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 […]

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 […]

Alyson Richman, The Time Keepers

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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 […]

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 […]