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  • City Room

    by Arthur Gelb ...
    A New York Times Notable BookArthur Gelb was hired by The New York Times in 1944 as a night copyboy—the paper’s lowliest position. Forty-five years later, he retired as its managing editor. Along the way, he exposed crooked cops and politicians, mentored a generation of our most-talented journalists, was the first to praise the as-yet-undiscovered Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand, and brought Joe ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • By Women Possessed

    A Life of Eugene O'Neill

    Celebrated for their books on Eugene O’Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize–winning American playwright.This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Four Plays By Eugene O'Neill

    Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with destiny. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Empty Bowl

    Poems of the Holocaust and After

    In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art. Her poems, written largely in the words of a fifteen-year-old survivor, provide historical entry into the Holocaust. Put simply, the poems explore the reality of the events experienced by Sherman in her determination to survive—from first leaving home to illegal border ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir

    **WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize—Western Canada Jewish Book AwardsNATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through ... Read more

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  • It Seemed Important at the Time

    A Romance Memoir

    An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrated and fabled women.Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed, beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world. Stunningly beautiful herself, yet ... Read more

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  • Still Alive

    A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

    by Ruth Kluger ...
    Series series The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series
    A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she ... Read more

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  • Paris Without End

    The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

    "A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel." — VogueHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Antifa Comic Book

    100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements

    by Gord Hill ...
    The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the acclaimed author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the ... Read more

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  • The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition

    Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries

    Series series Snark Series
    The bestselling book on the art of the insult is back and it’s more blasphemous than ever. Author and snark connoisseur Lawrence Dorfman does his absolute worst, dishing out hundreds of clever insults for all situations and occasions. From careful instructions on how and when to throw a verbal punch to an expertly curated collection of the best insults in history, this uproarious little book has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Survivor Café

    The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAn “impressive, highly readable” exploration of “atrocity, trauma, and memory” that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events—“a powerful book” (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer).As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century’s most monumental events—the Holocaust, Hiroshima, ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Youth - An Analysis of Mein Kampf

    An Analysis of Mein Kampf, #1

    Series Book 1 - An Analysis of Mein Kampf
    Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf, the official doctrine of the NAZI regime during WWII, is not a book that many would consider to read. Modern society is generally very well acquainted with Hitler and the ultimate outcome of his philosophical stances and will automatically denounce such notions based on a purely humanitarian and moral standpoint. The book remains illegal in many parts of ... Read more

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