Alfred J. Kolatch

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Why do Jews eat gefilte fish?
Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony?
Why must the chapter of curses in the Torah be read quickly in a low voice?
Why are shrimp and lobster not kosher?
Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur?
Why are some Matzot square while others are round?


If you've ever asked or been asked any of these questions, The Jewish Book of Why has all the answers. In this complete, concise, fascinating, and thoroughly informative guide to Jewish life and tradition, Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch clearly explains both the significance and the origin of nearly every symbol, custom, and practice known to Jewish culture-from Afikomon to Yarmulkes, and from Passover to Purim. Kolatch also dispels many of the prevalent misconceptions and misunderstandings that surround Jewish observance and provides a full and unfettered look at the biblical, historical, and sometimes superstitious reasons and rituals that helped develop Jewish law and custom and make Judaism not just a religion, but a way of life. L'chaim!



The Jewish Book of Why

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Steve Israel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

From Steve Israel, the congressman-turned-novelist who writes "in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen" (The Washington Post), comes a comic tale about the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics.

When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate.

Asabogue's Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town--right in Otis Cogsworth's backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois: political consultants, Super PACs, and celebrities. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, along with an assortment of heavily armed rightwing militias and the national news media. Bucolic Asabogue becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby whose support they need for reelection and the absurdity of requiring that every American with waivers for children under age four carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics.

Former Long Island Congressman, Steve Israel has firsthand knowledge of the cynicism and corruption at the heart of our political system. Big Guns will make you laugh, will make you angry, and will make you think as you flip the pages faster and faster to find out what happens next.

Big Guns

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Sam Silverstein

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Is it possible that we have been trying to live our life to the fullest without having all of the spiritual teachings and beliefs that we need? What if you were given a scroll that contained the 10 precious, but lost, additional commandments that we were intended to live by? Would you live them personally? Would you keep them to yourself? Would you share them?From the beginning of time, we have had sets of beliefs and teachings to help us live our life purposefully and be successful in our endeavors. These have come to us in various forms¿from the Torah and the Bible to speeches like Abraham Lincoln¿s Gettysburg Address and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.¿s ¿I have a Dream¿ speech.Effectively living these spiritual beliefs and teachings will lead to greater happiness, success, fulfillment, achievement of our goals and personal growth. But, what would happen if we only had half of what we needed? What if parts of these teachings were lost through time? Could we fill in the blanks? Could we achieve happiness, success and fulfillment? Could we do it ¿right?¿In this bold, exciting adventure, Sam Silverstein take you on a journey to uncover that, in fact, some of our spiritual beliefs and teachings have been missing. They have been lost!It is time to find this lost wisdom, to study it and to embrace it. Discover the lost commandments for yourself and apply them to your life. What will your life be like when you find what has been lost and you put it into action?

The Lost Commandments

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Michael Reed Gach

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments

With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. With this book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your own home. In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your own hands. This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book you can turn your hands into healing tools--and start feeling good now.

Acupressure's Potent Points

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Joshua Rosenthal

Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness

Presents nutrition information designed to help readers find their own path to healthy eating, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of various popular diets and cleanses, looking at cravings, examining the benefits of home cooking, and including testimonials.

Integrative Nutrition

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Melissa Hartwig Urban

Dallas Hartwig

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom

The best-selling authors of It Starts With Food outline a scientifically based, step-by-step guide to weight loss that explains how to change one's relationship with food for better habits, improved digestion and a stronger immune system. 150,000 first printing.

The Whole30

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Tom Clancy

Peter Telep

Against All Enemies

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Shalom Yoran

A True Story of Escape, Survival and Resistance

Shalom Yoran, born Selim Sznycer, was fourteen years old when the Germans occupied Poland in 1939, and he and his family spent the next three years on the run, trying to escape the Nazi mobile killing units. The Defiant is Shalom Yoran's story, a detailed first-person account of his experiences from 1939 to 1945. In the dense forests and vast swamplands, he and his brother banded together with other Jews in Eastern Poland to fight back against the Nazis. They used guns and explosives, and cunning and ingenuity. They joined non-Jewish partisans, and waged behind-the-lines guerrilla warfare against the Germans. They ambushed convoys, attacked garrisons, derailed trains, all the while hardscrabbling for each day's survival.

The Defiant

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Eli N. Evans

The Jewish Confederate

This biography was acclaimed by The New York Times as "deeply interesting" and "an absorbing account" of the life of the man called "the brains of the Confederacy". 16 pages of illustrations.

Judah P. Benjamin

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Steven Saylor

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Novel of Ancient Rome

Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people. Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city's first thousand years -- from the founding of the city by the ill-fated twins Romulus and Remus, through Rome's astonishing ascent to become the capitol of the most powerful empire in history. Roma recounts the tragedy of the hero-traitor Coriolanus, the capture of the city by the Gauls, the invasion of Hannibal, the bitter political struggles of the patricians and plebeians, and the ultimate death of Rome's republic with the triumph, and assassination, of Julius Caesar. Witnessing this history, and sometimes playing key roles, are the descendents of two of Rome's first families, the Potitius and Pinarius clans: One is the confidant of Romulus. One is born a slave and tempts a Vestal virgin to break her vows. One becomes a mass murderer. And one becomes the heir of Julius Caesar. Linking the generations is a mysterious talisman as ancient as the city itself. Epic in every sense of the word, Roma is a panoramic historical saga and Saylor's finest achievement to date.

Roma

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David Baldacci

Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in the latest Memory Man thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins. He's the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn't changed: He maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago? As he starts digging into the old case, Decker finds a startling connection to a new crime that he may be able to prevent, if only he can put the pieces together quickly enough...

Redemption

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Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Dov Elkins

Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Stories filled with love of family, love of tradition, and love of God celebrate the joys, sorrows, and challenges of being Jewish. Simultaneous.

Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul

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Isa Chandra Moskowitz

Terry Hope Romero

The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

A user-friendly volume by the author of Vegan with a Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World contains 250 recipes that include a variety of gluten-free and tofu-free options for numerous occasions.

Veganomicon

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David G. Myers

Social Studies

Always on top of the latest news in psychology, always tuned in to what’s happening in the classroom, David Myers’ Exploring Psychology is far and away the best-selling brief introduction to psychology. Thoroughly reexamined page by page, line by line, and reference by reference, each new edition is both refreshingly innovative and reassuringly Myers. The new Seventh Edition is both classic Myers and cutting-edge psychology, a rich presentation of ideas and applications featuring hundreds of new research citations, over 40% new photos, and state-of-the-art media and supplements. But its most compelling feature remains the inimitable Myers’ voice—a voice that speaks directly to the curiosities and experiences of all kinds of students. Myers’ writing keeps students reading…and learning.

Exploring Psychology

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Leo Tolstoi

Constance Garnett

Joseph Frank

Lena Lencek

War and Peace

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Ashley Feinstein Gerstley

Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and de-Stress Your Money for Good

Eliminate your money anxiety and create lasting happiness with your financial situation -- not by creating a blistering budget but by living the life you love!

Ashley Feinstein Gerstley was working in financial services when she came to the shocking realization that even she was stressed about her personal finances. Ashley quickly realized that her stress didn't only arise from a lack of knowledge but from the way that we as a society treat and talk (or rather don't talk) about money, so she created a system to turn the entire practice on its head! The 30-Day Money Cleanse, named an Amazon Best Book of 2019 So Far, is a groundbreaking money management book that will set you on the path to financial peace with interactive journaling prompts to hold you accountable and keep you on track.

Through Ashley's system, in just 30 days you will create a healthier, happier relationship with your money by:

 * Eliminating all money stressors
 * Finally knowing where your money is going
 * Breaking those panic-inducing bad money habits
 * Learning the basics of how and where to invest
 * Making a plan that you can not only live with but enjoy

With its cheery and easy-to-follow guide, this is the perfect book on money management for young adults or those looking for an unintimidating guide to managing money. Readers who have tried the 30-Day Money Cleanse have, on average, saved over $950 through the course of the month! Are you ready for financial freedom?

"[An] easy-to-follow guide to creating a healthy personal relationship with money."--Publishers Weekly

The 30-Day Money Cleanse

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Alistair I. M. Rae

A Beginner's Guide

Offers an introduction to quantum physics, discussing its scientific basis, the philosophical problems its presents, practical applications, and potential impact on the future.

Quantum Physics

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Margaret McMullan

One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

Insightful and heart-wrenching, Where the Angels Lived is the true story of a woman's relentless determination to pick up the pieces of her family's fragmented history throughout the Hungarian Holocaust. Straddling memoir and reportage, past and present, this story reminds us all that we can escape a country, but we can never escape history.

Where the Angels Lived

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Annemarie Colbin

Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Balanced Eating: a Cookbook

Annemarie Colbin learned early of the important relationship between food and health: having grown up in a vegetarian household, she spent many years integrating Eastern eating philosophies with Western habits, studying the works of everyone from J.I. Rodale and George Ohsawa to Julia Child and James Beard. With The Natural Gourmet, Colbin takes her ideas about healthful eating a step further with meals that nourish body and soul, and that are elegant enough to serve to company. The recipes included in The Natural Gourmet are the result of a collaborative effort by Colbin and ten students from her Natural Gourmet Cookery School in Manhattan. Each recipe is classified according to the Chinese Theory of the Five Phases, making it easy to combine the various courses to create a balanced, harmonious meal. Among the delicious dishes you'll find are: -- Curried Apple-Squash Bisque -- Mushrooms Stuffed with Garlic and Rosemary -- San Franciscan Pizza -- Lissa's Homemade Black Pepper Pasta with Scallion-Butter Sauce -- Stuffed Cabbage Rolls -- Jalapeno Corn Bread -- Japanese Red Bean Soup -- Lentil Croquettes -- Potato-Cabbage Casserole with Dill -- Black Bean Salad with Corn and Red Pepper -- Pasta Salad with Zucchini and Chick-peas -- Poached Salmon Fillets with Mock Hollandaise -- Almond Flan with Raspberry Sauce -- Ginger Lace Cookies -- Orange Loaf with Walnuts -- and many more All the recipes are in keeping with Colbin's belief that food should be whole, fresh, local, and seasonal -- and, of course, delicious. Much more than simply a cookbook, The Natural Gourmet presents a combination of food preparation and philosophy that come together in a plan for healthful and graceful living.

The Natural Gourmet

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Marc Schneier

Shamsi Ali

Samuel G. Freedman

Bill Clinton

A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims

Sons of Abraham

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Pamela Richards Saeks

Secrets to Successfully Attracting and Retaining Jewish Audiences

A wake-up call for anyone who has a stake in the success of a Jewish congregation or organization...... Because now more than ever, there's a lot riding on getting it right - namely, the future of the Jewish people! That's why this book is different from all other books of its kind." It addresses the problems most Jewish organizations are facing in declining membership, participation and relevancy and holds up a mirror for readers to look into... if they dare!Are you up for the challenge? Because hope is not a strategy and the same old, same old just doesn't cut it anymore. So, if your programs aren't as popular as they once were, your marketing isn't making an impact, your current offerings are falling flat and an old school approach is preventing you from attracting new blood, you've got work to do...... Luckily, Jewish engagement expert Pamela Richards Saeks breaks it down in a refreshingly straightforward, yet entertaining way. She developed a simple, foolproof formula over two decades as the Director of Jewish Innovation and Engagement for a major family foundation. Her method is easy to implement and has proven itself to be the perfect prescription for successfully engaging, or reengaging, Jewish people who feel disaffected, estranged or just downright disinterested.I DARE YA! is packed with smart, clear-cut advice sure to lead to transformative change as it challenges stakeholders to break the vicious cycle that's precluding their organizations from reaching their highest potential. And while the book employs a clever combination of wit and humor to convey its message, it never sugarcoats the truth, and doesn't just tell readers what they want to hear... "If that's what you're after, head to the nearest Jewish mother where you're sure to get all the unconditional love and approval you need," as is stated in the WARNING! at the beginning of the book.By the end readers will have the tools they need to build meaningful relationships with their target audiences and gain a new understanding of how critical it is for their organization to break out of its bubble and meet people on their own turf--and on their own terms to achieve dramatic and lasting increases in Jewish engagement.

I Dare Ya!

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Beth Ann Henning

A Self-Care Guide for Trauma, Stress, and Common Emotional Imbalances

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, but also their emotional source--often without the need for extensive talk therapy or medication. Acupressure stimulates the same points used in acupuncture, but instead of needles, firm finger pressure is used on the surface of the skin. The pressure releases neurochemicals called endorphins that relieve pain. As in acupuncture, specific pressure points are connected with internal organs and energy pathways in the body (called meridians) that regulate the flow of electrical energy to all systems. Unlike acupuncture, acupressure can be used safely by anyone, with only the hands as equipment. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers a comprehensive A-Z guide to emotional ailments (from abandonment to worry and obsessive thinking), with fully-illustrated instruction on dozens of precise acupressure point locations and how to activate them, combined with yogic breathing, stretching, and movement routines. Case histories from the authors' practice further illuminate each condition and the path to emotional balance and healing. Most routines can be used independently for self-care and on-the-spot relief. There are also sections on how to use the techniques to help others, with appropriate safeguards.

Acupressure for Emotional Healing

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Kulreet Chaudhary

Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss

"Kulreet shows readers that weight gain is a result of the body being in a toxic, inflammatory state. If your body is not prepared or 'primed' for weight loss, you will fight an uphill biochemical battle, and the odds of succeeding are slim. So she's reverse engineered our way of eating using simple teas and supplements, so we can stop dieting backward"--

The Prime

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David D. Burns

The Groundbreaking Program with Powerful New Techniques and Step-By-Step Exercises to Overcome Depression, Conquer Anxiety, and Enjoy Greater Intimacy

From the author of the national bestseller Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy comes a guide to mental wellness that helps you get beyond depression and anxiety and make life an exhilarating experience! With his phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. In this bestselling companion, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. • Free yourself from fears, phobias, and panic attacks. • Overcome self-defeating attitudes. • Discover the five secrets of intimate communication. • Put an end to marital conflict. • Conquer procrastination and unleash your potential for success. With everything you need to know about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs and anxiety disorders, such as agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this remarkable guide can show you how to feel good about yourself and the people you care about. You will discover that life can be an exhilarating experience. “A wonderful achievement—the best in its class.”—M. Anthony Bates, clinical psychologist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia “Clear, systematic, forceful.”—Albert Ellis, PhD, president of the Albert Ellis Institute

The Feeling Good Handbook

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Matt’s Wife wants to clean house - book sale!!

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