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Feeling Jewish:
Devorah Baum · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish - even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum... |
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The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation
Adele Berlin · Oxford University Press
Pages: 2181
Format: Book
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The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available... |
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Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past
Paul G Bahn · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux... |
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The Girl with the Leica: Based on the true story of the woman behind the name Robert Capa
Helena Janeczek · Europa Editions
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
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WINNER The Strega PrizeGerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political... |
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The Plateau
Maggie Paxson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?
In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds... |
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The Land of Truth: Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein · The Jewish Publication Society
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry,... |
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it.
"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling... |
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The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Martin Mosebach · Plough Publishing House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.
In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad... |
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In His Own Words: Inspirational Reflections on the Life and Wisdom of Billy Graham
Jerry B Jenkins · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate the incredible life, wisdom, and legacy of Billy Graham.Filled with timeless inspiration and beloved stories from the life of America s most celebrated evangelical leader, In His Own Words pays tribute to the life, lessons, and legacy of Billy Graham. Through his classic quotes,... |
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I Think You're Wrong
Sarah Stewart Holland · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting... |
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
Barbara Brown Taylor · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural... |
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Wild way : designing spiritual gardens
Mary Reynolds · Uit Cambridge Ltd.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning garden designer's unique union of a practical how-to book with stories and philosophy
The Garden Awakening is a step-by-step manual to creating a garden in harmony with the life force in the earth, addressing not only what the people in charge of the land... |
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When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Duane R. Bidwell · Beacon Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration into the lives of people who embrace two or more religious traditions, and what this growing community tells us about change in our society
In the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular. But some people regularly... |
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The Last Train to London: A Novel
Meg Waite Clayton · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and The Nightingale, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe - and one brave... |
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives.
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill... |
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