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Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South

by Marcie Cohen Ferris

Published: 2010-09-03

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From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with delight and detail how southern Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adapted to the customs, landscape, and racial codes of the A...

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That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South

by Caroline E. Light

Published: 2014-07-04

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“It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,” declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through s...

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Intimacy and Solitude

by Stephanie Dowrick

Published: 1994-04

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A co-founder of the Women's Press in England and a trained psychotherapist explores the paradox of needing to enjoy solitude before one can be truly intimate with another. In this critically acclaimed work, Dowrick moves readers through the realms of solitude, intimacy, and desire, offering spiritual...

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Intimacy & Solitude: How to Give Love and Receive It

by Stephanie Dowrick

Published: 2015-06-01

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The author of Choosing Happiness reveals how in order to meet a desire for rewarding relationships, we must first start with ourselves This book allows us to understand our relationships with others through a deepened and more self-accepting relationship with ourselves. Why do we beha...

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

by Mark Sullivan

Published: 2017-05-01

Paperback: 523 pages

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Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of ...

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America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks

by Ruth Whippman

Published: 2016-10-04

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NAMED ONE OF THE 40 BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY THE NEW YORK POSTA New York Times Editor's Choice pickAre you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder?After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) an...

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See You in the Morning

by Edna L. Uecker

Published: 2016-11-18

Paperback: 162 pages

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-... Mrs. Uecker's care for her daughter with her family's help, and the memoir she has managed in the aftermath, is an inspiration.- --Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of North Dakota; author, Beyond the Bedroom Wall and Words Made Fresh Suddenly, from out of nowhere, came a car. It appeared ...

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The Last Ticket

by Christopher Sharp

Published: 2015-10-13

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All he wanted to do was put bread on the table, but the people he was working for were eating caviar at his expense.

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The Black Book

by James Patterson

Published: 2017-03-27

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today BestsellerThree bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's ...

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Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

by Jim Sheeler

Published: 2008-04-29

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Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he will tell for the last time. Most a...