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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Set during World War II in Germany, this novel tells the story of a foster girl living outside of Munich who shares books she has stolen with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

Certain Girls
by Jennifer Weiner
In this touching and humorous sequel to Weiner's bestselling novel, Good in Bed, we fast forward 13 years to follow Candace "Cannie" Shapiro as she negotiates with her adolescent daughter who is preparing for her Bat Mitzvah.

City of Thieves
by David Benioff
Benioff's suspenseful novel is based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia.

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
by Michael Chabon
Pulitzer Prize winner Chabon recreates 10th-century Khazaria, the fabled kingdom of wild red-haired Jews on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, in this lively historical adventure.

Indignation
by Philip Roth
In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio'sWinesburg College where he has to find his way around the customs and constrictions of another American world.

Mercedes Coffin
by Faye Kellerman
This 17th Decker-Lazarus mystery involves the unsolved murder 15 years ago of a high school history teacher whose body was found in the trunk of his Mercedes.

More Than It Hurts You
by Darin Strauss
This novel tells the story of three ordinary individuals whose lives interconnect in extraordinary ways.

Moscow Rules
by Daniel Silva
The death of a journalist leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spy craft, even he has something to learn if he wants to prevent a former KGB colonel from delivering Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda.

People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
This suspenseful and complex novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war.

Sisters Rosensweig
by Wendy Wasserstein
This Broadway hit from the early 1990s, performed superbly by L.A. Theater Works' professional actors before a live audience, explores the relationship of three Jewish sisters with their male companions from their youth in the 1930s through adulthood in the 1990s.

NEW DVDs



Arranged
Two young women - one an Orthodox Jew, the other a Syrian Muslim - become friends and allies as they struggle with the complexities of their arranged marriages.

Almost Peaceful
Set during the period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors.

Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning
Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow, Gabriel Byrne and Christopher Plummer give powerful performances in this lyrical, moving drama about feelings and long-suppressed memories of Holocaust survivors reunited several years after the war.

Defiance
The story of the three Bielski brothers who managed to save the lives of 1200 Jews fleeing Nazi death squads by hiding them for years in the forests of Belorussia.

The Inner Tour
This controversial and emotionally charged documentary follows a group of West Bank Palestinians on a three-day bus tour of neighborhoods in Israel where they once lived.

James' Journey to Jerusalem
This debut feature by an Israeli filmmaker follows the pilgrimage of James, a devout Christian, from his village in Africa to Israel, where he experiences the economic, moral and spiritual hypocrisies of Western society.

Live and Become
The story of a family's fictionalized story of the historic exodus of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the 1980s.

The Reader
Set in post-WWII Germany, this movie follows teenager Michael Berg as he engages in a passionate but secretive affair with an older woman named Hanna. Eight years after Hanna's disappearance, Michael is stunned to discover her again as she stands on trial for Nazi war crimes.

Snow in August
Based on the bestselling novel by Pete Hamill, this movie follows the unlikely friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi living in Brooklyn in the 1940s.

Waltz with Bashir
An animated documentary which takes place twenty years after the 1982 Lebanon War and focuses on the missing memories and strange, surreal dreams of several Israel soldiers.

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