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1) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
2) Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xi, 109 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A man seriously injured when hit by a car is taken to the hospital where a doctor, the woman who loves him, and his artist friend lead him to yearn for life rather than death.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A European orphan transplanted to New York, Doriel is shaped by the pain of the deaths of his parents following World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, and seeks solace in an intense study of Judaism and a search for the secrets of his mother's life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with photographs from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a collection of memories and reflections sheds light on the horrors of the Holocaust, from Hitler's rise to power and the creation of the Third Reich to the concentration camps and genocide, to liberation.
8) Dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
ix, 81 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
211 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the days following the Six-Day War, a survivor of the Holocaust visits the reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall in the Old City, he encounters the beggars and madmen that congregate there every evening, who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel beckons the reader on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem....
11) The oath
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1973
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
283 p. 22 cm.
Language
English