2011–2012 NETWORK AUTHORS
Katharine Weber
Sharyn Wolf
THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT: GEORGE GERSHWIN, KAY SWIFT, AND MY FAMILY’S LEGACY OF INFIDELITIES
LOVE SHRINKS: A MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR’S DIVORCE
Ellen Bari
JUMPING JENNY Kar-Ben Publishing, 2011. $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-7613-5141-2 When Jenny discovers that her skill for jumping can be used for her school’s annual mitzvah project, her life is changed forever.
© Suzanne McLaren
Crown Publishing Group, 2011. $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-39588-7 Katharine Weber creates an intriguing, intimate portrait of the eccentric Warburg family, and describes its renown and great influence.
Soho Press, 2011. $20.00 ISBN: 9781569479360 In Love Shrinks, the author confesses the startling truth of her own failed marriage, and the turmoil she endured while writing bestselling advice books and yet failing to heed her own.
© Todd France
© Marion Ettlinger
CHILDRENS BOOKS
Michael Wex
Joe Black
THE FRUMKISS FAMILY BUSINESS
Mary Zamore
AFIKOMEN MAMBO
Vintage Canada, 2010. $17.95 ISBN: 9780307397775 The Frumkiss family doesn’t look much different from any of the others in Bathurst Manor. As far as they know, all that distinguishes them from anybody else is that Grandpa is a famous Yiddish writer who ended up working for the radio. But Grandpa’s death changes all that.
THE SACRED TABLE: CREATING A JEWISH FOOD ETHIC
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2011. $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-7613-5638-7 Popular children’s songster Rabbi Joe Black (“Boker Tov”) returns with a catchy rhyming song and accompanying story book to enliven the afikomen hunt at your seder. With lively pictures and a sing-along CD.
© Laurie Willick
CCAR Press, 2011. $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-88123-170-0 This anthology of diverse essays serves up a rich dialogue about the intersection of Judaism and food, exploring the questions and challenges of navigating the personal and communal choices about eating.
Steve Wick
Alexi Zentner
THE LONG NIGHT: WILLIAM L. SHIRER AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
TOUCH
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. $27.00 ISBN: 978-0230623187 The Long Night fleshes out the details of maverick journalist William L. Shirer’s adventures in 1930’s Europe, where he redefined the importance of journalism by fighting against Nazi censorship.
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. $24.95 ISBN: 9780393079876 Touch introduces you to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer.
Julie Chibbaro
DEADLY Simon & Schuster Children’s, 2011. $16.99 ISBN: 978-0689857386 A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York City in 1906. Every week more families fall ill, and there’s no cause in sight. When the city’s most unlikely scientist— 16-year-old Prudence Galewski, a Jewish girl from the Lower East Side—begins to assist in the investigation at the Department of Health, evidence of the cause starts to fall into place.
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