• Last Twilight In Paris by Pam Jenoff

            A trail of clues leads Louise from a discovered necklace to a department store in Paris that once served as a Nazi prison. Nothing is as it seems. Will the truth be buried forever? For fans of mystery stories, this one is gripping, mixed with the triumph of love even in the darkest hours.

  • Songs for The Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari

            In this debut novel, Ayelet Tsabari reaches back to 1950, when thousands of Yemeni Jews immigrated to Israel in search of a better life. Two unlikely people meet in an immigrant camp and fall in love. In 1950, a young woman discovers shocking truths about her family, leading her to question what she thought she knew about her parents, her heritage and her own future.

  • The Last Dekrepitzer by Howard Langer

            Winner of a National Jewish Book Award, this novel traces the life and spiritual quest of Shmuel Meir Lichtbencher, the sole survivor of the obscure Dekrepitzer Hasidic sect known for its fiddle-playing Rebbes. From an isolated shtetl in the mountains of southern Poland to rural Mississippi, to Manhattan, and to a farm in New Jersey, Shmuel fiddles his prayers.