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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Based on a memory from the author's childhood.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2014c, ©2014
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6.6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality,...
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