Alice Rothchild, MD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Physician, author, & filmmaker on Israel/Palestine. Steering committee: Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council. @Mondoweiss Contributing Writer.

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson
Thompson, Christina, Sea People, 2019, Harper Compelling, dazzling, well-researched account of Polynesian navigation, exploration, and settlement of the widely dispersed islands of the Pacific Ocean https://t.co/e1YdVt3yWu
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Kerri K. Greenidge
Greenidge, Kerri K., 'The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,' 2023, @LiverightPub Extraordinarily well-researched family history of the legendary white Grimke sisters and the Black members of their slave-holding family https://t.co/pyClvZZzFE
Hardcover, 2022
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad
When literature becomes resistance and resilience in all of its tragedy and complexity. "Enter Ghost thus becomes a novel of return, reconciliation, and desire for events and people lost or webbed in Palestinian history; in short, a book of ghosts. " https://t.co/tfOUQTluky
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani
'The Night Diary' by @VeeraHira (2018), @PuffinBooks A compelling and intimate story of Nisha, whose father is Hindu and mother Muslim, as her family flees Pakistan when her country splits in two in 1947. https://t.co/KZVbnqEs4k
Paperback, 2019
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Feminisms and Internationalism
Mrinalini Sinha
Looking forward to reading @nadaelia48's new book, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, & Palestine https://t.co/BDZH2ORL4w
Paperback, 1999
$42.95$21.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
United States Penal Code Annotated: 2021
House Of Representatives
H.R. 2748 is the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021—or as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights names it, the Normalizing Israeli Ethnic Cleansing Act—and just passed the House of Representatives and the Senate. https://t.co/XIGwoSjkZE
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
I am mostly reading kid lit, but occasionally I indulge in a grownup book. @BenMacintyre1's 'Agent Sonya' (2020) is a compelling, well researched page-turner, spy-thriller about an English woman who becomes a Cold War high ranking Soviet Spy dedicated to the Communist Party. https://t.co/O2At3jrz1C
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
'The Glass Castle' by #JeannetteWalls (2005), @ScribnerBooks A memoir about growing up with brilliant, stubborn parents who suffered from a mix of mental illness, alcoholism, intense love and neglect towards their children... https://t.co/BGJPHf168O
Paperback, 2006
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Antisemitism: Here and Now
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Biden’s antisemitism envoy nominee, Deborah Lipstadt, is dangerous and a gift to Israel and the Zionist lobby. https://t.co/1HGOI7ekP6
Hardcover, 2019
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cheeky: A Head-To-Toe Memoir
Ariella Elovic
'Cheeky, A Head to Toe Memoir' by @ariellaelovic (2020), @BloomsburyPub Although I am old enough to be Ariella’s grandmother, this irreverent, spunky, painfully funny explore and celebration of the author’s very female, very human body touched me. https://t.co/6yMLDCENGy
Hardcover, 2020
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book