Jay Kaplan: 9 books

Tough, smart Lt Antonia O’Day is a New York detective who served in Iraq. She lost her leg in  in battle but her disability didn’t stop her.  She is now solving gruesome crimes for the NYPD and is a force to be reckoned with! Episode 3: Murder at the Concert Hall Antonia and the...

Rat Island explores an attempt by three, wily, well-funded terrorists to infiltrate New York City and detonate an explosive device at ground zero on 9/11. After buying a yacht in Venice, they proceed up and down the Adriatic raising money for their task and eventually sail to City Island, New York. Meanwhile,...

Young Adult Science Fiction The battle of the robots and humans to overthrow the tyranny of the fifths who control human population through fear.  Humans are living underground, and the world has been enveloped in toxic clouds.  Islands have disappeared and the Fiefs now prevent men and women...

Episode 2: Murder At the Little Red School House. An urban school for exceptional Vietnamese students, a series of gruesome murders takes place. Antonia and her staff are back on the case to uncover the culprits. Antonia finds the connection between these murders and those in her prior case, Murders at the Xanadu.

From the author of Rat Island, a popular thriller about 911, and Earth 1 & Earth 2, Science Fiction fantasy about Global Warming, this murder mystery also takes place in 911.  The sleuth is Lt. Antonia O’Day, an Iraqi veteran who lost her leg in the war. But her injury does not stop her brilliant...

The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns. The author details the design methodology responsible for this all-but-lost art form and presents evidence for its...

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...