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Recommended Reading June 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks JBC Staff June 26, 2013 What we’re reading this month:Miri: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth) | Carol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Portrait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Naomi: A Guide to Being Born (Ramona Ausubel) More from JBC Staff staff picks Previous Why Kids Love Scary Stories Matthue Roth Next Consumer Vigilance and the Kosher Cookies-and-Cream Ice Cream Caper Timothy D. Lytton Related Reading Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for April 2017 Independent Bookstore Day is this weekend! If you’re visiting your local bookstore to support your local literary anchor on Saturday — or any day of the week — let us… JBC Staff April 28, 2017 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for September 2016 BeccaNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan is about a family of Irish Jews over three generations, written by a young writer who became… JBC Staff September 23, 2016 Recommended Reading July 2015 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks Posted by Arie MonasRead what the staff of the Jewish Book Council has been reading for the month of July!MimiI’m reading two books this month. The first one is… JBC Staff July 28, 2015 Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for December 2016 Find out what the Jewish Book Council staff is reading this month!MimiSababa by Yamin Levy is an interesting book of two stories, both taking place in Jerusalem, but… JBC Staff December 15, 2016
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Recommended Reading Jewish Book Council Staff Picks for September 2016 BeccaNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan is about a family of Irish Jews over three generations, written by a young writer who became… JBC Staff September 23, 2016
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