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A gritty, uncompromising new story from Welsh crime writer Roger Granelli. Elkins arrived in Cardiff in 1946, a refugee from the Holocaust. Now an old man, he's weighed down with a survivor's guilt, haunted by his memories. Kev and Dean are football hooligans, drunk on cheap lager and easy violence. The season is nearly over, and they need a way to fund their summer. A chance encounter causes these three lives to come crashing together one fateful night.

It swept her from the burning villages of old Russia to the tenements of New York, from the glittering showrooms of Paris to the settlements of war-torn Israel. It brought her marriage to a man who yearned for her sweet, denied love - and passion for a man who yearned only for danger. It gave her a son born of shame, and a daughter born to destiny. It tested her love in the shadow of the Depression and the hell of the Nazi fury...

La vie réglée d'une des filles Reich, famille juive ultra-orthodoxe de Jérusalem, bascule lorsque la brigade des mœurs, qui sévit clandestinement dans son quartier, la soupçonne d'être une femme adultère (en hébreu sotah). Prête à tout pour ne pas déshonorer sa famille, elle est contrainte de s'exiler. Dans le monde vertigineux de New York, ses convictions seront mises à l'épreuve. Comment redonner un sens à sa vie ? Ce roman, inspiré d'une histoire vraie, nous fait pénétrer au cœur d'une communauté qui vit au rythme de rites ancestraux.

When a good man is senselessly murdered during Chicago's Gay Pride event, Satan summons a horrifying monster of old, releasing both his anger and the monster in defiance of heaven and humanity.

Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The second, whom Rachel also unquestioningly accepted as her husband, was a mystery. In an attempt to understand his mother's adventurous decisions regarding love and marriage, Thomas sets out on a journey to the far reaches of the Pacific to find the first Rowland, and his real father. As the mystery of the two Rowlands unfolds throughout the novel, so too does a fascinating portrait.

The number-one European best seller. In an overcrowded hospital ward in the sweltering summer of July 1945, Miklos is propped up against a pillow. He is writing a letter of hope. It doesn't matter that Miklos is bruised and battered, that his skin shares the same colour as a greying pile of ash or that the doctor told him, 'You have six months to live'. Because now, for the first time since the war, he feels truly alive. Miklos is thinking of things far more important than his health.

In the wake of the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, a wave of Palestinian terror hits Jewish targets. Israel responds with a clandestine war in Paris, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. When a beautiful Mossad agent is critically wounded in Amsterdam, master spy Jerusalem Gerster pursues the attackers back to Israel, where he uncovers a sinister conspiracy to perpetrate an unprecedented national catastrophe--the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin.

Sweeping from Russia to Jerusalem, from New York to Nazi-occupied Germany, and finally to Israel, this is the richly layered story of an extraordinary woman whose epic struggle mirrors the battle of an emerging nation to forge its own identity. Chavala Rabinsky is 16 when her mother dies and she becomes the caretaker of her five siblings. Beautiful and wise beyond her years, Chavala catches the eye of Dovid Landau, a poor cobbler whose dreams transform her life when he marries her.

In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building.

On a windy night in 1937, a 17-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him "Cesare" after the character in the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for his ability to break through any barrier as he eliminates the Abwehr's enemies.

Die Welt der russisch-jüdischen Familie aus Hamburg, um die es in Maxim Billers neuem Roman Mama Odessa geht, ist voller Geheimnisse, Verrat und Literatur. Wir hören aber auch ein kluges, schönes und wahrhaftiges Hörbuch über einen Sohn und eine Mutter, beide Schriftsteller, die sich lieben, wegen des Schreibens immer wieder verraten – und einander trotzdem nie verlieren.

Abraham accompanies his father and his friends to London to attend the coronation of Richard I. But after the king accepts the valuable gifts they have brought for him, he angrily demands the small group be ejected immediately, forcing them to face a bloodthirsty anti-Semitic crowd.

Quattro persone entrarono nel Pardès, nel giardino dell'Eden, è scritto nel Talmud, ma soltanto una ne uscì incolume. Le vie dell'Eden, infatti, dove maturano i frutti più preziosi della vita, sono lastricate di pericoli. Lo sanno bene i personaggi che compongono questo trittico dove, ancora una volta, Eshkol Nevo indaga dietro le maschere che vestiamo per gli altri, ma anche su quelle che indossiamo quando ci troviamo di fronte a verità troppo difficili, o pericolose, da accettare.

1931: Der Alltag im von der Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelten Berlin ist schwer. Fines Mutter Ulla Dehmel gelingt es kaum, für ihre Kinder zu sorgen. Schließlich ist sie gezwungen, Fine und ihre Geschwister bei einer Pflegefamilie auf dem Land unterzubringen. Zunächst ist Fine entsetzt, dass sie Berlin verlassen muss, aber nach und nach arrangiert sie sich mit dem neuen Leben. Dann kommen die Nazis an die Macht, und es zeigt sich, dass Ullas Sorge um ihre halbjüdischen Kinder berechtigt war. Schon bald wird Fine ihr jüdisches Erbe zum Verhängnis und droht, ihre große Liebe zu zerstören.

June 1940. It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jersey doctor, whose idyllic world is shattered when Britain abandons the Channel Islands which are invaded by the Germans. Forced to choose between conflicting loyalties, he sends his pregnant wife to England, believing their separation will be brief. It's a fateful decision that will affect every aspect of his life.

In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, Leah Jarvis, a lively, curious young lawyer, finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd, who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada.

Zoe Lambros has the heart of a lion in this gripping WW2 story, inspired by true events, in war ravaged Greece under Italian and German occupation. A gripping story of survival, stirring characters, thrilling surprises, and heartrending journeys. Zoe's battle for freedom has just begun. It's 1941 in Larissa, Greece. A devastating earthquake shatters Larissa and Zoe races to help her family who are trapped under the rubble. An Italian aerial bombardment brings unimaginable devastation to a shattered people compounds the misery and a loss so great that Zoe vows revenge.

Costruito dal Centro internazionale di studi Primo Levi, "Auschwitz, città tranquilla" ci offre dieci suoi testi narrativi, incorniciati da due poesie: dodici punti di vista, inaspettati e avvincenti, sulla maggiore tragedia collettiva del Novecento. Nel segno di un paradossale titolo d'autore, la "città tranquilla" del campo di sterminio si apre, in questa antologia, in ogni direzione: quella fantastica, nel trittico di racconti distopici e "tedeschi" costituito da Angelica Farfalla, Versamina e La bella addormentata nel frigo.

In Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, wird Surie Eckstein, 57 Jahre alt, bald Urgroßmutter. Ihre 10 Kinder sind zwischen 14 und 39 Jahre alt. Sie und Yidel heirateten als Surie 16 Jahre alt war und führen eine glückliche Ehe. Doch dann findet Surie heraus, dass sie schwanger ist. Mit 57 Jahren. Sie ist geschockt, schämt sich und fühlt sich ausgeliefert. Sie traut sich nicht ihrer Familie die Nachrichten mitzuteilen, nicht einmal ihrem Mann erzählt sie etwas von Ihrer Schwangerschaft und so kommt es, dass sie zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ein Geheimnis hat. Ein Geheimnis, dass sie schleichend und immer weiter von ihrer Gemeinschaft trennt.

An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, with whom he has been staying since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam’s door, set in motion by a chance encounter with Uzi, a spice merchant whose wares had developed a cult following. From his first meeting with Uzi, the narrator is overwhelmed by an animal attraction that will lead him to derail his life, withdraw from friends, and extend his stay in a small town north of Tel Aviv.