Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature
By: Max K. Strassfeld
4.42
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we ca…
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1. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, deeply moving and illuminating re… read more
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3. Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
By: None
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction While the Jewish mainstream still a… read more
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4. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
By: Anne Fausto-Sterling
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity bio… read more
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5. 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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- jewish
6. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.03
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more
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- queer
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"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
7. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
By: Sarah Hurwitz
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connec… read more
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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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- judaism
- nonfiction
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"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. 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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- jewish
"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
10. 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
"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
11. In Limbo
By: Deb J.J. Lee
4.18
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more
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12. 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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- nonfiction
13. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
14. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
By: Priya Parker
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more
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"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
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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- nonfiction
- religion
- jewish
"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. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
By: Megan Phelps-Roper
4.16
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more
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"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
17. 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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18. 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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19. Harlem Sunset (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #2)
By: Nekesa Afia
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Harlem, 1927 With the horrors of the summer and the Girl Killer behind her, Louise Lloyd is e… read more
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20. Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature
By: Max K. Strassfeld
4.42
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
21. Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (ASTERISK)
By: Marquis Bey
4.29
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisg… read more
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- queer
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