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Search for Roots A Personal Anthology by Primo Levi PB $22.00 A collection of personal reflections on writings that Primo Levi considered essential reading. All reflect Levi's deep passion for literature, his profound knowledge of science, and his survival of Auschwitz, making it a collection that is both universal and poignantly autobiographical. BIOG & MEMORIS
Secrets and Spies by Mara Moustafine Random House Harbin in northern China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community of diverse cultural and political origins. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elswehere. For the thousands who returned to their motherland in the Soviet Union, it was a bitter homecoming. Few survived. Written with sensitivity and humour, Mara Moustafine skilfully weaves personal and political, past and present to give an insider's perspective on the life of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Secrets and Spies is available in paperback at the retail price of $24.95. For more details and to find out how to win a copy of Secrets and Spies, click onto the BOOKS page of www.jewishaustralia.com Australian Jewish writer BIOG & MEM xxxxxx
Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren HB $49.95 Michael B. Oren is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Centre in Jerusalem and has written extensively on Middle Eastern history and diplomatic affairs. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Highly recommended. HISTORY & POLITICS
Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz Walker Books $14.95 ????????? CHILDRENS
Still Here by Linda Grant Linda Grant is the author of the Orange Prize winner *When I Lived in Modern Times* and is a guest of this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. Her latest novel is set in Liverpool and tells the story of the relationship between a tough almost fifty year old woman called Alix who works for a charity that restores Jewish landmarks around the world and who is sexually attracted to Joseph, an American architect who has arrived to restore life in this decaying port of the Atlantic. Joseph also carries his own historical baggage. Still Here is not a story of love at first sight. Linda Grant is brilliant in dealing with the flawed truths of middle age and in her documenting of the Jewish community in Liverpool from a historical and contemporary perspective. PB FICTION PRICE???
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman A horrible murder has occurred in LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker's extended family and the victim's 15 year old niece, with whom he was spending the day, is missing. Called on to help, Decker finds himself i an alien city, in the darkened slums of New Jersey and the deserted industrial streets of New York, searching the hidden meeting places of Hassidic outcasts. $29.95. PB LARGE FICTION CRIME
Striking Terror America's New War edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein In the weeks following September 11, 2001 The New York Review of Books published a wide range of articles that examined the background to the attacks, how the United States should, and did, respond, and the various terrorist threats the nation could face in the future. Striking Terror brings together commentaries, reports, and investigations by sixteen of the Review's contributors - foreign policy and intelligence analysts, scientists, and journalists from around the world, including Timothy Garton Ash, the critically acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk and an article by Isaiah Berlin on prejudice, stereotypes, and nationalism. pb $24.95 HISTORY & POLITICS
Stupid White Men and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation by Michael Moore is a caustic look at corporate America and political hypocrisy. Written by the host of the Emmy-winning series TV Nation and The Awful Truth, it has been updated and is now available in paperback for $22. HISTORY & POLITICS

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