Lineup: A Novel By Liad Shoham. Translated by Sara Kitai. (HarperCollins, 320 pp. $25.99) Lineup is not Israel’s No. 1 thriller writer Liad Shoham’s first crime novel;

There is a healthy new crop of Jewish crime/thriller/mystery books by both newcomers and recognized authors, who have proven they can give us a great

Critics have often called novelist Jonathan Tropper “the American Nick Hornby,” because Tropper writes about guys—not men—who have yet to grow up, even though they

Nonfiction FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman. (Harvard University Press, 433 pp. $29.95) One of the more contentious issues in Holocaust historiography

A panoramic view of Jewish culture through the ages and a deeply personal perspective of the way in which how one family relates to what

Fiction The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg. (Grand Central Publishing, 288 pp. $24.99 cloth, $15 paper) Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins: A Novel, has structured

Serach at the Seder: A Haggadah Supplement by Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum. (www.jewishspirit.com, 11 pp. $18) Have you heard of Serach bat Asher? Her name is mentioned

First Readers Lotsa Matzah by Tilda Balsey. Illustrated by Akemi Gutierrez. (Kar-Ben, 12 pp. $5.95) This simple rhyming board book sweetly tells how we left Egypt