Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
By: Richard Rabinowitz
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lov…
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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. Witness to a Trial (The Whistler, #0.5)
By: John Grisham
3.75
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
A startling and original courtroom drama from New York Times #1 Best Seller John Grisham that is th… read more
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3. Marjorie Morningstar
By: Herman Wouk
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to … read more
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4. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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6. Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)
By: Scott Turow
3.82
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riv… read more
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7. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
10. My Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
4.20
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more
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"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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12. 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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13. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
14. The Lindbergh Nanny
By: Mariah Fredericks
3.78
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notoriou… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. To Die Beautiful
By: Buzzy Jackson
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and timely debut novel by award-winning writer Buzzy Jackson, based on the true story of… read more
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17. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. Perfectly Nice Neighbors
By: Kia Abdullah
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A riveting and timely thriller, Perfectly Nice Neighbors asks the question: When your dream home co… read more
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20. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
By: Judy Batalion
4.07
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… read more
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"The Nazis were particularly brutal with children, who represented the Jewish future. Boys and girls who were not useful for slave labor were some of the first Jews to be killed."-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
"An old Jewish joke went - A man asks whether his town is now in Soviet or Polish territory. He's told, "This year we're in Poland." "Thank goodness!", the man exclaims. "I simply could not take anoth…"-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
21. 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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22. A Castle in Brooklyn
By: Shirley Russak Wachtel
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendsh… read more
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23. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
24. 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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25. 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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26. The Enemy Beside Me
By: Naomi Ragen
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about t… read more
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27. 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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28. The Red Balcony
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine… read more
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29. My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region
By: Alina Adams
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
With his dying breath, Lena's father asks his family a cryptic question: "You couldn't tell, could … read more
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30. Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
By: Richard Rabinowitz
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lov… read more
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31. The 12th Commandment
By: Daniel Torday
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be acce… read more
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