Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
By: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family …
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1. The Avengers
By: Rich Cohen
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened … read more
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- jewish
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- holocaust
2. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
By: Lucette Lagnado
4.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cai… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- jewish
3. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale o… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
4. The Weight of Ink
By: Rachel Kadish
4.15
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept… read more
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- judaism
- religion
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- jewish
"Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"My grandmother," Ester said, "wished not to trap her love into taking her. She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny...."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"Then it was only right that she do as her spirit told her, and let the struggle itself answer the question of which was the stronger: her will or her womanly nature."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
5. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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6. It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
By: Robie H. Harris , Michael Emberley
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Providing accurate, unbiased answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puber… read more
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7. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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- holocaust
- jewish
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
8. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- religion
- biography
- nonfiction
9. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
10. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
11. 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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- history
- jewish
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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
12. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
13. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
14. 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
15. 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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- jewish
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
16. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
By: Michael Frank
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more
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- history
- biography
- jewish
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- greece
"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
17. Red Star Falling (Luke Daniels, #2)
By: Steve Berry
4.24
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling authors, Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood, comes an action-packed … read more
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18. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
By: Omid Scobie
3.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
19. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
By: Chris J. Anderson
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more
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- nonfiction
20. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. We Meant Well
By: Erum Shazia Hasan
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more
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22. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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23. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
24. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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25. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
By: Dani Shapiro
3.89
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- jewish
"It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
26. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
By: Benjamin Gilmer
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
27. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
28. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
By: Dan Stone
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- holocaust
- jewish
29. Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
By: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family … read more
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- jewish
- greece
- judaism
- judaica
- religion
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- books about books
30. Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
By: Christopher C. King
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of t… read more
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- history
- greece
31. Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
By: Laura Arnold Leibman
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the Amer… read more
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- biography
- jewish
- judaism
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