Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
10 best books like Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (Michael Wex): One for the Books, The Promise, Davita's Harp, The Gift of Asher Lev, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Tumbling, Black White and Jewish, Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family
| Author | Joe Queenan |
| ISBN | 0670025828 |
One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books
Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400095417 |
“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449911837 |
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449001156 |
"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
THE DETROIT NEWS
Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction....
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
| Author | Aaron Lansky |
| ISBN | 1565125134 |
“Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review
“A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New York Post
“What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque...
Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made
| Author | Virginia DeBerry |
| ISBN | 0312963130 |
From the time they were young, Gayle and Patricia were raised like sisters, as close as two friends could be. But they each had dreams that would take them far away - and far away from each other. Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her world complete. Patricia was the intellectual who...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 1400043603 |
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s...
| Author | Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| ISBN | 0684837242 |
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated...
| Author | Rebecca Walker |
| ISBN | 1573229075 |
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced,...
Two years ago, Stephen J. Dubner wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine called Choosing My Religion. It became one of the most widely discussed articles in the magazine's history. Turbulent Souls, the book that grew out of that article, is an intimate memoir of a man in search of a Jewish heritage...
The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
| Author | Asha Bandele |
| ISBN | 0671021486 |
How did a beautiful, talented college student fall in love with a man serving twenty to life for murder? And why did she marry him? At a time when one in four black men are caught in the web of the criminal justice system, Asha Bandele shatters the myths of prisoners' wives and tells a story of embracing the...
Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know-What
| Author | Maggie Anton |
| ISBN | 0976305062 |
Amusing. Seductive. Stimulating. We're talking about the Talmud? That's right. Take fifty actual Talmudic discussions, mix in pithy sayings (appropriate and inappropriate) by luminaries from Mae West and Amy Schumer to George Washington and Gandhi, add a few cartoons, and voila delighted and...
Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
| Author | Shirlee Taylor Haizlip |
| ISBN | 0671899333 |
The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and her undeniably multiracial heritage, started on a journey of discovery that took her over thousands of miles...
| Author | Tina McElroy Ansa |
| ISBN | 0385476019 |
Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson. Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems and wants...
| Author | Bernice L. McFadden |
| ISBN | 0452282918 |
Buoyed by the lyrical, redemptive voice that distinguished McFadden's acclaimed debut novel, this new book tells the powerful, deeply moving story of one family and the alcoholism and abuse that marked their lives forever. Moving fluidly between the past and the present - between a young girl choosing...
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
| Author | Chris Gethard |
| ISBN | 0306820307 |
Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance.
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
invites...
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Author | Michael Wood |
| ISBN | 0521316928 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called Boom in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982,...
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 0385720386 |
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any...
