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The Cure for Dreaming

by Cat Winters

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Olivia Mead is a headstrong, independent girl—a suffragist—in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It’s 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia’s father, concerned that she’s headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her. But the hypnotist...

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Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding

by Lynn Darling

Published: 2014-01-07

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling’s powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods.When her college-bound daughter leaves home,...

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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

by Russell Shorto

Published: 2014-08-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its lega...

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Art of a Jewish Woman: The True Story of How a Penniless Holocaust Escapee Became an Influential Modern Art Connoisseur (formerly titled Felice's Worlds)

by Henry Massie

Published: 2013-11-19

Kindle Edition: 220 pages

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First she escaped the Holocaust and the poverty of the shtetl. After that, she moved in many worlds. And in every one she made her mark. "Henry Massie never blinks as he creates an astonishing chronicle of a life in diaspora. Only a son could capture this passionate spirit, who escaped ...

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Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation (Published in Association with the Jewish Museum, New York S)

by Emily D. Bilski, Emily Braun

Published: 2005-04-11

Hardcover: 280 pages

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From their debut in Berlin in the 1780s to their emergence in 1930s California, Jewish women’s salons served as welcoming havens where all classes and creeds could openly debate art, music, literature, and politics. This fascinating book is the first to explore the history of these salon...

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My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (The Modern Jewish Experience)

by Puah Rakovsky

Published: 2003-09-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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"... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read[s] like a novel." —Russian ReviewIn this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland ...

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Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life (Jewish Lives)

by Dorothy Gallagher

Published: 2014-01-28

Hardcover: 184 pages

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Glamorous, talented, audacious—Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children’s Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America’s first rank of dramatists, a positi...

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A Rather Unusual Romance

by Stevie Turner

Published: 2014-10-31

Kindle Edition: 184 pages

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Erin Mason, divorced and with two teenage sons, finds her world starts to fall apart when she undergoes what is termed a ‘life event’, and is diagnosed with cancer. Not too far away somebody else, Alan Beaumont, is also suffering a similar fate. Their paths slowly come together in this inspiring...

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Liberty or Death (The Soldier Chronicles) (Volume 1)

by Mr David Cook

Published: 2014-04-26

Paperback: 118 pages

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It is May, 1798, and Ireland is a country at war. One hundred thousand peasants have risen up against the Crown to the tales of men, women and children butchered as traitors. It is whispered that the feared and despised ghosts of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army have returned seeking bloodshed, and...

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That God's Work Be Displayed: What I Saw After I Lost My Sight

by John Erickson

Published: 2013-12-12

Paperback: 194 pages

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In the fall of 1972, John Erickson was 16 years old, and things were not going well. It was his ninth emergency visit to a hospital in the last four years, and he lay unconscious after a seizure at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. The doctors didn’t know why their efforts continued to fail,...