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Partners with the Community: The Last of the Seven by Steven Hartov

Temple Beth Israel 1 Temple Drive, Port Washington, NY, United States

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop — a team of European Jews who escaped the continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military.

Partners with the Community: The Night Travelers by Lucas Correa

Melville Jewish Center 2600 New York Avenue, Melville, NY, United States

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel.

Author Breakfast: Overture of Hope by Isabel Vincent

Sid Jacobson JCC 300 Forest Dr, East Hills, NY, United States

Vincent, a New York Post investigative journalist recovers the story of two British sisters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich. $60

Author Breakfast: Hope by Andrew Ridker

Sid Jacobson JCC 300 Forest Dr, East Hills, NY, United States

In this hilarious and heartfelt novel, follow the Greenspans over the course of one tumultuous year as they question, and compromise, the values that have shaped their lives. $60

Partners with the Community: The Apprentice of Buchenwald by Oren Schneider

Temple Beth Sholom 401 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY, United States

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a Czechoslovakian town. When his family was captured and taken to Buchenwald, his father was gravely injured, and it was up to Alexander to use his talent to save his father’s life.