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Jerusalem: The Biography"This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs." Booklist (starred) Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel Palestine conflict. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to
"This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs." --Booklist (starred)
Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
A New York Times Notable Book
Jewish Book Council Book of the Year
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/18/2012
ISBN: 9780307280503
Pages: 650
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.39w x 1.44d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 10/21/2012 pg. 28
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★★★★★ 5
love it!
Format: Kindle
The art and the story is amazing! As a swimmer, I can relate to many of the successes and struggles the characters face throughout the book. Thank you for illustrating and writing this book, and I hope it inspires many readers to swim!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Can Bree lead her team to victory?
Format: Hardcover
Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas is a graphic novel that follows Bree, a city kid from New York who moves to Florida due to her dad's new job. Excited to join math puzzles on her first day at her new school, Bree instead finds herself being assigned to swim 101, but there is just one problem: Bree can't swim. Faced with potentially failing the class, Bree's elderly neighbor Etta, who was once a swim team captain, offers to teach her. With Etta’s training and a lot of hard work, Bree suddenly finds herself on the school's failing swim team. With her school considering selling the land the pool resides on, Bree is determined to lead her team to victory at the state championship and save the pool.
This book touches on topics such as anxiety, racism, family dynamics, sports, and friendship. I found the honest exploration provided a powerful lesson of how our circumstances shape us but don't control us. As a former swim team captain myself, I really resonated with this book: I felt it perfectly captured the swim team dynamic, and the high-action illustrations of swim team meets were breath-taking. Personally, I found this book to be wonderfully nostalgic; I could almost smell the chlorine and feel the diving block beneath my feet as I read it. Overall, I think Swim Team would be a major hit in elementary and middle school libraries.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2024
★★★★★ 5
OH YEAH!👍🏻
Format: Kindle
I love to swim and this book was fantastic! Hope you have fun reading it to. My favorite character was Bree by the way
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Good for Raina Telgemeir fans
Format: Paperback
My 10-14 year olds loved this book. It’s a great story. They also really liked the Raina Telgemeir books.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2025
★★★★★ 4
3.5
Format: Kindle
A decent read, it wrestles a bit with a couple of different topics of anxiety, racism, family dynamics, sports, and friendship in fits and bursts. I guess my main critique was it felt a bit shallow (no pun intended) with most issues resolved rather quickly and easily once characters put their minds to it. The Hollyhoke's team also seemed to be pretty toxic making it a wonder why someone would want to go there other than that it's wealthy.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023