Peter Everett At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women. He is UN MONSTRE SACRE who depicts with passion and conviction only...

Virginia Lee Burton By recounting actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be...

Lawrence Sanders Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower with a paranoid son and heir, twisted twin daughters, and shady employees. Owner of bird store Parrots Unlimited, he hires Archy McNally and...

Fred Rosner In this work, Maimonides is both a Torah scholar and an important figure in medical history who makes judgements based on his skill as a physician. Dr. Rosner...

Abraham Joshua Heschel This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one...

Margaret Truman “Powerful . . . Fascinating . . . Truman absolutely amazes.”— Atlanta Journal & ConstitutionWhen the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by...

Gail Ganthier January 1, 1997 by Scholastic Book Services

Paul Theroux In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how...

Author: Lawrence A Hoffman Edited by Rabbi Lawrence A Hoffman My People's Prayer Book provides 9 diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of today's most...

Omar Ralph The First Asian MP A biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's patriot and Britain's MP. October 1, 1997 by Hansib Publishing

Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth...

Larry J Siever, MD A leading psychiatrist provides a definitive study of the latest research into the brain and how it works, exploring a wide range of behavioral disorders, the...