Daniel Silva

Gabriel Allon #17 — Sticker residue on front cover.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Novel

“One of fiction’s greatest spies,” (Kirkus), Gabriel Allon returns for his seventeenth adventure in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The Black Widow, the last book in the series, was a prescient and timely thriller — called “a sobering, insightful, and multifaceted look at the overwhelming complexities of the seemingly interminable war in the Middle East” (Booklist, starred review). It drew rave reviews from critics and readers. It also introduced a compelling new female spy, destined to make a return in the series. Fans and new readers alike will be drawn in once again by this masterful storyteller at the height of his writerly powers — “Silva is a true genius with his portrait of the Israeli assassin-art restorer facing new, real world complexities” (Politico).

House of Spies

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The arab-israeli conflict 

Lightning out of Israel 

Tommy Welchel

Jody Keck

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

True Stories of Revival: from Israel to Azusa to Today

Author Tommy Welchel is the last living connection to the saints of the Azusa Street revival. In The River of Zion, this spiritual general traces the Holy Spirit's movement from Pentecost to Azusa, and beyond, empowering you to join your prayers to God's ongoing work--for miraculous results!

The River of Zion

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Bernard Lewis

Published 2001, ex-library copy 1st Edition/4th Printing/Dust Jacket

Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life.

In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed--how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries through thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar.

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis is one of the West's foremost authorities on Islamic history and culture. In this striking volume, he offers an incisive look at the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe.


What Went Wrong?

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Lara Vapnyar

1st Edition/1st Printing/Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with typical stamps and interior marks. Binding severely cracked in front (pictured)

Stories 

Reflecting the perspective of a recent immigrant to the United States, a collection of short fiction explores the lives of Russians in Moscow and Russians in Brooklyn.

There Are Jews in My House

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Ex-library copy. Front end-pages torn out, has other library markings. 

Israel's Warrior-Politician

Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, was perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast.
He was born in 1928 in a moshav--an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property--and was raised by parents who were not only ardent Zionists but also rugged individualists. His father especially was contemptuous of socialism and believed in individual enterprise, raising his son to be self-reliant and physically strong in order to prepare him for the inevitable struggle to establish a Jewish state.

Sharon was perhaps best known as the organizer of what was called Commando Unit 101 and for his original ideas for the training of commando forces, which he later adapted to the training of larger, more traditional armies. During his military career he personally led many raids into Arab territory and has been criticized for his role in the destruction, in 1953, of some forty Arab homes--which he insisted he thought were empty and in which sixty-nine Arabs died. Later, in 1982, he was blamed also for allowing the Lebanese Christian Militia into a Palestinian refugee camp in which hundreds were killed.

His political career was of course indelibly colored by his military exploits. What made Sharon tick? What kind of a man was he? How did his childhood and early life condition him to become a brilliant commander, controversial soldier and an as-yet-untested leader of a small democracy which is divided both within and without? This first biography in English--frank, but balanced--will perhaps answer some of the questions raised by his career both as a soldier and politician.

Sharon

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Ex-library copy. Torn front matter and other library markings. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Heroes of Israel

A volume of heroic stories from Zionist history represents the collaboration of fifty of its leading political, military, and cultural figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzhak Shamir.

Lionhearts

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Ex-library copy with typical stamps/markings 

A Biography

Biografie van de Israëlische staatsman en zionistisch leider Chaïn Weizmann (1874-1952).

Chaim Weizmann

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Jill Dubois

Mair Rosh

Revised/2nd Edition, Library Binding. Ex-library copy with torn out front page and other typical internal markings/stamps.

Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Israel.

Israel (Cultures of the World)

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Kathie Lee Gifford

Rabbi Jason Sobel

Louisiana

My Journey into the Heart of the Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began

The talk-show host discusses how to bridge the gap between God's word and the modern world, detailing an interpretation of scripture through the lens of the ancient Jewish culture in which it was written.

The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi

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North Carolina

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Named Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, Popsugar, and Globe and Mail "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." —Philip Roth "One of America’s most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals—an older lawyer and a young novelist—whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents’ deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he’s felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi’s beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.

Forest Dark

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Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in technologically sophisticated modern Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to reclaim the Russian empire and challenge the global dominance of the United States. 

Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to challenge the global dominance of the United States.

Moscow Rules

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In French

Biblical Sites Yesterday and Today #20

Michigan

"Demonstrates how interaction with Israel has brought either blessings or curses on America and what biblical prophecy says about the future of both nations"--Provided by publisher.

As America Has Done to Israel

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#hardcover #nonfiction #diplomacy #israel #memoir #middleeast #politics 

Pennsylvania

My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

New York Times bestselling author Michael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States--a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East--provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America's alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship's very fabric seemed close to unraveling. Ally is the story of that enduring alliance--and of its divides--written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren--a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV's Sunday morning political shows. In the pages of this fast-paced book, Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land. A quintessentially American story of a young man who refused to relinquish a dream--irrespective of the obstacles--and an inherently Israeli story about assuming onerous responsibilities, Ally is at once a record, a chronicle, and a confession. And it is a story about love--about someone fortunate enough to love two countries and to represent one to the other. But, above all, this memoir is a testament to an alliance that was and will remain vital for Americans, Israelis, and the world. Praise for Michael B. Oren Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East "Powerful . . . a highly readable, even gripping account . . . [Oren] has woven a seamless narrative out of a staggering variety of diplomatic and military strands."--The New York Times "With a remarkably assured style, Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of the conflict. . . . Oren's [book] will remain the authoritative chronicle of the war. His achievement as a writer and a historian is awesome."--The Atlantic Monthly Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present "When a brilliant, lucid historian such as Michael B. Oren [brings] the past back to life . . . it is a shaft of light in a dark sky."--The Washington Post Book World "Hugely ambitious, drawing on hundreds of original sources to create a finely balanced overview of this enormously complex subject."--The New York Times Book Review

Ally

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Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Israel in three dimensions 

Oregon

Hebrew Alphabet Coloring Book

The Musings of a Jewish Boy Riding his Motorcycle through the Christian World

It was a motorcycle trip along back roads down south that led to two journeys: one on paved roads and the other in the author's mind. Both trips are filled with love, fear, insight, and laughter. C'mon take the ride

From Cross to Cross

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Home to Stay

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“Destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war …” - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer 

Interesting read of an Israeli soldier’s experience while stationed on the border with Lebanon in the mid 1990’s and his attempt to grasp and understand the reason(s) he and his fellow soldiers were even there. 

ARC copy. Clean copy. No writing, dog ears or tears. Outside page edges clean. Spine intact with no outside creasing. Cover shows minimal shelf wear. 

A Soldier’s Story

Pumpkin Flowers

Civilization and the Jews

Heritage 

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Zoe Klein

West Virginia

UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT NOVEL IS A RICHLY EVOCATIVE AND BOUNDLESS LOVE STORY THAT REVERBERATES FROM BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE MODERN WORLD. Brilliant archaeologist Page Brookstone has toiled at Israel’s storied battlegrounds of Megiddo for twelve years, yet none of the ancient remnants she has unearthed deliver the life-altering message she craves. Which is why she risks her professional reputation when a young Arab couple begs her to excavate beneath their home. Ibrahim and Naima Barakat claim the spirits of two lovers overwhelm everyone who enters with love and desire. As Page digs, she makes a miraculous discovery—the bones of the deeply troubled prophet Jeremiah locked in an eternal embrace with a mysterious woman. Buried with the entwined skeletons is a collection of scrolls that challenge centuries-old interpretations of the prophet’s story and create a worldwide fervor. Caught in a forbidden romance of her own, and under siege from religious zealots and relentless critics, Page endangers her life to share the lovers’ story with the world. But in doing so, she discovers she must let go of her own painful past. Called a “zesty debut” by Kirkus Reviews, Zoë Klein’s historically rich novel is a lyrical and unexpected journey as poignant and thought-provoking as the beloved bestsellers The Red Tent and People of the Book.

Drawing in the Dust

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Ginger Garrett

Book 1 of The Serpent Trilogy series. Book contains bonus content that includes: discussion questions; a letter from the author; teaser chapter; and more.

Maryland

A long time ago, women bent on exercising their wit and prowess in a kingdom not their own made treason and murder fair game. Marriage became manipulation, a means to an end. Children were the enemy. And the days of the House of David were numbered--unless one woman could find the strength to conquer them all.

Dark Hour

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#hardcover #Israel #archaelogy #biblical #losttemple 

Colorado

A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem

God's Gold explores the fate of the greatest biblical treasure in history, the central icons of the Jewish faith looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. The golden candelabrum, silver trumpets, and the bejeweled Table of the Divine Presence were plundered by the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus in AD 70. These biblical treasures are cast adrift in Mediterranean lands and exposed to 550 years of turbulent history and the rule of four different civilizations; only an intriguing trail of clues betrays their ever-changing destiny.

The Temple treasure is a priceless hoard, but it has yet greater significance as the ultimate symbol of man's communication with God. The gold's recovery is central to Israel's broken dreams of messianic redemption by building a new House of God on the Temple Mount and its hopes for a return to an age of biblical sacrifice.

Using untapped historical texts and new archaeological sources, Sean Kingsley unravels the incredible history of this treasure; its character; and religious, political, and financial meaning across the ages. Unexpected discoveries send him on a physical journey to expose the treasure's destiny. From the Vatican to the Vandal palace of Carthage, Constantinople's hippodrome, and the wilderness of Judea, his remarkable quest reveals facts more astonishing than fiction.

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House of Spies

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What Went Wrong?

Lara Vapnyar

There Are Jews in My House

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Sharon

Michael Bar-Zohar (Editor)

Lionhearts

Norman A. Rose

Chaim Weizmann

Jill Dubois; Mair Rosh

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Kathie Lee Gifford; Rabbi Jason Sobel

The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi

Nicole Krauss

Forest Dark

Daniel Silva

Moscow Rules

Jenny Roberts

Biblical Sites Yesterday and Today #20

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As America Has Done to Israel

Michael B. Oren

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Joel amster

Israel in three dimensions

Chaya Burstein

Hebrew Alphabet Coloring Book

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From Cross to Cross

Daniel Gordis

Home to Stay

Matti Friedman

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Zoe Klein

Drawing in the Dust

Ginger Garrett

Dark Hour

Sean Kingsley

God's Gold