Eytan Halaban
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Maury Green was once a proud man. Now middle-aged, unmarried, and stuck in a dead-end job as a small-time real estate agent, he has few social prospects and fewer friends. The local Jewish community wrote him off years ago, when he slunk home to New Haven from the Israeli War of Independence, his spirit broken by the very men he tried to help.
But now, twenty-five years later, Israeli General Yaacov Ronen is passing through the city on a fundraising...
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The lure of treasure makes strange bedfellows...
Salvador de Pascual, a young custodian working at Yale's famed library, is a high school dropout with untamed imagination who sees nothing but beauty. Beatrix Spear is a consummate scholar, a rising star in the Art History department, who knows everything about art but has forgotten its beauty. He's a poor dreamer with few prospects. She's a wealthy junior professor with burning ambition and unlimited...
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Michael has a secret-he knows where the treasure is.
Months away from a Yale degree and blessed with a well-connected girlfriend who is hell-bent on pulling strings for him, Michael should be reveling in his good fortune. Instead, he has made a new friend, Boomie, who is, Michael discovers, a picaresque angel on his shoulder. And there is a tiny hitch to their relationship: only Michael can see and hear him.
Now Boomie hints that the literary...
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When a tenth grader from Long Island saves the life of a Sheba princess, they fall madly in love and anger the gods of an ancient people.
Jimmy Paterson, 16, has great plans to be a famous explorer-to find something new and put his name on maps forever. Jimmy sneaks off to Ethiopia to chart a mysterious river. While lost in the mountains he stumbles into the hidden land of Sheba, which has been thriving since King Solomon's time. Diamonds serve as...
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"One semester before graduation, Danielle Caruthers, a Yale senior, takes a train to New York City and vanishes. No one has heard from her since-not her parents in gilded Westport, not her senior advisor, eminent art historian Whitmore Verhaast, and not her roommate, Sabrina Gutierrez. The daughter of a single Colombian mother, Sabrina grew up on the rough side of Chicago and has been defying the odds ever since-most recently with a full scholarship...