Book 46, 276 pages
"The Covenant," by Naomi Ragen. A horrifying story of terrorism in war stricken Jerusalem in the early 2000's. When Elise's Jewish husband and daughter are kidnapped from their car on the way home from a ballet recital, her grandmother rounds up her 'covenant' of friends who stuck together through the Holocaust. Lovely the way the tribulations of yesterday and today are so nicely woven together to create a picture of life in the Middle East and the struggles of Jews through the ages.