BOOKS 2023

The story 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner', after which this file is named, was published in 1959 and earned its author an important literary award. His cinematic adaptation was groundbreaking, and well-known musical works were also composed based on his inspiration. This modern classic is now presented to the reader for the first time in a Hebrew translation.

Shawn Bethel never dreamed of running a used bookstore, but somehow, at the age of 31, he found himself the owner of a building that was falling apart and about a hundred thousand books. In his diary Bethel tells honestly and with humor about the routine of life in his store, and about its eccentric employees.

The sixties of the twentieth century. Into the rosy world of games and market smells and swimming in the Tigris River, the Six Day War erupts. Lina, the daughter of a bourgeois Jewish family in Baghdad, tries to lead a normal teenage life, but being Jewish in an Arab country is not an easy thing

Soline Roussel grew up in a family that specialized in good endings: for many generations her family ran an exclusive and famous bridal salon in Paris. According to the rumor, Salon Rossel dresses had a special charm: a bride who wears a dress designed by them on her wedding day is guaranteed a lifetime of married happiness.

After surprising us with his idiots. And after treating the psychopaths that surround us. Behavioral science researcher Thomas Erickson comes to bad bosses and their lazy employees.

Ona doesn't like going to the garden that much, because the children bully her and don't want to share her in their games. But one day, on the way to the garden, she meets a lion. A kind and nice lion, who at all does not want to prey on her and even teaches her some useful things that only real lions know.

Gabriel Alon quietly slipped away to Venice with his wife and two children, for a long-needed vacation. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly of a heart attack, Gabriel is summoned to the Vatican by his personal secretary, who has two good reasons to suspect that his master has been murdered.

Every day, to every place, Ayelet takes the red bag. What is in Ayelet's bag? And Lon, Lon is she walking?

The Greek word "anthology" means "collection of flowers". Indeed, this book presents a rich selection of the best poems written in Greek, in a variety of genres, from Homer (in the eighth century BC) to Melegros (in the first century BC) and they constitute the poetry of the Golden Age of Greece.

A captivating Italian saga about a girl who fights to break free from poverty and oppression and realize forbidden love. In this wonderful and absorbing novel, she examines and neutralizes the limits of loyalty to family, the redemptive power of friendship and love, and the fire in the soul of one woman, who was born to be free.

A wonderful meal in Paris, but some close friends face a turning point in their lives. She is an editor at French Vogue, he is a rising star in the financial world. They are devoted to each other and their young children. But a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work in China could lead to separation. and temptation.

The Canadian mystery queen returns with a sinister plot in the City of Lights. On their first night in Paris, the family gathers for dinner at a bistro with billionaire Stephen Horowitz. On their way home after dinner, Stefan was run over and fatally injured before their eyes. Obviously this is not an accident...