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Cover Story: Summer Reading

Page Turners

Lose yourself in a great book with our annual roundup
of the best new fiction and nonfiction titles with a Jewish tun

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eading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we

are," said American philosopher Mason Cooley in the 1950s.

For those of our readers who are spending the summer in their own

back yards — and for those who need something to read on trans-

Atlantic flights — the Jewish News has chosen some of the best new

releases with Jewish themes or by Jewish authors.

Some are the literary equivalent of popcorn (Dorothy Samuels' Filthy

Rich), to be wolfed down by the handful. Others feed our appetite for

heartier stuff an exploration of the new Jewish Diaspora (Larry Tye's

Homelands) or a fictional thriller wrapped around Nazi war criminals

and unscrupulous Swiss bankers (Daniel Silva's The English Assassin).

Whatever your pleasure, remember to read. As the previously quoted

Cooley once said: "Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is

only that one has chosen the wrong book!"