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The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist.It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay... |
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Amish Safe House
Debby Giusti - Love Inspired Suspense
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Hiding in Plain SightThe second thrilling Amish Witness Protection novelAfter Julia Bradford's son witnesses a gang shooting, hiding in witness protection on Abraham King's Amish farm is the only hope the Englischer and her children have. Even as danger closes in, Julia is drawn... |
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
R Laurence Moore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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If the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects religious liberty, why doesn't it protect atheists?God occupies our nation's consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal status and have had to fight for their... |
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC - 1492 AD
Simon Schama - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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In this magnificently illustrated cultural history - the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews - Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World... |
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View
Tim Crane - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers... |
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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Christopher Hitchens - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants... |
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott - Riverhead Books
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 in the kitchen,"... |
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The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Martin Mosebach - Plough Publishing House
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 Christian... |
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
GARRY WILLS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join... |
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When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Duane R. Bidwell - Beacon Press
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 societyIn the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular. But some people regularly cross... |
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The Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels
Richard A. Freund - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithunia. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation... |
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The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
Jonathan Sacks - Schocken; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***Dorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and ExperienceAn impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion... |
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The Soul of an American President: The Untold Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Faith
Alan Sears - Baker Books
Format: Hardcover
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While there have been many biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower that focus on his military career or the time of his presidency, none clearly explores the important role faith played both in his personal life and in his public policy. This despite the fact that he is the only US president... |
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Slavery's Long Shadow: Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity
James L. Gorman - Eerdmans
Format: Paperback
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How interactions of race and religion have influenced unity and division in the church At the center of the story of American Christianity lies an integral connection between race relations and Christian unity. Despite claims that Jesus Christ transcends all racial barriers, the most segregated... |
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American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation
Adam Morris - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about "cult" leaders and their messianic power.Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent... |
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Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
Mary M. Lane - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of Hitler's obsession with art, how it fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state, and the fate of the artwork that was hidden, stolen, or destroyed to "cleanse" German culture Nazism ascended not by brute force but by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society... |
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The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World
Gerasimo, Pilar - NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
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Want to be a healthy, happy person in an unhealthy world? Get ready to start breaking some rules. Pilar Gerasimo, founding editor of Experience Life magazine, argues that in an unhealthy society like ours, being a healthy person requires choices and patterns so unconventional, they amount... |
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Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
Robert Roth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller A simple, straightforward exploration of Transcendental Meditation and its benefits from world authority Bob Roth.Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. Ray Dalio and Ellen DeGeneres. Gwyneth Paltrow and Howard Stern. Tom Hanks and Gisele Bndchen. What... |
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Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen
Adeena Sussman - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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"The pages of this book ooze with [Adeena's] passion for the romance and beauty of Israeli cuisine. The recipes are soulful, elemental and stunningly delicious."--from the foreword by Michael SolomonovIn an Israeli cookbook as personal as it is global, Adeena Sussman celebrates... |
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Pamela Nadell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse... |
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Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
Shane Claiborne - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback
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Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history.... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
Jodi Magness - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children -- the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second... |
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God in the Qur'an
Jack Miles - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those... |
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The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
James L. Kugel - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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A world-renowned scholar reveals how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the biblical era made us who we are today A great mystery lies at the heart of the Bible. Early on, people seem to live in a world entirely foreign to our own. God appears to Abraham and Sarah,... |
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Numerology: Dancing the Spirals of Time
Elen Sentier - Moon Books
Format: Paperback
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Numerology: Dancing the Spirals of Time is a book for people interested in how to work with numbers. The ways of working come from the author's experience as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist as well as from her lifelong work as a British shaman. The method involves finding your own way through... |
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Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, comes the new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience. "She was the bravest person I ever met." -- Lale Sokolov on Cilka Klein, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Cilka... |
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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Ben Shapiro - Broadside Books
Format: Book
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America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech,... |
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The Search for Atlantis: A History of Plato's Ideal State
Steve Kershaw PhD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid exploration of the legend of Atlantis and its enduring influence on Western culture - from its origins in antiquity to the modern era. The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatictales fromantiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with themodern imagination.... |
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All This Could Be Yours
Jami Attenberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew? "If I know why he is the way he is then... |
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Eat Clean, Play Dirty: Recipes for a Body and Life You Love
Danielle Duboise - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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"Food should make you feel sexy," say Danielle Duboise and Whitney Tingle, founders of the popular organic nutritional program, Sakara Life. In their debut book, Eat Clean, Play Dirty, the duo delivers delicious recipes and reinvigorating rituals to achieve nutritional harmony,... |
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The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today
JACK WERTHEIMER - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years,... |
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I Think You're Wrong
Sarah Stewart Holland - Thomas Nelson
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 together... |
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The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
Jonathan Sacks - Schocken
Format: Print book
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Impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned, The Great Partnership argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other - and that the world needs both. "Atheism deserves better than the new atheists," states... |
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The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values
Ben Howe - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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Evangelicals are losing the culture war. What if it's their fault?In 2016, writer and filmmaker Ben Howe found himself disillusioned with the religious movement he'd always called home. In the pursuit of electoral victory, many American evangelicals embraced moral relativism and toxic partisanship.... |
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
MICHAEL SHERMER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific... |
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The Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
VICTORIA GLENDINNING - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheavalIn 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women -- even the privileged... |
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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
D.W. Pasulka - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial... |
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Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality
Anthony Aguirre - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order.Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through... |
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The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town
Edward Berenson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling investigation of America's only alleged case of blood libel, and what it reveals about antisemitism in the United States and Europe.On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, aged 4, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds... |
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The Roots of Ireland's Troubles
Robert Stedall - Pen and Sword History
Format: Paperback
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If the objective of colonization should be the establishment of economic benefit, in Ireland it was to enforce order. Settlers were required to usurp the traditional lands of its indigenous population. Their attempts to enforce Protestantism in all its forms onto the dogmatically Catholic... |
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Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
Juan Cole - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as inherently extreme or violent-a narrative that has overshadowed the truth of its roots. In this... |
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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
Michael Brenner - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from... |
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Muhammad: Forty Introductions
MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT - Soft Skull Press
Format: Paperback
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He is one of the most contested and explosive historical figures in the world. Muhammad: Forty Introductions offers a distinct and nuanced take on the life and teachings of Muhammad the prophet, using a traditional genre of Islamic literature called the forty hadiths collection.... |
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The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
Peter Wehner - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late. "Any nation... |
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The Third Daughter: A Novel
Talia Carner - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation... |
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The Story of the Jews Volume 2
Simon Schama - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth centurySimon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish... |
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The Hotel Neversink
Adam OFallon Price - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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A 2020 Edgar Award Winner!"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen Kings Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." -- Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden StateThirty-one years after workers first broke ground,... |
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On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
Gershom Scholem - SCHOCKEN-1969
Format: Paperback
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In On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Gershom Scholem guides the reader through the central themes in the intricate history of the Kabbalah, clarifying the relations between mysticism and established religious authority, the mystics' interpretation of the Torah and their attempts to discover... |
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Crafting Love: Sharing Our Hearts through the Work of Our Hands
Maggie Oman Shannon - Red Wheel Weiser Conari
Format: Paperback
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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done." --Vincent Van GoghAs the future unfolds before us, it seems people are getting busier, more distracted,... |
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