The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
By: Robert Mnookin
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A renowned Harvard Law School professor examines the challenges to American Jewish identity in the …
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1. Who Wrote the Bible?
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more
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"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?
2. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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3. The Invitation
By: Lucy Foley
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An evocative love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of charismatic stars who all ha… read more
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4. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
By: Patrick Lencioni
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
"Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life." "In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it wo… read more
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- nonfiction
5. How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America
By: Karen Brodkin Sacks
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom it… read more
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- nonfiction
- judaism
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- jewish
6. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Zach Kleinman , Pete Carroll
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Low-Carb Fraud
By: Howard Jacobson , T. Colin Campbell
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Ca… read more
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8. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
By: Graham Robb
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra inco… read more
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9. Kabbalah For Dummies
By: Arthur Kurzweil
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"Kabbalah For Dummies" presents a balanced perspective of Kabbalah as an "umbrella" for a complex a… read more
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11. All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir
By: Shulem Deen
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one … read more
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12. 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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13. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
14. 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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- judaica
"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
15. 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
16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
17. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
18. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- history
19. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- nonfiction
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
20. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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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- jewish
- judaism
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- judaica
22. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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23. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By: Soraya Chemaly
4.35
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more
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- nonfiction
"Rage became a layer of my skin."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
24. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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25. 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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- religion
- 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
26. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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- history
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
27. Paul: The Pagans' Apostle
By: Paula Fredriksen
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today’s leading historians of antiqu… read more
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- judaism
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28. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
By: Jeremy Dauber
3.69
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of J… read more
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- jewish
- judaism
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- judaica
29. Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945
By: Götz Aly
4.13
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first … read more
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- judaism
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30. The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
By: Robert Mnookin
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A renowned Harvard Law School professor examines the challenges to American Jewish identity in the … read more
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31. How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
By: Ilan Stavans
3.72
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—r… read more
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- jewish
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