Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
10 best books like Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Stephen G. Bloom): Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood, Walking, The Dante Club, Civil Disobedience, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, The Rise of David Levinsky, The Natural, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America
No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online....
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 1596058811 |
The philosophies of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)—hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profound thinker on humanity's happiness—have greatly influenced the American character, and his writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world continue to be of profound import...
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Book Review
I read this nearly twenty years ago in a college course. I recently found my notes and listed a few below, so this isn’t a typical review you’ve seen from me.
My reaction to this work is pretty complicated. It had some thought-invoking ideas, but it was boring from a readability...
| Author | Judith Plaskow |
| ISBN | 0060666846 |
The subject is Jewish feminism, but the book's relevance doesn't end there. Not only does it deal with specifically "feminist" and "Jewish" concerns, it also gets into subjects including hermeneutics, the workings of community, the influence of language in our religious lives, and how one approaches...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
| Author | Rich Cohen |
| ISBN | 0375705295 |
The true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made new lives.
In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged...
| Author | Abraham Cahan |
| ISBN | 0140186875 |
I read this one a long time ago and was really drawn in by the pathos and the humor, and, of course, the journey. Cahan refuses to make this a simple story about good and evil. Levinsky falls as he rises, and rises as he falls, and perhaps there is something almost universally true about the human predicament...
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374502005 |
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition
Introduction by Kevin Baker
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
| Author | Lindsay C. Gibson |
| ISBN | 1626251703 |
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels...
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
| Author | Ken Wilber |
| ISBN | 1570627428 |
My dear cousin lent me her copy of this book a few months back and at the time told me it was one of her all-time favorite books -- now after completing it myself -- I completely understand why.
This has to be one of the most emotionally touching and spiritually rewarding books I have ever read. As well...
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
| Author | Stacy Horn |
| ISBN | 1616205768 |
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of...
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0688163513 |
Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated...
Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation
| Author | Michael Lerner |
| ISBN | 0060976756 |
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| Author | Drew Magary |
| ISBN | 0399563857 |
From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family
When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania,...
How the States Got Their Shapes
| Author | Mark Stein |
| ISBN | 0061431389 |
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?
We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of Maryland(!)—have become so engrained that our map might...
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Updated)
| Author | Gordon Thomas |
| ISBN | 0312339135 |
Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination ever ventured. Gordon Thomas's 1999 publication of Gideon's Spies, resulting from closed-door interviews...
| Author | Drew Magary |
| ISBN | 0143119826 |
John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."
Old age can never kill him now.
The only problem is, everything else still can...
Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality,...
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
| Author | Nicholas Dawidoff |
| ISBN | 0679762892 |
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff...
