In This Place Together: A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation
By: Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple n…
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1. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
By: Sandy Tolan
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal o… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- israel
"Bashir walked toward a glass cabinet in the dining room. Dalia followed Bashir, and the two stood looking through the glass. "Look at the cabinet and tell me what you see," Bashir said. "Is this a te…"-Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
2. Happiness
By: Aminatta Forna
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
"Not since Remains of the Dayhas an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are ofte… read more
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3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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4. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
5. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
By: Lynsey Addario
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit … read more
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6. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
8. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
9. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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- nonfiction
- jewish
10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
11. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- nonfiction
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
12. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
13. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- israel
14. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978
By: Geoffrey Phillip Levin
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensit… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
16. Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
By: Shannon Lee
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies―demonstrating how mar… read more
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- nonfiction
"Life is not a competition, it's a cocreation."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"Life is not a competition; it's a cocreation."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"Водата може да тече бързо, може да тече и бавно, но целта й е неизменна, а съдбата сигурна."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
"It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked."-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
17. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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18. The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
By: Rebecca Clarren
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe An award-winning author … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
19. In This Place Together: A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation
By: Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple n… read more
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- history
- israel
- jewish
- politics
- nonfiction
20. Bride of the Sea
By: Eman Quotah
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting th… read more
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"The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that s…"-Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea
21. The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
By: Shaul Magid
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- israel
- jewish
