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Autore |
Poliner Elizabeth |
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As close to us as breathing : a novel / / Elizabeth Poliner |
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New York, New York : , : Little, Brown and Company, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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0-316-38411-9 |
0-316-26553-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 pages) |
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Jewish women |
Life change events |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Welcome -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One -- 1: An Inheritance of Here -- 2: Breathing -- 3: Of Minyans and Baseball -- 4: What They Tell Us We Are -- 5: Fairies and Genetic Mutations -- 6: A Stranger at Shabbos -- 7: No More Friday Claustrophobia -- Part Two -- 8: Shnel -- 9: The Reason for Tootsie Rolls -- 10: Other Ways, Other Possibilities -- 11: Anything Left to Give -- 12: Not Chocolate, Not Strawberry -- Part Three -- 13: Bottom of the Eighth -- 14: A Mob of Rules -- 15: Something to Do -- 16: A Pair of Leibritskys -- 17: Displaced Persons -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Also by Elizabeth Poliner -- Lee Boudreaux Books -- Newsletter -- Table of Contents -- Copyright. |
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Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man. |
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