columbia Law

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167 Michelle P. Maidenberg Free Your Child From Overeatng 53 Mind-Body Strategies For Lifelong Health

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169 Sherri Mandell The Road to Resilience From Chaos to Celebraton

Resilience is usually thought of as bouncing back to who you were. But in Jewish thought, resilience is a process of becoming stronger. Te Road to Resilience enables readers to enter chaos and pain and experience growth and revelation, even when it seems most unlikely, and to not only survive but thrive in the face of crisis and trauma. Te book explores seven spiritual steps of Adult Self-Help: Jewish Identty, Spirituality resilience: chaos, community, choice, creativity, commemoration, consecration, and celebration. Toby Press When a person bears pain and chaos with the Oct. 2015 $19.95 HC [e] support of a community, he or she may choose ISBN: 978-1592643837 to build from the pain, to remember in a living Publicist way, creating a new self who may discover a Yehudit Singer powerful role in repairing the world. In that [email protected] process of growth, one experiences a potent Residence & RT Ground connection to God and a more expansive sense of Tekoa, Israel $500 joy and celebration. Instead of closure, there is the Availability experience of disclosure, an essential process of Does not travel or present on growth considered one of the secrets of the Jewish Shabbat; unavailable for Jewish people. holidays

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170 Kenneth L. Marcus The Defniton of Ant-Semitsm

A book-length study examines the defnition of anti-Judaism in the context of the modern world. Previous eforts to defne “anti-Semitism” have been complicated by the disreputable origins of the term, the discredited sources of its etymology, the diverse manifestations of the concept, and the contested politics of its applications. Neverthe- less the task is an important one, not only because defnitional clarity is required for the term to be understood, but also because the current Adult Nonfcton: American Jewish Studies, Antsemitsm, conceptual confusion prevents resolution of many Israel & Zionism incidents in which antiSemitism is manifested. Te Defnition of AntiSemitism explores the various Oxford University Press ways in which anti-Semitism has historically Sept. 2015 $29.95 HC [e] been defned, demonstrates the weaknesses in ISBN: 978-0-19-937564-6 prior eforts, and develops a new defnition, with Publicist particular consideration of recent movements in Rachel Tarlow Gul American higher education. [email protected] 201-503-1321 Residence & RT Ground Leesburg, VA $90 Availability Open availability

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© Credit and Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America. He founded the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law to fght campus anti-Semitism through legal advocacy, research, and education.

172 Tilar J. Mazzeo Irena’s Children The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Gheto In 1942, a young social worker named Irena Sendler was granted access to the Warsaw Ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families who were unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children. She started smuggling Adult Nonfcton: Biography, children out of the walled district, convincing History, Holocaust her friends and neighbors to hide them. Driven Gallery Books to extreme measures and aided by a network of Sept. 2016 $26.00 HC [e] local tradesmen, ghetto residents, and a lover in ISBN: 978-1476778501 the Jewish resistance, Irena made dangerous trips Publicist through the city’s sewers, hid children in cofns, Meagan Harris snuck them under overcoats at checkpoints, meagan.harris@ and slipped them through secret passages in simonandschuster.com abandoned buildings, keeping the names of the 212-698-4792 thousands of children she saved on a secret list buried in bottles under an old apple tree in a Residence & RT Ground friend’s back garden, so that th children’s families Hope, ME $100 could fnd them afer the war. She could not know Availability that more than 90 percent of their families would Teaches Wed.-Fri. perish. Website & Twiter www.tlar-mazzeo.com @tlarmaz Tilar J. Mazzeo is the bestselling Program Suggestons author of Te Widow Clicquot, Te Book Club, Library Event Secret of Chanel No. 5, and Hotel on Notes the Place Vendome, among others. She writes on food and wine and

© Credit teaches writing creative non-fction. Te Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, she divides her time between coastal Maine, New York City, and Saanichton, BC, where she lives with her husband and stepchildren.

174 Andrew Nagorski The Nazi Hunters More than seven decades afer the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die of. Teir saga can now be told almost in its entirety. Afer the Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War, most of the victors in World War II lost interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Many of the lower-ranking perpetrators quickly blended in with the millions who were seeking to rebuild their lives in a new Europe, while those who felt most at risk fed the continent. Te Nazi Hunters focuses on the small band of men and women who refused to allow their crimes to be forgotten—and Adult Nonfcton: Biography, who were determined to track them down to the History, Holocaust furthest corners of the earth. Andrew Nagorski’s Simon & Schuster book is a richly reconstructed odyssey and an May 2016 $30.00 HC [e] unforgettable tale of gritty determination, at times ISBN: 978-1476771861 reckless behavior, and relentless pursuit. Publicist Maureen Cole maureen.cole@ simonandschuster.com 212-698-7183 Residence & RT Ground Pelham, NY $25

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181 Idra Novey Ways to Disappear Deep in gambling debt, a celebrated writer is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz’s two grown children, fies immediately to Brazil. Tere, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and her author’s children conspire to solve the mystery.

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Residence & RT Ground Brooklyn, NY $50 Availability Teaches Thurs. Website & Twiter www.idranovey.com @idranovey Idra Novey is the author of the Program Suggestons novel Ways to Disappear and Exit, Book Club, Literary Ficton, Civilian, selected for the 2011 Local Book Store Event National Poetry Series. Born in western Pennsylvania, she has Notes since lived in Chile, Brazil, and © Credit Not Atending New York. Her fc tion and poetry have been translated into seven languages and featured on NPR’s All Tings Considered and in Slate, Te Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, and Guernica. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

187 Christopher Noxon Plus One A Novel

Plus One is a funny novel about an interfaith family set in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman- Zicklin is a midlevel marketing executive raised in the hippie mountain hamlet of Ojai whose wife Figgy’s fourteenth TV pilot becomes a huge Emmy-winning hit. Overnight Alex is sucked into a mad show business vortex; he quits his job to become the family’s “domestic frst responder.” Along the way he must negotiate the demands of his Jewish in-laws and his own mystic-folksinging Adult Ficton: Contemporary mother. Plus One tells the story of a caretaking Jewish Life, Humor, Interfaith support goy and his breadwinning Jewish wife and Prospect Park the fast-changing roles of parents and partners. June 2016 $16.00 HC pbk [e] ISBN: 978-1938849725 Publicist Justn Harget [email protected] 740-632-0118 Residence & RT Ground Los Angeles, CA $40 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.christophernoxon.com @cnoxon Program Suggestons Christopher Noxon is an author, Book Club, Panel, Popular journalist and illustrator. He is Ficton, Library Event, Local the author of the novel Plus One Book Store Event, Writers’ and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Workshop Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the © Credit Notes American Grownup. He has written for Te New Yorker, Details, Te New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon. He lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, and their three children.

188 Tahneer Oksman “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” Women and Jewish American Identty in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

American comics refect the distinct sensibili- ties and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven Adult Nonfcton: American contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Jewish Studies, Graphic Novel Oksman draws a remarkable connection between & Comics, Jewish Identty innovations in modes of graphic storytelling Columbia University Press and the unstable, contradictory, and ambiguous Feb. 2016 $30.00 HC pbk [e] fgurations of the Jewish self in the postmodern era. ISBN: 978-0231172752 Oksman isolates the dynamic Jewishness that connects each frame in the autobiographi- Publicist cal comics of Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Derek Warker Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, [email protected] Sarah Glidden, Miriam Libicki, and Liana Finck. 212-459-0600 x7127 Rooted in a conception of identity based as much Residence & RT Ground on rebellion as identifcation and belonging, these Brooklyn, NY $70 artists’ representations of Jewishness take shape in the spaces between how we see ourselves and how Availability Open availability others see us. Website & Twiter @TahneerO Program Suggestons Tahneer Oksman is assistant Local Book Store Event, professor and director of the College/University Event, Scholar in Residence Writing Program at Marymount Manhattan College. She has Notes published articles in a/b: Auto/

Biography Studies, Studies in © Credit Comics, and Studies in American Jewish Literature, as well as Te Forward, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Cleaver Magazine, where she is the graphic narratives reviews editor.

189 Alyssa R. Petersel Somehow I Am Diferent Narratves of Searching and Belonging in Jewish Budapest

How do we come to be who we are spiritually? How does our political and social environment infuence our development of self? A young American author immerses herself in modern Jewish Hungary. Te 21 stories she shares will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you want to be your own best self. Somehow I Am Diferent provides an opportunity to connect Adult Nonfcton: Anthologies in a world that otherwise begs us to stand alone. and Collectons, Contemporary Tis book serves as a reminder that in spite of the Jewish Life, European Jewry factors working against us, we have the power to Acorn Publishing make a diference. May 2016 $13.18 pbk [e] ISBN: 978-0692584118 Residence & RT Ground Melville, NY $100 Availability Unavailable for the month of June

Website & Twiter www.somehowiamdiferent .com Alyssa Petersel is an alumna of @apetersel Northwestern University’s Public Program Suggestons Interest Program, though which Yom Hashoah, Writers’ she earned dual BA degrees in Workshop, College/University psychology and international Event studies and worked as a fellow at © Credit Strengthening Chicago’s Youth (SCY), a violence Notes —prevention collaborative convened by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She has since been engaged in felds of youth violence prevention, writing, culinary community building, and human rights. Alyssa now studies social work at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

191 Elizabeth Poliner As Close to Us as Breathing In June 1948 Molly’s extended family gathers at their summer cottage on a small part of the Connecticut shoreline afectionately named Bagel Beach, a longtime vacation destination for Jewish families where Molly’s mother, Ada, and aunts Vivie and Bec, along with their children, live with unusual freedom—at least during the weekdays, when the husbands are away and traditional expectations wither. But afer Davy’s death, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms Adult Ficton: Historical into a lifetime of atonement for members of this Ficton, Jewish Identty, close-knit clan. Moving back and forth in time, Literary Ficton Poliner produces a narrative mosaic that explores Lee Boudreaux Books the divergent paths of a family unmoored afer March 2016 $27.00 HC tragedy. ISBN: 978-0-316-38414-8 Publicist Carrie Neill [email protected] 212-364-1437

Residence & RT Ground Roanoke, Virginia $100 Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays; teaches Mon. and Wed. Program Suggestons Book Club, Panel, Literary Ficton Elizabeth Poliner’s stories and poems have appeared in Te Notes Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Te Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. © Credit A recipient of seven individual artist grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she has also been awarded fction scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences. She teaches creative writing at Hollins University.

194 Eileen Pollack A Perfect Life A Novel

Jane Weiss is a young postdoc at MIT obsessed with fnding the genetic marker for Valentine’s, a neurodegenerative disorder that killed her mother —and that she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, stand a 50% chance of inheriting. For fear of becoming a potential burden, Jane steers clear of romantic relationships. But the summer before her father’s second wedding, Jane falls for her future stepbrother, Willie. Complicating matters, Willie’s father also died from Valentine’s, which—statisti- Adult Ficton: Literary Ficton cally, at least—makes him the worst possible man with whom she could become involved. Ecco Jane becomes even more desperate to fnd May 2016 $26.99 HC [e] the genetic marker when Willie abandones ISBN: 978-0062419170 her at a crucial moment in their relation- Publicist ship. But even if Jane succeeds in fnding Rachel Elinsky the marker, will she and her sister have the rachel.elinsky@ courage to face this newfound knowledge? harpercollins.com A Perfect Life is a novel of both scientifc and 212-207-7178 self-discovery, about learning how to live fully and love openly, a story of one woman’s brilliance and Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $50 – $100 bravery in learning to confront the unexpected. Availability Eileen Pollack holds a BS in Unavailable Sept. 23, Oct. 5 physics from Yale and an MFA Website & Twiter in fction from the Iowa Writers www.eileenpollack.com Workshop. She is the author of Program Suggestons two story collections, two novels, Book Club, PopularFicton and two books of nonfction. She © Credit has received fellowships from the NEA Michener Notes Foundation and the Rona Jafe Foundation. Her work has been included in both the Best American Short Stories and the Best American Essays. A professor at the Helen Zell MFA program at the University of Michigan for the past 20 years, and a director of the program for fve, Eileen now divides her time between Ann Arbor and Manhattan.

195 Jonathan Rabb Among the Living A Novel

In the late summer of 1947, 31-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a Czech camp survivor, arrives in Savannah, GA to live with Abe and Pearl Jesler, his only remaining relatives. Older and childless, Abe and Pearl are an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives—distinctions that are meaningless to Yitzhak afer what he’s been through. He only complicates things when, much Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton to the Jeslers’ dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a Other Press young widow within the Reform community. Oct. 2016 $26.95 HC [e] But when a woman from Yitzhak’s past suddenly ISBN: 978-1590518038 appears, Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright Publicist new life. Jessica Greer Set amid the backdrop of American South, [email protected] Among the Living grapples with questions of 212-414-0054 x211 identity, belonging, and the Jewish experience Residence & RT Ground during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Savannah, GA $80 Availability Teaches Tues. and Thurs. Website & Twiter @jrrabb Program Suggestons Book Club, Literary Ficton, Local Book Store Event Jonathan Rabb is an American Notes novelist, essayist, actor, and writer. He is the author of fve novels, including the bestselling Te Berlin Trilogy series, winner of

© Credit the Dashiell Hammett Prize. Rabb has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and the 92nd Street Y, and is currently a professor of writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

196 Christine Reilly Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday

Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored of each other, fnd themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters as best they can: Natasha, an overachieving prodigy; sensitive Lucy, with a debilitating heart condition; and Carly, and adopted romantic who is quietly fxated on discovering her true origins. Te years put their tight-knit family bonds to Crossover Ficton: Family & the test as the Simones face mental and physical Parentng illness, fnancial difculties, and well-kept secrets. Trough the ups and downs, they look to their Touchstone favorite lyrics, to poetry, and to one another for April 2016 $25.00 HC [e] strength. Te novel’s poetic vignettes introduce ISBN: 978-1501116872 readers to a wide range of characters that infuence Publicist the Simones’ lives, from the Holocaust survivor Amelia Possanza who speaks at Carly’s school to the aunt the amelia.possanza@ girls don’t know they have. Written in luminous, simonandschuster.com whimsical prose, Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday 212-632-4946 is an arresting family love story. Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $90 Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.christnereillywriter.com @reillypoet

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199 Irina Reyn The Imperial Wife A Novel Te Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in 18th-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia’s wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, Te Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction Adult Ficton: Arts & Culture, fever kicks in, the novel enters into the world of Historical Ficton, Literary Catherine the Great, the infamous 18-century Ficton monarch who may have owned the priceless Thomas Dunne Books artifact—and, it turns out, faced many of the July 2016 $25.99 HC [e] same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. ISBN: 978-1250076038 Te Imperial Wife questions what female ambition means, both today and in the past, and whether a Publicist marriage can withstand an ambitious wife. Jessica Preeg [email protected] 646-307-555 Residence & RT Ground Pitsburgh, PA $25 Availability Unavailable August 23-30 Website & Twiter www.irinareyn.com Irina Reyn is the author of What @IrinaReyn1 Happened to Anna K: A Novel. Program Suggestons She teaches fction writing at the Book Club, Library Event, Local University of Pittsburgh and has Book Store Event, Writers’ reviewed books for the LA Times, Workshop © Credit San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hartford Courant, Minneapolis Notes Star-Tribune, Te Forward, and other publications. She was formerly the books editor for the online magazine Killing the Buddha.

200 M. A. Richards Choice of Enemies Te frst novel in a series of international espionage novels featuring Nathan Monsarrat, a retired CIA deep cover operative, Choice of Enemies is a novel of greed, betrayal, and loyalty. Te story is flled with a rich collection of characters including Solomon Grinnell, a Hassidic Manhattan diamond dealer, and Masha Krupnik, a beautiful Jewish Russian mafa chief who controls the criminal activity in Cape Town. From the perfdious ofce suites of Langley to the oil-soaked Delta training base of Nigerian terrorists to the bucolic hills of western Massachusetts to the the deserts of central Adult Ficton: Jewish Identty, Namibia, Choice of Enemies ofers fast-paced Politcs & Current Afairs, action with a healthy dose of yiddishe kopf. Thriller

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Department of State spanning © Credit more than two decades, he served in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Lagos, Moscow, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and at US Pacifc Command as the Special Advisor to the Commander.

201 Alyson Richman The Velvet Hours As Paris teeters on the edge of the German Occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure- flled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. Inspired by the true account of an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life the stories of courtesan Marthe de Florian, her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, and the unlikely relationship between two women who pursue freedom and independence during uncertain times. Solange and Marthe’s stories unfold like velvet itself, each stitched with their Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton own shadow and light. Berkley Sept. 2016 $16.00 pbk [e] ISBN: 978-0425266267

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202 Gavriel Savit Anna and the Swallow Man A Novel

Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. Tis is no place to grow up. Anna is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, in the purge of intellectuals in Poland, and she’s lef alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve, and when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they Crossover Ficton: Historical see what he wants them to see. Like her father, Ficton, Holocaust the Swallow Man is in danger of being taken, Knopf Books for Young Readers and like her father, he has a gif for languages: Jan. 2016 $17.99 HC Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. ISBN: 978-0553513349 When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna Publicist is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness. Mary McCue Over the course of their travels together, Anna mmccue@ penguinrandomhouse.com and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame 212-782-9317 soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad with Residence & RT Ground war, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Brooklyn, NY $50 – $75 Swallow Man himself. Availability Open availability Website & Twiter www.gavrielsavit.com @GavrielSavit

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213 Rebecca Schif The Bed Moved Stories

Te audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories ofering a new take on adolescence, death, sex, on being Jewish-ish, and on fnding one’s way as a young woman in the world.

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215 Helen Maryles Shankman In the Land of Armadillos Stories

A radiant debut collection of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland, where mythic tales of Jewish folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion. Blending folklore and fact, the eight stories take places in the remote Polish town of Wlodawa: Adult Ficton: Short Story, we meet a cold-blooded SS ofcer dedicated to Holocaust, Literary Ficton rescuing the Jewish creator of his son’s favorite Scribner picture book, even as he helps exterminate the Feb. 2016 $25.00 HC artist’s friends and family; a Messiah who appears ISBN: 978-1501115196 in a little boy’s bedroom to announce that he is quitting; a young Jewish girl who is hidden by Publicist Katherine Monaghan the town’s most outspoken antisemite—and katherine.monaghan@ his talking dog. Walking among these tales are simonandschuster.com two unforgettable fgures: the enigmatic and 212-632-4950 silver-tongued Willy Reinhart, Kommandant of the forced labor camp, who has grand schemes to Residence & RT Ground protect Wlodawa’s Jews, and Soroka, the Jewish Teaneck, NJ $150 saddlemaker, and his family, struggling to survive. Availability Will present but does not travel on Shabbat Website & Twiter www.helenmarylesshankman. com @hmshankman Helen Maryles Shankman’s stories have been nominated for two Program Suggestons Pushcart Prizes and have appeared Book Club, Literary Ficton in Te Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Notes Cream City Review, 2 Bridges © Credit Review, and other publications. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.

222 B. A. Shapiro The Muralist A Novel

When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administra- tion (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Some 70 years later, her great-niece Danielle Abrams uncovers mysterious paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists while working at Christie’s auction house. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton Entwining historical and fctional characters, moving between the past and the present, Te Algonquin Books Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of Oct. 2016 $15.95 HC pbk [e] prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of ISBN: 978-1616206437 European refugees refused entrance to the United Publicist States. It captures both the inner workings of New Jacquelynn Burke York’s art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant [email protected] and quintessentially American school of abstract 212-614-5640 expressionism. Residence & RT Ground Boston, MA $100 Availability Unavailable July 22-Aug. 7 and for the month of Dec.

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223 Kate Siegel Mother, Can You Not?

Tere is nothing more wonderful than a mother’s love. Tere is also nothing more annoying. Who else can proudly insist that you’re perfect while simultaneously making you question every career, fashion, and relationship decision you have ever made? No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel and her own Adult Memoir: Family & mother, who drove her so crazy that she decided Parentng, Humor, Love & to broadcast their hilarious conversations Relatonships on Instagram. Soon, hundreds of thousands Crown Archetype of people were following their daily text April 2016 $22.00 HC [e] exchanges, eager to see what outrageous thing ISBN: 978-1101907047 Kate’s mom would say next. Now, in Mother, Publicist Can You Not?, Kate pays tribute to the woman Elizabeth Much who invented the concept of drone parenting. [email protected] From embarrassing moments (like crashing 323-965-0852 Kate’s gynecological exams) to outrageous stories Residence & RT Ground (like the time she made Kate steal a cat from the Brooklyn, New York $120 pound) to hilarious celebrations (including but not limited to parties for Kate’s menstrual cycles), Availability Mother, Can you Not? lovingly lampoons the Open availability lengths to which our mothers will go to better our Website & Twiter lives—even when it feels like they’re ruining them www.kateesiegel.com in the process. @kateesiegel Program Suggestons Kate Siegel is a writer and a social Girls’ Night, Young Adult media guru behind the Instagram Program, Parents’ Groups account @CrazyJewishMom. She Notes has been featured on BuzzFeed, Touring with Kim Friedman Elite Daily, Te Hufngton Post, © Credit Cosmopolitan, Today.com, Vogue. com, in People Magazine, and on Nightline and Te Ellen DeGeneres Show. She previously served as an associate producer for Condé Nast Entertain- ment, overseeing digital video for Teen Vogue, Bon Appétit, Te New Yorker Festival, Condé Nast Traveler, and Self.

226 Susan Silverman Castng Lots Creatng a Family in a Beautful, Broken World

As a child, Susan Silverman was surrounded by a loving family; although her parents weren’t happily married, they were devoted to their kids. In a vibrant, funny, imminently relatable voice, Silverman shares the story of a family’s evolution from the devastating loss of her parents’ infant son to the dedicated rearing of bright and wildly unique daughters. It’s also the creation story of her own family: raising her own bright and wildly Adult Memoir: Family & unique daughters and taking a journey to adopt Parentng, Jewish Identty, two boys from Ethiopia. A meditation on identity, Parents faith, and belonging, peppered with laugh-out- Da Capo Press loud moments, Casting Lots will resonate with April 2016 $24.99 HC [e] anyone who has struggled to fnd their place in the ISBN: 978-0306824616 world, to understand the signifcance of that place, Publicist and to sustain a family amid the world’s chaos. Lissa Warren [email protected] 617-252-5212 Residence & RT Ground Jerusalem, Israel $50 Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays

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228 Steven N. Simon Our Separate Ways The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.-Israel Alliance Powerful demographic, cultural, and strategic currents in Israel and the United States are driving the two countries apart. In America, the once-solid pro-Israel consensus is being corroded by partisan rancor: a deepening divide between conservative Jews who fervently support the Jewish state and the more liberal, more ambivalent, Jewish majority. In Israel, surveys of young Jewish citizens reveal a preference for right-of-center Adult Nonfcton: Israel & parties, a disdain for democracy, and, in some Zionism, Politcs & Current cases, a readiness to curb the civil liberties of Afairs non-Jews. Prospects for preserving a liberal Zionism against the pressures for “Greater Israel” PublicAfairs June 2016 $26.99 HC [e] are dimming as hopes for a two-state solution fade. ISBN: 978-1610396417 Te tensions between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have Publicist been symptoms, not causes, of the deeper Kristna Fazzalaro crisis. In the coming years, the alliance risks kristna.fazzalaro@ devolving into nothing more than a transactional publicafairsbooks.com 212-340-8169 partnership—a far cry from the moral, emotional, and largely intangible bonds that have long Residence & RT Ground tied the two countries together. Unless this Norwich, VT $100 – $500 partnership can restore the shared vision that created it, it will become a vessel adrif. Availability Unavailable for Jewish holidays Program Suggestons Politcs and Current Events, Dialogue on Israel Steven Simon is a diplomat, Notes policymaker, and writer. Now at Dartmouth College, he previously served as a senior director for Middle Eastern and North African © Credit afairs at the White House, advising President Obama during a difcult period in U.S.-Israeli relations and amid the upheavals of the Arab Spring. In the Clinton Administration, he was senior director for counterterrorism.

230 Chanan Tigay The Lost Book of Moses The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible

In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira— archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem’s bustling marketplace—arrived unannounced in London, claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest Bible scroll. When news of the discovery leaked to the excited English press, Shapira became a household name—until his nemesis, French Adult Nonfcton: Bible & archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Rabbinics, History denounced his manuscripts as fake. Humiliated Ecco/HarperCollins and distraught, Shapira fed the country. Six April 2016 $27.99 HC [e] months later he was dead. ISBN: 978-0062206411 And, that, it seemed, was the end of the story. But in 1947, noting the similarities between the Publicist Dead Sea Scrolls and the ones Shapira found, Sonya Cheuse investigators reopened the case, wondering sonya.cheuse@ whether the ill-fated merchant had, in fact, harpercollins.com discovered the frst Dead Sea Scroll, decades 212-207-7952 before the rest. Unfortunately, by then it was too Residence & RT Ground late: Shapira’s scrolls had mysteriously vanished. San Francisco, CA $100 Chanan Tigay, a longtime journalist and the son of a renowned Bible scholar, set out to fnd the Availability scrolls and determine Shapira’s guilt or innocence Open availability for himself. Website & Twiter www.chanantgay.com @chanantgay Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist who has covered the Program Suggestons Middle East, 9/11, and the United Book Club, Panel, Library Event Nations for numerous magazines, Notes newspapers, and wires. Born in Jerusalem, Tigay holds degrees © Credit from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a recent Investiga- tive Reporting Fellow at UC Berkeley. He is a professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

247 Robert P. Watson The Nazi Titanic The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control of the vessel, she was stripped down for use as a foating barracks and troop transport. Hitler’s minister, Joseph Goebbels, later cast her as a “star” in the epic propaganda flm about the sinking of the legendary Titanic. In the Tird Reich’s fnal desperate days, the SS Cap Arcona was mistakenly bombed by the British Air Force, killing the concentration camp prisoners packed aboard. Adult Nonfcton: History, Although the British government sealed many Holocaust, World History documents pertaining to the ship’s sinking, Robert Da Capo Press P. Watson has unearthed forgotten records and May 2016 $25.99 HC [e] conducted many interviews. Te Nazi Titanic is a ISBN: 978-0306824890 riveting and astonishing story about an enigmatic ship that played a devastating role in World War Publicist II. Lissa Warren [email protected] 617-252-5212

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257 Alicia Ybarbo Sh*ty Mom for All Seasons Half-@ssing It All Year Long

Te authors of the New York Times bestseller Sh*tty Mom are back with a hilarious guide presenting common parenting scenarios with advice for getting through the year—the sh*tty mom way. Told in the same tongue-in-cheek voice as the original, this sequel is full of funny parenting tips and relatable stories for contemporary moms. Sh*tty Mom for All Seasons explores the occasions Adult Self-Help: Family & throughout the year that test every mother’s Parentng, Humor patience and inspire self-deprecating humor and that second glass of wine. With chapters organized Abrams by season, the book will teach you how to navigate April 2016 $19.95 HC [e] ISBN: 978-1419714047 the bumpy roads of motherhood, learn to laugh at the occasional parenting fail, and maybe even Publicist appreciate your own mother. Or not. Claire Bamundo [email protected] 212-229-8823 Residence & RT Ground New York, NY $90

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268 Sarit Yishai-Levi The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem A Novel

Te Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the ties that bind four generations of women. With great humor and heart, Sarit Yishai-Levi delivers a powerful story of love and forgiveness— and the unexpected and enchanting places we each discover on our own.

Adult Ficton: Historical Ficton, Israel & Zionism, Sephardic Jewry Thomas Dunne Books April 2016 $25.99 HC [e] ISBN: 978-1250078162 Publicist Staci Burt [email protected] 646-307-5570 Residence & RT Ground Tel Aviv, Israel Availability Available for tour Nov. 1-13; will present but does not travel on Shabbat Program Suggestons Book Club, Popular Ficton, Sarit Yishai-Levi is an English- Library Event, Local Book Store speaking journalist and author. She Event has been a correspondent for Israeli Notes newspapers and magazines and has hosted Hebrew TV and radio programs in Los Angeles. She is the © Credit author of four nonfction books and the bestselling novel Te Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. She lives in Israel.

269 Mary Ann Zoellner Sh*ty Mom for All Seasons Half-@ssing It All Year Long

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