Concealed
By: Esther Amini
4.36
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the freewheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Pers…
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1. Orhan's Inheritance
By: Aline Ohanesian
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
In her extraordinary debut, Aline Ohanesian has created two remarkable characters--a young man igno… read more
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2. The Bridge at Andau
By: James A. Michener
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
At four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Oreo
By: Harryette Mullen , Fran Ross
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of a few works of satire written by African American women, Oreois an uproariously funny novel … read more
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4. The Jew Store
By: Stella Suberman
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
"For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron Bronson I… read more
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5. The Sacrifice of Tamar
By: Naomi Ragen
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A violent crime transforms the predictable life of a young Rabbi's wife, leading to terrible sacrif… read more
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6. When We Meet Again
By: Kristin Harmel
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most i… 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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- 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. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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9. Only the Beautiful
By: Susan Meissner
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more
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10. The Wolf Hunt
By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more
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- jewish
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
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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
12. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
By: Noa Tishby
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more
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- history
- memoir
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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
13. 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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- jewish
14. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- history
15. The Little Liar
By: Mitch Albom
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more
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"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
16. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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17. 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
18. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
19. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
20. 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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"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
21. The Matchmaker's Gift
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more
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"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift
"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift
22. An Observant Wife
By: Naomi Ragen
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story betwe… read more
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23. The Thread Collectors
By: Shaunna J. Edwards
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroid… read more
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"As everyone around her knew, there were so many ways to not be free."-Shaunna J. Edwards, The Thread Collectors
24. 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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25. The Bird Hotel
By: Joyce Maynard
4.30
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After… read more
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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
26. An Unorthodox Match
By: Naomi Ragen
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, … read more
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"If you want to change who you are, change what you want."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"He felt the joy spread down his body like a slow anointing with holy oil, warm and soothing, from head to toe."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
"So many hypocrites, people busy preaching acceptance and tolerance but hating and rejecting everyone who isn't exactly like them."-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match
27. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel
By: Matthew Daub
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and … read more
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28. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
29. The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl
By: Marra B. Gad
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir, The Color of Love is an unforgettabl… read more
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- memoir
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30. Concealed
By: Esther Amini
4.36
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the freewheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Pers… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
31. The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
By: Casey Mulligan Walsh
4.98
Format: 323 pages, ebook
Casey needs a family: the joys and sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba… read more
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