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2025 AJL Conference: Books by Presenters
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Rules for Ghosting
Songs for the Brokenhearted
Displaced Persons: Stories
More Than Enough: Inspired by Maimonidess Golden Ladder of Giving
One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor
Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder
Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
Night Owls: A Sydney Taylor and National Jewish Book Award Winner
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
An Etrog from Across the Sea
Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah
Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants
Sharing Shalom
Just Shy of Ordinary
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2025 AJL Conference: Books from "Recommended Reading" Sessions
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Whenever You're Ready
The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire
City of Laughter
Going Bicoastal
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Husband of the Year
Napkins and Other Distractions
Mistletoe and Mishigas
Teacher of the Year
A Meeting of Two Prophets: In everyone's life there is someone they'll never forget, and a summer where it all began...
The Intimacy Experiment
Thank You for Sharing
Rules for Ghosting
The Forbidden Book
Night Owls: A Sydney Taylor and National Jewish Book Award Winner
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AJL Jewish Fiction Award
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Rules for Ghosting
Displaced Persons: Stories
The Hebrew Teacher
Songs for the Brokenhearted
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Kantika
How to Find Your Way in the Dark
To Be a Man: Stories
Memento Park
The Weight of Ink
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
A Boy in Winter
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The Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards
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King's Legacy
The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939: Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz
Fables in Jewish Culture: The Jon A. Lindseth Collection
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History
Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica: A Bibliographical Resource for Canadian Jewish Studies
Catalog of Catalogs: A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 That Contain Items of Judaica
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates
Historical Atlas of Hasidism
Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism
The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 Volumes]
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Sydney Taylor Book Awards
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When the Angels Left the Old Country
A Sky Full of Song
The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of the Choice
Inkflower
Things That Shimmer
Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II
Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf
Sharing Shalom
Mr. Katz and Me
Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah
Trajectory
The Forbidden Book
Just Shy of Ordinary
Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
Across So Many Seas
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Sydney Taylor Manuscript Awards
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The Seventh Handmaiden
When the Hurricane Came
Zayda Was a Cowboy
The Streets Are Paved with Gold
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Holiday Highlights
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Eight Sweet Nights, a Festival of Lights: A Hanukkah Story
Hanukkah Hippity-Hop
Rachel Friedman and Eight Not-Perfect Nights of Hanukkah
Mixed-Up Mooncakes
Lucky Penny
A Turkish Rosh Hashanah
Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman
Challah for Shabbat Tonight
Matzah Day!
Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder
Roadside Seder
The Curious Case of the Pot Roast: A Passover Mystery
One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe
Rachel Friedman Is Not the Queen
Shabbat Shalom: Let's Rest and Reset
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AJL Podcasts
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Across So Many Seas
Mendel the Mess-Up
A Feather, a Pebble, a Shell
One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe
Night Owls: A Sydney Taylor and National Jewish Book Award Winner
Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor
The Festival of Lights: 16 Hanukkah Stories
Let It Glow
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Shoham's Bangle
The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor
Recipe for Disaster
Lessons in Fusion
A Sky Full of Song
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"Love Your Neighbor" Series
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The Golden Rule: Deluxe Edition (Deluxe)
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
Whispering Town PB
Refugee
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
The Hired Girl
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Bubbe's Belated Bat Mitzvah
Drop by Drop: A Story of Rabbi Akiva
In God's Hands
What You Will See Inside a Synagogue
Regina Persisted
Wise... and Not So Wise: Ten Tales from the Rabbis
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