Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
By: Ethan Michaeli
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Guide for the Perplexed
By: Dara Horn
3.72
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and h… read more
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"I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said."-Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed
2. The Seven Good Years
By: Etgar Keret , Miriam Shlesinger , Sondra Silverston , Jessica Cohen , Anthony Berris
4.15
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a master storyteller.The seven years between… read more
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"Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it."-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"The story I had written wasn't the creased, stit-smeared paper now sitting in the bottom of the trash can on the street. That page was just a pipeline through which I could transmit my feelings from …"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconce…"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that cou…"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
3. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
By: Anonymous , Joseph Smith Jr.
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealin… read more
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4. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
By: Adam Hochschild
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanati… read more
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5. God Was Not in the Fire
By: Daniel Gordis
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Rabbi Daniel Gordis, a dynamic new voice on the American Jewish scene, addresses what lies at the h… read more
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6. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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7. 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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- history
- jewish
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8. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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9. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
By: Paul Pringle
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more
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- audiobook
10. 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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"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
11. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
12. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
13. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- israel
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- audiobook
14. The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
By: Christopher Clarey
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis pl… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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17. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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18. Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
By: Daniel Sokatch
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
National Jewish Book Award finalist An essential and accessible introduction to one of the most … read more
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19. The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
By: Dan Senor
4.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since it… read more
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20. 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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21. Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives)
By: Joseph Berger
4.33
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the … read more
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22. Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
By: Michael W. Twitty
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossr… read more
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23. If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
By: Ilana Kurshan
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the wor… read more
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24. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the… read more
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"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Suda…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans h…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
25. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
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26. The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
By: Omer Friedlander
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
he Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense… read more
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27. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
By: Matti Friedman
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espiona… read more
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"You need the instinct of a person who knows how to fit in, to remove the sharp edges and curve into the society." But when he wasn't a spy yet, just a proud youth perceptive enough to notice condesce…"-Matti Friedman, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
28. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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29. 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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30. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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31. Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
By: Ethan Michaeli
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An "illuminating" and "richly descriptive" ( New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary I… read more
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