Full Court Press: 10 books

IN EARLY 2007, Edish.com was a thriving discontinued china business with two stores, a huge internet presence, and well over two hundred thousand loyal customers. By January 2009, the company was on the brink of failure. Discontinued: What I Lost and Found During the Recession is the timely and dramatic...

JUDY EICHINGER WAS TWO AND A HALF when her beloved sister Ruth was born with one kidney shriveled and the other severely damaged. She died at age fifteen. For many years, Judy couldn’t mention Ruth’s name or talk about her loss. Events finally forced her to confront her feelings and work through...

We all have good days and bad. This extraordinarily diverse collection offers both. It bridges the past, present, and future. It skirts the gates of heaven and hell, delves into the realms of love and loss and abduction, takes you down the back alleys of Thailand or into the vastness of the Yukon. Thirty-one...

Suzie Holtz, tHe Heroine of this worldly and vivid novel, is the daughter of neurotic east european Holocaust survivors who unsuccessfully attempt to make a life in israel before immigrating to the united States just as she is riding on the cusp of sexual, emotional, and physical maturity. A collision...

One murder. Four eyewitnesses. An unknown assailant. A victim with a mysterious secret. Bystanders beleaguered by life’s losses. A killer at large. . . . When Sam, the proprietor of a local café, is shot dead on the street, four strangers become unwitting witnesses to the crime. As the investigation...

Newly-independent Uganda seems like the perfect place for a primatologist to conduct ground-breaking fieldwork on wild baboons. But to his wife, trying to mother a young daughter while approaching the birth of her second child in the midst of elephants, wild buffalo and hippos, surely the relative safety...

“I am glad to have been permitted to learn to live with, rather than simply die from, cancer,” remarks Rose Rappaport in one passage of this lucid, unsentimental, and transcendent collection of essays on her sojourn with the illness that eventually took her life. “Mostly I am glad to measure my...

"I remember looking up at my grandmother's back-lit face from my baby carriage on a late-summer day in the minute front garden of our four-family home on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn," says novelist and poet Barry Sheinkopf. "I could not have been more than a year old. And I remember...

Cora Kronen abused her son, Herb, while leaving most of her estate to her daughter, Barbara. Then she made Herb the executor. Herb’s lawyer shows him how to steal more than his share. Barbara’s husband, a hot-shot corporate executive, hates his brother-in-law and demands she take everything back...

A professional in the field of psychology with presents clearly and concisely an up-to-the-minute consideration of the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependency, while examining the validity of underlying treatment assumptions. “I wrote this book primarily for psychologists and psychiatrists,”...