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Winter Reads Snowed in? Settle in with a stack of books suited to the frightful weather outside. Nonfiction A Knitter's Home Companion: A Heartwarming Collection of Stories, Patterns, and Recipes Michelle Edwards; Jen Gotch, photographs Nonfiction A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish Joshua Eli Plaut; Jonathan D. Sarna, fwd. Fiction A Reunion of Ghosts Judith Claire Mitchell Fiction After Birth Elisa Albert Fiction Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit Nonfiction At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944 David Koker; Robert Jan von Pelt, ed.; Horn and Irons, trans. Fiction Blue Has No South Alex Epstein; Becka Mara McKay, trans. Fiction David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair Irene Nemirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.; Claire Messud, intro. Fiction Fever at Dawn Péter Gárdos Fiction In Case We're Separated Alice Mattison Fiction Judas Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans. Fiction One Night in Winter Simon Sebag Montefiore Nonfiction Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War,1937-1948 Madeleine Albright Fiction Something Red Jennifer Gilmore Fiction The Book of Life Stuart Nadler Fiction The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell, trans. Nonfiction The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery Sara Davidson Fiction The Frozen Rabbi Steve Stern Fiction The Last Animal Abby Geni Fiction The Last Jew Standing Michael Simon Nonfiction The Little Book of Basketball Law Melissa Altman Linsky Fiction The Mathematician's Shiva Stuart Rojstaczer Fiction The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness Walter Benjamin Fiction The Train to Warsaw Gwen Edelman Fiction The Winter Guest Pam Jenoff Fiction The Yid: A Novel Paul Goldberg Nonfiction When General Grant Expelled the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna Children's A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus. Children's Adam and Thomas Aharon Appelfeld Children's Dreidels on the Brain Joel Ben Izzy Children's Lights Out Shabbat Sarene Shulimson; Jeff Ebbeler, illus. Children's Mendy of Siberia Ella Verzov & Chana Oirechman Nonfiction On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900) Hinde Bergner; Justin Cammy, trans. and ed. Children's Oskar and the Eight Blessings Tanya Simon and Richard Simon Children's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus. Children's The Mitten String Jennifer Rosner; Kristina Swarner, illus. Visual Arts The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden Children's The Wind That Wanted to Rest Sheldon Oberman; Neil Waldman, illus. Children's The Winter Horses Phillip Kerr
Nonfiction A Knitter's Home Companion: A Heartwarming Collection of Stories, Patterns, and Recipes Michelle Edwards; Jen Gotch, photographs
Nonfiction A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish Joshua Eli Plaut; Jonathan D. Sarna, fwd.
Nonfiction At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944 David Koker; Robert Jan von Pelt, ed.; Horn and Irons, trans.
Fiction David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair Irene Nemirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.; Claire Messud, intro.
Nonfiction The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery Sara Davidson
Children's A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus.
Nonfiction On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900) Hinde Bergner; Justin Cammy, trans. and ed.
Children's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus.
Visual Arts The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden