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1,001 Questions and Answers About Judaismby David C. GrossISBN 0385111371 (0-385-11137-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Accidentby Elie Wiesel, Anne BorchardtISBN 0374523118 (0-374-52311-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Accident'Book summary:In this modern classic, a young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a speeding taxi. Is it an accident, or has a tormented past driven Eliezer, a German death camp survivor, to attempt suicide? Torn between choosing life and death, he must come to grips with the catastrophe that befell him, his family, his people. Written by a Holocaust survivor. [via]
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Amos Vol. 24A : A New Translationby Francis I. Andersen, David N. FreedmanISBN 0385007736 (0-385-00773-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amos Vol. 24A : A New Translation'Book summary:The life and mission of Amos the shepherd and prophet have always fascinated students of the Old Testament. This rancher-farmer from Tekoa, summoned dramatically by Yahweh to prophesy to Israel under the kingship of Jeroboam II (eighth century B.C.E.) about the corruption, injustice, and religious insincerity of his time, has intrigued scholars for centuries. Was Amos' message one of judgment and retribution only, or also of redemption?
Noted scholars Francis I. Andersen and David Noel Freedman, authors of the critically acclaimed Hosea, team up to examine and explain this critical segment of the Bible. Using new insights and modern methods, the authors interpret the text clearly, enthusiastically, and with startling perception. Readers will gain a new understanding of the historical, literary, and religious dimensions of the book of Amos. [via]More editions of Amos Vol. 24A : A New Translation:
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Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testamentby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380010321 (0-380-01032-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Avengersby Rich CohenISBN 0375705295 (0-375-70529-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Book of Daniel : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Louis F. Hartman, Alexander A. Di LellaISBN 0385013221 (0-385-01322-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Daniel : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary'Book summary:The Anchor Bible series offers new, book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha, with commentary. This volume on the Book of Daniel has been prepared by two distinguished biblical scholars from the faculty of the Catholic University of America: Alexander A. Di Lella, Professor of Old Testament, and the late Louis F. Hartman, Professor of Semitic Languages.
The Book of Daniel was written as resistance literature, to strengthen and console loyal Jews of the second century B.C. who had to endure religious, economic, and social oppression at the hands of Antiochus I. The inspiring stories in which Daniel and his companions Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego survive the ordeals of the lions' den and the fiery furnace dramatize for believers of all time the ultimate test of faith--the willingness to risk one's life for one's beliefs.
The Book of Daniel also includes the famous incident of "the handwriting on the wall" and recounts the four vivid dream-visions or apocalypses which, through symbols and signs, offered interpretations of history and predictions of future deliverance.
Louis F. Hartman and Alexander A. Di Lella have revealed the profound religious and human dimensions of the Daniel stories. They present Daniel as a colorful and dramatic hero unique in biblical literature--an enduring symbol of hope and salvation for all men and women of faith who must suffer for their beliefs. [via]More editions of The Book of Daniel : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary:
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The Book Thiefby Markus ZusakISBN 0375831002 (0-375-83100-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Thief'Book summary:Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusaks groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she cant resistbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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Chronicles IIby Jacob MyersISBN 0385037570 (0-385-03757-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A Conspiracy of Paperby David LissISBN 0375502920 (0-375-50292-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Conspiracy of Paper'Book summary:A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss's ambitious first novel, A Conspiracy of Paper, the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver's father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn't quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn't give the idea much credence:
I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.
But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father's unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior's death and that of Weaver's father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London's financial markets.Liss seems right at home in the world he's created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver's Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity. A Conspiracy of Paper weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0375432302 (0-375-43230-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Daniel, Esther and Jeremiah : The Additionsby Carey A. MooreISBN 0385047029 (0-385-04702-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Destruction of the European Jewsby Raul HilbergISBN 0374938881 (0-374-93888-1)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Deuteronomy 1-11by Moshe WeinfeldISBN 0385175930 (0-385-17593-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2by Victor Klemperer, Michael ChalmersISBN 0375502408 (0-375-50240-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2'Book summary:The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learnedby Kenneth C. DavisISBN 0380728397 (0-380-72839-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dreamland : Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great Warby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0375409149 (0-375-40914-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Esdras I and IIby Jacob M. MyersISBN 0385004265 (0-385-00426-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Estherby Carey A. Moore, Rosalind MooreISBN 0385004729 (0-385-00472-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Exodus 1-18: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentaryby William H. ProppISBN 0385148046 (0-385-14804-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Ezra Nehemiaby Jacob M. MyersISBN 0385046952 (0-385-04695-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Family Markowitzby Allegra GoodmanISBN 0374529396 (0-374-52939-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Markowitz'Book summary:The stories in this collection are so linked and consistent, the book is almost a novel. It tells the comic and endearing history of a family of archetypal American Jews. Rose, the finicky and irrational Jewish mother, becomes increasingly dependent on Percodan and on her two sons, Ed, a hard-headed academic, and Henry, an arty dilettante. Ed's writer wife Sara suffers through teaching creative writing at the local Jewish Community Center. Ed painfully endures an interfaith weekend with crushingly banal Christian ecumenists, even though both he and Sara are completely irreligious. Meanwhile their daughter Miriam alarms them by rediscovering Judaism. Goodman, whose stories appear regularly in the New Yorker, delights the reader with recognition of the funny in the familiar. [via]
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The Family Orchardby Nomi EveISBN 0375724575 (0-375-72457-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Orchard'Book summary:A magical, multigenerational saga encompassing two hundred years in the life of an unforgettable family a book of love stories, ill tated and blessed, sensuous as a dream, unfolding in a time and a place where fable is more potent than fact, where the imagination is more powerful than any truth, where the line between myth and history has all but dissolved Jerusalem, from the early years of the nineteenth century to the present [via]
From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish Identityby Marthe RobertISBN 0385000642 (0-385-00064-2)
Hardcover, Anchor Books
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Gilgameshby David FerryISBN 0374523835 (0-374-52383-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh'Book summary:This is one of the more recent translations of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, about the hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia whose adventures--searching for eternal life, surviving a worldwide deluge in an ark filled with animals, to name a couple--make up one of oldest pieces of literature on record. David Ferry's version attempts to provide the most readable rendering of the epic, artfully finding a poetic voice that's particularly accessible to the modern ear, as well as working to smooth over the gaps in the poem caused by the fragmentary record of the original clay tablets. [via]
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Habakkuk: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentaryby Francis I. AndersenISBN 0385083963 (0-385-08396-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Haggai, Zechariah 1-8by Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. MeyersISBN 0385144822 (0-385-14482-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Hajby Leon UrisISBN 0385034598 (0-385-03459-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haj'Book summary:Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine--this is the time of The Haj. [via]
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A History Of The Jews In The Modern Worldby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0375414975 (0-375-41497-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Hoseaby Francis I. Andersen, David Noel FreedmanISBN 038500768X (0-385-00768-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hosea'Book summary:"Hosea, Volume 24" in the "Anchor Bible" series of new, book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha is a collaboration by world-renowned scholars Francis I. Andersen and David Noel Freedman.The authors' treatment of "Hosea" consists of: Introduction - a review and rethinking of Hosea research that offers a fascinating interpretation of the prophet's life and work; Translation - based on one of the oldest of prophetic writings, this new translation of "Hosea" is unique in so far as the literary integrity of the text is scrupulously adhered to; Notes - for both scholar and general reader there is cultural and linguistic information which sets each passage within the sociohistoric context of eighth century B.C.E. (Hebrew vocabulary, syntax, and poetic language are examined in an effort to confront one of the most obscure sections of biblical literature); and, Illustrations - eight pages of photographs will take the reader through the ancient days of the Middle Bronze Age into the wonders of the Iron Age in which Hosea lived. [via]
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I Chroniclesby Jacob M. Myers, Anchor Bible StaffISBN 0385012594 (0-385-01259-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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I Kings : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Mordechai CoganISBN 0385029926 (0-385-02992-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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I Maccabeesby Jonathan GoldsteinISBN 0385085338 (0-385-08533-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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I Will Bear Witnessby Martin Chalmers, Victor KlempererISBN 0375756973 (0-375-75697-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Will Bear Witness'Book summary:The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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II Maccabees Vol. 41A : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Jonathan A. GoldsteinISBN 0385048645 (0-385-04864-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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In Search of Zarathustra : The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the Worldby Paul KriwaczekISBN 0375415289 (0-375-41528-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophyby William BarrettISBN 0385031386 (0-385-03138-6)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy'Book summary:Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. [via]
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Isaiahby John L. McKenzieISBN 0385053908 (0-385-05390-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Jeremiahby John BrightISBN 0385008236 (0-385-00823-6)
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The Jerusalem BibleISBN 0385011407 (0-385-01140-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This BookBook summary:When it comes to Bible translations, readability and reliability are what count; and on both counts, the original JERUSALEM BIBLE stands alone. A product of the age of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), THE JERUSALEM BIBLE (published in 1966) was the first truly modern Bible for Catholics. Using definitive original language texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical scholars of L'École Biblique in Jerusalem produced a meticulously accurate, wonderfully readable French translation of the complete canon of Scripture (La Bible de Jérusalem). From this French original came the English edition, edited by renowned Bible scholar Alexander Jones.
For all the people around the world who are discovering or revisiting the mysteries contained in the Scriptures, only a clear, understandable Bible translation will do. With language as exquisite but more modern than the King James Version, THE JERUSALEM BIBLE is the one they can trust. [via] -
Jerusalem Bibleby Alexander JonesISBN 0385011563 (0-385-01156-3)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jerusalem Bible'Book summary:When it comes to Bible translations, readability and reliability are what count; and on both counts, the original JERUSALEM BIBLE stands alone. A product of the age of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), THE JERUSALEM BIBLE (published in 1966) was the first truly modern Bible for Catholics. Using definitive original language texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical scholars of L'École Biblique in Jerusalem produced a meticulously accurate, wonderfully readable French translation of the complete canon of Scripture (La Bible de Jérusalem). From this French original came the English edition, edited by renowned Bible scholar Alexander Jones.
For all the people around the world who are discovering or revisiting the mysteries contained in the Scriptures, only a clear, understandable Bible translation will do. With language as exquisite but more modern than the King James Version, THE JERUSALEM BIBLE is the one they can trust.
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Joshuaby Robert G. Boling, Ernest WrightISBN 0385000340 (0-385-00034-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Judgesby Robert G. BolingISBN 038501029X (0-385-01029-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Judithby Carey A. Moore, Rosalind MooreISBN 0385144245 (0-385-14424-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Kings IIby Mordechai CoganISBN 038502388X (0-385-02388-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kings II'Book summary:II Kings (Volume 11 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible) is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great prophecies of Elijah and Elisha, and of the legendary conquerors of not only the Jews, but the whole of the Middle East--Sennacherib, Hazael, Tiglath-pileser III, Nebuchadnezzar, and Shalmaneser.
The book of II Kings was written with a dual purpose. It provided a chronological history of the divided kingdoms of Israel, from the time of division, through the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and the final exile of the Jews into Babylonia. It also served as a reminder to all Israelite monarchs that their loyalty to the God of Israel, as worshipped in Jerusalem, determined the course of history. In his telling of the story, the book's author emphasized to his contemporaries and future generations that in order to avert the calamities that befell the Chosen People (their conquest by nonbelievers, the destruction of Jerusalem, and their ignominious exile), they would have to avoid a repetition of the misdeeds of the past. If they remained loyal to their God, their God would remain loyal to them.
Complete with maps, charts, photographs, and extra-biblical documentation, II Kings presents an important and illuminating new translation which explores a tumultuous epoch of change that forever affected theological and world history [via]More editions of Kings II:
Lamentationsby Delbert R. HillersISBN 0385007388 (0-385-00738-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Lost in Americaby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0385157568 (0-385-15756-8)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Love and Exileby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0385140606 (0-385-14060-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Madam Secretaryby Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0375432159 (0-375-43215-9)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madam Secretary'Book summary:Madeleine Albright is one of the most deeply admired women of our time, and the first female in our nation's history to achieve the title Secretary of State. For eight years during the first and second Clinton terms, she was privy to some of the most fascinating and controversial episodes in memory. Now, in this outspoken memoir, Madeleine Albright shares her personal story, and provides an insider's look into the White House and world affairs during an era of unprecedented change. From a difficult start as a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, Albright went on to become a tireless advocate of civil and women's rights, and pursued a life in politics that ultimately landed her in the upper stratosphere of diplomacy and policy-making in her adopted country. Refreshingly candid, Madam Secretary brings to life the world leaders Albright worked with intimately in her years of service, and the battles she fought to prove her worth in a male-dominated arena. We also get to know Albright, the private woman: her life raising three daughters, the painful breakup of her marriage, and the discovery late in life of her own Jewish background and that her grandparents had died in concentration [via]
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The Manorby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374520801 (0-374-52080-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Meshugahby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374529094 (0-374-52909-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Micah : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Francis I. Andersen, David Noel FreedmanISBN 0385084021 (0-385-08402-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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More Stories from My Father's Courtby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Curt LeviantISBN 0374527989 (0-374-52798-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Stories from My Father's Court'Book summary:A delightful addition to the cherished autobiographical work of the Nobel Laureate[via]
A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi.
The twenty-seven stories gathered here show this world as it appeared to a young boy. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a bygone world.More editions of More Stories from My Father's Court:
More Wandering Starsby Jack DannISBN 0385170726 (0-385-17072-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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My Grandmother's Storiesby Adele GerasISBN 0375922857 (0-375-92285-7)
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My Grandmother's Stories : A Collection of Jewish Folk Talesby Adele Geras, Anita LobelISBN 0375822852 (0-375-82285-2)
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The New Standard Jewish Encyclopediaby Geoffrey Wigoder, Cecil RothISBN 0385125194 (0-385-12519-4)
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New Testament Historyby Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0385025335 (0-385-02533-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Testament History'Book summary:This book recounts the Roman and Jewish context of New Testament times...the lives of John and Jesus, and the history of the first two generations of the Church. [via]
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Numbers 1 to 20 : A New Transaltionby Baruch LevineISBN 0385156510 (0-385-15651-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Numbers 1 to 20 : A New Transaltion'Book summary:Baruch A. Levine has written a masterful study of the first half of the Book of Numbers for the Anchor Bible Commentaries. The Book of Numbers--from the numbering or census of the people in the opening chapters--is a much-neglected part of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which constitutes the heart of Holy Scriptures for Jews, while also forming an integral part of the Bible for Christians.
The Book of Numbers is an account of the young would-be nation of Israel's wanderings in the Wilderness after the magnificent event at Sinai, where Moses speaks with God face-to-face and receives the Ten Commandments. Throughout this time of trial, the people complain, sensing the contrast between the relative security of slavery in Egypt, from which they have fled, and the precarious insecurity of freedom in the Wilderness.
Numbers is a book filled with power struggles, raising questions about who speaks for God, along with personal and communal crises of faith and rumors of revolt. Yet despite the people's blindness and rebelliousness, God remains faithful to the promises made to Israel's ancestors--Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and now Moses--and remains at Israel's side, guiding her slowly but surely to the Promised Land. In all, Numbers describes a terrific journey of discipline and dependence upon the God who liberated the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt: a journey to strengthen Israel for the challenge of a new and wondrous land and the battles she wifl have to fight in order to claim and keep it.
Despite the importance of The Book of Numbers, its rich collection of stories is not easily assimilated, even by the most conscientious of readers. As such, it requires the help of an expert guide to thread one's way through this mixture of interesting episodes and anecdotes on the one hand, and the many lists, prescriptive rules, ritual regulations, and repeated admonitions on the other. Professor Levine shows us the way into this difficult and sometimes forbidding book of the Bible, and we can be confident of our guide, and secure in the knowledge that the one who led us into the thicket will lead us out again into a broad and fair land. [via]More editions of Numbers 1 to 20 : A New Transaltion:
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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testamentsby James H. CharlesworthISBN 0385096305 (0-385-09630-5)
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On Being a Christianby Hans KungISBN 0385027125 (0-385-02712-5)
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One for the Road: An Outback Adventureby Tony HorwitzISBN 0375706135 (0-375-70613-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One for the Road: An Outback Adventure'Book summary:After a year working an office job in Sydney, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Tony Horwitz finds himself longing for the open road. Spurred on by a colleague's "Aren't you a little too old for this game?" he sets off on a 7,000-mile adventure around Australia, hitchhiking to Alice Springs and beyond: through desolate mining towns, sheep stations, countless bush pubs (do not attempt to match his beer intake), and the forbidding, Martianesque emptinesses of Australian deserts. On the way he encounters hostile, friendly, and downright strange natives; jumps a train; survives a harrowing accident; and uses his relentless sense of humor to face down a cyclone:
I prop my pack against the fence as a windbreak. Huddled behind it, I pull on two pairs of pants, three shirts, four pairs of socks--my entire wardrobe in fact, except for the dung-covered shirt and five pairs of elastic-waisted underwear. No room for dignity here, at the center of a cyclone. I put the jockey shorts over my head, one pair at a time, fitting the fly over my nose to let a little oxygen in.
A wily melange of tenderness, eye-popping lunacy, and occasional white-knuckled fear, One for the Road will leave you yearning to have the never-ending-blue Oz sky above, the flavor of that red, red dust in your mouth, and a tinnie to wash it all down with. --Jhana Bach [via]More editions of One for the Road: An Outback Adventure:
Passionsby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374529116 (0-374-52911-6)
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Pearlby Mary GordonISBN 037542315X (0-375-42315-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pearl'Book summary:Without preamble, Mary Gordon takes the reader straight to the heart of the matter in Pearl. On Christmas night, in 1998, Maria Meyers gets a call from the State Department. Maria, a New York liberal, keeps the illusion of control of her surroundings, and the news she gets is confusing, annoying, and frightening. Confusing because she doesn't understand why Pearl, 20 years old and Maria's only child, has done what she has done, annoying because there has been no forewarning, and frightening because Pearl might die. Maria is definitely not in control here, a condition that makes her vastly uncomfortable. The caller tells Maria that Pearl has chained herself to the flagpole at the American Embassy in Dublin, where she has gone to study the Irish language. Her action is the culmination of six weeks of starvation. She is very ill, dehydrated, and near death. She has left three letters on the sidewalk: one meant for the media, one for her mother, and one for their dearest and oldest family friend, Joseph Kasperman.
The media letter says "...I am giving my life in witness to the death of Stephen Donegan and to the goodness and importance of his life. Second, to show my support, my admiration for the Peace Agreement, and those who have worked toward it. Third, to mark the human will to harm." Pearl believes that, due to a careless remark said in anger, she is responsible for Stephen's death. She has been consorting with members of the Real IRA, those hardliners who will make no accommodation to stop the violence. Pearl breaks with them over an act which places Stephen, a hapless, slow-witted boy, in the hands of the law. Her primary philosophical concern is her conviction that the "human will to harm," is pernicious and pervasive. She wants to opt out of any further possibility of harming anyone.
On this convoluted thread, Mary Gordon marches forward with a stunning exploration of revisited themes, such as Catholic-Jewish heritage, trouble with fathers, and the nature of personal responsibility. A stylistic note: Gordon employs an omniscient narrator to make comments, in the nature of "Gentle Reader" asides. It is sometimes irritating, but a small price to pay for Gordon's careful deconstruction of everyone's thoughts and actions as Maria and Joseph arrive in Dublin, where Maria confronts Mick, the American angel of the Real IRA, Finbar, Pearl's lover, and Pearl's doctors. She is used to directing traffic and is thwarted on all sides by people whose agendas are vastly different from hers. Joseph is a shadowy figure, more acted upon than acting, and when he does decide to stand up he makes a ludicrous error. Gordon has forged an entirely satisfactory and plausible ending for a precarious set of circumstances. The book is thought-provoking, asking and inspiring the reader to take a position on issues as old as time and as new as the headlines. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Proverbs and Ecclesiastesby R. B. ScottISBN 0385021771 (0-385-02177-1)
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Psalms I, 1-50by Mitchell DahoodISBN 0385027656 (0-385-02765-6)
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Psalms II, 51-100by Mitchell DahoodISBN 0385037597 (0-385-03759-7)
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Psalms IIIby Mitchell DahoodISBN 0385006071 (0-385-00607-1)
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A Religious History of the American Peopleby Sydney E. AhlstromISBN 0385111649 (0-385-11164-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Religious History of the American People'Book summary:This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Centurys choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.Praise for the earlier edition:An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language. B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World[via]
The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition. Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor. America
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Ruthby Edward F. Campbell, William Foxwell Albright, David Noel FreedmanISBN 0385053169 (0-385-05316-9)
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Samuel I Vol. 8 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr.ISBN 0385067607 (0-385-06760-7)
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Samuel IIby McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr.ISBN 0385068085 (0-385-06808-5)
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Seize the Dayby Saul BellowISBN 0380016494 (0-380-01649-4)
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Stalkerby Faye KellermanISBN 0380817691 (0-380-81769-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalker'Book summary:Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams [via]"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
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The Story of the Jews : A 4,000 Year Adventureby Stanley MackISBN 0375501304 (0-375-50130-4)
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The Talmud : The Steinsaltz Editionby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0375502475 (0-375-50247-5)
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Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrinby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0375501827 (0-375-50182-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrin'Book summary:The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes Judaism's great compendium of tradition, law, and legend accessible in modern English for the first time.
Accepted as the authoritative basis for all subsequent codifications of Jewish law and practice, the multivolume Babylonian Talmud has been studied constantly by Jewish communities throughout the world since its completion in the sixth century.
Yet, for most people, the complexity of the Talmud's Hebrew and Aramaic text is an impenetrable barrier to its riches. Furthermore, the Talmud's unique system of logic and argumentation often baffles even experienced readers.
The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes it possible at last for everyone to read the Talmud, because it's more than just a translation. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz becomes your personal instructor, guiding you through the intricate paths of Talmudic logic and thought. His extensive introductions and commentaries clarify the text by providing all the background information needed to follow it, while his illustrated marginal notes supply fascinating insight into daily life in Talmudic times.
Tractate Sanhedrin, Part III, covers chapters four through six of the tractate, and continues the discussion of judicial procedures in civil and criminal cases. It addresses the rules governing the cross- examination of witnesses and explores cases in which witnesses contradict one another. Also addressed are cases in which one may act in self-defense. It examines instances in which a judge must compensate a claimant for his own mistakes, and describes the seating arrangement of the Sanhedrin. Several well-known and beloved aggadic passages also appear in this section. [via]More editions of Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrin:
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The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0375825479 (0-375-82547-9)
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To Begin Again : The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength and Faith in Difficult Timesby Naomi LevyISBN 0375400036 (0-375-40003-6)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0375507949 (0-375-50794-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Union Squareby Meredith TaxISBN 0380709066 (0-380-70906-6)
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A Vanished Worldby Roman Vishniac, Elie WieselISBN 0374520232 (0-374-52023-2)
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Voices Within the Arkby Howard SchwartzISBN 0380761092 (0-380-76109-2)
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White Teeth: A Novelby Zadie SmithISBN 0375703861 (0-375-70386-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel. Epic and intimate, hilarious and poignant, White Teeth is the story of two North London families--one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal. Pals since they served together in World War II, Archie and Samad are a decidedly unlikely pair. Plodding Archie is typical in every way until he marries Clara, a beautiful, toothless Jamaican woman half his age, and the couple have a daughter named Irie (the Jamaican word for "no problem"). Samad--devoutly Muslim, hopelessly "foreign"--weds the feisty and always suspicious Alsana in a prearranged union. They have twin sons named Millat and Magid, one a pot-smoking punk-cum-militant Muslim and the other an insufferable science nerd. The riotous and tortured histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth of cultural identity, history, and hope.Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a liberal public school, a sleek science institute. A winning debut in every respect, White Teeth marks the arrival of a wondrously talented writer who takes on the big themes--faith, race, gender, history, and culture--and triumphs. [via]
Wide Awakeby David LevithanISBN 0375834664 (0-375-83466-4)
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Wisdom of Ben Siraby Patrick W. Skehan, Alexander A. Di LellaISBN 0385135173 (0-385-13517-3)
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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army, 1941-1945by Vasily Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich Grossman, Luba Vinogradova, Antony BeevorISBN 0375424075 (0-375-42407-5)
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When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Armys newspaper. A Writer at War based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered raw material for his articles depicts the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. It also includes some of the earliest reportage on the Holocaust. In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.
Historian Antony Beevor has taken Grossmans raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions at once unflinching and sensitive we have ever had of what he called the ruthless truth of war. [via]More editions of A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army, 1941-1945:
Yosl Rakover Talks to Godby Zvi Kolitz, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375708405 (0-375-70840-5)
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Zechariah 9-14: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentaryby Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. MeyersISBN 0385144830 (0-385-14483-0)
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