From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories
By: Fradel Stock
4.15
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies From the Jewish Prov…
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1. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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2. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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4. The World to Come
By: Dara Horn
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thie… read more
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5. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
6. The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
By: Susan Cooper
4.00
Format: 98 pages,
"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; w… read more
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7. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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8. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
9. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
10. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- fiction
11. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
12. 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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"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
13. 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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- fiction
"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
14. Kissing Kosher
By: Jean Meltzer
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love… Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
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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- fiction
- jewish
16. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- fiction
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
17. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
18. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
20. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
21. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
22. When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
By: Ken Krimstein
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Fall "Best R… read more
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- judaism
- jewish
"I decided to write down everything, to tell everything, because with my friends I can't talk about it at all. And because I believe that something should come out of so much suffering, I've written t…"-Ken Krimstein, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
23. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
By: Maureen Ryan
3.88
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more
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24. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- fiction
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
25. The Golem of Brooklyn
By: Adam Mansbach
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more
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26. 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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27. Songs for the Brokenhearted
By: Ayelet Tsabari
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better li… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
28. From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories
By: Fradel Stock
4.15
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies From the Jewish Prov… read more
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- judaism
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29. Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
By: Blume Lempel
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studie… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
"Life, my dear, is a garden full of all kinds of plants,' Mrs. Zagretti said, 'People, too, are plants that must be cultivated if they are to reach their highest potential."-Blume Lempel, Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
30. On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
By: Yenta Mash
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash … read more
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- fiction
- jewish
31. Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
By: Miriam Karpilove
3.78
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Gi… read more
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