Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
By: Natan Sharansky
4.62
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a…
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
By: Daniel Gordis
4.31
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more
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- history
- israel
- jewish
- politics
- nonfiction
3. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
By: James Shapiro
4.06
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 aff… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
4. Skinny Dip
By: Carl Hiaasen
5.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beauti… read more
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5. A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. A… read more
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- nonfiction
- jewish
6. The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)
By: Daniel Silva
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemie… read more
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7. The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok
3.89
Format: 384 pages,
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more
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8. Enemies: A Love Story
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Ya… read more
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9. Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul
By: Daniel Gordis
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel's underclass, the first Isr… read more
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10. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
11. House of Spies (Gabriel Allon #17)
By: Daniel Silva
3.88
Format: 383 pages, ebook
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva's runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2… read more
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12. People of the Book
By: Geraldine Brooks
3.00
Format: 96 pages,
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more
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13. The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
By: Matti Friedman
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A true-life thriller about the journey of one of the world's most precious manuscripts--the 10th ce… read more
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14. The Ambassador
By: Matt Rees , None
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
You will sup with the Devil, Dan. You will do everything the Devil requires. Whatever it takes, you… read more
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15. 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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- jewish
"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
16. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
17. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
"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
18. Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thrillerof art… read more
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"Maybe attorneys attend schools where grades are based on how many word you put out."-Jonathan Kellerman, Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)
19. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
20. 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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21. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- jewish
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
22. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
By: Helena Merriman
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
23. 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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- israel
- jewish
24. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
25. 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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- history
- israel
- jewish
- politics
- nonfiction
26. The Watergate Girl
By: Jill Wine-Banks
4.09
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
27. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
28. 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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- history
- biography
- israel
- jewish
- politics
- nonfiction
"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
29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
30. Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
By: Natan Sharansky
4.62
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a… read more
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- biography
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- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
31. The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands
By: Amir Tibon
4.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their… read more
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- israel
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