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  • The Sages Speak

    Rabbinic Wisdom and Jewish Values

    Organized by subject, this is a collection of teachings and quotations from the Talmud, the Bible, rabbinical commentaries, and ancient and modern religious and secular writings. Writers include Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hebrew poet Hayim Bialik, Cynthia Ozick, Emile Zola, Albert Einstein, Bruno Bettelheim, Gertrude Stein, Irving Howe, and Maimonides. In commentary that explains why ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Community Resilience Reader

    Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

    The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that’s effective ... Read more

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  • Selected Misdemeanors

    Essays at the Mercy of the Reader

    Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayThe essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    This Land Is Their Land

    The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

    Narrated by William Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 55 min

    * Pre-order David J. Silverman's next audiobook, The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States. Coming February 2026. *Bloomsbury presents This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman, read by William Roberts.Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

    One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

    Now a Lifetime Television original movie airing April 2008 with Sally Pressman, star of Army Wives.In this powerful memoir, a woman learns to value herself—as a whole person rather than as a sexual object. Sue William Silverman tells of her roller-coaster life of sex and self-destructive behavior. Finally, addicted to danger itself, she seeks the help of a trusted therapist to discover what love ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

    Series series
    Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them. From age four to eighteen, Sue William Silverman was repeatedly sexually abused by her father, an influential government official and successful banker. Through her eyes, we see an outwardly normal family built on a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Fearless Confessions

    A Writer's Guide to Memoir

    Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both ... Read more

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  • How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

    Series series American Lives
    2021 Clara Johnson Award from Jane's Stories Press Foundation2020 Gold Winner for Autobiography & Memoir in the Foreword INDIESMany are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Acetylene Torch Songs

    Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

    Silver Medal for the 2024 IPPY AwardFinalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in ReferenceFinalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Self-HelpAt times writers—from the unpublished to jaded lifers—need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that spark for memoirists and essayists seeking mentor-based instruction and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Pat Boone Fan Club

    My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

    Series series American Lives
    Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman’s own confusing and dangerous home, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • If the Girl Never Learns: Poems

    You are The Girl, and The Girl is a Badass.From the opening lines, it's clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged—which is another way to say she's a survivor. If the Girl Never Learns moves from the personal to the mythic to the apocalyptic, because The Girl would do anything, even go to hell, to save her soul. So, she resists, takes action to overturn society's suffocating ideal of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andean Archaeology I

    Variations in Sociopolitical Organization

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real ... Read more

    $143.09 USD