Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
10 best books like Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (Hella Winston): The Chosen, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood, All Who Go Do Not Return, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, I am Forbidden
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449213447 |
Danny Saunders en Reuven Malter groeien in de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw op in een gemeenschap van chassidische joden in New York. Danny is orthodox opgevoed en voorbestemd zijn vader op te volgen als rabbijn. Het milieu waarin zijn vriend Reuven opgroeit, is veel moderner. Steeds meer wordt Danny...
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
The experience of being ill can...
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
| Author | Deborah Feldman |
| ISBN | 1439187010 |
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox...
| Author | Shulem Deen |
| ISBN | 1555977057 |
2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner
A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one man's struggles with faith, family, and community
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects...
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
| Author | Izzeldin Abuelaish |
| ISBN | 0802779174 |
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
| Author | Michael David Lukas |
| ISBN | 0399181164 |
In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.
Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing...
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
| Author | Elissa Wall |
| ISBN | 0061628018 |
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking,...
| Author | Anouk Markovits |
| ISBN | 0307984737 |
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I...
| Author | Stephanie Wellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0814751970 |
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
| Author | Jonas Beiler |
| ISBN | 1416562982 |
An insider’s look into the events surrounding the nickel mines amish schoolhouse shootings—told by the counselor who was called upon to come to the farmhouse where the families met on that fateful day.
On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts, a local milk-tank truck driver, bound and shot...
| Author | Marlene Winell |
| ISBN | 1879237512 |
Here goes: On June 19, 2011, I stopped believing in God. I had been a Christian for seventeen years, and one evening I just started contemplating the placebo effect ("If my faith were real, but God were not, could I say with certainty that my life would be any different, or would I just have different interpretations...
| Author | Alan Rabinowitz |
| ISBN | 1597261297 |
Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect nature’s great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things, weathering treacherous terrain, plane crashes, and...
| Author | Harold Pinter |
| ISBN | 0802151140 |
In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past.In The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation from the past when a blind man...
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
| Author | Eve Harris |
| ISBN | 1908737433 |
19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger. The rabbi's wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife, but Rivka has her own questions to answer. Soon buried secrets, fear and sexual...
| Author | Naomi Ragen |
| ISBN | 1902881508 |
A modern classic of Jewish-American literature, a remarkable journey into the shrouded world of Chassidic women. Naomi Ragen's first novel has been called "one of the too most important Jewish books." Abraham Ha-Levi is a wealthy American businessman and the last male survivor of an important Orthodox...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
| Author | Katrina Kenison |
| ISBN | 1455507237 |
"No longer indispensable, no longer assured of our old carefully crafted identities, no longer beautiful in the way we were at twenty or thirty or forty, we are hungry and searching nonetheless."
From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day, this intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery,...
| Author | Janne Teller |
| ISBN | 8432209570 |
Una noche de invierno, mientras la nieve cae sobre la ciudad, un editor revisa una novela que está a punto de mandar a la imprenta. Se trata de un libro de enorme venta de un autor importante. Cuando una antigua amiga aparece en su oficina para contarle que el libro está basado en un hecho real del que fue...
| Author | Rafael Bernal |
| ISBN | 9682708958 |
Esta novela aparecio en 1969 y se ha convertido en un clasico que inauguró el género de la novela negra mexicana. Narrada con un estilo agilísimo, lleno de humor negro y amargo y de la violencia sórdida que se esconde tras la fachada del Mexico moderno, El complot mongol sigue los avatares de un típico...
El TODO es lo contrario de la NADA. La Nada es un lugar aterrador. Un lugar sin sentido, sin conexión con el verdadero ser humano, sin vida autentica, sin amor real. Un lugar del que es posible huir.
El Todo es un lugar donde todas las cosas tienen consistencia, un espacio de paz y de armonía donde...
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
| Author | Robin Karr-Morse |
| ISBN | 0871137348 |
This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research over the past decade, and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was published in 1997, it was lauded...
Before You Wake: Life Lessons from a Father to His Children
"A must read."---RedState
From Erick Erickson, "arguably the most powerful conservative in America today" (The Atlantic), an inspiring book about life's enduring values, based on a viral essay he wrote for his children after he and his wife both faced grave medical situations.
In...
The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life
| Author | Rick Ankiel |
| ISBN | 1478920068 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch--not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but...
God Distorted: How Your Earthly Father Affects Your Perception of God and Why It Matters
God is not a bigger version of your earthly father.
When you hear the word “father,” do you think of someone who is loving…or angry? Someone who is pleased with you…or constantly disappointed? Someone who is always available…or someone who is too busy, preoccupied, or distant?...
Think Forward to Thrive: How to Use the Mind's Power of Anticipation to Transcend Your Past and Transform Your Life
| Author | Jennice Vilhauer |
| ISBN | 0988835290 |
Anticipating a positive future is the key to well-being and mental health. Yet when many people think of the future they experience anxiety, depression, fear, self-doubt, and feelings of being overwhelmed. Most people, unaware of how to change the future, are trapped in a cycle of recreating their...
To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age
The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful
Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith
As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant...
| Author | Ngaire Thomas |
| ISBN | 1869417305 |
A gripping and revealing first-hand account of one family's experience in the Exclusive Brethren community in New Zealand.
Ngaire Thomas grew up, married and raised her children within the Exclusive Brethren church in the Palmerston North area. In plain, non-judgemental style, Ngaire...
Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****!
| Author | Gill Sims |
| ISBN | 0008301255 |
I’m wondering how many more f*cking ‘phases’ I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society? It seems like people have been telling me ‘it’s just a phase!’ for the last fifteen bloody years. Not sleeping through the night is ‘just a phase.’...
