Fall 2023 Avid Reader Press Catalog
Category: History
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TitleOne Hundred Saturdays
AuthorFrank, Michael
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
Category Full 2HISTORY / Modern/20th Century/Holocaust
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
ISBN-139781982167233
On Sale09/12/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages240
Cover StatusReady to Feed
One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal

The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.
TitleThese Walls
AuthorFedderly, Eva
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/21st Century
Category Full 3POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN-139781982193911
On Sale10/24/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$28
CDN Price$37
Pages224
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A deeply reported work of narrative nonfiction that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential decisions of our time—the closure of Rikers Island—and what it could mean for the future of prison reform and restorative justice.
TitleThe Genius of Israel
AuthorSenor, Dan
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions
Category Full 2HISTORY / Middle East/Israel & Palestine
Category Full 3TECHNOLOGY / Inventions
ISBN-139781982115760
On Sale11/07/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages320
Cover StatusReady to Feed
From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel’s successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development.
TitleUFO
AuthorGraff, Garrett M
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader Press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / United States/20th Century
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/General
Category Full 3SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories
ISBN-139781982196776
On Sale11/14/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages368
Cover StatusReady to Feed
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Raven Rock, the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long quest to solve one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe?