This anthology reveals the varieties of Jewish wisdom, cleverness, irony and humor through tales filled
with allegories preaching humility and charity. -Publishers WeeklyThe vast body of Jewish folklore, influencing and influenced by the many and various cultures in which it ...
A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White
House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, ...
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four women in
England who enjoyed career-long success as comic playwrights from 1670-1800. Their respective approaches to the body, contracts, nationalism, and divorce animate their comedies and provide ...
ABOUT THE BOOK In a crisp, pristine suit, with alcohol on his breath, Frank Sinatra
managed to rise from the tough streets of an immigrant neighborhood to become the greatest singer and most captivating personality of the 20th century. He ...
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWidely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized,
definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War historian. In the late ...
In 20th century American literature, few individuals stand as tall as Ernest Hemingway. He singlehandedly
defined Modernist fiction with his short, simple, declarative writing style. His years in Paris during the 1920s were his apprenticeship, when he made the transition ...
The Shelf2Life American Civil War Collection is a unique and exciting collection of pre-1923 titles
focusing on the American Civil War and the people and events surrounding it. From memoirs and biographies of notable military figures to firsthand accounts of ...
From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously
untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following ...
