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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
