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This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967-and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel's dramatic struggle for survival across the years. The Glory takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor-ending with the final hope for peace.
Illuminating the inner lives of real Israeli...
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“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post
A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March.
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A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March.
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3) The last man
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When his Israeli girlfriend goes missing after extending a theory about the fortress of Masada, an American nuclear engineer travels deep into the Judean desert and makes an astonishing discovery that causes him to be targeted by Israeli intelligence.
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p2010
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Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. She sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
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Avraham Avraham mysteries volume 1
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The inspiration for the Peacock Original series The Calling, streaming now!
"A tense, gripping page-turner that I devoured in two days-it's hard to believe it's a debut." - S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in the thrilling crime series by D. A. Mishani.
Crimes in Avraham's quiet suburb...
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Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea novels volume 6
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In today's terrifying new world, in which small groups of individuals with unlimited resources can wreak incredible havoc and catastrophe, the task of stopping them becomes all the more urgent and compelling. Jon Land's latest topical thriller finds Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea facing just such a threat: an obsessed fanatic plotting nothing less than the total destruction of America.
Danielle, now the head of Israel's National Police, still relies...
8) Lineup
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Liad Shoham, the #1 bestselling author in Israel, makes his American debut with Lineup-a superbly plotted, uncompromising crime thriller.
A brutal rape in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood has the police baffled. There are no witnesses, suspects, or clues, until the victim's father steps in and finds overwhelming evidence pointing to Ziv Nevo.
Veteran detective Eli Nahum questions Nevo, but can't get anything out of him. That's because Nevo has...
9) First rain
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When Abby moves with her family to Israel, where it does not rain all summer, she misses her grandmother and remembers the fun they used to have splashing in puddles together.
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An ageing film director must face his past in the acclaimed Israeli author's prize-winning novel-"a compelling meditation on art, memory, love [and] guilt" (Independent, UK).
Yair Moses, an aging Israeli film director, has been invited to the Spanish pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. Accompanied by Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, Moses discovers a painting in their hotel room that triggers a distant...
15) Chicken man
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
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c1991
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Each time Chicken Man is moved into a new job on the kibbutz, someone else wants to take that job instead, and the chickens suffer as a consequence.
16) The missing file
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Avraham Avraham mysteries volume 1
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Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2014.
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Zion chronicles volume 2
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Tyndale House Publishers
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c2006
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English
18) The attack
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Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a respected, dedicated surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. He has learned to live with the violence that plagues his city and works tirelessly to help the victims brought to the emergency room. But one night, a deadly bombing in a local restaurant takes a horrifyingly personal turn, when his wife's body is found among the dead—bearing injuries that match those typically found on the bodies of fundamentalist
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An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is "striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose" (Entertainment Weekly).
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the...
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the...
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Imagination station volume 5
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Mr. Whittaker uses the Imagination Station to transport cousins Patrick and Beth to the Holy Land in 1000 B.C., where Hugh is trying to change history by helping the Philistines defeat the Israelites.
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