Larry Tye, The Jazzmen

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the […]

Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

Winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, Kantika – “song” in Ladino – is a kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries and follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to […]

Alyson Richman, The Time Keepers

Tedesco Country Club 154 Tedesco Street, Marblehead, MA, United States

An unforgettable novel that captures the power of longing, loss, and love, The Time Keepers transports us from 1979 suburban New York to war-torn Vietnam, revealing that sometimes the most unexpected friendships can save us. Two women from different worlds, Grace and Anh, are indelibly changed when a runaway boy is found on a street in their […]

JBM Family Shabbat with Jill Weber, Illustrator of One More Story, Tata

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

Friday Night Shabbat with Food, Fun, and Friends! This heartwarming story of a little girl’s bond with her great-grandma, who tells the silliest, most magical stories, celebrates four generations of a Jewish family who come together for Shabbat. It’s Friday, and little Ruby gets to spend the day with her great-grandma, Tata. Together, they go […]

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Dr. Sara Glass, Kissing Girls on Shabbat

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA

Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted were impossibly opposed. Tormented by her attraction to women and trapped in a loveless arranged marriage, she found herself unable to conform to her religious upbringing, and soon she […]