Marlena de Blasi When Marlena moves with her husband to the small town of Orvieto to renovate a dilapidated medieval palazzo, she knows that the fastest way into the hearts...

Randy Pausch   "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."--Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are...

Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom...

Zev SpektorWhen his father doesn't return home, Chaim begins a search that is joined by the enigmatic Mr. Wolfson, who helps put together a series of puzzling clues involving the...

Sandy TolanIn 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and...

The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu: The Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force: Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Operation 1963-1976Jonathan NetanyahuThe Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu "Yoni, " as he was known...

Joel Greenblatt Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will. In The Little...

Moshe Bogie Ya'alon Few Israelis are as deserving of the title "Mr. Security" as Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon. His history of military and political leadership speaks for itself. A unique voice...

Daniel Mendelsohn In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part...

Dave Pelzer   Dave Pelzer's sequel to million-copy bestseller A CHILD CALLED 'IT' As a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing...

Michael Ruhlman In the winter of 1996, Michael Ruhlman donned hounds-tooth-check pants and a chef's jacket and entered the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, to learn...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an...