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The Big Jewish Book for Jews
Everything You Need to Know to Be a Really Jewish Jew
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
A hilarious compendium of traditional wisdom, recipes, and lore from the authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane.
Modern Jews have forgotten cherished traditions and become, sadly, all- too assimilated. It's enough to make you meshugeneh. Today's Jews need to relearn the old ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Twenty-eight of today’s top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection.
Includes original essays on:
• Finding (and Divorcing) the Perfect Jewish Man
• Not Calling Your Mother
•...
Bless His Heart
The GRITS Guide to Loving (or Just Living With) Southern Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
From the bestselling author of The GRITS® Guide to Life—a manual for catching, loving, feeding, and living with Southern men
If you’re living and breathing in this country, chances are you know a male GRITS (Gentlemen Raised In The South), and if you’re Southern yourself (or just...
The Babylon Rite
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
What terrible secret has driven the world’s foremost historian of the Knights Templar to kill himself?
Journalist Adam Blackwood has just been handed the story of a lifetime: something is hidden in the famous Knights Templar chapel of Rosslyn that could unlock the greatest mystery of the medieval...
What on Earth?
100 of Our Planet's Most Amazing New Species
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A chameleon so tiny it can fit on your thumbnail? A spider named after David Bowie? A fungus that turns ants into zombies? What on Earth?
What on Earth? is a compendium of the 100 coolest, weirdest, and most intriguing new species of this century as determined by the International Institute...
Bursts
The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author
Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new...
The Sign
The Shroud of Turin and the Birth of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Christianity was born nearly two thousand years ago in ancient Palestine. It has shaped the course of human history. Yet historians still cannot say how it really began. How did a first-century Jew called Jesus manage to spark a new religion?
It is one of the biggest and most profound of all...
Pastors' Wives
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
What’s it like when the man you married is already married to God? asks Pastors’ Wives, an often surprising yet always emotionally true first novel set in a world most of us know only from the outside.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s debut novel Pastors’ Wives follows three women whose lives...
Does a Bear Sh*t in the Woods?
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Serious answers to rhetorical questions--what's not to like?
For those of us who have long wondered where bears go to take care of their business, if the Pope is actually Catholic, or whether anyone is really made of money, Caroline Taggart provides the answers to these and a host of previously...
Winging It
Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
**A "strikingly imaginative" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and heartfelt memoir for every woman on the verge of becoming an empty nester. **
In her critically acclaimed debut memoir, Still Life with Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer shared her recovery from the chaos of divorce: moving with...
Think India
The Rise of the World's Next Great Power and What It Means for Every American
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
“If you don’t read this book, you are going to be left behind. The future of the world will be determined by India.”—Richard D’Aveni, Professor of Strategic Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and author of Hypercompetition
With 1.1 billion residents and the...
Kick the Balls
A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
A "hilarious and utterly irreverent tale" (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coach
Growing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant...
Juicing the Game
Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
In Juicing the Game, award-winning journalist Howard Bryant offers the only big-picture look at the insidious manner in which performance-enhancing drugs infested baseball as the game’s leaders stood idly by, reaping the rewards.
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism with interviews...
Phil Jackson
Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
With eleven championship rings to his name, Phil Jackson is internationally recognized as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NBA. Known as a defensive disrupter and a master fouler during his early days as a New York Knick and later celebrated as the “Zen Master” for his inspirational...