We have on order an important new book, “The Lie That Wouldn’t Die”, and plan a major lecture on this fascinating topic when it arrives. Any one want to guess the subject? Maybe we should have a contest, call Tova Yedlin or Netta Phillet with your ideas and we’ll give you a prize (no need to guess what it will be). Also ordered were many other new titles, including several for children and young adults, areas which we realize need new additions.

Acquisitions: two new books by authors the Women’s League book discussion group read and enjoyed: 

“Look for Me”, by Edeet Ravel, author of “Ten Thousand Lovers”.  Her new novel has already won the Quebec Writers’ Foundation Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction. Like her earlier work, it is an Israeli “love story”, modern-day this time. (Those who know her writing will understand the quotation marks.) The Toronto Star said, “Ravel provides an insider’s view of what it’s like to live in Israel, land of beach walk, job worries, stun grenades and missing husbands”. 

“The Singing Fire”, by Lilian Nattel, author of “The River Midnight”. To quote the New York Times, this story set in London in 1866 is”…enchanting…dynamic women, feckless men…Nattel writes with refreshing bawdiness and uses imagery to lush effect…vibrant…engaging.”

Also new: from the best-selling novelist Vikram Set, a fascinating biography of his aunt and uncle, “Two Lives”. Shanti Behari Seth was sent from India to Berlin in the 1930’s to study medicine, and went to live as a lodger with the German Jewish Caro family. His friendship with their daughter Henny, his career as a soldier, then a dentist in England, her escape from Germany and subsequent search for the rest of her family left behind, and then their eventual marriage, comprise a story that covers most of the globe and most of the century.