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Celebrate Jewish Voices

Join us in celebrating Jewish Heritage Month with one of these new books!

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

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  • Heartbroken after her breakup with her girlfriend Dani, bisexual Fitz hatches a plan with childhood friend Levi to fake an online romance to make their exes jealous, which leads to unexpected real feelings as they navigate the complexities…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — Fiction
  • An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and is swept up in the ensuing mystery: Are the Wild Girls of Happy Valley lost princesses from a faraway land, as they believe, or are they…
    BookNew York, New York : Zando Young Readers, 2024. — Fiction
  • This poignant — and powerful — collection of diary entries chronicles the author’s refusal to be defined by chronic illness, sharing her life in her own words to encourage everyone to live life to the fullest, as she did, even as she was…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — 616.372009 S655 2024
  • Jordan Edelman, determined to avoid dating during her summer trip to Nantucket, finds herself entangled with her father's research assistant, whom she has disliked for years, but as she delves into a centuries-old mystery with a local…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — Fiction
  • Living the same day over and over again, Phoebe is taken out of her comfort zone and falls deeper in love with childhood crush Jess when he comes crashing into the time loop.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2024. — Fiction
  • Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered…
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, 2023. — Fiction
  • Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — Fiction
  • Teens Hannah and Noah, who each have different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah, team up to save the last Jewish remnant in small-town Texas.
    BookNew York : Underlined, 2023. — Fiction
  • Facing the Enemy

    How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship ; a Novel in Verse

    Krasner, Barbara,
    In 1930s Newark, NJ, best friends Tommy and Benny are torn apart when Tommy attends a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, and Benjy forms an anti-Nazi vigilante group.
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, 2023. — Fiction
  • Pretending to be her queer best friend Lili's former girlfriend, heterosexual Imogen Scott spends a lot of time with Lili's friend Tessa and starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with.
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — Fiction
  • Told in alternating timelines, Jewish 17-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — Fiction
  • The last thing highly organized Olivia Schwartz wants to do the summer before her senior year of high school is go on a cruise with her parents and younger brothers, so when Olivia meets charming, exciting Sebastian, she feels like she can…
    Book[New York, New York] : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — Fiction
  • Margo, who suddenly realizes that she's gay but has no clue how to express her identity, enlists out-and-proud Abbie to act as her tutor on everything "Queer 101"...and first love.
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2023] — Fiction
  • Swan maiden Hilde sacrifices her magical wings to seek freedom in the human world, but when her pact with an upstart baron takes her to the court of Ludwig II, she struggles to fit in, and only Jewish artist Franz, who has the power to…
    BookAtlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2023] — Fiction
  • One Last Shot

    the Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro

    Wilson, Kip,
    Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat.
    BookNew York : Versify, [2023] — Fiction
  • After discovering that his boyfriend has been cheating on him and all his friends know about it, Tennessee Russo accepts an offer from his father--a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity he hasn't seen in two years--to accompany…
    BookNew York : Union Square and Co., 2023. — Fiction
  • In 1979 Texas, 13-year-old Joseph Nissan struggles to trust others and stay true to himself when the Iran hostage crisis, two neighborhood bullies, and the local reverend’s beautiful daughter put him in danger, until he discovers he’s not…
    BookAshland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2023. — Fiction
  • Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as 16-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
    BookLos Angeles : Hyperion, 2023. — Fiction
  • When a young emigrant from their tiny village goes missing while heading to America, angel Uriel and demon Little Ash set off to find her and encounter many humans in need of their help as they face obstacles ahead of them as difficult as…
    BookMontclair [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2022. — Fiction
  • Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.
    BookNew York : Razorbill, 2022. — Fiction