Non-smoking home. Some wear and tear from use but items are all present and useable. 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

World Languages

Complete Edition

Living Language: Hebrew

Kathryn Lasky

Non-smoking house. Cover and pages in great shape. Gold sprayed edges.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544

As a new edition to The Royal Diaries series, this factual tale offers young readers an insight to the life and times of this famous royal prior to her days on the throne as the Queen of England.

Elizabeth I

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Carolyn Meyer

Non-smoking home. Cover damaged at edges. Library labels on cover and spine.

The Last Grand Duchess: Russia 1914

This journal-style account offers young readers a look at the life and turbulant times of this young royal and the Romanov family. 125,000 first printing.

Anastasia

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Sandra Cisneros

Cover a bit bent, a few pages dog eared. Some pen underlining in text.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness

The House on Mango Street

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Blue sprayed edges B&N edition. Non-smoking home. Never been read.

Sea of Tranquility

Steve Stern

Non-smoking home. Clean and undamaged dust jacket. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Award-winning novelist Steve Stern's exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.


The Frozen Rabbi

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Anita Diamant

Non-smoking home. Spine intact. Pages unmarked, cover in great shape.

A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends

The definitive guide to the conversion process--for a new generation of Jews-by-choice.

However you choose to fashion your personal journey to Judaism, Anita Diamant is the perfect guide. In this comprehensive, wide-ranging book you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, and a Hebrew name; how to discuss your decision with your birth family; what happens at the mikveh (ritual bath) and at the hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritual family and create a new Jewish identity; and how you and your children can maintain bonds to your family of origin. Also included are suggestions for readings, prayers, and poems that can personalize conversion rituals; a glossary of terms; and a short history of conversion in Judaism. This revised edition contains a completely updated chapter on how the mikveh is used in the conversion process and an updated list of online resources and books for further reading.

Whether you are just beginning to consider converting or have already started down the path to Judaism, here is everything you will need to make the process joyous, sacred, and meaningful.

Choosing a Jewish Life

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Abigail Pogrebin

Pages yellowed with normal age, discount mark on bottom pages from previous store. Non-smoking home.

Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish

Sixty-two of the most accomplished Jews in America speak intimately--most for the first time--about how they feel about being Jewish. In unusually candid interviews conducted by former 60 Minutes producer Abigail Pogrebin, celebrities ranging from Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Larry King to Mike Nichols, reveal how resonant, crucial or incidental being Jewish is in their lives. The connections they have to their Jewish heritage range from hours in synagogue to bagels and lox; but every person speaks to the weight and pride of their Jewish history, the burdens and pleasures of observance, the moments they''ve felt most Jewish (or not). This book of vivid, personal conversations uncovers how being Jewish fits into a public life, and also how the author''s evolving religious identity was changed by what she heard.

· Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, Gene Wilder, Joan Rivers, and Leonard Nimoy talk about their startling encounters with anti-Semitism.
· Kenneth Cole, Eliot Spitzer, and Ronald Perelman explore the challenges of intermarriage.
· Mike Wallace, Richard Dreyfuss, and Ruth Reichl express attitudes toward Israel that vary from unquestioning loyalty to complicated ambivalence.
· William Kristol scoffs at the notion that Jewish values are incompatible with Conservative politics.
· Alan Dershowitz, raised Orthodox, talks about why he gave up morning prayer.
· Shawn Green describes the pressure that comes with being baseball''s Jewish star.
· Natalie Portman questions the ostentatious bat mitzvahs of her hometown.
· Tony Kushner explains how being Jewish prepared him for being gay.
· Leon Wieseltier throws down the gauntlet to Jews who haven''t taken the trouble to study Judaism.
These are just a few key moments from many poignant, often surprising, conversations with public figures whom most of us thought we already knew.

"When my mother got her nose job, she wanted me to get one, too. She said I would be happier."--Dustin Hoffman


"It''s a heritage to be proud of. And then, too, it''s something that you can''t escape because the world won''t let you; so it''s a good thing you can be proud of it."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg


"My wife [Kate Capshaw] chose to do a full conversion before we were married in 1991, and she married me as a Jew. I think that, more than anything else, brought me back to Judaism."--Steven Spielberg


"As someone who was born in Israel, you''re put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake."--Natalie Portman


"Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you''re not handsome and you''re not athletic and you''re not rich, there''s still one last hope with girls, which is being funny."--Mike Nichols


"I felt not only this enormous pride at being a Jew; I felt this enormous void at not being a better Jew."--Ronald O. Perelman


"American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like."--Leon Wieseltier


"I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different."--Sarah Jessica Parker


"I''ve always rebelled a little when people say, ''My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.'' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too."--William Kristol


"There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told."--William Shatner


"''Jew bastard'' was something I heard a lot."--Leonard Nimoy.


"I always liked shiksas."--Larry King


"It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant."--Jason Alexander


"Yom Kippur is something I do alone, with nobody else, because I believe that my relationship with God is mine and mine only."--Diane von Furstenberg

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