Books
No Other Place on Earth (Avraham Family #1)
As the world drifts closer to war and the nations shut their gates, a clandestine movement arises to get Jews out of Europe and into Mandatory Palestine before it’s too late.
Shlomo Avraham cares about one thing: protecting Jewish lives. With Palestine awash in blood and the British colonial authorities reluctant to respond, he swears his allegiance to the Haganah, an underground army defending the vulnerable Jewish community. But as political tensions in Europe rise, he sets off for Italy on an assignment just as urgent: helping Jews immigrate to Palestine in defiance of the British blockade. And Shlomo will do whatever it takes, no matter the consequences, because only in their homeland can his people be free.
On the eve of the Italian government’s official embrace of antisemitism, two young Jews meet in Trieste. Miriam MacRae is in search of her roots and David Weiss mourns the loss of his beloved home in Czechoslovakia. While the world crumbles around them, Miri and David fall in love and dream of a future together. But when war finally erupts, one impulsive decision sets Shlomo, Miri, and David all on paths of rescue and resistance that will test the limits of their courage and commitment to the Jewish people.
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The Reason We’re Here (Avraham Family #2)
Israel, 1948: As the new Jewish state faces attempted annihilation, a hardened American combat veteran throws himself into a fight with longer odds than he has ever faced–and encounters a woman who will challenge him to find a different kind of bravery.
Joe Abramovich has learned the hard way that war is nothing like the books he’s spent his life reading. But even after the Nazis’ defeat, Joe discovers his war isn’t over as he reckons with the depths of the catastrophe that they have inflicted on the Jews and the world has let happen. With the Jews on the brink of destruction once again as five Arab nations attempt to destroy the new Jewish state upon its rebirth, Joe answers a call to cast his lot with his people and put his combat experience to use.
When the state is declared and its neighbors’ armies pour across Israel’s borders, he joins the defenders of Yad Mordechai, a tiny desert farming community standing in the way of the Egyptians’ march to Tel Aviv. As they fight against overwhelming odds, Joe is increasingly drawn to the Polish-born Chaya Glasser, who understands the demons that haunt him as well as anyone could and who makes him confront everything he thinks he has learned.
From the trenches of World War II to the bloody battlefields of Israel’s hard-fought War of Independence,The Reason We’re Hereis a story of courage, hope, and the things worth fighting for.