Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller. Born in a large Orthodox Jewish family in Dereczyn, Poland
In this thoughtful collection of narratives, author Joel Peckham explores the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a
The amazing tale of ?County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a ?poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook Co
A young lawyer in a pretentious law firm loves a girl that he can't have and is forced to try a major case that he can't win, and must do both under the critical scrutiny of senior lawyers who will so
A chronicle of baseball's crimes, misdemeanors, and humorous moments from the early twentieth century to the present looks at such practices as thrown games, stolen signs, and doctored bats and balls.
Dr. Joseph Charles is one of eight physicians being sued for not diagnosing an infection that has left a man paralyzed. He tells his story as it happens. And, unlike most novels involving the law, thi
After Sadika arranged marriage to her first cousin in America falls through, which ruins her reputation and her hopes on finding a suitable match, she decides to go to the United States on her own.
Anita Miller (an author), Jordan Miller (a poet), and Zetouni (an art historian) all of whom are also editors co-authored this biography of Ariel Sharon, set against the backdrop of Israeli history.
Cidylo, a freelance journalist now safely back in New York, set off for the former Soviet Union in 1991, just in time to see it crumble. In these essays she offers insights on her life and experiences
When Notre Dame line coach Joe Moore was fired, he sued the school for age discrimination. In this book, Lieberman (the attorney who argued the case) tells of the trial that followed, and of Moore's
So says her employer to the protagonist of this spellbinding novel which echoes Daphne Du Maurier's classic, Rebecca. Her future husband is the renowned writer and infamous widower, Max Midwinter, who
When her father leaves their small Hungarian village on the eve World War I, Serene, who is five-and-a-half years old, spends the next six years searching for him while she navigates the conflicting v
In a murder mystery set in 1930s Ontario, police inspector Albert V. Tretheway and his loyal sidekick, Constable Jake Small, hunt for a killer who is reenacting the death scenes from the movies of the
In his new book, Dr. Tsesis tells about the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the One God of the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclu
Carolyn Heilbrun, in Writing a Woman’s Life, states that books about the real lives of women aren’t written often enough. Women of Privilege is an attempt to fill that gap. The book describes three ge
This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of
This Unusual Novel is set in Paris in the 1960s, where the vestiges of its storied Bohemian past still barely cling. It is a time when the new wave of feminism has not yet taken hold, when men furious
