The Elvis Encyclopedia, the product of over six years of research, was created to help bring order to the massive amount of material written about Elvis Presley. In doing so, it stands as the most co
Working as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theater during a sweltering summer in 1928 Berlin, Sascha Knisch is wrongfully accused of murder when his latest sexual fetish partner is found dead, a c
Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, grows toward maturity when he renounces his inheritance, abdicates his throne, and journeys forth into the unknown world, in the epic conclusion of the Gormenghast t
For more than fifty years, Milton Glaser has designed much of the world we live and experience every day. His posters, books, albums, restaurants, advertisements, and so much more have identified him
Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf hopes to win fame by being the first to identify craters in the landscape made by meteorites, joining a small geolo
A tale based on the life of the reclusive poet follows Emily Dickinson's precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her i
A book of lists for serious movie aficionados is a celebration of Hollywood's superlatives, from the top ten movies that make cigarettes look cool and the loosest screen adaptations to the dodgiest de
An off-Broadway comedy presents scenes from the bible told from a flamboyantly gay perspective and begins with the story of banished Adam and Eve, who meet Jane and Mabel, the earth's original couple.
The Clicking of Cuthbert features high comedy from the noble and ancient game of golf: even golf-haters will be unable to resist the combination of physical farce, verbal wit, and the gallery of unfor
A young man growing up in Truckstown, Pennsylvania, fascinated by the "Sacred Voodoo Chamber" of the Scranton Art Museum, is transformed into a zombie, a process that becomes his guiding force in life
Berekiah Zarco, a young manuscript illustrator, searches for the killer of his uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist discovered murdered in a secret synagogue, in a historical mystery set in sixteenthce
In this exquisitely crafted and unique book, Donald Norfolk offers a fresh and illuminating approach to what has been a treasured part of human culture for more than nine thousand years: the garden. A
A memoir and an examination of the the nature of Jewish identity in an increasingly secular world are illustrated through the author's wrestling match with questions of faith and cultural identity and
When the two women closest to him die within a week of one another, John Duckworth, ex-crime reporter and full-time cynic, must come to grips with his own closed-off emotions as well as the weight of
Susan Peterson, one of the world's foremost authorities and educators in the field of ceramics, and author of the classic master course, The Craft and Art of Clay, has thoroughly revised and updated
One of America's preeminent dramatists, Horton Foote returns to the fictional town of Harrison, Texas, with two captivating plays about the bewildering and unsettling encroachment of change in the Ame
Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck
Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mis
