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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R1.2	Karen	Armstrong				Buddha
H4.0, E3.0, R1.2	Karen	Armstrong			An	History of God
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0		ArtScroll				Pirkei Avos/Pirqi Abot

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2	Michael	Bagent	Richard	Leigh	The	Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Dave	Barry	Alan	Zweibel & Adam Mansbach		For This We Left Egypt?: A PassOver Haggadah for Jews & Those Who Love Them (126 pages; ISBN 9781250110213; FlatIron; 296.45371 Bar; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Mark	Batterson			The	Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears (226 pages; 248.32 Bat; Main)
H3.5, E2.0, R1.7	Charlotte Joko	Beck				EveryDay Zen
H3.5, E2.0, R2.2	Dov	Ber the Mittler Rebbe of Lubavitch	HaBachur HaTamim Benjamin	Walters, HaBacnur Hatamim Mordechai Markel & Yossi Markel		Kuntres Ha Hispaalus (Tract on Awakening)
H3.5, E3.0, R1.4	Dov	Ber	the Mittler Rebbe of Lubavitch			New Kabbalah Series Based on Shaar Ha Yichud (Gate of Unity)
H3.0, E2.7, R1.0	Yehuda	Berg			The	Way of the Kabbalist (200 pages; 296.16)
H3.0, E2.7, R1.4	Erich	Bischoff			The	Kabbala
H3.0, E2.7, R2.8	Harold	Bloom			The	Book of J
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0	rabbi Shmuley	Boteach				Parenting with Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration (222 pages; 296.74 Bot; Main; due 2024-05-01)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R2.3	Thomas	Cahill			The	Gifts of the Jews (275 pages; 909.04924)
H3.0, E2.0, R2.4	Jonathan	Cahn			The	Book of Mysteries (365 pages; hard)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.0	Gilbert Keith	Chesterton				Orthodoxy (188 pages; ISBN 9781250828736; OCLC 1263342149; St.Martin's; on order 2023-06-23; Main; was 239; Main; due 2024-03-28)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4	Yvonne Patricia	Chireau	Nathaniel	Deutsch		Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism_ (225 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.4	Rich	Cohen				Israel Is Real_ (Name suggests he is descended from priestly Levites, he's been there several times, for considerable periods, but still doesn't know where it is, a little foggy on much of the history, the boundaries; repeatedly conflated Israel with Palestine which was/is basically the Gaza Strip; 383 pages; 956.94 Coh; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.9	James H.	Cone				God of the Oppressed

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Hayim HaLevy	Donin				To Pray As a Jew (365 pages; 296.4)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.1	Hayim HaLevy	Donin				To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life_ (316 pages; 296.7; hard)
H3.0, E2.0, R1.2	Diane	Dreher			The	Tao of Peace
H3.0, E2.0, R1.1	Diane	Dreher			The	Tao of Personal Leadership

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H3.0, E2.0, R2.5	William	Eisen			The	English Cabalah
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5	Robert H.	Eisenman			The	Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians
H3.0, E2.0, R1.5	Mircea	Eliade			The	Sacred & the Profane: The Nature of Religion

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R2.2	Bruce S.	Feiler				Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories (390 pages; 200.956 hard)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5	Israel	Finkelstein	Neil Asher	Silberman	The	Bible UnEarthed: Archaeology's new Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
H4.0, E3.0, R3.4	Israel	Finkelstein	Neil Asher	Silberman		David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition (352 pages; 222.067)
H3.5, E3.0, R2.0	Reuven	Firestone	Reuven	Feuerstein		Who Are the Real Chosen People?: The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (156 pages; 202.2 Fir; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5	Antony	Flew				God & Philosophy
H4.0, E3.0, R3.0	Harry	Freedman			The	Talmud: A Biography: Banned, Censored, and Burned: The Book They Couldn't Suppress (243-250 pages; ISBN 9781462905949; Bloomsbury; 296.125 Fre; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5	Steven	Furtick				UnQualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (212 pages; 248.4 Fur; NE)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H2.5, E2.5, R2.0	Laurence	Gardner				BloodLine of the Holy Grail
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5	Christian D.	Ginsburg			The	Kabbalah
H4.5, E3.0, R3.7	Arthur	Green				Judaism's 10 Best Ideas (100 pages; 296.3 Gre; Main+NE; due 2024-05-01)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H3.0, E2.5, R3.0	Kenneth	Hanson				Kabbalah: 3K Years of Mystic Tradition (260 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Lis	Harris				Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family (266 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9	Abraham Joshua	Heschel	Morris M.	Faierstein & David Wolf Silverman		Prophetic Inspiration After the Prophets: Maimonides and Other Medieval Authorities (157 pages; 296.311; Main)
H3.0, E3.0, R2.5	John L.	Hitchcock				Atoms, SnowFlakes, & God: The Convergence of Science and Religion: The Theology of Cpomplementarity (200 pages; ISBN 073560604X; Quest/Theosophical; 215 Hit; Main; due 2024-10-22)
H3.0, E3.0, R3.4	Richard	Holloway			A	Little History of Religion_ (term translations are often disturbingly off, suggesting an unstated agenda; 244 pages; 200.9 Hol; Main; due 2024-12-06)

Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9	Nina	Jaffe	Elivia		The	UnInvited Guest and other Jewish holiday tales (72 pages; Scholastic; J 296.43 Jaf; NE; due 2024-08-01)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.3	Thomas	Jefferson	Dan	Marshall	The	New Jefferson Bible (137 pages)
H4.0, E3.0, R1.1	Donovan	Joyce			The	Jesus Scroll

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Adam	Kirsch			The	People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature (407 pages; ISBN 9780393241761; OCLC ; Norton; libraries; 809.88924 Kir; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.4	Jonathan	Kirsch				God against the Gods: The History of the War between MonoTheism and PolyTheism (320 pages; 291.14 Kir; Main)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0	Alfred J.	Kolatch			The	Concise Family Seder_/_Haggadah, English & Hebrew (49 pages; 296.437 HAG; Main; due 2024-05-01)

Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H3.0, E2.0, R2.5	Shoni	Labowitz				Miraculous Living: A Guided Journey in Kabbalah through 10 Gates of the Tree of Life (334 pages; ISBN 0684814447; Simon&Schuster; 296.7 Lab; Jax)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Anne	Lamott				Help, Thanks, Wow: The 3 Essential Prayers_ (157 pages; ISBN 9781410453563; OCLC ; RiverHead; libraries; LT 242.4 Lam; Main + 242.4 Lam; Main+Jax; due 2024-06-19)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.5	John	Locke	C.B.	MacPherson		2nd Treatise on Government (124 pages)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.5	John	Locke	George	Berkeley, David Hume, Richard Taylor	The	Empiricists (1690; 1710; 1713; 1748; 1779; Enlightenment: 517 pages; ISBN 0385096224/ 9780385096225; OCLC 933078518; Anchor/Doubleday)

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H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Greg Marcus, Ph.D. 2016 _The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar_ (ethics; 243 pages; 5.2MB; ISBN 9780738748658; OCLC 951172664; Llewellyn; Leon, Hebrew Union College/Cincinnati W of Burnett Woods & S of Good Sam, Overland Park; 296.36 Mar; Main)

Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.5, E3.0, R3.5	Michelle	Malkin				Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, And Other Foreign Menaces To Our Shores (332 pages; 672KB)
H4.0, E3.0, R2.8	Greg	Marcus, Ph.D.			The	Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar (ethics; 243 pages; 5.2MB; ISBN 9780738748658; OCLC 951172664; Llewellyn; Leon, Hebrew Union College/Cincinnati W of Burnett Woods & S of Good Sam, Overland Park; 296.36 Mar; Main)
H3.0, E2.0, R2.2	Menachem Mendel	Markel				Kabbalah Mini-Series for the Average Person
H3.0, E2.0, R3.7	S.L. MacGregor	Mathers			The	Kabbala UnVeiled
H4.5, E3.0, R1.5	Jon	Meacham				American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (273 pages of text, 115 pages of end-notes and bibliography; 322.1097)
H4.5, E3.0, R3.5	Alan	Morinis				Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to ReDiscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition (mussar; 225 pages; 296.8 Mor; hard)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.5, R1.5	Andrew	Newberry	Eugene d'Aquili & Vince Rause			Why God Won't Go Away
H4.0, E3.0, R1.5	Adam	Nicolson				God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (260 pages; 220.5203 Nic)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E2.7, R1.7	Rudolf	Otto			The	Idea of the Holy

P

Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H3.5, E3.0, R4.2	R' Aaron	Parry			The	Talmud
H3.5, E3.0, R3.0	Frances E.	Peters/Frank E. Peters			The	Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (201.4)
H3.5, E3.0, R3.0	Dennis	Prager			The	Rational PassOver Haggadah (161-180 pages; ISBN 9781684512584; OCLC 1298598955; Regnery/Alperson; 296.45371 Pra; Collier/Naples)

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R H4.0, E3.0, R2.8GeorgeRobinson   Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals (author says he is "Reform"; 600 pages; ISBN 0671034804; Pocket/Simon&Schuster; 206 Rob; Main)

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Jonathan	Sacks			A	Letter in the Scroll (220 pages; 296)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.9	DovBer	Schneuri	Naftali	Loewenthal		Flames_/_Shaari Aura: Ki Atah Neri_/_Gates of Light_/_Gates of Radiance_ (Chanukah; 156 pages; ISBN 0826604641; Kehot; libraries; 296.435 Sch; Main; due 2024-01-17)
H4.0, E3.0, R4.0	rabbi Rami M.	Shapiro				Hasidic Tales (193 pages; ISBN 1893361861; OCLC ; SkyLight Paths; libraries; BM532 .S485 2003; 296.8 Sha; Main; due 2024-05-22)
H4.0, E3.0, R3.5	Paul	Steinberg	Janet Greenstein	Potter, et al.		Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Fall Holidays (234 pages)
H3.0, E2.5, R1.5	Carlos	Suares			The	2nd Coming of Reb YHSHWH

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Score	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed	Auth/Ed		Title
H4.0, E3.0, R2.5	Pierre Teilhard de	Chardin				Man's Place in Nature
H4.0, E3.5, R2.5	Joseph	Telushkin			The	10 Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life_ (317 pages; 296.36 Tel; Main)
H4.0, E3.5, R4.5	Joseph	Telushkin			The	Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living (544 pages; 296.36 Tel; Main+NE)

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