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The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World

by Robert H. Mnookin

Published: 2018-11-27

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel? Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? The situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical. Je...

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The Arsonist: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Sue Miller

Published: 2014-06-24

Kindle Edition: 321 pages

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From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator’s Wife, a superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town.Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after work...

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Times Square

by Rich Walls

Published: 2018-03-07

Paperback: 100 pages

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"A charming portrait of modern relationships and a touching tribute to Manhattan." - Kirkus Reviews An unexpected scavenger hunt forces a woman to confront her past and present loves in New York City. Featuring a sparkling Manhattan lit late at night, Times Square is the novella which pinp...

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Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust

by Jack J Hersch

Published: 2018-10-30

Kindle Edition: 256 pages

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In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen’s nearby sub-camp, Gusen...

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Sirius: A Novel About the Little Dog Who Almost Changed History

by Jonathan Crown

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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An international bestseller—“an elegant, charming, and heartwarming fable...one part Zelig, one part Siddhartha, and one part Rin Tin Tin” (Vogue)—about an extraordinary fox terrier who helps his Jewish family escape from Nazi Germany, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contr...

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Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

by Jacqueline Jones Royster

Published: 2016-05-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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Ida B. Wells was an African American woman who achieved national and international fame as a journalist, public speaker, and community activist at the turn of the twentieth century. In this new edition Jacqueline Jones Royster sheds light on the specific events, such as the yellow fever ep...

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The Alienist: A Novel (Dr. Lazlo Kreizler Book 1)

by Caleb Carr

Published: 2006-10-24

Kindle Edition: 608 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES“A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the se...

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The Unenviable: Stories of Psychological Trauma and Hardship among Immigrants and their Families

by David G. Mirich Ph.D.

Published: 2014-06-14

Paperback: 510 pages

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What would you do if you had to leave your country or else be killed? What if you came to America to be with the one you love, only to find out that the person you thought was your significant other turned out to be your worst nightmare? These are, sadly, a few of the many terrible circumstances that...

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Black Girl/White Girl

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened" college—and Genna, daughter of a prominent...

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Just One More

by Jennifer Hansen Rolli

Published: 2014-05-29

Hardcover: 40 pages

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Sometimes Ruby needsjust one more minute of sleep,one more thingy for her hair,one more push on the swing,and one more scoop on her cone,(and one more,  and one more, and one more . . .)until one more is justtoo much.Maybe it’s time for just one?If you know a someone like Ruby,Just One...