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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar... |
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes... |
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Hidden History of Walt Disney World
Foxx Nolte - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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Author Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story... |
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The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State
Aime Alley Card - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome. The author tells a story of desire, success and failure - of beating the odds - against the backdrop of a changing America,... |
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No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun
John Stansifer - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.. Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front... |
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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom
Arash Azizi - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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The first major book on the new Iranian revolution. On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway - the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced... |
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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
Richard Slotkin - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.. Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging... |
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic... |
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