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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

Timothy W. Ryback - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse....
 
 
Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

John Inazu - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone, and it doesn't have to be this way. Learning to Disagree reveals the surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build...
 
 
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American

Rachel Gordan - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline...
 
 
The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

Dr Michael Norton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth's Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates the power of small acts - and how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life.. Our lives are filled with...
 
 
Religion in the Classroom: Exploring the Issues

Jonathan M. Golden - ‎Bloomsbury Academic; Annotated edition
Format: Hardcover
 
 
Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India

Siddhartha Deb - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India's descent into authoritarianism.. Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which...
 
 
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Sharon Brous - Avery
Format: Hardcover
From one of our country's most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.. In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?. Sharon...
 
 
The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long

Naama Shefi - Artisan
Format: Hardcover
For many Jews, the meal isthe holiday Collected by the Jewish Food Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish cuisine around the world, the 135 recipes and accompanying stories in The Jewish Holiday Table are a dazzling expression of all the ways we celebrate through what...
 
 
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life: A Zen Monk's Guide to Living Stress-Free One Day at a Time

Jikisai Minami - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover
Free Yourself from Stress with Simple, No-Nonsense Advice from a Zen Monk! Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the things we are supposed to strive for and turns them on their head. The 35 short, thought-provoking essays in this book are divided into four chapters about our sense of self, our hopes...
 
 
Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Catherine Pakaluk - Regnery Gateway
Format: Hardcover
A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women.. In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah's Children is a compelling portrait of these...