Spiegel Grau imprint: 193 books
The Third Wave
A Volunteer Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Alison Thompson, a filmmaker living in New York City, was enjoying Christmas with her boyfriend in 2004 when she saw the news reports online: a 9.3 magnitude earthquake had struck the sea near Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami that hit much of southern Asia. As she watched the death toll climb,...
by Ellen Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This new deluxe eBook edition features more than seventy-five additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text, which contain new illustrations and photographs, to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your...
Blueprint for Revolution
How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the world
Blueprint for Revolution will teach you how to
• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’...
The Honored Dead
A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform...
In a Dog's Heart
What Our Dogs Need, Want, and Deserve--and the Gifts We Can Expect in Return
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
What our dogs need to live a good life, and why we must come through for them
Over the two decades she has spent raising and training service dogs for people with disabilities, Jennifer Arnold has come to a unique and profound understanding of the human-dog bond. Though it may seem simple and instinctive,...
The Wonder of Birds
What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planet
Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch...
My Patients and Other Animals
A Veterinarian's Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals—a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experience of loving, healing, and losing our beloved pets, and the many ways they change our lives.
The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary...
Living and Dying in Brick City
Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to...
by Aliza Lavie
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
A beautiful and moving one-of-a-kind collection that draws from a variety of Jewish traditions, through the ages, to commemorate every occasion and every passage in the cycle of life, including:
Special prayers for the Sabbath, holidays, and important dates of the Jewish year
Prayers to mark...
by Stephen Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
*Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha’s teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion?
This is one man’s confession.*
In his classic Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor offered a profound, secular approach to the teachings...
In the Days of Rain
A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A father-daughter story that tells of the author’s experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk
Rebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that...
Born with Wings
The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The dramatic, spiritual memoir of a prominent Muslim woman working to empower women and girls across the world—for readers of Malala Yousafzai and Azar Nafisi.
Raised in a progressive Muslim family in the shadows of the Himalayan mountains, where she attended a Catholic girls’ school, Daisy...
The Grammar of God
A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
For readers of Bruce Feiler’s Walking the Bible and Kathleen Norris’s The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation.
Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**In this “wonderfully rich” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.
WINNER OF: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD • THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE...