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Great Jewish men / by Slater, Elinor,1944-(CARDINAL)388187; Slater, Robert,1943-2014.(CARDINAL)517413;
Subjects: Biographies.; Jewish men;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Everyman [large print] / by Roth, Philip.(CARDINAL)147288;
The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Aging; Jewish men;
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Everyman / by Roth, Philip.(CARDINAL)147288;
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. A successful commercial artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons from a first marriage who despise him and a daughter from a second marriage who adores him. He is the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and he is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. In the end he is a man who has become what he does not want to be. The terrain of this powerful novel -- Roth's twenty-seventh book and the fifth to be published in the twenty-first century -- is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. Everyman takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century allegorical play, a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Jewish men; Aging;
Available copies: 39 / Total copies: 42
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The man in the glass booth. by Shaw, Robert,1927-1978.(CARDINAL)125963;
Subjects: Fiction.; Jewish men; War crime trials;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Matzah ball blues / by Wilck, Jennifer,author.;
For starters, Jared Leiman is home for the holidays. Because though he and Caroline Weiss were high school sweethearts, their postcollege lives took them in different directions. Jared became a big-time entertainment lawyer in LA, while Caroline became a fitness instructor and stayed in town to care for her sick mother. And though her mother passed away three years ago, Caroline is finally free to go where she chooses. Meanwhile Jared, who inherited custody of his baby niece after a tragic accident, is suddenly a family man.
Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction.; Jewish men; Jewish women; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / by Richler, Mordecai,1931-2001.(CARDINAL)508704;
An ambitious young Jewish man in 1948 Montreal is determined to be "somebody." In the attempt, he cheats, lies, schemes, and uses people to reach his end. He is proud of himself--those around him are disgusted.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Jewish men;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Don't ever look back [large print] by Friedman, Daniel,1981-(CARDINAL)399978;
Happily leaving his hated retirement home to do a job as a favor for a friend, octogenarian Buck Schatz encounters more than he bargained for when everything about the case goes wrong.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.; Ex-police officers; Jewish men; Older men;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Don't ever look back : a mystery / by Friedman, Daniel,1981-(CARDINAL)399978;
"Twenty something Daniel Friedman's debut hit novel, Don't Ever Get Old, was a huge critical and word-of-mouth success. Friedman's unforgettable protagonist Buck Schatz is back, and, once again, this 88-year-old retired Memphis cop refuses to go gently into that good night. Having sustained injuries in Don't Ever Get Old, Buck is living at a retirement home with his wife, and he's downright miserable being treated like the elderly person he is. But soon, Elijah, a man from his past, pays Buck a visit. Elijah offers Buck a tidy sum to do him a favor, and Buck is eager to close the book on a series of robberies that he could never solve. Soon, things go downhill. Way downhill. Written in Buck's signature voice and featuring a mystery that will knock your socks off, Don't Ever Look Back is another home run by an author with a long and star-studded career ahead of him. "--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ex-police officers; Jewish men; Older men;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 23
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Don't ever look back / by Friedman, Daniel,1981-(CARDINAL)399978;
"Twenty something Daniel Friedman's debut hit novel, Don't Ever Get Old, was a huge critical and word-of-mouth success. Friedman's unforgettable protagonist Buck Schatz is back, and, once again, this 88-year-old retired Memphis cop refuses to go gently into that good night. Having sustained injuries in Don't Ever Get Old, Buck is living at a retirement home with his wife, and he's downright miserable being treated like the elderly person he is. But soon, Elijah, a man from his past, pays Buck a visit. Elijah offers Buck a tidy sum to do him a favor, and Buck is eager to close the book on a series of robberies that he could never solve. Soon, things go downhill. Way downhill. Written in Buck's signature voice and featuring a mystery that will knock your socks off, Don't Ever Look Back is another home run by an author with a long and star-studded career ahead of him. "--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Older men; Ex-police officers; Jewish men;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Body scissors : a novel / by Simon, Michael,1963-(CARDINAL)460611;
Dan Reles, the only Jewish detective on the Austin, Tex., police force, is on the trail of the would-be assailant of Virginia Key, a black community activist. The assassin succeeded in killing Key's young daughter and critically injuring her even younger son. Soon after Reles starts working on the case, however, he's replaced by the force's only African-American detective, his friend James Torbett, after the department heads decide this would be more appropriate. Reles, meanwhile, is directed to find out what's causing a number of young college students from wealthy families to slip into comas. It isn't long before he sees a connection between the two casesand that the drug kingpin behind both also has him on a hit list.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Police; Jewish men; Jewish fiction.; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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