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Series
Detective Jacob Lev novels volume 1
Description
A burned-out L.A. detective... a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems... a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. Detective Jacob...
Author
Series
Detective Jacob Lev novels volume 2
Description
It's been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night. And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains a stranger to him, imprisoned inside her own tattered mind. Then he comes...
3) Cain
Author
Publisher
Wildblue Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
494 pages ; 25 cm
Description
While experimenting with the body of a dead soldier, Maggie Milton, an army doctor, creates a monster. When he breaks loose, she hires a retired U.S. Marine colonel to capture him.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
562 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Almost-thirteen-year-old Naomi receives a mysterious package containing a tiny clay Golem that obeys her every command, and she is unprepared for the chaos he creates when she sends him away with instructions to save the world.
9) Golem
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Description
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
11) The Golem
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rabbi creates a giant golem from clay in order to protect his people, but when the rabbi's assistant takes control of the golem for criminal purposes, the monster retaliates.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
416 pages 21 cm.
Description
On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
Author
Series
Golem and the jinni volume 2
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Description
In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni--Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and...
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