Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
By: Mark Oppenheimer
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods…
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1. Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
By: Ann Rule
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The author of eight New York Timesbestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stran… read more
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- crime
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- true crime
2. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
By: Julie Andrews Edwards
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorabl… read more
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3. Living a Jewish Life
By: Anita Diamant , Howard Cooper
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural an… read more
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4. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
By: Alan Lew
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
There are moments in life when one is caught utterly unprepared. Drawing on both his rabbinical tra… read more
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5. When the Angels Left the Old Country
By: Sacha Lamb
4.27
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more
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- judaism
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6. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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- history
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- politics
- judaism
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- nonfiction
- antisemitism
7. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
8. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
By: Sarah Hurwitz
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connec… read more
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- jewish
- judaism
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- nonfiction
- judaica
9. 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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- nonfiction
- judaica
"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
10. 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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- crime
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- true crime
"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
11. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
12. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
13. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
By: Samuel James
4.44
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more
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- nonfiction
14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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16. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- judaism
- religion
- jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
17. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- history
- jewish
- politics
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
18. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
By: Emily Matchar
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more
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- judaism
- jewish
19. We Need to Talk About Antisemitism
By: Rabbi Diana Fersko
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A millennial rabbi explores why we’re reluctant to discuss antisemitism—and empowers us to fight ag… read more
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- jewish
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- antisemitism
20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
21. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
By: Jeffrey L. Rinek
4.16
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
"The voice that narrates In the Name of the An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's W… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- true crime
22. The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life
By: Mike Rucker
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to mak… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family … read more
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- jewish
24. My Broken Language
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more
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- nonfiction
"God is the opiate of the masses."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"She was made of exclamation points."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
25. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more
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27. Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
By: Abby Stein
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leade… read more
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- religion
- jewish
28. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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29. Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime)
By: Paul N. Hodos
3.63
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crow… read more
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30. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
By: Mark Oppenheimer
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods… read more
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- nonfiction
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- crime
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31. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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