BOOKS 2024 #ידיעות ספרים

Author Lauren Weisberger's cult book, which was released 16 years ago and received an unforgettable film version that became a successful blockbuster starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt, is now back with a new book in the series that became a New York Times bestseller.

An exciting, funny and exciting novel about the daring choices of brave Jewish women in the sixties of the twentieth century. A crazy journey full of vicissitudes of two women on the way to change, independence and a better future. The year is 1960 and two Jewish women embark on a crazy journey in a world full of limitations, along the way they redefine the rules for their own lives.

How far would Britain go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? The Jewish scientist Roman Lozinski, who is hiding with his family in the Warsaw ghetto, has a secret: he holds in his hands the key to the technology that can make the surface bombs of the Allied bombers accurate and deadly.

What is consciousness? Do only we, human beings, have a conscious, thinking, knowing, feeling soul, or do other creatures also have some kind of consciousness - and if so, what does it include? What does an octopus think with its flexible arms? How does a crow remember where it buried worms and where peanuts? Is the female fish Abu Nafha excited at the sight of the magnificent nest that the male has drawn for her on the bottom of the sea?

How four women managed to bring philosophy back to life. An innovative group biography, it describes an exciting chapter in the history of European philosophy of the 20th century, a chapter led by four women: Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foote.

In the sleepy little town of Upstate New York, there's no one who doesn't love Aidan Thomas, a model family man and community member. He's the kind of guy who's always reaching out to his neighbor with a kind word. But Aidan has a dark secret. He's a serial killer who's already murdered eight women. Next in line, Rachel, still locked in his backyard shed, fears for her life.