Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...

Dava Sobel Galileo Galilei (1524-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether."...

Benyamin Netanyahu Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a...

Author: LM Montgomery MY DEAR MR. LETTERS TO G. B. MacMILLAN FROM L. M. MONTGOMERY is a volume of selected letters from L.M. Montgomery to her longtime Scottish correspondent George...

Francis Wheen A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.The history of the 20th century is...

Blaine Harden Shin Dong-hyuk was born in the early 1980s inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north...

Nick Smurthwaite An assessment of the private life and public career of the award-winning actress discusses her background, her rise to success, her quest for dramatic excellence, and her possible...

John Hudson Tiner Learn about his early life as the son of a tanner. Experience his years of struggle as an unknown scientist and enjoy his triumph as one of...

Liao Yiwu The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain...

Meyer Birnhaum with Yonason RosenblumA Soldier's Story: Growing up Jewish in America, Liberating the DP Camps, and a New Home in JerusalemFirst published January 1, 1984

Jeffrey ArcherThe sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for...

Eli Ben-hananFirst published January 1, 1969