Jacob's Oath
8 best books like Jacob's Oath (Martin Fletcher): Day After Night, The Lost Prince, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, The Girl from Berlin, Not Our Kind, The Long Flight Home, The Woman in the Photograph, Full: Food, Jesus, and the Battle for Satisfaction
Author | Anita Diamant |
ISBN | 0743299841 |
Atlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in Israel in 1945. There about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant with infinite compassion and understanding tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans...
Author | Selden Edwards |
ISBN | 0525952942 |
From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling novel The Little Book, comes a novel about a love that is capable of bridging unfathomable distances.
Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de siècle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love...
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Author | Matti Friedman |
ISBN | 1616207221 |
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it’s all true.
The four spies at the center of this story were part of...
Author | Ronald H. Balson |
ISBN | 1250195268 |
An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own the deeds, even though she can produce her own set of deeds to her land. Catherine and Liam’s...
With echoes of The Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting
One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War...
Author | Alan Hlad |
ISBN | 1496721675 |
Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice.
It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on...
The Woman in the Photograph
Author | Dana Gynther |
ISBN | 1476731950 |
Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century's defining photographers.
1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman about town Lee Miller moves...
Full: Food, Jesus, and the Battle for Satisfaction
Author | Asheritah Ciuciu |
ISBN | 0802415377 |
Can the Bible help me with my food struggles?
Have you ever felt stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of overeating, yo-yo dieting, and obsessive thoughts about food?
Whether you feel defeated by your lack of self-control or overwhelmed by thoughts and longings for food, the answer...