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Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art by Gruhler Paul
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $37.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942134794Author Gruhler PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Mandel Vilar PressPublisher... -
Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life Amy Schwartz 9781942134671
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary questions.Should we edit our children's genes? Are there things that can't be forgiven?... -
Small Bibles for Bad Times: Selected Poems and Prose of Liliane Atlan by Atlan Liliane
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.95"Only a life lived on the edge such as Liliane Atlan's could have given rise to these highly original poems, at once manic and tragic, electrifying and poignant." Hoyt Rogers, writer and translator... -
Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel by Pedro Cabiya 9781942134114
Booksplease Price: $36.20Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original... -
When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World by Diego Moldes 9781942134398
RRP: $50.97Booksplease Price: $36.29In April 1911, Prague artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered nightly at the Café Louvre, an intellectual center where music was played and high-level discussions were held. Many of the... -
I Am My Mother's Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love Dara Kurtz 9781942134657
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68For most of her adult life, Dara Kurtz kept a Ziploc bag of letters written by her mother who passed away from cancer when she was twenty-eight years old. The bag also included other letters written... -
Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert Boyers 9781942134886
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.37This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner... -
The Deadening: A Novel by Jim Beane 9781942134947
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $29.59The shelling stopped on Nov. 11, 1918, sending millions of American soldiers back to the United States to pick up where they had left off before joining or being drafted into the war effort.Doughboys... -
The Jewish Underground of Samarkand: How Faith Defied Soviet Rule by Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman 9781942134923
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $33.16A portal into the perseverance of Jewish culture in the face of attempts to destroy it.To answer his son's question: what was it like growing up in Samarkand? Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman wrote and... -
Maria the Monarch by Homero Aridjis 9781942134336
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11"I highly recommend this extraordinary trip to the kingdom of the monarch."-Dr. Lincoln Brower, Sweet Briar College, the world's leading expert on the Monarch butterfly Each year, in the Mexican... -
The Hot Summer of 68 by 9781942134718
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26It is 1968, the Cold War is raging, and the United States is bogged down fighting the "Communists" in Vietnam. The Berlin Wall is the symbol of a world cut in half, a punitive wall, isolating the... -
Asylum, a Memoir of Family Secrets by 9781942134770
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman's fascinating saga, "Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets," recounts the search for... -
My Real Name Is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942134510Author Tara Lynn MasihFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mandel Vilar PressPublisher... -
Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood by Rachel Biale
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children's... -
The Number on Your Forearm is Blue Like Your Eyes: A Memoir Eva Umlauf 9781942134961
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.37Beautifully translated by Shelley Frisch, The Number on Your Forearm Is Blue Like Your Eyes is a poignant and riveting memoir that sets a family story in historical context and brings psychological... -
Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Anna Salton Eisen
Booksplease Price: $32.28As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a... -
Rewriting Illness by Elizabeth Benedict
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.95By turns somber and funny but above all provocative, Elizabeth Benedict's Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own is a most unconventional memoir. With wisdom, self-effacing wit, and the story-telling... -
Sons of Survivors, Making Peace with Inherited Trauma by Aron Hirt-Manheimer 9781942134138
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $39.61The authors of this dual memoir did not live through the trauma of the Holocaust; they inherited it. Whether survivor-parents revealed what they endured or erected barriers of silence, the horrors... -
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo 9780872867710
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.66Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most... -
Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener 9781632062239
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.95Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong... -
Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $26.54Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong...