Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
By: Julia Watts Belser
4.47
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disabil…
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1. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale o… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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3. 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
4. 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
- theology
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
6. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
7. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
8. The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By: Lisa Miller
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s meditation or a walk in nature, reading a sacred text or saying a prayer, there are ma… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
9. 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
10. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
11. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
By: Yossi Klein Halevi
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentato… read more
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- jewish
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood th…"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"We are trapped, you and I, in a seemingly hopeless cycle. Not a "cycle of violence" -- a lazy formulation that tells us nothing about why our conflict exists, let alone how to end it. Instead, we're …"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
12. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
By: Emily Matchar
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more
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- audiobook
- judaism
- jewish
13. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
14. Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
By: Janina Fisher
4.53
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understan… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
By: Danya Ruttenberg
4.46
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm--from personal trans… read more
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- jewish
- theology
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
"Before we even understand what repentance is, we’re instructed to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused."-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
"[W]e all know that sometimes people mean well but cause harm nonetheless—out of ignorance, out of carelessness, out of deeply ingrained ways of thinking they haven't examined, out of an emotional rea…"-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
16. The Beauty of Dusk
By: Frank Bruni
4.06
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
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17. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
By: Andrew L. Whitehead
4.20
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more
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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
18. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- disability
- audiobook
19. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
20. Big Gay Wedding
By: Byron Lane
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big … read more
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- audiobook
21. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- audiobook
22. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
By: Abby Stein
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leade… read more
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- jewish
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
By: Shaul Magid
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is … read more
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- judaism
- nonfiction
- religion
- jewish
25. God Is Here: Reimagining the Divine
By: Toba Spitzer
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a transformative exploration of the idea of God, offering new paths t… read more
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- theology
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
26. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- disability studies
27. A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction… read more
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- jewish
28. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
By: Sara Glass
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life
By: Barry H. Block
4.59
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
This mussar-based commentary is a vital resource for Torah study, offering a thoughtful analysis of… read more
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- judaism
- jewish
30. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
By: David S. Tatel
4.48
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years d… read more
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- disability
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31. Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
By: Julia Watts Belser
4.47
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disabil… read more
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- jewish
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