Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
10 best books like Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living (Naomi Levy): The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, The Jew in the Lotus, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, Improvement, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life, Angel Among Men: Impressions From The Life Of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook Zt''L, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0385721277 |
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating....
| Author | Rodger Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 0060645741 |
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
| Author | Alan Lew |
| ISBN | 0316739081 |
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
| Author | Joan Silber |
| ISBN | 1640091130 |
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect,...
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
| Author | Shani Boianjiu |
| ISBN | 0307955958 |
Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing...
Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet
In Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Dr. Erica Brown takes us on a journey over land and sea, in the footsteps of the Bible’s most recalcitrant prophet. Melding traditional commentators, rabbinic literature, modern biblical scholarship, psychological sensitivity, and artistic imagination, Brown...
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author
In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old.
Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his...
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
| Author | Rory Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0062388428 |
HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN?
The Ogilvy advertising legend—“one of the leading minds in the world of branding” (NPR)—explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas.
"A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life." —Nassim...
Angel Among Men: Impressions From The Life Of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook Zt''L
| Author | Simcha Raz |
| ISBN | 9657108535 |
The brilliance of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook zt"l and the depth of his knowledge were simply otherworldly; his devotion to God was supernal; and his character traits were heavenly. At the same time, however - and perhaps more important - he was an exemplary human being. Although he strove for...
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
| Author | Eric Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0062839276 |
This book fails both as a biography and as a playbook. It's thin on details and the rose-coloured lens of Bill makes it read more like a eulogy.
Evidence would suggest that Bill Campbell was an excellent coach. This book does not capture his playbook in a meaningful way and I learned very little.
It’s...
The Will to Live On: This is Our Heritage
| Author | Herman Wouk |
| ISBN | 0060955627 |
Herman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Morningstar to the global panorama of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. All these powers merge in this major new work of nonfiction, The Will to Live On, an illuminating account...
Chasing the Bear: How Bear Bryant and Nick Saban Made Alabama the Greatest College Football Program of All Time
| Author | Lars Anderson |
| ISBN | 1538716488 |
A dual biography of two coaching legends -- Bear Bryant and Nick Saban -- who built the Alabama Crimson Tide into a true football dynasty.
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0062844938 |
New York Times bestseller
"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...
| Author | Mary Gordon |
| ISBN | 0307377423 |
From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past.
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Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive...
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
| Author | R.A. Dickey |
| ISBN | 0399158154 |
AN INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR OF OVERCOMING EXTRAORDINARY ADVERSITY. THIS ACCLAIMED AND RIVETING STORY IS A FIVE STAR REVIEWED, STATED FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER BY R.A. DICKEY, WINNER OF THE 2012 CY YOUNG AWARD. "AN ASTOUNDING MEMOIR - HAUNTING AND TOUCHING, COURAGEOUS AND WISE" JEREMY SCHAAP, BESTSELLING...
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
| Author | Bruce Henderson |
| ISBN | 0062419099 |
Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied...
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 0062105620 |
Isabel Allende’s latest novel, set in the present day (a new departure for the author), tells the story of a 19-year-old American girl who finds refuge on a remote island off the coast of Chile after falling into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution. There, in the company of a torture survivor, a...
Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics
| Author | Scott Warren |
| ISBN | 1640091270 |
Championing the activism of young people around the world, Generation Citizen is an empowering reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to fight for democracy.
America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement, and...
