A lifetime retrospective of the paintings of Janet Alling, this collection includes both watercolors and oils and features her main interest, the process of painting from direct observation of plants in natural light. Alling’s paintings are a development and progression of formal visual ideas, color exploration, light, composition, scale, and the phenomena of the natural world.
About: Janet Alling
Hardcover: $30.00 (ISBN: 9780825306358)
Art/Oil Painting
112 pages
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Hard-charging Philadelphia banker Jack Oliver has always made tough choices and sacrifices to achieve success, but when his mid-sized banking group is bought out by a mega-chain, Jack finds himself knocked from the top rung to the bottom of the ladder. When the stress of the merger lands him in the hospital, he realizes that his wife and kids hate him and his mistress is only interested in the number of zeros in his paycheck. When Jack is approached by Benny, the old-fashioned president of a small Virginia bank, he doubts he could ever work for such a small-town guy after his cut-throat career. Left without the success he once craved and the family he undervalued, Jack may discover how to reclaim what he had taken for granted and lead a new kind of ‘questionable life.’
About: Luke Lively
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305214)
E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825305238)
Fiction
432 pages
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Orenstein’s searing account of his experience as a young man in Germany, Russia, and ultimately, in a concentration camp, has been called, “[a]n adventure…almost novelesque in the extraordinary succession of miracles which enable the young man to remain among the living so as to eventually tell his story forty years later with Voltaire-esque ferocity and often sheer and invigorating joy.”–Claude Lanzmann
Orenstein’s ingenuity and indefatigable vitality in the face of the horrors of the Holocaust enabled him to save himself and his family from execution by playing a role in the greatest trick ever pulled on the Nazis. Orenstein and his brothers were part of a fake Commando formed by German SS officers who wanted to avoid fighting at the Russian front. The new edition of I Shall Live contains new evidence about this false Commando-letters signed to and from Himmler himself.
About: Henry Orenstein
Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825305979)
History/ Autobiography
336 pages
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A tribute to a generation of survivors, Dr. Mordecai Hacohen’s powerful memoir recounts a period of great turmoil and triumph: the foundation of the Jewish State in Israel. As a young man, Dr. Hacohen was a leader in the heroic but little-known Clandestine Immigration of Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Israel, which eventually transported over 22,000 European Jews to what would eventually become the State of Israel. He also assisted in the foundation of the State of Israel, and helped create the Israeli Foreign Service.
In this intriguing memoir, Hacohen relates the numerous efforts that brought him into contact with many of the brightest and most influential personalities of the twentieth century, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Isaac Stern, Golda Meir, Elie Wiesel, and many others. The book includes an introduction by Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an epilogue written by Dr. Hacohen’s son, Israel Hacohen.
About: Dr. Mordecai Hacohen
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305900)
E-Book: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825305894)
Memoir
256 pages
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A’isha bint Abi Bakr is the daughter of a rich merchant from Mecca in the harsh, exotic world of seventh-century Arabia at the time of the foundation of Islam. When she is married to the Prophet Muhammad at the age of nine, she must rely on her wits, her courage, and even her sword in a struggle to control her own destiny and carve out a place for herself in the community, fighting religious persecution, jealous sister-wives, political rivals, and her own temptations. As she grows to love her kind, generous husband, her ingenuity and devotion make her an indispensable advisor to Muhammad. Ultimately, she becomes one of the most important women in Islam, and a fierce protector of her husband’s words and legacy.
Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, The Jewel of Medina evokes the beauty and harsh realities of life in an age long past, during a time of war, enlightenment, and upheaval. At once a love story, a history lesson, and a coming-of-age tale, The Jewel of Medina introduces readers to the turmoil that surrounded the birth of the Islamic faith through the eyes of a truly unforgettable heroine.
“Sherry Jones does an extraordinary service to Islam in popularizing – and humanizing – a Muslim heroine. It’s the kind of history that I never learned in my mosque or madressa. As a faithful, feminist Muslim, I say ‘mashallah’ for this riveting novel.” – Irshad Manji, Director, Moral Courage Project, New York University
“Enthralling from its first sand-swept pages, The Jewel of Medina is a story at once modern in its telling and ancient in its wisdom. A’isha’s blossoming into a woman of passion and fortitude in the midst of the birth of Islam captures the imagination as well as the heart.” – Marsha Mehran, author of Rosewater and Soda Bread
About the Author: Sherry Jones
Find the Author on the web: www.authorsherryjones.com
ISBN: 978-0-8253-0518-4
$24.95 Hardcover
Historical Fiction
432 pages 6×9
ISBN: 978-0-8253-0519-1
$9.99 E-book
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Do you want to turn your passion for food into a career? Take a bite out of the food world with help from the experts in this first-of-its-kind What Color Is Your Parachute? for food related careers.
Maybe you’re considering culinary school, maybe you’re about to graduate, or maybe you’re looking for an exciting career change. How can you translate your zest for flavor into a satisfying profession? Should you become a chef or open a specialty foods shop, write cookbooks or try your hand at food styling? Culinary careers are as varied as they are fascinating-the only challenge is deciding which one is right for you. Filled with advice from food-world pros, including luminaries, such as Alice Waters, Chris Kimball, Betty Fussell, and Darra Goldstein, Food Jobs will set you behind the stove of your dream career.
In this tasty, nourishing book, food industry veteran Irena Chalmers offers profiles of food jobs by the dozen-everything from the traditional (maitre d’, caterer, dietician) to the behind-the-scenes (restaurant consultant, kitchen designer, hotel promoter) to the holy-cow-I-can-get-paid-for-that? (yacht chef, tea taster, fortune cookie message writer). Chalmers provides essential information for getting started and succeeding in your chosen culinary role including job descriptions, candid musings on what the job really entails and who it’s really for, and testimonials from the best in the field (Bobby Flay, Todd English, Gordon Hamersly, Francois Payard, Danny Meyer, Anthony Bourdain and more). Bursting with real-life wisdom from those who’ve been there, Food Jobs will expose you to the myriad of different food jobs available and guide you to the one that’s right for you.
About: Irena Chalmers
Paperback: $19.95 (ISBN: 9780825305924)
E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825306334)
Economics/Careers
400 pages
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A Pediatrician’s Journal: Caring for Kids in our Broken Medical System is a first-of-its-kind book examining the glaring inadequacies of the health care system in our world. Written by award-winning pediatrician Dr. Brian G. Orr, this book brings to the forefront the myriad issues plaguing modern medicine. Dr. Orr offers compelling evidence through his personal and professional experiences that the system is truly broken and in need of change. The stories in A Pediatrician’s Journal convincingly guide readers towards forming their own vision and realization of a more enlightened healthcare system.
Tapping into the richness of his experiences practicing medicine in the United States and overseas, Dr. Orr’s accounts in A Pediatrician’s Journal are full of compassion and conviction, strength and vulnerability and bring the reader along on an amazing journey with a behind the scenes and very candid look at the world of medicine. Real-life stories and experiences of every-day families spanning the globe from villages in third world countries like Honduras and Guatemala to the suburbs of Boston will cause the reader to reexamine the way they look at their own healthcare system and provide them with a renewed sense of what is truly important in healthcare: the connection with their doctor.
Professionals and families in the healthcare system today are seeking a more meaningful and positive way to recreate and redefine what medicine is today and how it influences their lives. A Pediatrician’s Journal is the groundbreaking book that shows them the way.
About: Dr. Brian Orr
Paperback: $14.00 (ISBN: 9780825305825)
E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825306372)
Medical
288 Pages
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You Must Remember This is published on the 40th anniversary of the most exhilarating, turbulent, violent and tragic year in modern U.S. political history. In it, author Lansing Lamont offers the personal eyewitness narrative of a national magazine correspondent who covered the assassinations, riots and burnings that accompanied the fiercely fought presidential campaign that year – 1968. He etches the personalities and characters of the outsize figures who commanded the political stage. Forty years later, the nation is consumed with another fateful presidential campaign, another war, another transformative young political figure who has excitingly captured the public’s imagination as Robert Kennedy did in 1968. What was it like reporting the legendary events of ’68? How do the two years, 1968 and 2008 – the stakes, the key players, the national moods – compare? 1968 is the transforming year in a broad canvas of exciting decades, from the Kennedys’ Camelot to 9/11, which You Must Remember This explores through the eyes of a veteran journalist who was there when it happened.
About: Lansing Lamont
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305832)
Memoir
264 Pages
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Anyone who read George Orwell’s 1984 before that date will remember being amazed at just how much his prophecy came true. In Above Empyrean, political pundit Bruce Herschensohn gives us another, equally frightening glimpse into a possible future.
Above Empyrean is a fictional projection of what the author believes lies ahead if the United States loses the Global War against Islamist Terrorism. Herschensohn explains, “Although this book is fictional, the descriptions of the U.S. takeover are based, with accuracy, on real, non-fictional takeovers of other nations and territories by tyrannical forces in recent times. This story of what could lie ahead was painful to imagine and even more painful to write. But the greatest pain of all will come not if it is written or read, but if it is lived.”
About: Bruce Herschensohn
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305160)
E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825305245)
Fiction
224 pages
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Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda follows the inspiring journey of twenty orphans who overcame tremendous hardships to form a dance troupe and become cultural ambassadors for their troubled country. They have brought their intense energy and joy to audiences across the US over
the past ten years, which have resulted in their support of more than 700 orphans in Uganda. Rising from the extreme poverty and devastation wrought by AIDS and civil war in Uganda to receive standing ovations while touring the best theaters in the US, these exceptional children bring good news from Africa.
About the Author: Doug Menuez
ISBN: 978-0-8253-0585-6
$35.00 Hardcover
Photography
156 Pages 9×12
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All author royalties from the sale of this book are awarded to the Goldman Family.
In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but he was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims’ families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression.
Twelve years later, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson revealed how he would have committed the murders—under the pretense that his confession was “hypothetical.” In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. Just one year later, Federal Court Judge A. Jay Cristol awarded the Goldman family the rights to If I Did It. Thus began one of the strangest odysseys in publishing history.
Originally written by O.J. Simpson, the Goldmans published a new edition of the book in the fall of 2007, which included essays written by members of the Goldman family, a member of the Goldman family legal team, and O.J.’s ghostwriter that reveal the fascinating story behind the bankruptcy case, the book’s publication, and the looming court proceedings, which would eventually lead to his conviction. The book, called “one of the most chilling things I have ever read” by Barbara Walters, skyrocketed up bestseller lists across the country in the months following publication as the national media relentlessly covered O.J. Simpson’s dramatic Las Vegas arrest for armed robbery and kidnapping.
The Goldman family views the book as his confession and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson’s original manuscript with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary from those whose lives were forever changed by the heinous crime.
About: The Goldman Family
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305887)
Paperback: $14.95 (ISBN: 9780825305931)
E-book: $14.95 (ISBN: 9780825305870)
True Crime/ Biography
254 pages
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Today’s modern parents have it all together. When they arrive home with the new baby, they have everything they need. Diapers? Check. Baby bottles? Check. Cute little undershirts? Check. Copy of Good Night, Moon? Check. Actual baby? Check. The owner’s manual??? Boy, that’s the one thing you can’t do without. After all, you need one for your wide-screen HDTV and another for your printer/copier/fax/scanner/telephone/cappuccino maker, right?
Well, Baby: An Owner’s Manual by Dr. Bud Zukow and Nancy Sayles Kaneshiro is the perfect book for parents who wish their babies came with a set of instructions.
Baby: An Owner’s Manual, in this newly revised and updated edition, is a book that was born out of necessity. “No matter how many babies you’ve been around during your life, no matter how many books you’ve read, how much advice you’ve received, nothing prepares you for the thrilling, joyful, absolutely petrifying moment when you two get his baby home and the door closes,” the authors explain.
Subtitled A Beloved Pediatrician Answers Your First 365 Phone Calls, this indispensable book has an easy-to-read, Q & A format. Each question is answered with an encouraging, nonjudgmental solution and expert, up-to-the-minute advice…short and sweet…just the right length for parents to read when they need quick answers.
About: Dr. Bud Zukow and Nancy Sayles Kaneshiro
E-book: $14.95 (ISBN: 9780825306389)
Parenting
240 pages
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During his remarkable voluntary career, Gordon Zacks has worked closely with three American presidents, five Israeli prime ministers, and countless others who have made a difference in the world through their character, courage and leadership. Defining Moments is an anthology of profiles and first hand accounts that describe these courageous and extraordinary leaders – most well known, but some not – who seized the moment to make the world a better place.
Each of the individuals profiled in Defining Moments was challenged to do the right thing at a critical moment. None of them, Zacks maintains, would have had the courage to do so without strong personal character and a clear moral compass. The stories are built around Zacks’ personal experience and penetrating understanding of human goals and motivations.
From each of these individuals, and many more, Zacks gleans the key lessons he learned and presents them in ways that are relevant and actionable for today’s leader. For readers seeking to identify their passion in life and to clarify their purpose, Defining Moments is an extraordinary guide that teaches through memorable experiences – the stories in the book reveal valuable lessons on finding and following a path to a more rewarding life.
Author profits from the sale of this book are being donated to charity.
About the Author: Gordon Zacks
ISBN: 978-0-825305-41-2
$25.95 Hardcover
Anthology
280 Pages 6.25×9.25
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Imagine getting career advice from Muhammad Ali; a lesson in stardom from Bill Clinton; watching Don Rickles embarrass one of your most important customers; being caught red-handed using the product of your client’s biggest competitor; lying to the president of the United States; firing your wife from your company; taking Lee Iacocca bowling at midnight; seeing your weekend with “another woman” advertised on a billboard.
The stories in Funny Business really happened. They come from Allen Rosenshine’s more than forty years at BBDO, one of the world’s foremost advertising agencies. And what a supporting cast-Jack Welch, George H.W. Bush, Michael Jackson, Joe DiMaggio, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Lou Dobbs, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Louis, Henry Kissinger, Bob Newhart, Catfish Hunter, Thurman Munson, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Don King, Luciano Pavarotti, Tommy Lasorda, Lionel Richie, Duke Snider, and many other movers and shakers-a host of famous names (and a few aliases) in less than famous but truly funny scenarios.
The moguls-many of America’s most recognizable captains of industry-appear in scenes not customary in any corporate boardroom. The mobsters are characters far more funny than threatening. The megastars-from presidents to pop artists to pro athletes-are captured here as no camera has ever seen them. When these crowds mix with the madcap world of Madison Avenue, it is never business “as usual.”
And there’s the author himself, owning up to his own follies, foibles, and foul-ups-a comic counterpoint to his recognition as one of the most prominent people in advertising.
Funny Business is not just about business. It’s about all of us-the only creatures on earth who can laugh at ourselves.
About: Allen Rosenshine
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305399)
Business
296 pages
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Intricately-plotted with unexpected twists and hair-raising turns, Chameleon is the story of Jon Phillips, a highly successful Wall Street bond trader whose excesses-a lavish Upper East Side apartment, gorgeous women with expensive drug habits, fancy cars, and his desire for millions-know no bounds. After years of selfishness and extravagance, he plans his exit through an unprecedented deal. As a last hurrah and a way to secure his financial future, he attempts to gain control of the U.S. Government bond market in one of the largest transactions ever seen on Wall Street. He will make millions, but the barely-legal procedure incurs enormous financial and regulatory risk for the investment bank he works for and requires the participation of some less-than-honorable investors. After the transaction goes spectacularly wrong, the bank immediately fires him. Worse, he soon finds himself on the run from a disreputable Russian financier/gangster who had invested in his scheme in order to launder money through the U.S. financial markets.
As the Russians desperately attempt to recover their lost millions, Jon becomes the target of an intense manhunt. Past lovers, new menaces, and numerous apparently accidental deaths line his trail, testing his ability to change and adapt. Female conquests come back to haunt him as this revealing look at the world of big money and the people who get caught up in it unfolds. Jon’s survival depends on putting the past behind him and becoming a calculated predator instead of the vulnerable prey.
About: Richard Hains
Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305108)
E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825305504)
Fiction/Thriller
336 pages
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