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Author
Series
Golem and the jinni volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fantasy fiction. In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born...
3) Entropy
Author
Publisher
Secret Acres
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow a golem with a surprisingly modern sensibility and an even more modern sense of style.
Author
Series
Minecraft : Stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft Stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft Stonesword saga volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Despite being a great Minecraft player, Morgan feels his leadership of the team slipping away as the next splinter of the Evoker King takes the form of a golem and challenges each member of the team to run a dangerous obstacle course. Normally they would work together, but this time they are each forced to face the challenge alone--with no second chances and a river of hot lava waiting for them if they fail!
Author
Series
The country without humans volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After the catastrophe in the library, Teefa takes Shii to their shop, where she is greeted by a collection of friendly social-use golems. Despite their warm welcome, however, all Shii wants to do is go back for Bulb and Muimui. Will Teefa let her go? Or will they keep her from her companions once again" -- back cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring her back. But he can use kishuf, an ancient and profane magic to create an avenging golem in her image. Vera was made for vengeance. She is the Jew that the Nazis cannot kill. But is she more than the wrath that her creator infused within her?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Detective Jacob Lev novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages: a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer... Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can't remember anything about the encounter, and before he knows it, she has gone. But...
Author
Series
The country without humans volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Shii is the only human left in a city inhabited by nothing but machines. As she flees through the eerie streets, hunted by the sinister Triangle Heads, she encounters a golem named Bulb. Can Shii survive long enough to form a friendship with this strange golem--and perhaps even discover what happened to her fellow humans?"--back cover.
9) Golem
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
Author
Series
The country without humans volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the Brainstorm, Shii meets a strange boy who claims to be the heir to the throne. Big Basilta protects her from the boy's unabashed violence, but can the golem protect her from the truth? A mysterious project, a princess, a secret buried in Bulb's memories... Can Shii handle the shock of these revelations?"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
Author
Series
Golem and the jinni volume 2
Language
English
Description
Chava is a golem, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Pretending to be human, they are just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels...
Author
Series
The country without humans volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shii comes face-to-face with her mother! What should be a joyful reunion is soon overshadowed by an uncomfortable truth. In her moment of need, Shii turns to Bulb for comfort--but the golem is nowhere to befound! Where have they disappeared to? And why did they leave?" -- back cover.
Author
Series
Detective Jacob Lev novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From two #1 bestselling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and...
Author
Series
Monstrous devices volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi Germany and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
Berlin. Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Ettie, the daughter of a renowned rabbi, offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn...
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