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STOCKHOLM by NOA YEDLIN. This narrative begins with the death of Avishay Sar-Shalom, a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics. His four best friends decide to keep his death a secret until the winner is announced. Each has something to gain from Avishay receiving the prize. Zohara, who has had a secret affair with him, hopes to inherit the money. Yehuda wants to publish a book for which Avishay has written the introduction. Amos, his academic rival, wishes to prove he is not jealous, and Nili, a divorcee, thrills at this adventure.
LITTLE SECRETS by GAIL SCHIMMEL. Monique and Ben Klein have been married for twenty years. They seem to have an idyllic life with their three children whom they adore. However, Monique is obsessed with being the perfect mother and wife; Ben, who is an actuary in the corporate world, had longed to be an artist; and Rosie, their daughter, is struggling with teenage issues, yet feels safe with Monique as her mother. Everything falls apart when Ben meets Daisy, who sweeps him off his feet, and Rosie is befriended by a woman posing as a market researcher.
DOHANY STREET by ADAM LEBOR. Detective Balthazar Kovacs is asked to investigate the disappearance of Elad Harrari, a young Israeli historian. Harrari was working in the city’s Jewish Museum in Budapest, investigating the assets of Hungarian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. This has set off alarm bells at one of the country’s most powerful companies. Budapest is planning a major diplomatic visit and, if Harrari is not found, it will be cancelled. Balthazar will confront dangerous people and the darkest era in Hungary’s past as he begins his search.
WOMEN IN INTELLIGENCE by HELEN FRY. Across both world wars, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. Both in Bletchley and Whitehall, women’s administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform. Filled with hitherto unknown stories Fry’s book places new research on the record for the first time to showcase the inspirational contributions of these hard-working women.
GANGSTERS VS NAZIS by MICHAEL BENSON. Crime historian Michael Benson looks at the rise of Nazi groups in the United States in the 1930/40s and the antisemitic propaganda they promoted. He credits New York Judge Nathan Perlman who conspired with the legendary gangster Meyer Lansky to disrupt meetings of the German American Bund. There were more than one hundred antisemitic groups by 1933 and few Americans dared to fight back until fearless Jewish gangsters waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst.
BOGIE & BACALL by WILLIAM J. MANN. A comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years – Bogart’s upbringing in New York city and Bacall’s rise as a model and actress. He paints a portrait of their courtship and twelve-year marriage including their fights, reconciliations, children, affairs and, finally, Bogart’s illness. He shares Bacall’s life after Bogart’s death, including her relationships with Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, her second husband.
THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO by TALIA CARNER. During the Holocaust, Jewish children were hidden with Christian foster families in France. The Youth Aliyah movement aimed to find these Jewish orphans and bring them to Israel. The book explores these events and their ramifications over three decades. It is told from the points of view of Uzi, an Israeli committed to the Youth Aliyah movement; Sharon Bloomenthal, a twenty-year-old recruit for an Israeli naval operation in Cherbourg in 1968; and Claudette Pelletier, a disabled French Christian woman who in 1942 fell in love with a Jewish man.
THE GENIUS OF ISRAEL by DAN SENOR & SAUL SINGER. After spending time with Israeli entrepreneurs, political leaders, soldiers, scientists and activists, including the Ultra-Orthodox and Israeli Arabs, the authors realised what sets Israel apart. Israel’s greatest innovation may not be technology and the density of start-ups but Israeli society itself. Though the country faces so many challenges, people remain connected and happy through their determination, resilience, cohesion and family unity. This encompasses The Genius of Israel.
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