Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (Jewish Lives)
By: Jeremy Dauber
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentie…
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1. Why the Jews?
By: Dennis Prager , Joseph Telushkin
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism , a compelling discussi… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
By: Allen Shawn
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
A fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as cond… read more
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- biography
3. Avid Reader: A Life
By: Robert Gottlieb
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Hardcover
A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbi… read more
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4. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
6. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
7. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
9. City of Laughter
By: Temim Fruchter
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more
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- audiobook
10. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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- audiobook
11. Nora Ephron: A Biography
By: Kristin Marguerite Doidge
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism a… read more
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- nonfiction
- humor
- biography
- audiobook
12. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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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- audiobook
"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. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
16. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
By: Mel Brooks
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more
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- biography
- film
- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
17. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles
By: Peter Brown
3.53
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
19. Entrances and Exits
By: Michael Richards
4.12
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more
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- nonfiction
- humor
- biography
- audiobook
20. Once We Were Home
By: Jennifer Rosner
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more
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- audiobook
21. We're All in This Together . . .: So Make Some Room
By: Tom Papa
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work best in books… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. The Testament of Loki (Loki #2)
By: Joanne M. Harris
3.60
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated.… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Marriage Box
By: Corie Adjmi
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she start… read more
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24. Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1)
By: Amanda Flower
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in thi… read more
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- audiobook
"The best part of having a pet is having someone to think of other than yourself, having someone who depends on you."-Amanda Flower, Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1)
25. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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- humor
- biography
- audiobook
26. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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- audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
28. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
By: Isabel Kershner
4.09
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Jewish Lives)
By: Alberto Manguel
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of… read more
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- biography
30. Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (Jewish Lives)
By: Jeremy Dauber
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentie… read more
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- biography
- film
- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials (Title Not in Series)
By: Jennifer Caplan
3.38
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
