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10 best books like The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (Judith Shulevitz): Lioness Rampant, Devil in a Blue Dress, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home, S/Z: An Essay

Lioness Rampant
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0689878575
From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.

Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures...
Devil in a Blue Dress
AuthorWalter Mosley
When a jobless World War II vet named Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and murder. Can Easy find Daphne Monet without becoming another victim? And what secrets is Daphne Monet carrying?

Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like...
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
AuthorPaulo Coelho
ISBN0061122092
From Paulo Coelho, author of the bestselling The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.

Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar...
A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
AuthorKerri Rawson
ISBN1400201756
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?
 
In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she...
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
AuthorSmedley D. Butler
ISBN0922915865
Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage and patriotism could not be doubted. Yet he came to believe that the wars in which he and his men had fought and bled and died were all pre-planned conflicts, designed...
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
AuthorAaron Lansky
ISBN1565125134
“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...
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
AuthorVirginia Eubanks
ISBN1250074312
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets...
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
AuthorFannie Flagg
ISBN0345485602
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant,...
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
AuthorSadia Shepard
A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home

Fascinating and intimate, The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a...
S/Z: An Essay
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521670
I must be honest this was a re-read for me. Barthes's works were pre-eminent when I was navigating my way through university. So encouraged were we to embrace this 'enfant terrible' that I very nearly wrote my PhD on his ideas (in the end it had to be Poe!). Looking back now though there is no doubt that 'The...
All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
AuthorHannah Anderson
ISBN0802418554
“And God saw that it was good…”

Look out over the world today, it seems a far cry from God’s original declaration. Pain, conflict, and uncertainty dominate the headlines. Our daily lives are noisy and chaotic—filled with too much information and too little wisdom. No wonder we often...
Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted
AuthorShannan Martin
ISBN0718077466
“Shannan’s story feels at once familiar and spectacular, ordinary and exceptional. You will discover that at the same time her words make you squirm, you will wish you lived next door to her. You will want her wisdom and you will want her pickles.” —Jen Hatmaker (from the foreword)


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שלום לקנאים
AuthorAmos Oz
הדפים האלה נכתבו גם, ואולי בעיקר, אל קוראים שדעותיהם שונות מדעותיו של עמוס עוז.
הם נכתבו מתוך תחושת דחיפות, מתוך דאגה, ובמיוחד מתוך אמונה בכך שעתיד טוב יותר...
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
AuthorJohn E. Douglas
ISBN0062939505
11 hours, 7 minutes

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed...
Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children
AuthorMarjorie Ingall
We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares...
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
AuthorAllan H. Ropper
ISBN1250034981
"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Dr. Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard...
Exodus: A Memoir
AuthorDeborah Feldman
ISBN0399162771
Full admission: although I marked this book as READ, I did not finish it. I just skipped through the fun parts, of Feldman with her various love interests. The book is actually well written, much more than the first book, and Feldman finally caught on to the modern memoir’s confessional style, so she...
The Pleasure of the Text
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521603
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...
Growing Up Amish
AuthorIra Wagler
ISBN1414339364
Ira Wagler was born in 1961, the ninth of a Canadian Amish couple's eleven children. At seventeen, in the dark of night, he left the religious settlement, but it was only nine years later that he finally left the church for good. His favorite Bible verse is from Psalm 34: "Delight yourself in the Lord, and...
The Slippery Year
AuthorMelanie Gideon
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy enough?”

For anybody who has ever wondered...
The Improbability of Love
AuthorHannah Mary Rothschild
ISBN1101874147
A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world that is also a surprising and wonderful love story.

When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered....
A Beggar in Jerusalem
AuthorElie Wiesel
ISBN0805207783
When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory."This haunting...
Notes from a Young Black Chef
AuthorKwame Onwuachi
ISBN1524732621
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree

By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...
Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home
AuthorJen Pollock Michel
ISBN0830844902
To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome―and a church...
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