Rabbi Hyman Babushkin has headed and cultivated a progressive religious movement, Encounter Judaism, for half a century - but as he turns 83, he has lost his wife, his prostate, and, perhaps, hi...więcej »
What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom an...więcej »
Kamenetz's poems whirl and shake on the page. He is the poet of the living history of unspeakable names and his book...sings with dark wit the tales of t...więcej »
Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to t...więcej »
Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, i...więcej »
S. Henry Berthoud (1804-1891) was a writer of considerable ability, remembered today mostly for his often reprinted collections of folkloric legends from Northern France. Yet, he was a writer who c...więcej »
Pan’s Flute (1897), Etruscan Amour (1898) and Setne’s Women (1903) are three bold and lurid mythological fantasies dealing with erotic obsessions and ancient civilizations.J-H...więcej »
The Crocodile (1792) is a brilliant epic, one of those rare books of which one can say that no one ever wrote anything else like it.
The eponymous Crocodile is an attempted saboteur of the...więcej »
The End of Atlantis (1926) extends a rich tradition of French literary fantasies redeploying the myth of Atlantis; it is a historical melodrama, an adventure story and a heroic fantasy depicting...więcej »
Catulle Mendès (1841-1909) wrote more tales featuring fays than any other French writer—nearly twice as many as Madame d’Aulnoy. However, by the 1880s, the genre had been larg...więcej »
In 1918, silent film director Louis Feuillade and writer Arthur Bernede resurrected one of their greatest characters for a second adventure: a mysterious avenger, wearing a slouch hat and a dark cl...więcej »
Joseph Méry (1798-1866) was the nearest French equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe as a ground-breaking pioneer of speculative fiction. The title piece is a significant exercise in alternate history, in ...więcej »
"Never has a dark choice seemed so right." -M.R. Fournet, author of Brick Dust and BonesCharlie Edwards once-perfect life is shattered when she discovers her hus...więcej »
Adventures Aboard Rick's Place is a story of a solo sailor, based on the author's adventures, both real and imagined.Follow Rick through his carefree youth and then later in life...więcej »
The ever-resilient Rick has finally gotten his life pulled back together after his dreams were shattered when his boat, Rick's Place, was destroyed on a ...więcej »
Eight years ago, Erin Donahue had it all-her own city apartment, a career in photography, and a man who'd do anything for her. But things change. Now, living in the small...więcej »
Mallory McShane is a hero in some eyes, but she doesn't feel like one. Living in an old family farmhouse, hiding from tornadoes, she's biding her time.A promise still unmet.But tho...więcej »
For fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette or Camille Pagan's I'm Fine and Neither Are You, comes the perfect laugh-out-loud dramedy AND THEN T...więcej »
Nominated for The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award, Alle C. Hall's debut literary novel, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back is for book lovers of...więcej »