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21) Chosen country
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
A novel about a man with a European background and a woman whose culture is mid-west American, following their different lives after a childhood meeting until their reunion as adults after World War I.
22) The Chosen
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Brooklyn of the 1940s, the film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of differing factions. Danny is Hassidic, while Reuven is a Zionist. Though separated ideologically, the boys find a common bond through their love of stickball.. Based on a novel by Chaim Potok, The Chosen has become an annual Hannukah-season TV attraction in many cities; years after its release, the film served as the basis for a short-lived Broadway musical.....
23) Chosen people
Author
Series
Chosen people novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
During a terrorist attack near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a courageous mother sacrifices her life to save her four-year-old daughter, leaving behind a grieving husband and a motherless child. Hana Abboud, a Christian Arab Israeli lawyer trained at Hebrew University, typically uses her language skills to represent international clients for an Atlanta law firm. When her boss is contacted by Jakob Brodsky, a young Jewish lawyer pursuing a lawsuit...
Author
Series
Shadow Falls novels volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Kylie's most powerful enemy returns to destroy her once and for all, there's only one way to stop him--to step into her full powers and make a stunning transformation that will amaze everyone around her"--
25) The Chosen One
Publisher
Australian Children's Television Foundation
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Taylor decides to sacrifice all her material possessions in pursuit of true happiness until her earthly desires get in the way.
26) The chosen one
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
27) The chosen ones
Author
Series
Worldquake volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Effie Truelove has just been expelled from magic class and now she can't even get back to the Otherworld-the place she most loves and where she feels she belongs. If she can find a copy of The Chosen Ones by Laurel Wilde to give her father then she might be able to fix everything. The only problem is that there are suddenly no copies of the book anywhere, because Albion Freake, the richest man in the world, is paying for them to be destroyed so that...
28) The chosen one
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two months ago, a new leader arose in the Islamic world, the Mahdi--or the Chosen One. He has rallied fundamentalist Muslim forces across the Middle East who have driven deep into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Standing against them is an allied force made up primarily of the American military. It's a desperate fight. From armored battles in the desert to American carriers desperately dodging waves of cruise missiles, the Mahdi proves to have many tricks...
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
What is it that makes a Jew a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it. In London, Nobert Brainin and the Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music. Inevitably the search takes us to Jerusalem, where Dr. Pinchas Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation Jerusalemite, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide through the religious schools, the synagogues...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Gyre finally sees a way to overthrow the all-powerful Twilight Order. But he'll have to gain the alliance of both the ghouls and the human rebels to the south in order to even stand have a chance. And uniting them won't be so simple. His sister Maya is still a soldier of the Order. But after clashing with her brother, she isn't so certain where her loyalties lie. Chasing the origins of a mysterious artifact to a long-lost library, she just might...
32) Mel the chosen
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Mel wants to be a grown-up and make her own decisions so she is happy to get the chance to travel to a magical world where she can make her own choices, even if some are difficult.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA, she didn't know how Lay Me Down's loving nature would touch her heart—and change her life.
For more than a decade she had aspired to be a published writer but it was only with the memoir she wrote to honor Lay Me Down that she achieved this goal.
The book led to a book tour in the course of which Susan reconnected with family and friends from who she had cut
...Author
Series
Spellbinders volume 1
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ben doesn't feel chosen by anybody-not by his friends, who haven't kept in touch since he moved after his parents' divorce, or by his mom, who's so busy he barely sees her. He spends all his time living in fantasy worlds and writing extensively planned adventure campaigns in his role-playing-game notebook. So when Niara, a character who could be right out of one of his favorite games, shows up and tells him he's destined to save her realm (like,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980’s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett’s signature pop culture
...39) The city inside
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large-yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. "They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple choice." Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams...
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