Tim Shortt A humorous story of childhood friendship between a dedicated, professional, nine-year-old Issy Archer, and her home-run-hitting buddy Babe describes a lost chapter in baseball lore, about the time...

Adam Rex No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man,...

Kiratiana Freelon If you enjoy travel and love black music, culture and history, then this is the book to take with you to Paris. Kiratiana's honest, fun approach will not...

Hazel Richardson The Indus River Valley was once home to thriving communities of peoples who worked the land now known as Pakistan. Some of the world's oldest civilizations, including the...

Michael Montgomery (Editor), Ellen Johnson (Editor) The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants,...

Miriam Chaikin Explains the history and significance of many Jewish symbols and discusses how these symbols are used in holiday rituals.First published January 1, 1990

Diane Ravitch From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” ( The Wall Street Journal ), author of...

Jamie Brenner When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family,...

Gary A Tobin A blunt, provocative, no-holds-bared argument for a radically different understanding of Jews' relationship to their faith and to their non-Jewish neighbors. Challenges the Jewish community to get...

Ernest H Adams I've read about American Jews and I've read about African Americans, but I've never read a book that so brilliantly illuminates these two groups as does Ernest...

James Byron Huggins One of Hollywood's hottest action-film writers, James Byron Huggins is a master at keeping the action rolling and the pages turning. Here, the author of Cain ("may...

David Grossman The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed...