The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land
By: Graciela Mochkofsky
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, spar…
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1. The Oppermanns
By: Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Opper… read more
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2. The Memory Chalet
By: Tony Judt
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Memory Chaletis a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experienc… read more
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3. Eat the Buddha
By: Barbara Demick
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more
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4. 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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- audiobook
- judaism
- jewish
5. 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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6. 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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- nonfiction
- jewish
7. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William Jam… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
9. Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs Trilogy)
By: Dan Jones
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The epic sequel to Essex Dogs, continuing the New York Times bestselling historian's trilogy of nov… read more
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10. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
11. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
12. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
13. 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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- audiobook
- judaism
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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
14. 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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- jewish
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
15. American Spy
By: Lauren Wilkinson
3.50
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose b… read more
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- audiobook
"I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage."-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy
"I had the impulse to see you. There was something defeated in his voice and his posture. “I know what you are, and I know I can’t trust you. But I can’t trust anyone. At least you’re beautiful. And w…"-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy
"You’ve likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to share my darker self with other people. The only anger I ever expose to the world is through implication, …"-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy
"After I heard, I switched the radio to music and turned it up as load as it would go and let myself cry...You've likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to …"-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy
16. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
18. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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19. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
By: Kitty Zeldis
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mesmerizing historical novel about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold. … read more
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- audiobook
20. 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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- judaism
- nonfiction
- jewish
21. The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
By: Heather B. Moore
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown in a powerful story about a largely unknown … read more
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"Sometimes the most joyful moments for one person brought on deep pain for another."-Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
22. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
By: James Kirchick
4.17
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair 's “Be… read more
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"Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"Scratch the surface and what do you get?" asked Way Bandy, the two-thousand-dollars-a-day make up artist who "designed" Nancy's face. "More surface."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"The following year, Kramer would put on Just Say No, "a play about a farce" based in the fictional country of New Columbia, wherein everyone call's the president "Daddy", the First Lady is a harridan…"-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team…"-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
23. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
By: Karen Pinchin
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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- history
25. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
By: Mark Whitaker
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” ( The Boston Globe ) to tell … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
28. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the b… read more
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- history
29. The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land
By: Graciela Mochkofsky
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, spar… read more
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- biography
- world history
- jewish
- judaism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
By: Dan Kaufman
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
National bestseller "Masterful." ―Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money The Fall of Wiscon… read more
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- history
