The Lion SeekerNational Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII era South Africa offering both page turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny (NPR, All Things Considered). Called a latter day Exodus by Kirkus Reviews, The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on the life of Isaac Helger. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he runs around the streets of Johannesburg as a young hooligan and dreams of getting rich. But his

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and technology to suck carbon from the atmosphere

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The swamp can make strange bedfellows

Family Values: Join the Berenstain Bears as Mama learns that supporting her cubs is more important than winning every game

and because the Reformation movement extended far beyond the man who inspired it

a dash of Tommy Lee’s Dirt

living among his fellow soldiers and occasionally going outside the wire

deals with the horror of throwing up at school

but her heart starts to soften when she begins caring for the elderly George Bellamy—and meets his grandson

and achieve an emotional intimacy and sexual intensity never before experienced

He dove headfirst into the world of artisan cheese