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To the Edge of Sorrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II.
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance...
by John Casey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
From the winner of the 1989 National Book Award (for Spartina), a major new novel--wise, sad, and richly comic--about the meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime...
The Tenth Muse
My Life in Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir.
Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning...
The Warburgs
The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century.
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites,...
Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course...
An Empire of Their Own
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.
The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in...
by Elia Kazan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This collection of nearly three hundred letters gives us the life of Elia Kazan unfiltered, with all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such an important and formidable stage director (A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman), film director (On the Waterfront, East of Eden),...
Seriously Funny
The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each...
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellisexplores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our...
by Julian Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss—making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief.
Levels...
Dangerous Muse
The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Caroline Blackwood was born into the Guinness family in 1931, the daughter of the Fourth Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Brought up on the ancestral estate in Northern Ireland, Blackwood moved easily among the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the Soho bohemians of postwar England, and the liberal...
Hitler's Charisma
Leading Millions into the Abyss
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive...
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent...
Confucius Lives Next Door
What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives...