In this one temple / in the flesh, Kim Meidan / a place to sing

In this one temple / in the flesh, Kim Meidan / a place to sing

Kim Meidan's debut book includes about 40 songs on a variety of topics. The dominant ones among them: childhood, femininity, relationships and family. Under the distinctive themes of the book are secondary tensions, for example: sanctity and hacking, natural and artificial, mythology and contemporary art

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Journey to the Heart of Fear / Eric Ambler / Grasshopper + Modan

Journey to the Heart of Fear / Eric Ambler / Grasshopper + Modan

A decent British ammunition engineer is convinced that the shots fired at him in the hotel room in Istanbul were the end of a failed random robbery. He leaves Turkey on an Italian ship that will take him back

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The back kitchen / Roman Samson / Am works

The back kitchen / Roman Samson / Am works

In a small coastal town, the municipality publishes a tender to build apartments for young couples - a welcome initiative in which everyone has high hopes until it is stopped because of the intrigues that preceded it.

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Companies of Tikva / Chen Fes / Self-expenditure

Companies of Tikva / Chen Fes / Self-expenditure

Two young girls meet at the hospital boarding school. They both have one thing in common: they both ride in a wheelchair. A chair that is their legs. But the difference between them is great: July, who was injured in a car accident a few months earlier,

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A Guide to Painting and Calligraphy / Jose Saramago / The New Library

A Guide to Painting and Calligraphy / Jose Saramago / The New Library

God. He painted reputable portraits, for the upper-class bourgeois Lisbon people, who have money to pay, and self-esteem to hang on the wall a self-portrait, a portrait that is usually a flattering lie, smeared on canvas according to the model's wishes.

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Graffiti / Shenbel Rose / Kinneret

Graffiti / Shenbel Rose / Kinneret

"And suddenly she saw her. The woman was standing by the window sill. Half her body tilted forward above him, as if it were a balance, and then it happened. The woman was in the air. It was a miraculous slow motion, one moment she was by the window sill and a moment later she hovered.

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When God Was Young / Yochi Brands / Kinneret

When God Was Young / Yochi Brands / Kinneret

Yochi Brandes' God is really not an abstract God. He has completely human qualities. More than that, it even changes. And all this does not happen to him in his own right, but in the right of some of the great characters of the Bible, who make him a "school." Each in his own way, and hers alone.

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How to love your daughter / Hila Bloom / Zmora

How to love your daughter / Hila Bloom / Zmora

A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of miles from her home in Israel, peeking into a house in a northern city in the Netherlands: the two little girls across the window are the daughters of her only daughter, her granddaughters, whom she has never met. At the center of the novel

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Something disguised as love / Galia Oz / Kinneret

Something disguised as love / Galia Oz / Kinneret

Galia Oz's autobiographical book, published after many years of fear, silence and concealment. "This book is about me," she writes, "but I'm not alone. Houses like the house where I grew up are somehow floating in space, out of reach of social workers,

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Pace and Line / Peter Gilby + Assaf Romano / United Kibbutz

Pace and Line / Peter Gilby + Assaf Romano / United Kibbutz

An original and fascinating dialogue between a doctor and a painter, Peter Gilby and Assaf Romano - friends for about forty years. At the center of every conversation is a work of art related to the world of medicine. In the six conversations in the book, the two open a wide and rich fan of topics, creating original links between medicine and art.

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One child from the mountain / Abram Kantor / United Kibbutz

One child from the mountain / Abram Kantor / United Kibbutz

In ever-expanding circles like ripples, the narrator of one child from the mountain, Abram Kantor's book, reveals the world - and himself. Each time the child, "Tarzan on the Trees", ascends to new heights. Even if along the way painful falls are right for him, he does not give up, but harnesses his new revelations to expand his physical and mental world.

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Leibniz confrontation Newton / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz + Samuel Clark / Wrestling

Leibniz confrontation Newton / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz + Samuel Clark / Wrestling

The bond suit between Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz and Dr. Samuel Clark (1715-1716) was the last Leibniz managed during his lifetime, and it was interrupted with his death in 1716, after five letters were exchanged between them. Newton ("represented" in this bond suit by Clark) dealt In what was then called "the philosophy of nature"

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