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A university biologist is asked to
direct a student's independent study
on intelligent design; as he gradually
loses sight of his personal and profes-
sional boundaries, as well as his moral
grounding, he is confronted with the
possibility of faith — and the respon-
sibility and guilt he has sidestepped
for years.
Mark Leslie Shook The Ezra
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Retired Rabbi Mark Leslie Shook
has written a fact-based thriller about

The first-prize winner at the
Hollywood Film Festival for "Best
Unpublished Manuscript" is a sus-
penseful tale of a Jewish artist's
revenge during World War II; Julian
Klein, a young American artist, leaves
behind his religious upbringing in
Chicago for the artistic freedom of
Paris in the 1930s, only to find him-
self trapped inside a world in which a
paintbrush is as lethal as a gun.
Natasha Solomons: The Gallery

The Israeli writer's American debut
— a tale of mistaken identity, orga-
nized crime and a disgraced detective
seeking redemption — is a fast-paced
legal thriller that begins with a brutal
rape in a Tel Aviv neighborhood.
Jonathan Lethem: Dissident
Gardens (Doubleday)
A family saga about three genera-
tions of New Yorkers with utopian
dreams; at the novel's center are a
Jewish mother, a communist living in
Sunnyside, Queens, and her daughter,
who's more interested in the counter-
culture of Greenwich Village.
Martin Fletcher: Jacob's Oath

The new novel by NBC News corre-
spondent Fletcher follows Jacob who,
after his brother is murdered in a con-
centration camp, vows to get revenge
on the guard who killed him; after he
meets Sarah, another lonely Holocaust
survivor, Jacob finds himself torn
between focusing his energy on hatred
and his love for Sarah.
Lauren Grodstein: The
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Two stories set in different eras play
off Maimonides' text: One relates to
Solomon Schechter and his search for
the Cairo genizah; the other involves
a software designer, who invents soft-
ware that categorizes and preserves
the past.
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the creation of the written Torah. The
novel's timeline ranges from 586 B.C.E.
to the recent U.S. occupation in Iraq,
when a Marine sergeant discovers an
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J.L. Witterick: My Mother's
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Inspired by a true story, this novel
intertwines the lives of two Jewish
families in hiding from the Nazis,
a fleeing German soldier, and the
mother and daughter who team up to
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Ronald Balson: Once We Were
Brothers (St. Martin's Press)
A self-published sensation written
by a Chicago lawyer, who while on a
business trip to Poland was inspired
to write this haunting and compelling
story of two young boys who grew up
as brothers during World War II, is
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respected civic leader and philanthro-
pist who is suddenly accused of being
an SS officer by Ben Solomon, who
convinces a lawyer to take the case.
Gabi Gleichmann: The Elixir of
Immortality (Other Press)
Beginning in the 11th century, the
Spinoza family has passed down from
father to son a secret manuscript
containing the recipe for immortal-
ity, but after 26 generations, the last
descendant of this long and illustrious
chain, An Spinoza, doesn't have a son
to entrust it to; from his deathbed,
he begins his narrative, attempting to
save his lineage from oblivion.
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