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When a storyteller loses his voice, he believes he's lost everything. In fact, he's been given a great gift. Once upon a time, a successful storyteller lost his voice to throat cancer. Deprived of the instrument of his art and his livelihood, he retreated into dark, sullen silence and depression. While searching for a spiritual explanation, he encountered his former mentor, a cantankerous and often drunk old man. Their meetings began a journey into...
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313 pages ; 22 cm
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"As the daughter of a prominent judge of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is expected to focus on learning etiquette and decorum in hopes of finding a good husband. But she doesn't care about any of that. Instead, she spends her days with her twin brother, Pesah, as they work to try to find a cure for his leprosy. Now Pesah's getting worse. The best doctors have given him mere weeks to live, and even more alarming, Pesah has a vision: the Angel of Death...
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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Long ago in the city of Baghdad, Shlomo and his wife, Miriam, don't have a single guest to welcome for Shabbat. When a mysterious traveler knocks on their door, they treat him royally. Their grateful guest blesses the couple with the strangest bracha they've ever heard.
20) Thistlefoot
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435 pages ; 25 cm
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"The Yaga siblings -- Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist -- have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited -- only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as...
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