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  • The Fall of the House of Herzl

    by David Zax ...
    The founder of Zionism spent his life fighting for a homeland for his people. His orphaned children spent their lives searching for a home of their own. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing What Galileo Saw

    by David Zax ...
    Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei looked into space and changed our view of the universe. Heres award-winning journalist David Zax on how Galileo used the telescope to change our world view. From that ugly old cylinder, he writes, came the profound idea that we are part of something much larger. ... Read more

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    Reports from a Haunted Present

    by Dara Horn ...
    **Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and PracticeFinalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.**Renowned and ... Read more

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  • 14 Fun Facts About Black Holes: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #122

    Series Book 122 - 15-Minute Books
    TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.But what actually is a black hole and what do they do ... Read more

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  • How to Fight Anti-Semitism

    by Bari Weiss ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Antifa Comic Book

    100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements

    by Gord Hill ...
    The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the acclaimed author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the ... Read more

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  • 14 Fun Facts About Stars: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #131

    Series Book 131 - 15-Minute Books
    We see stars in the night sky as pretty, twinkling objects, but what exactly are they?A lot of the information we find out about stars, helps us understand other objects; pulsars, quasars, galaxies – even the origin of our universe. Here are some fun facts about stars.Do stars twinkle?What are stars made of?Do we know more about the inside of stars or the inside of Earth?Do stars have a life cycle ... Read more

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  • Survivor Café

    The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAn “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events—“a powerful book” (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer).As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century’s most monumental events—the Holocaust, Hiroshima, ... Read more

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  • The Girl from Human Street

    Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

    by Roger Cohen ...
    An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle ... Read more

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  • 14 Fun Facts About Comets: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #128

    Series Book 128 - 15-Minute Books
    Comets often streak across the night sky. They are fascinating flashes of light, but how much do we really know about them? Here are some things that scientists do know.Find out:What the name comet means.How comets are named.When the earliest comets were recorded.How scientists predict when a comet will return.What a comet's tail is made of.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children ... Read more

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  • Pogrom

    Kishinev and the Tilt of History

    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History)Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the East Hampton StarShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History PrizeSeparating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the ... Read more

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  • Isaac Newton

    Illustrated by Boris Kulikov ...
    Series series Giants of Science
    What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity.Yet Newton was so small-minded that he set out to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. Here is a compelling portrait of Newton, contradictions ... Read more

    $6.99 USD