Ceremony & Celebration: Introduction to the Holidays
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, become a day of judgement? How does Yom Kippur …
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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.97
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more
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"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
2. Maimonides: Life and Thought
By: Moshe Halbertal
4.47
Format: 400 pages, ebook
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philoso… read more
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3. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
4. Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
By: Yehudah Mirsky
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of th… read more
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5. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
6. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more
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7. The Book of Job
By: Anonymous , Stephen Mitchell
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The theme of "The Book of Job" is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it… read more
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8. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
9. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more
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11. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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4.06
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The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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12. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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13. To the End of the Land
By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen
4.01
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—… read more
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"A soldier who looked as if he were around fifteen, with soft, smooth cheeks, lay next to Ilan with his eyes closed, curled up and mumbling quickly, devotedly. Ilan touched his leg and asked him to sa…"-David Grossman, To the End of the Land
14. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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15. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
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16. Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
By: David Whyte
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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17. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
18. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. Davita's Harp
By: Chaim Potok
4.00
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For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sa… read more
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20. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
21. 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
22. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
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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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"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
23. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
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4.37
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24. The Future
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The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
25. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
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26. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
By: Micah Goodman
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27. Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
By: Matti Friedman
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28. More Than I Love My Life
By: David Grossman
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From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffer… read more
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29. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
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"We're still parents, even when our children are no longer here."-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
"It isn't just the best things that come to an end, but also the worst."-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
"It was the right moment. It always is when something beautiful happens."-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
"We need to possess joy in abundance before we can bestow it on somebody else."-Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
30. Ceremony & Celebration: Introduction to the Holidays
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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31. Questioning Belief: Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt
By: Raphael Zarum
4.24
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We all have questions about our faith. Often, however, we are given overly simple answers that rema… read more
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