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
The story of how little Academy Chicago Publishers (co-owned by the author and her husband, Jordan Miller) tried to publish the late John Cheever's uncollected short stories, and was blocked from doin
The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. There are 13 total, 11 of which are not available anywhere else, including the new Library of America edition. Intere
Set in the Ontario city of Fort York in 1940, this novel introduces readers to Albert V. Tretheway (pronounced TreTHOOee), an oversized Inspector in the Fort York Police Department, along with his col
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
Schramm (1894-1970) was Hitler's official war diarist from January 1943 to the end of the war. Here are The Anatomy of a Dictator, the introduction to Hitler's Table Talk and The Military Leader,
A highly personal account of India's time of subjugation to the British Empire, from the beginnings of the East India Company in the 17th century to February 1948 when the last British soldiers left.
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.
It was a bitter-cold morning in March, 1908. A 19-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago - a one-and-one-half hour journey - from his ghetto home on Washb
This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, “does what good historical fiction is supposed to
A fascinating family saga set in the 1860s prairie of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Pioneer and Civil War veteran Henry Morgan sets out on a dramatic journey that takes him through mazes, river currents,
An engrossing account that was published to great reviews in 2006. To quote Publishers Weekly, “Narcissists don't make ideal mothers, and Basia Padowicz Weisbrem was no exception. When her son, Yulek,
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have
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
Early in the twentieth century, Itkeh leaves her home in Russia for America, her innocent heart slowly developing passion as she navigates the traveler's troubles en route to the new world. Lazebnik's
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.
This Unusual Novel is set in Paris in the 1960s, where the vestiges of its storied Bohemian past still barely cling. It is a time when the new wave of feminism has not yet taken hold, when men furious
