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Jay Hack
8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4
Dennis Ross: Doomed to Succeed:
The U.S.-Israel Relationship from
Truman to Obama ($10)
An adviser to Presidents Barack
Obama, George H.W. Bush and
Bill Clinton, and a scholar who
has worked with Secretaries of
State Hillary Clinton, Warren
Christopher and James Baker,
Dennis Ross is a man who under-
stands politics like few others.
His new book takes readers to the
heart of Israeli-American relations
as he provides insight into presi-
dents' attitudes toward Israel, their
motives and their policies.
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Noon Thursday, Nov. 5
Lunch and learn with Aviya
Kushner: The Grammar of God
($18)
In college, Aviya Kushner was
amazed to discover that she was
completely unfamiliar with the
Bible, a book she had grown up
reading in the original Hebrew.
The problem was not a changed
text. The issue was language, and
Kushner was about to discover how
very different the Bible can be in
translation.
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Happy Hour, 5 p.m./
Author presentation,
6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5
Jay Hack: The Steady Climb: A
Family Journey from Mountains
to Markets ($7)
There is no overnight road to
financial success — but there may
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be a certain one. Like mountain
climbing, long-term investing is all
about taking your time and mak-
ing wise decisions. In The Steady
Climb, former NEXTGen President
Jay Hack, financial adviser with
Raymond James & Associates and
a former mountain-climbing guide
presents a philosophy of wealth
management based on the experi-
ence of history's greatest investors.
8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5
Dana Nessel, speaking on Then
Comes Marriage: United States v.
Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
($10)
Then Comes Marriage, by
Roberta Kaplan, recounts the land-
mark case of Edie Windsor and
Thea Spyer who wed in Canada in
2007; when the U.S. government
refused to recognize their mar-
riage, the case went to the Supreme
Court.
Dana Nessel, a graduate of the
University of Michigan and Wayne
State University Law School, is
the managing partner of Nessel &
Kessel Law in Detroit, which con-
centrates on criminal defense and
family law, with an emphasis on
LGBT issues.
4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8
Peter Manseau: One Nation
Under Gods: A New American
History
Peter Manseau (Songs for the
Butcher's Daughter) presents a
completely new look at U.S. his-
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5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10
Dion Nissenbaum: A Street
Divided: Stories from Jerusalem's
Alley of God
It was a small, seemingly ordi-
nary path, but what happened
there was anything but ordinary.
"The forbidden area: as it was
known by Jews and Arabs, was
10 a.m.Wednesday, Nov. 11
Henry Gornbein: Divorce
Demystified: Everything You
Need to Know Before You File for
Divorce
Nothing will make divorce easy.
But this guide by Henry Gornbein,
who has been practicing law in
Michigan for more than 40 years
and is a leading expert in family
law, can help the transition run as
smoothly as possible. Gornbein
deconstructs the divorce process as
he helps everyone understand what
to expect and learn how to avoid
the drama.
5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12
Happy Hour, featuring author
Mike Wien: The Specific Edge:
How Sustained Effort Wins in
Business and Life ($7)
The Specific Edge is a blueprint
that can teach anyone how to be
a winner. A marketing expert
with Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Citibank
and Deloitte, as well as a com-
petitor in the Ironman Triathlon
World Championship, Mike Wien
explains how success has nothing
to do with luck but is, instead, a
combination of concentration, dis-
cipline and endurance.
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8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8
Dr. Michael Bar - Zohar: No
Mission Is Impossible: The Death-
Defying Missions of the Israeli
Special Forces ($10)
Imagine being invited to go
along — but from the comfort of
your safe home! — in the air and
at sea with Israel Defense Forces
operatives. No Mission is Impossible
takes readers along on a wild,
perilous, thrilling and unforget-
table journey with some of Israel's
top soldiers and pilots, and behind
closed doors with high-level tacti-
cians and decision makers.
the no-man's land that for many
years separated Israel and Jordan.
Split by coils of barbed wire, it was
home to prostitutes and priests,
poets and spies, the scene of ridicu-
lous gestures, forbidden romance
and an unsolved murder.
Ruth Da
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tory and comes to a stunning
conclusion: America is not a
"Christian country:' In fact, many
of those who shaped and defined
this nation were Jewish. Certainly
Christians have held political and
economic power, but "a society is
always shaped not only from the
top down but the bottom up," he
says. "We take for granted that
other parts of culture — music, lit-
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