AL Jewish Interest Catalog
TitleBrooklyn Story
AuthorCorso, Suzanne
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Women
Category Full 2FICTION / Urban & Street Lit
Category Full 3FICTION / Coming of Age
ISBN-139781439190234
On Sale10/25/11
Title StatusBO
US Price$16.99
CDN Price$22.99
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
Perfectly evoking the sights and sounds of the summer of 1978 in Brooklyn, Suzanne Corso makes an acclaimed fiction debut with this powerful coming-of-age tale, told from an adult perspective, of family, best friends, first loves, and big dreams waiting to come true.
TitleThe Dovekeepers
AuthorHoffman, Alice
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Jewish
Category Full 3FICTION / Media Tie-In
ISBN-139781451617481
On Sale04/03/12
Title StatusAS
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages528
Cover StatusFinal
An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).
TitleThe Boston Girl
AuthorDiamant, Anita
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 2FICTION / Jewish
Category Full 3FICTION / General
ISBN-139781439199350
On Sale12/09/14
Title StatusAS
US Price$26
CDN Price$32
Pages336
Cover StatusFinal
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century.
TitleSuperman Is Jewish?
AuthorBrod, Harry
Sub-ImprintFree Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Category Full 2COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Superheroes
Category Full 3HISTORY / United States/20th Century
ISBN-139781416595311
On Sale01/12/16
Title StatusAS
US Price$16
CDN Price$22
Pages240
Cover StatusFinal
From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.
TitleLeaving Berlin
AuthorKanon, Joseph
Sub-ImprintWashington Square Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Thrillers/Suspense
Category Full 2FICTION / Thrillers/Espionage
Category Full 3FICTION / General
ISBN-139781476704654
On Sale03/01/16
Title StatusBO
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages384
Cover StatusFinal
New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year *

The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.
TitleIrena's Children
AuthorMazzeo, Tilar J.
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / Modern/20th Century/Holocaust
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
ISBN-139781476778518
On Sale06/06/17
Title StatusAS
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages352
Cover StatusFinal
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
TitleThe Jewish Wedding Now
AuthorDiamant, Anita
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1REFERENCE / Weddings
Category Full 2RELIGION / Judaism/Rituals & Practice
Category Full 3RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice/General
ISBN-139781501153945
On Sale06/06/17
Title StatusAS
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages256
Cover StatusFinal
Newly revised and updated, the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding, written by bestselling novelist Anita Diamant—author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl—and one of the most respected writers of guides to contemporary Jewish life.
TitleThe German Girl
AuthorCorrea, Armando Lucas
Sub-ImprintWashington Square Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Historical/World War II
Category Full 2FICTION / Historical/General
Category Full 3FICTION / General
ISBN-139781501121234
On Sale08/08/17
Title StatusAS
US Price$16
CDN Price$22
Pages368
Cover StatusFinal
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Featured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY

“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife


A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion in this “engrossing and heartbreaking” (Library Journal, starred review) debut novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
TitleThe Choice
AuthorEger, Edith E
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Category Full 2SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational
Category Full 3SELF-HELP / Personal Growth/General
ISBN-139781501130786
On Sale09/05/17
Title StatusAS
US Price$27
CDN Price$36
Pages304
Cover StatusFinal
A New York Times Bestseller

“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah

“Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award
TitleDisobedience
AuthorAlderman, Naomi
Sub-ImprintTouchstone
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1FICTION / Literary
Category Full 2FICTION / Religious
Category Full 3FICTION / General
ISBN-139781501199660
On Sale03/06/18
Title StatusAS
US Price$15.99
CDN Price$21.99
Pages240
Cover StatusFinal
*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND RACHEL MCADAMS
*AUTHOR OF ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE READS

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power comes a novel about a young woman who must return home in the wake of her father’s death and confront the tight-knit Orthodox community that she ran away from—reigniting the old flames of forbidden love.