> Click here to read Toby Press's March '08 Newsletter for everything that's new and exciting at Toby this month!
> We are delighted to announce that If You Awaken Love by Emuna Elon has been selected as a 2007 National Jewish Book Finalist
> We are delighted to announce that The Toby Press has the unique distinction of being the publisher of both the Winner and Runner Up of the prestigious Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. This is an exceptional recognition of the talent that can be nurtured by independent publishing.
> Watch a discussion on Atlanta & Company about Renee Dodd's wonderful, critically acclaimed A Cabinet of Wonders.
Tamar Yellin of England, author of The Genizah at the House of Shepher, is the first recipient of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the largest-ever Jewish literary prize, and one of the largest literary prizes in the nation. Two runners-up received the Choice Award—one of whom was Amir Gutfreund of Israel, author
of Our Holocaust (translated by Jessica Cohen).
> We are delighted to announce that Donald Harington was selected to be the first recipient of the new Oxford American Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Southern Literature!
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Blood Alley by Tom Coffey
New York in the 1940s was a wide-open town. In the city of Swing Street, Frank Costello, and the Stork Club, everything was for sale, including its people. Into this arena steps Patrick Grimes, a World War II veteran who works the graveyard shift for The New York Examiner, one of the city’s brassiest tabloids. Late one night, Grimes learns that a watchman has found the body of a young woman in a squalid section of tenements and breweries by the East River, and races over to investigate...
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The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna
Jamie McCloone’s early years in a grim, cruel Irish orphanage have left him wary of people and anxious
of change. Now in his early forties, he has no dreams
of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer until
his kind-hearted neighbours decide he is needs a wife. Lydia couldn’t be
more different to Jamie. Rector’s daughter and proper
schoolteacher, she dreams of changing her spinsterly fate, but has no idea how—until a friend suggests she puts an ad in a
Lonely Hearts column...
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March 2008
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Farther Along by Donald Harington
He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwellers, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains, with only a dog for company and only a primitive spear thrower to provide him with his supper. But after six years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself...
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May 2008
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To This Day by S.Y. Agnon
Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon’s last novel
(first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be
translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished
and haunting work. On the surface it is a comically
entertaining tale of a young writer—a Galician Jew
who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the
eve of WWI, and is now stranded in Berlin—
who wanders from rented room to rented room in
a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On
a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile,
Zionism, divine providence, and human egoism.
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April 2008
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