A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
By: Nathaniel Deutsch
4.11
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification o…
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1. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
By: Dan Senor , Saul Singer
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
"A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up"-Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
2. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- history
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
3. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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- new york
- history
- politics
- urban studies
- nonfiction
- urbanism
4. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
By: Anthony Berris , Sarit Yishai-Levi
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalemis a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold,… read more
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- judaism
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5. Basin and Range
By: John McPhee
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By: Geoffrey West
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more
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7. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
By: Lawrence Otis Graham
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, … read more
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8. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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9. Our Enemies Will Vanish
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
10. 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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"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
11. 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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12. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
13. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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- history
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14. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
15. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
By: Micah Goodman
4.27
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fr… read more
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- jewish
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
16. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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- nonfiction
- jewish
17. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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- new york
18. Shmutz
By: Felicia Berliner
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more
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19. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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- history
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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
20. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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21. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central As… read more
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- history
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22. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
24. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
25. A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
By: Nathaniel Deutsch
4.11
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification o… read more
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- new york
- history
- jewish
- politics
- judaism
- urban studies
- religion
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- sociology
26. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
By: Thomas Dyja
3.91
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York… read more
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- history
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- urbanism
28. American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
By: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on America… read more
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- jewish
- politics
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- sociology
29. America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present
By: John Ghazvinian
4.36
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century lo… read more
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- history
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30. Flyboy
By: Kasey LeBlanc
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the speculative twists of The Night Circus in this standout… read more
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31. How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
By: Ilan Stavans
3.72
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—r… read more
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