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    Recommended Reading

    Novem­ber 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Joyce: The Miss­ing File (D. A. Mis­hani) | Miri: Beau­ti­ful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Pow­er of Light (Isaac Bashe­vis Singer) |…
    JBC Staff
    November 12, 2013
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    Octo­ber 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Joyce: Dan Gets a Mini­van (Dan Zevin) | Nao­mi: The Kraus Project (Jonathan Franzen)Car­olyn: Like Dream­ers (Yos­si Klein Hale­vi) |…
    JBC Staff
    October 7, 2013
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    Sep­tem­ber 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Miri: The Tin Horse (Jan­ice Stein­berg) | Car­olyn: Hot­house (Boris Kachka)Nao­mi: The Prop­er­ty (Rutu Modan) | Suzanne: Sin­ners…
    JBC Staff
    September 16, 2013
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    August 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Car­olyn: In the Land of the Liv­ing (Austin Rat­ner) | Joyce: The Liars’ Gospel (Nao­mi Alderman)Nao­mi: Cur­ricu­lum Vitae (Yoel Hoff­mann) |…
    JBC Staff
    August 12, 2013
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    July 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Car­olyn: The Art Forg­er (B.A. Shapiro) | Nao­mi: Her­zog (Saul Bel­low)Mimi: The Invis­i­ble Bridge (Julie Orringer) | Emma:…
    JBC Staff
    July 11, 2013
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    June 2013 Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks

    What we’re read­ing this month:Miri: Good­bye, Colum­bus (Philip Roth) | Car­ol: No Joke (Ruth R. Wisse)Emma: Por­trait Inside My Head (Phillip Lopate) | Nao­mi:…
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    June 26, 2013
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