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575 pages ; 25 cm
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Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...
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After a controversial American priest is elected pope, archaeologist Jack Cane and an Israeli agent must find a mysterious Dead Sea Scroll which references two messiahs, a prophecy which is causing a political and religious crisis and placing their lives in danger.
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316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
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English
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Israeli counter-terrorism agent Sam Deker is abducted by radical adversaries and finds himself seemingly transported through time to the eve of a historical battle in ancient Israel, an event he fears may be tied to torture-induced psychosis.
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229 pages ; 22 cm
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Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools -- or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. She is also a devoted mother, a soon-to-be-divorced wife, and the lover of a handsome American television correspondent. To Dahlia's astonishment, the Israeli security establishment one day approaches her with a...
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125 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Seventeen-year-old Tal Levine of Jerusalem, despondent over the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, puts her hopes for peace in a bottle and asks her brother, a military nurse in the Gaza Strip, to toss it into the sea, leading ultimately to friendship and understanding between her and an "enemy."
8) Triple
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469 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of Edge of Eternity and Eye of the Needle. As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossads number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The worlds balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen...
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viii, 260 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"For readers of John Le Carre and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army. After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure...
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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"The story of Allison and Eyal unfolds primarily in Tel Aviv where Allie, a thoughtful and intelligent academic searching for a sense of where she belongs in the world, falls deeply and unexpectedly in love with a young Israeli doing his military service. Their love story is sensual, filled with pleasure, longing, fear, moments of deep connection, failures of communication, and ultimately, a quiet and devastating betrayal. Their romance has a rhythm...
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This is the tale of Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba, who rules the spice lands and bows before the will of the Goddess.
This is the tale of Solomon, the King of Israel and Judea, who built the golden temple to Yahweh in Jerusalem. Once he prayed that he might rule wisely.
This is the tale of Solomon's wives, of his concubines...and of his daughter Baalit, more beloved than any son. Here are their voices, their mysteries, and their deepest secrets. Here...
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Harper Jennings mystery volume 4
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216 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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While in Tel Aviv with her husband, who is taking part in an international symposium, Harper Jennings worries about the market Hagit, the woman assigned to show them around, and the troubled American man she saw there.
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Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize in Economics, but he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the prize must stay within his grasp, and so they conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement, just eight days away. Their plan starts out simple: crank up the AC, take shifts watching the apartment, forge texts and emails. As the days pass, things start to unravel and hidden motives emerge.
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Gabriel Allon volume 4
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434 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
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489 pages ; 21 cm
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On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.
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It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigre ; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand...
20) Waking lions
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341 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim's wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.
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