Title: Jerusalem Maiden Author: Talia Carner Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 464 Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher, through TLC Book Tours From the cover: In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons [...]
Title: The Book of Trees Author: Leanne Lieberman Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 256 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary/Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Source: Review copy through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program From the cover: When Mia, a Jewish teenager from Toronto, goes to Jerusalem to spend the summer studying at a yeshiva, or seminary, she expects to connect [...]
Title: Almost Dead Author: Assaf Gavron Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 336 Genre: Fiction Source: Review copy from HarperCollins The main character of Almost Dead is an Israeli man named Eitan Croc Einoch, generally referred to simply as “Croc”. He works for a company in Tel Aviv that shaves seconds off of customer service calls, largely [...]
