Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

Joyce Antlern You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn...

Tania Coen-UzzielliInspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, in 2015 the Israel Museum presented an interdisciplinary exhibition that took viewers on a journey through...

VS NaipaulIn 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.

EL DoctorowIn 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The...

William FaulknerThis novel, by Nobel Prize-winning William Faulkner, was published in 1948.It focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the...

Laura BlumenfeldIn 1986, a Palestinian terrorist shot author Laura Blumenfeld's father. More than a decade later, Blumenfeld, a reporter for The Washington Post, decided to find the man who tried...

Noorbanu NimjiA Spicy Touch Volume Ii: Contemporary Indian, African, Middle Eastern & Oriental CuisineA Spicy Touch Volume II, builds on the success and great popularity of the first volume. In...

JM Coetzee   David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an...

Aharon FeldmanClassic Torah concepts provide insight into dealing with problem areas of married life. A warm, profound guide for b'nei Torah.

Anne FadimanIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth...

Maya AngelouMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American...