Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
By: Ariel Burger
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie , a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel …
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1. How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)
By: Cressida Cowell
4.59
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Middle Grade Book 12 is the epic finale to the New York Times be… read more
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"If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end."-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)
"Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way"-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)
"Once, when I was a child, I dreamed that Grimbeard the Ghastly, on the deck of his ship The Endless Journey , threw the sword Endeavor up into the air. Up and up it spun, through the inky blackness, …"-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)
2. Day
By: Elie Wiesel , Anne Borchardt
3.79
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Bo… read more
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- holocaust
- jewish
"I was lying. I would have to lie. A lot. She was ill. It's all right to lie to sick people."-Elie Wiesel, Day
"I thought he was talking about my grandmother. I didn't want to see her. I knew she had died - of thirst, maybe - and I was afraid she wouldn't be as I remembered her. I was afraid she wouldn't have …"-Elie Wiesel, Day
"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And…"-Elie Wiesel, Day
3. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)
By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye
3.66
Format: 320 pages,
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more
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- holocaust
4. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
By: Andrew Solomon
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Far from the Tree is a masterpiece that will rattle our prejudices, question our policies, and insp… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person
By: Harold S. Kushner
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Part of the Jewish Encounter series From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, … read more
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- jewish
- judaism
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- nonfiction
6. How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (How to Train Your Dragon, #9)
By: Cressida Cowell
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Viking Berk heir Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragon, Toothless are target of dragon rebel… read more
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7. Open Heart
By: Elie Wiesel
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Translated by Marion Wiesel A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- jewish
8. Night (The Night Trilogy #1)
By: Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration c… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- holocaust
9. The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
By: Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first three works by Elie Wiesel are here brought together in one volume, where the terrifying … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
10. How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel (How to Train Your Dragon, #10)
By: Cressida Cowell
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Dragon Rebellion has begun, bringing the Vikings' darkest hour upon them. Hiccup has become an … read more
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11. Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, deeply moving and illuminating re… read more
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12. How to Betray a Dragon's Hero (How to Train Your Dragon, #11)
By: Cressida Cowell
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
High up in the Treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonma… read more
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13. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
15. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
16. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida He… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- memoir
"There was dignity, he knew, in the simple act of continuing to live in a world where you were not meant to survive."-Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
"[...] the "explosion" of Mexicans crossing the border without permission was entirely predictable. It was the inevitable consequence of of policies that slashed opportunities to migrate legally witho…"-Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
18. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
19. The Lost Shtetl
By: Max Gross
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing h… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- holocaust
- jewish
20. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- memoir
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
21. What Storm, What Thunder
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an … read more
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22. Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others
By: Stephen M.R. Covey
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Speed of Trust , a revolutionary new way to lead, deemed “the de… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
23. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
By: Martin Baron
4.20
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
24. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
25. A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
By: Rachelle Unreich
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the… read more
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- history
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- jewish
- nonfiction
- holocaust
26. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
27. Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
By: Mary Pipher
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Working on my book about refugees, I learned a great deal about trauma and recover, and with the help of the people I spoke with developed what I called "a healing package of treatments." These treat…"-Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
28. The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
By: J. Russell Hawkins
4.33
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 196… read more
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- religion
- history
29. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
By: Judy Rakowsky
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more
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- history
- memoir
- holocaust
30. Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
By: Ariel Burger
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie , a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel … read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- education
- holocaust
31. Not Your Average Hot Guy
By: Gwenda Bond
3.21
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A paranormal romantic comedy at the (possible) end of the world. All Callie wanted was a quiet w… read more
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"I refuse to not be up to this, to fail in front of Luke. I need to prove to Mag they were wrong not to trust me. And, of course, defeat evil."-Gwenda Bond, Not Your Average Hot Guy
"I graduated from college in the spring with a history degree, only to discover that there are no jobs for someone with my specialty. We've all decided being doomed to repeat history is fine, I guess."-Gwenda Bond, Not Your Average Hot Guy
