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English
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Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of John Le Carre and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army. After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure...
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Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a Munich writer's assassination, Mossad agent Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro embark on dangerous journeys that reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
Author
Series
Avraham Avraham mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for the Peacock Original series The Calling, streaming now!
"A tense, gripping page-turner that I devoured in two days—it’s hard to believe it’s a debut.” — S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Rania--the only female Palestinian police detective in the northern West Bank, as well as a young mother in a rural community where many believe women should not have such a dangerous career--discovers the body of a foreign woman on the edge of her village, no one seems to want her look too deeply into what's happened. But she finds an ally in Chloe--a gay, Jewish-American peace worker with a camera and a big attitude--and together, with the...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Leaving her husband at home, Daniela journeys from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister and to confront her grieving brother-in-law, a scientist still struggling with the death of his soldier son in an incident of "friendly fire" on the West Bank.
9) The liar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling conundrum: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman's quest to understand how...
11) Prince of fire
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
A knife-edged thriller of astonishing intricacy and feeling, filled with exhilarating prose, this is Daniel Silva's finest novel yet. Gabriel Allon is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A romance in Israel between No'a, a 45-year-old school teacher, and Theo, a 60-year old civil engineer. They are longtime lovers whose relationship is disintegrating--his passivity irritates her, her energy threatens him. Told from alternative points of view against the background of life in a settlement in the Negev Desert.
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Series
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Israeli policeman Michael Ohayon must once again solve a murder that has taken place within a complex, closed society: the kibbutz. Told repeatedly that "one who hasn't lived on a kibbutz can't possibly understand life there," Ohayon becomes increasingly determined to penetrate the spirit of this world.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In the upper echelons of Israel's intelligence community, an elite, secret unit discovers how easily the hunter can become the hunted. After Ya'ara Stein is forced out of her job at the Mossad--Israel's secret intelligence service--she is called upon by the prime minister for a classified job. The astute and deadly Stein is tasked with forming a secret unit that is answerable only to the prime minister. Made up of brilliant young recruits, Ya'ara's...
15) The drive
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As a soldier and his father embark on a lengthy drive to meet with a military psychiatrist, Yair Assulin penetrates the torn world of the hero, whose journey is not just that of a young man facing a crucial dilemma, but a tour of the soul and depths of Israeli society and of those everywhere who resist regimentation and violence.
16) The teacher
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Hiding the truth about a rape in order to avoid painful stigmas, Tamar, the young bride of a rising rabbi in an orthodox Jewish community, is forced to confront her experience years later in the face of a shocking turn of events.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the curious eating habits receives word from Tel Aviv that a distant aunt has left her a mysterious inheritance-an incomplete fish service in a battered brown suitcase-she decides to break her rigid routine and go collect it in person. But before she is even able to settle into her hotel room, an odd old woman bangs on her door and invites herself in. Her name is Bella Kugelman, and she is determined to talk....
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride's mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her better than anyone. A male cousin who likes to wear...
Author
Series
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hamas has taken power in Palestine, and the Israeli government is rounding up threats. When Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison, though she has never been part of Hamas, her friend Chloe flies in from San Francisco to get her out. Chloe begs an Israeli policeman named Benny for help-and Benny offers Rania a way out: investigate the death of a young man in a village near her own. The young man's neighbors believe the...
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