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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Hank Morgan, nineteenth-century New Englander, is knocked on the head with a crowbar and wakes up to find himself in sixth century England, during the reign of King Arthur. Ever resourceful, he determines to be boss of the entire country within three weeks.... With an introduction by Professor Werner Sollers. ISBN 1 59264 048 6, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 049 4, hardback, $9.95 More info...
A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem by Aharon Appelfeld A Table For One is an interchange between one artist and another, father and son, about their city, Jerusalem. It brings together an unknown side of Aharon Appelfeld's writing, with the subtle, haunting paintings of his son, Meir Appelfeld, who studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, and exhibits widely. In this treasure of a book, Appelfeld reveals the centrality of Jerusalem in his life and work. However, his "city of light" proved far more than a shelter and the place where he came of age and spent his adult life: it became his inspiration - the quarry of his imagination... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-110-5, Pages: c.250, 11¼"x10½" US$19.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The storming of the Bastille, the trundling death carts with their doomed human cargo, the chillingly merciless guillotine; this is the frenzied Paris in revolt that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With an introduction by Professor H.M.Daleski. ISBN 1 59264 042 7, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 043 5, hardcover, $9.95 More info...
A Trick of Light by Karen Blomain When Hattie Darling’s husband Ben dies on his first night home from an extended business trip, she is devastated. But when she finds among his belongings evidence that there had been another woman in his life, Hattie is unable to mourn Ben as she thinks she should... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-42-7 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More info...
Absence by Raymond Tallis "Set in pre-Thatcherite days and subtitled 'A Metaphysical Comedy', this is a wildly irreverent story of a young doctor recovering from a relationship that never happened. Exploring a variety of disparate themes—absence and obsession, racism and post-structuralism—Nick Page does for the National Health Service what the Marx Brothers did for Opera." Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-00-1 Pages: 192 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Adiel by Shlomo DuNour Adiel is a re-telling of the Old Testament story of the Bible, from the Creation of Adam and Eve through the ten generations, culminating with Noah and the Flood. It is told through the observations of Adiel, an angel, appointed by God and the archangel Michael, whose responsibility it is to record the events of Man, a sort of protective angel of history. Winner of the 1999 JERUSALEM PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Selected for the BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PROGRAM Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-32-X Pages: 304 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 24.95 More Info...
Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato When war breaks out in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in their tank battalion, but in the chaos of battle the friends are separated. A month later, Haim returns alone, on his first leave home... Winner of the SAPIR PRIZE, ISRAEL Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-70-2 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
After the Campfires by Per Jorner A magical saga, reminiscent of the best of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. Beautifully written in a refreshing style, and illustrated by one of Britain’s leading graphic artists, this is the story of four friends, their picaresque lives, and the moral choices that confront them. An influential and wildly popular novel in Sweden, After the Campfires transports you into new worlds. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-04-4 Pages: 594 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Aleppo Tales by Haim Sabato The Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria, the biblical Aram Soba is one of the world's most ancient, guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasting a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple. In this collection of three tales, the central novella, The Wheel Turns Full Circle, is a rare gem. Sabato interlaces the history of one family with the social and political turmoil spanning over a century... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-051-6 Pages: 250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
An Apology for Autumn by David Turrill Jim Gudsen is just a regular guy, newly returned from the killing fields of Vietnam - cynical about life in general and religion in particular. His older brother Herkimer is different - always has been. Jim is about to find out just how different. A Lutheran minister, Herkimer is defrocked by his Church for his refusal to expel a gay couple from his conservative congregation. In the process of reevaluating his beliefs, Gudsen claims that God has spoken directly to him, and told him he must "Gather the Twelve" - and do so before his wife Megan succumbs to the ravages of cancer... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-090-7, Pages: c.450, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: September 2004 More Info...
An Umbrian War by Romana Petri Set in the hills and countryside of Umbria, a sister and brother find themselves drawn into the Resistance during the final days of the Second World War. It is the last two years of war. The Germans are on the run, the local fascists engaged in a final desperate spree of cruelty and arrogance. Inside Alcina's heart there is fear; fear of loneliness and the terrible fear of death. She knows too much... Winner of the 1998 RAPALLO CARIGE PRIZE and the PALMI PRIZE. Finalist for the STREGA PRIZE, ITALY Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-14-1 Pages: 266 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Antioxidants and Other Stories by Terry Bennett The ten stories in Antioxidants and other stories expose men and women whose lives have reached turning points they can't ignore. Meet a woman on the rebound from a breakup who takes a chance with a blind photographer; a song writer, shattered by the death of his brother; a shy savant who wields the I-Ching to avoid a broken heart; a young woman who declares her love with a daring tattoo; a teacher who must pay his gambling debts tutoring the son of a loan shark; a professor testing his rejected doctoral thesis through an encounter of the flesh in Tahiti, and others... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-084-2, Pages: c.200, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info...
Avishag by Yael Lotan Lotan’s meticulously researched novel wears its mantle of scholarship lightly as it breathes life into a fascinating period of the bible—the reigns of David and Solomon in Jerusalem, some three thousand years ago... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-55-9 Pages: 236 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Before Hiroshima: The Confession of Murayama Kazuo and other stories by Joshua Barkan As death approaches, an old Japanese man finds it necessary to cleanse his soul, to confront the mistakes of his youth and to confess about a time when he might have been able to save the thousands who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-13-3 Pages: 148 8˝"x6˝" US$12.95 More Info...
Besides & Other Stories by Uri Nissan Gnessin Gnessin is recognized as one of the fathers of modern Hebrew literature. His stream-of-consciousness technique has greatly influenced contemporary authors. This is the first English language edition of many of his works, which bring together some of his finest writings, including Besides, The Time Before, Uproar and Sideways. ISBN 1 59264 093 1, paperback, $14.95 Publication date: November 2004 More info...
Beulah Land by Krista McGruder In Beulah Land’s thirteen stories, lush country settings are juxtaposed against taut urban landscapes. Every character speaks out with their own unique, inimitable and intimate voice. Between New York City and Key West, between the Dakotas and Oklahoma, Krista McGruder’s prose creates a literate, disparate landscape of people both wandering and entrenched. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-027-3, Pages: 285, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 More Info...
Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson "Being country is as much a part of me as my full lips, wide hips, dreadlocks and high cheek bones. There are many Black country folks who have lived and are living in small towns, up hollers and across knobs. They are all over the South-scattered like milk thistle seeds in the wind. The stories in this book are centered in these places." Winner of the 2002 CHAFFIN LITERARY AWARD Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-34-6 Pages: 184 8˝"x5˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Breznitz by Haim Lapid A lovesick, introspective detective investigates the murder of an unidentified corpse found in the woods near Jerusalem. An Arab suspect is captured and confesses, but Breznitz is not convinced he's the killer... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-15-X Pages: 244 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Butterfly Weed by Donald Harington "Inspired, playful storytelling from one of our most consistently original (and impish) novelists who now returns to his Ozark version of Shangri-la - the village of Stay More, a place hard to find but infinitely harder to leave. This latest installment, a history of the complex love life and remarkable medical achievements of Doc Colvin Swain, Stay More's "dreaming Doctor," is no different: Apprenticed as a young boy to a hill doctor, he learns to use both a wide range of herbal remedies and conventional cures..." Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-097-4 Pages: 200 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info...
Cardiofitness by Alessandra Montrucchio At the age of twenty-six are you grown up or not? Four friends go to the gym to rid their soul of the poison of routine. And there, Stefania meets Stefano, whom she calls Tendina, with his long and delicate neck, who gives off the scent of sandalwood. And why should she resist anyway? A relationship between a fifteen-year-old and a twenty-six-year-old is hardly ridiculous, it’s not even a case of pedophilia. It’s a relationship, that’s all. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-03-6 Pages: 192 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Chains Around the Grass by Naomi Ragen Set in the 1950’s in New York City, Chains Around the Grass is a portrait of a Jewish-American family that glows with affection, tenderness, and courage when tragedy changes the lives of all who are left behind. A passionately personal and heartfelt book, based heavily on autobiographical material, this is the book Ms. Ragen says that she became an author to write. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-53-2 Pages: 256 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 26.95 Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-72-9 Pages: 394 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-82-6, Pages: 164, 8˝"x5˝" US$12.95 More Info...
Dakhmeh by Naveed Noori An idealistic young man driven by nostalgia and romantic notions of the country he left as a child, Arash returns to Iran to start a new life and do his share to help rebuild the country. As he explores the streets of Tehran, he finds a society plagued by contradictions and confronts a disgruntled and cynical populace for whom the promises of the Revolution never materialized... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-77-X 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield," wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and the first-person narrative was a new departure for him stylistically. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a 'complicated interweaving of truth and fiction', at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr. Micawber, one of Dickens' greatest comic creations. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-060-5 Pages: c.500 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-061-3 Pages: c.500 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Disappearing Act by Beatrice Colin Crippled when her horse fell on her, the lithe, tiny and feisty Wing, can no longer continue her heady life as a tightrope walker and circus performer. When she receives a mysterious package that contains a memoir written by Helena, the mother who she never knew, Wing learns of her mother's bizarre and ultimately tragic story... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-40-0 Pages: 212 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Double Blank by Yasmina Khadra Ben Ouda, a senior ranking diplomat is found savagely murdered. Is this yet another victim of the never ending Islamic fundamentalist violence plaguing Algiers? Inspector Llob has doubts: Ben Ouda had too many friends, too many far fetched theories… Against the background of a city in turmoil, Inspector Llob navigates the Algiers underworld and its rich elite. He resists the pressure of politicians, fundamentalists and crooks, in his pursuit of the truth... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-119-9, Pages: c.250, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$12.95 Publication date: March 2005 More Info...
Editors Saul Bellow and Keith Botsford This rich feast of writing, the fruit of a 50-year journalistic collaboration, features over 80 works of fiction, commentary and essays by some of the finest writers of our period. Most of these works have never been published in book form. A profoundly personal collection from two of our generation's leading writers. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-35-4 Pages: 1120 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 39.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-36-2 Pages: 1120 8˝"x6˝" US$ 29.95 More Info...
8 Great Hebrew Short Novels selected and edited by Alan Lelchuk and Gershon Shaked This is an outstanding anthology comprising complete novellas by some of the finest Hebrew writers of the past century. S.Y.Agnon, Yosef Brenner, Uri Gnessin, Yitzhak Shami, David Fogel, Amos Oz, Yehoshua Kenaz and A.B. Yehoshua are all represented in newly revised translations. Selected and edited by Alan Lelchuk and Gershon Shaked, with an outstanding introduction by Alan Lelchuk, this is an indispensable volume for students of modern Hebrew literature. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-112-1, US$14.95 Publication date: March 2005 More Info...
Ekaterina by Donald Harington "Both allusionary and illusionary, Ekaterina centers around a Georgian (as in the former USSR) princess/mycologist/dissident who arrives in the United States with a rudimentary knowledge of English, a passion for pubescent boys, and a deep-seated fear that her Russian psychiatrist tormentor, Bolshakov, is still on her trail. With the help of a ghost and an alcoholic art historian-cum-novelist, she discovers her own talent for fiction and makes enough money to take over a suite of rooms in an old mountain resort hotel (a la Nabokov)..." Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-96-6 Pages: c.300 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info...
Eminence by Morris West Luca Rossini was once a young priest savagely tortured by the Argentinian military in the 1970s. To cover up the scandal, Rossini was taken back to Rome and kept in exile. Under the patronage of the reigning pontiff, he has become a cardinal, one of the church's most efficient diplomats and a member of the Electoral College. When the reigning pope dies, Luca loses his patron-though not his power or his iron will-and his faith, already shaken by his past, is tested anew. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-69-9 Pages: 328 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
Emma by Jane Austen First published in 1816, Emma is generally regarded as Jane Austen's most technically brilliant and comic work. An heiress who is determined not to marry ends up falling in love. Emma Woodhouse is a snob, a meddler, and spoilt; but she is also clever, funny, generous, and compassionate. As in all of Jane Austen's works, the simple theme of courtship belies the complexity of her vision of human nature. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-04-4 8ľ"x5ľ US$9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-00-1 8˝"x5˝" US$7.95 More Info...
Emma H. by II Magdalen Emma H. was an enigma; a beautiful rich girl with the world at her feet, she had been a devout Catholic whose beauty seduced all classes and types of men. Flirting first with communism, then with fascism, she had been shot as a collaborator in a summary execution in Belgium in 1945, at the tender age of nineteen. Nearly forty years later, Henning Forsell is invited to Belgium by Emma’s aunt, who wants the truth about her niece’s execution, carried out almost a year after all such retributive acts had ended. She knows that four men were involved, she knows who three of them were, but what she wants to know is why... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-67-2 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Failing Paris by Samantha Dunn Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the City of Light offers her no refuge. With only one week to address a dire problem, Sabineˇ¦s past and present painfully collide. Her life intertwines with two men who prove to be both more, and less, than they first appeared... Nominated for the PEN USA/West FICTION PRIZE 2000 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-01-X Pages: 146 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-17-6 Pages: 169 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Flight to Afar by Alfred Andersch A boy dreaming of Huckleberry Finn, a mortally ill Pastor, a disillusioned Communist, a young Jewish girl running for her life - meet in a half-derelict Baltic fishing village and are drawn into a daring plan of escape from Nazi Germany. At the center of their plan is a small statue in the Pastor's church... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-074-5 Pages: 100 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
Foiglman by Aharon Megged Zvi Arbel is an Israeli historian whose chosen field is Jewish history. His work is read by the Yiddish poet Foiglman, a Holocaust survivor who sends Arbel a volume of his own poetry. The relationship that springs up between the two men is one of ambivalence and fascination; the reserved Israeli historian alternatingly sympathetic and suspicious, affectionate and resentful, towards the enthusiastic but tormented poet. Arbel embarks on an effort to get Foiglman's poetry translated into Hebrew, but as Foiglman begins to monopolize more and more of his time, the relationship drives a wedge between Arbel and his wife that leads to tragedy. Winner of the French WIZO Prize Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-032-X Pages: 250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
*Frank J. Webb: Fiction, Essays & Poetry* Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and their Friends is the first novel to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War Northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and "passing," and tells the story of the Garies and their friends the Ellises, a "highly respectable and industrious colored family." In addition to this new edition of The Garies, we are pleased to include new material by Webb, never before published in book form... ISBN 1 59264 098 2, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 099 0, hardcover, $9.95 Publication date: November 2004 More info...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens A classic study of the development of a man from child to adult, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip's life with Dickens' customary wryness, wit, and ready sympathy. In the heady process of gaining his great expectations, Pip must come to terms not just with the world around him, but with himself; his hopes and dreams, his past and future, in order to discover what is truly important to him... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-10-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-09-5 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Heaven's Witness by Joseph Telushkin and Allen Estrin In a dilemma that would have stumped Freud, budding psychoanalyst Dr. Jordan Geller is forced to confront the question: Can the same person be murdered twice? Once, Geller, a rationalist to his core, would have found the question absurd. But then Robin Norris, a beautiful actress desperate to overcome a problem with her singing voice, steps into his office, and his life. Geller hypnotizes her, and Robin quickly assumes the identity of Beverly Casper, a talented teenager who, thirty-two years earlier, had vanished into thin air, never to be seen or heard from again... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-091-5, Pages: c.200, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: September 2004 More Info...
House of Cards by Conall Ryan Martin Oakes is a professional poker player—cool, mysterious, ever appraising the hand life deals him. Martin Oakes never loses. He lives with his adored wife, Jennifer, outside Boston, where he has begun to develop a sideline that will shortly become central: he teaches problem kids how to play poker. These distraught, surprising adolescents figure they can turn poker to their own advantage; their parents hope the kids will get some sense drummed into them; and for Martin Oakes the poker classes become both a necessary escape and a fount of strength. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-61-3 Pages: 298 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
In the Name of God by Yasmina Khadra Imagine becoming accustomed to terror on a daily basis. Imagine finding it normal to betray your neighbour. Imagine your worst fears being replaced by complacency, your natural compassion by cold indifference. In the Name of God illustrates the way evil can become a part of everyday life. And it is the story of Algeria today. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-11-7 Pages: 224 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Jephte's Daughter by Naomi Ragen Abraham Ha-Levi is a wealthy American businessman and the last male survivor of an important Orthodox Jewish family. He decides it’s time he finally honored his religious and cultural inheritance and so forces his 18-year old daughter—the beautiful and intelligent Batsheva—into an arranged marriage... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-50-8 Pages: 445 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
Lazarus by Morris West West's bold limning of a modern pontiff presiding in a time of terrorism and violence. Leo XIV, a pope physically at risk as well as spiritually troubled, is unlike his warmly remembered predecessor, John XXIII. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, both the pope and his physician become prime targets of Islamic terrorists... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-116-4, Pages: c.300, US$14.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
Lennie & Vance & Benji by II Magdalen II Magdalen's third novel is loosely based on a true case of homosexual rape in a small Arkansas town. Not for the squeamish, the book touches on some deep and troubling issues: the nature of childhood sexuality, adolescent 'innocence', violence and voyeurism. Brief, provocative, troubling. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-46-X Pages: 190 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Lightning Bug by Donald Harington Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More — a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks — didn’t expect to see Every Dill again. More than ten years before, he had raped her, robbed the bank, and vanished - leaving her pregnant. Now Every has the nerve to reappear. An erotic yet wonderfully innocent tale of loss and of finding. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-102-4, Pages: c.450, US$14.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
Love, The Painter's Wife & The Queen of Sheba by Aliette Armel Love, The Painter's Wife and The Queen of Sheba tells two tales: that of the painter Piero della Francesca and his beloved wife, Silvia, and that of the Queen of Sheba's journey to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon. It is Silvia, the painter's wife, who recounts the latter, magical tale, as a means to inspire her husband to remain in their home in Arezzo, rather than accept the lure of a papal invitation to work in Rome... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-053-2, Pages: c.200, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
Lunar Eclipse by Alona Kimchi Kimchi's characters talk about themselves in an idiomatic, uninhibited language, sometimes coarse, sometimes violent. The rough force of these stories and their protagonists assign the author a very distinctive place in Israeli literature today. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-29-X Pages: 288 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
*Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature* Maggid is a bi-annual publication showcasing the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world. Maggid is proud to be an open journal, in English, for the literary expression of the multifaceted Jewish experience around the world. Our sole value is artistic excellence; our goal, the transcendent pleasure of reading. Each issue of Maggid presents fresh work by established authors as well as exciting new voices who are forging the future of Jewish letters. The first issue of Maggid celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Jewish settlement in North America and features the work of contemporary Jewish American writers in the United States and abroad. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-09-3, Pages: c.200, 8½"x5½" US$9.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info...
Major Voices in 19th Century American Women's Poetry Emily Dickinson et. al. There are a number of anthologies of nineteenth-century American women poets in print, but these tend to offer a very small sample of poems from a very large number of writers, often based around a specific topical concern. Major Voices, will instead present a substantial number of texts by a select group of poets, focusing in depth on the major voices of that time. This anthology will thus allow the reader the opportunity to engage more deeply with the poetry; to see the range within each poet's writings, and the relation among the poets. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-040-0 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-041-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Major Voices: 18th Century Women Playwrights Sallyann H. Ferguson, ed. From their arrival in the country, African American women writers have developed a literary tradition based on their own experiences and have consistently resisted attempts by patriarchal men and, especially, matriarchal women to romanticize and redefine that heritage. The black American woman's literary self-portrait began to come into focus during nearly three centuries of legalized rape by white men and their designates and sharpened its features during the ensuing eras of Jim Crow segregation and civil rights... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-076-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-077-X 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
Major Voices: 18th Century Women Playwrights Michael Caines, ed. Since Virginia Woolf acclaimed the seventeenth-century poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn as both a proto-feminist figure and an important author in her own right, interest in the history of women's writing in English has grown enormously. The plays in this anthology show the range of work that women were writing for the stage, from immensely successful comedies about love and marriage to social satire, melodrama and tragedy, catering to general readers, students and theater practitioners alike. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-058-3 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-059-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery ed. by Dr Eric Gardner The stage was a vital force in nineteenth-century America - especially in the debates over slavery and race. This original Toby anthology brings together, for the first time, a selection of plays that shaped the ways in which the drama of slavery was performed in the American theatre. From Susanna Rowson's 1794 Slaves in Algiers to M.C. Brown's 1894 The Landlord's Revenge; or Uncle Tom up to Date; from Lydia Maria Child's ardently abolitionist The Stars and Stripes to George Aiken's blatantly opportunistic Uncle Tom's Cabin, and from former slave William Wells Brown's The Escape to racist, pro-slavery minstrel texts, this anthology allows readers to see how Americans from diverse backgrounds and standpoints staged slavery... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-117-2, Pages: c.400, US$19.95, Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-118-0, Pages: c.400, US$14.95 Publication date: May 2005 More Info...
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Fanny Price is a poor relation, the eldest daughter of an inadvisable marriage, who grows up in her wealthy relatives’ household without ever being accepted as an equal. Her only real friend is her cousin Edmund, the younger of the family’s two sons. As the children attain adulthood, Mansfield Park becomes the scene of games, balls, and theatricals—but who will see timid Fanny as the eligible young woman that she is? Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-044-3 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-045-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 More Info...
Missing Persons by Hartmut Lange The themes of absence pervade all the works in this unsettling, unusual collection. In The Poster, a German bank director, strolling through a park in Vienna, adds his name to a list of missing persons, thereby writing himself out of his humdrum life. Boarding a train to Venice, his travels intersect with that of a hooded stranger... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-27-3 Pages: 192 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
*Modern Hebrew Literature* For over 40 years, Modern Hebrew Literature has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's hyper-active literary scene. Now published by The Toby Press and edited by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, each issue will include translations of excerpts from forthcoming new novels and short stories, articles on a variety of literary topics, interviews with authors, and a selection of poetry and reviews of books recently published in Hebrew. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-092-3, Pages: c.200, 8½"x5½" US$9.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
Morituri by Yasmina Khadra This remarkable roman policier introduces us to the formidable and yet very human detective-writer, Superintendent Llob and his devoted lieutenant Lino. It follows Llob in his search for the missing daughter of Ghoul Malek, one of the top power brokers in Algiers. In his search, Llob must traverse the fear-filled streets of Algiers, from the dens of the drug pushers to those of the cruel and fanatical Islamic fundamentalists. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-035-4 Pages: 175 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Morpheus by Katharina Hacker In seven exquisitely crafted stories, the world of classical mythology comes to life—in ways you would never expect. Katharina Hacker’s vivid, literate imagination has created a masterpiece, seven separate stories yet all interlinked, of figures of Greek antiquity inexplicably—or explicably—living in the modern world... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-66-4 Pages: 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Night Watch by Malin Lindroth A night-nurse in a psychiatric ward is on duty at the bedside of a sleeping mother who has confessed to the criminal murder of her own child. The nurse finds herself strangely drawn to the silent patient, with whom no word is ever exchanged. But thoughts about the patient's deeds trigger a series of disturbing memories... Winner of the AFTONBLADET AWARD, SWEDEN Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-39-7 Pages: 198 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Nude Untitled by Beatrice Colin Kate, the highly strung-editor of a fashionable London magazine, is determined to wrest the secret diaries of a newly discovered Russian painter of the Revolutionary period from the woman she thinks was his mistress. Clara, however, has her own agenda... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-43-5 Pages: 272 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The gaunt, pathetic figure of orphan Oliver being refused more gruel has become a literary and cultural icon, embedded in the national consciousness as a searing image of poverty and helplessness. Full of vivid characterizations, biting irony and ghoulish humor, Oliver Twist is one of Dickens‚ most enduringly popular works. Library Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-07-9 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-06-0 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Other People's Fathers by Romana Petri Her father, Romana Petri wrote, "was different from all other men, because he knew great joy, the sudden overturning of grief, unreasoning optimism." But he was not like the fathers of other people. And it was this sad revelation that led her to write this book, part stories, part reminiscence. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-38-9 Pages: 126 8˝"x6˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Out of Nowhere by Keith Botsford O Brother! described as "extraordinarily direct and true," portrays the life of a con-artist infatuated with his mother, with sex and charm, and inhabiting a world of pure fantasy which reality always returns to destroy. Olga and Snow tells of a Russian waif who is bedded by a series of extraordinary figures from the Soviet Union, including a commissar for culture and a Nobel Prize dissident poet... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-25-7 Pages: 304 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Overcoming Infertility by Richard V. Grazi In the twelve years since Dr. Grazi's first collection appeared, Be Fruitful And Multiply: Fertility Therapy and the Jewish Tradition, there have been huge advances both in medical techniques and an evolving Halacha. Overcoming Infertility accounts for these advances, and will become an indispensable reference for observant Jewish couples who require fertility therapy, rabbis, and educators. While innovative technologies bring many new and difficult questions, advances in the field of infertility have brought happiness to infertile couples around the world. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-106-7, Pages: c.300, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: June 2005 More Info...
Persuasion by Jane Austen Persuasion, Austen's last completed novel, is a moving tale of love lost and regained, set within the milieu of England's complex upper class society. Long ago, Anne Elliot let the love of her life get away. Eight years before the action of the novel begins, she rejected the marriage proposal of the penniless Captain Wentworth, having been persuaded that he was not a good enough match for her. Now she lives a quiet life with her sisters and father - but when Captain Wentworth, having made his fortune at sea, reappears in their midst, Anne must reexamine her decision... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-100-8 Pages: c.500 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-101-6 Pages: c.250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Published anonymously in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is a superb comedy of manners. In recounting the courtship of the witty, independent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates the prejudices of society as a whole with subtle humor. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-01-X 8ľ"x5ľ" US$9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-00-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Random Harvest and Other Novellas by Haim Nachman Bialik Bialik is celebrated as one of the leading figures in modern Jewish literature. Although most famous for his Hebrew poems, Bialik was also a master of short prose. Often expressing a realism and social awareness associated with the Russia of his youth, Bialik's stories showcase his gift for lyricism, symbolism and humor, captured in engaging vignettes of life in the Ukrainian countryside. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-094-X 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines by Daniel Rogov Over the past two decades, the wine producers of Israel have raised their standards to world-class levels. With over 120 wineries now producing thousands of wines annually, Israeli wines have made their way onto the world wine scene. Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines is the only comprehensive guide to the exciting new and growing phenomenon of Israeli wines. In a convenient pocket sized format, Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines will be published annually. The 2005 Guide reviews and rates in detail all available wines from Israel, through the 2003 vintage. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-087-7, Pages: c.250, 7Ľ"x3" US$14.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
Sand Devil by Michael Bornstein Oren The heat of the Negev Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in House of Bondage. In The Maestro of Yerucham, a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in Sand Devil, the adolescent son of a fundamentalist family discovers the terrifying secrets of the desert. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-37-0 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
Scholarium by Claudia Gross An overcast, rainy night in Cologne. A neighborhood is wrenched suddenly from its sleep by piercing screams. As residents rush down to the street, they catch only the merest glimpse of a figure in a billowing cloak hastening from the scene. The master cloth-maker is about to set off in hot pursuit when he finds on the ground a book, a pair of sleeves, shoes, a shirt and hose; and the body of Frederico Casall, a Master of the Seven Liberal Arts and an impassioned champion of the teachings of Thomas Aquinas... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-056-7 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: June 2004 More Info...
Selected Poetry & Drama by Lea Goldberg Lea Goldberg (1911-1970) was born in Russia, and came to Palestine in 1935. She was a highly successful poet, children's author, theater critic, translator and editor. In 1952, she established the Hebrew University's Department of Comparative Literature, and was later awarded the Israel Prize. This collection features a new translation by Rachel Tzvia Back of a large selection of Goldberg's poetry, as well at T. Carmi's classic translation of her only work for the theater, The Lady of the Castle. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-111-3, Pages: c.250, US$14.95 Publication date: May 2005 More Info...
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Austen pursues a central theme; the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor, a sensible, rational creature, and Marianne wildly romantic - characteristics that offer Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-064-8 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-065-6 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Sixth Form 1939 by Marcella Olschki In Sixth Form 1939, a young Italian Jewish girl is in her last year at school. She has professors she admires, headmasters who blare propaganda and make inflated speeches, and one teacher--a vitriolic portrait of fascist contempt for truth and justice--whom she loathes for his bullying and his contemptible sense of superiority. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-63-X Pages: 72 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
Some other Place. The Right Place. by Donald Harington A love story with reincarnation! A teenage boy, Day Whittacker, begins to speak in the voice of a poet dead since 1953. The poet's granddaughter, Diana Stoving, seeks him out, and they begin a journey together from New England ending in Stick Around, Arkansas. One of Harington's most devious narratives, and a precursor to the Stay More cycle. Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-71-0 Pages: 500 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Sotah by Naomi Ragen Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem’s ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman’s struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety-three weeks on the best-seller list. Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-73-7 Pages: 754 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-51-6 Pages: 492 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
Soumchi by Amos Oz Soumchi is eleven years old, and growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem, just after World War II. His universe is enriched immeasurably when he is given a bicycle, but before he fulfills his dreams of riding into the desert and exploring Africa, he shows his new prize to a friend. Persuaded to swap his bicycle for a new train set, Soumchi's series of misadventures begin... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-038-9 Pages: 72 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Tales of Grabowski by John Auerbach Tales of Grabowski comprises two novellas, Transformations, and Escape, together with several short stories, all of which tell the story of David Gordon, a young Jew from Warsaw, who transforms himself into Wladyslaw Grabowski, a Polish stoker in the German merchant marine. Auerbach skillfully balances the internal tensions between Gordon’s desire to fight for revenge and Grabowski’s desperate need for survival... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-80-X Pages: 309 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) tells the story of a teenage misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. Considered the quintessential American novel, this book has influenced generations of readers with its humor and humanity. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-082-6 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-083-4 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info...
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington Jacob and Noah Ingledew trudge 600 miles from their native Tennessee to found Stay More, a small town nestled in a narrow valley that winds among the Arkansas Ozarks and into the reader's imagination. The Ingledew saga - which follows six generations of 'Stay Morons' through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving - is the heart of Harington's jubilant, picaresque novel. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-073-7 Pages: 400 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
The Ballad of the Low Lifes by Enrico Remmert Meet Vittorio and Milo, two young grifters living by their wits in modern Turin, getting by on petty scams and swindles. The two young men have kept an idea in a back drawer for years, the Big C - the Big Con. They're sure it will make them rich, but so far they haven't been able to get it off the ground. Enter Milo's uncle Grissino, a con-man with years of experience... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-054-0 Pages: c.250 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: June 2004 More Info...
The Blessing of a Broken Heart by Sherri Mandell Koby Mandell was 13 years old on May 8, 2001, when he and his friend Yosef were brutally stoned to death in a cave in the heart of the Judean desert. The extremity of hate in this act of terror shocked the world. How does a family pick up and carry on, how can they deal with the loss of a child through such horror? Koby's mother Sherri has written an absorbing, deeply painful and yet strangely beautiful account... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-029-X Pages: 235 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 More Info...
The Book of Abraham by Marek Halter A family saga with a difference, The Book of Abraham opens on the backdrop of a burning Jerusalem in 70 AD as Abraham the Temple scribe flees the destruction of his home. Two thousand years and a hundred generations later, another Abraham perishes, immolated in the fires of the Warsaw Ghetto. But the chain that links these two Abrahams is that of one family--the author's own. Over Five Million copies sold worldwide! Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-039-7 Pages: c.600 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 More Info...
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. Hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain — from a father’s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-105-9, Pages: c.200, US$12.95 Publication date: January 2005 More Info...
The Cherries of Freedom by Alfred Andersch Alfred Andersch's desertion from the Wehrmacht in 1944 was the turning point in his life, and the obvious climax to his long-standing revulsion towards and opposition to the Third Reich. In The Cherries of Freedom, a great and humane book, he interpreted his desertion from the Germany army not as fear of death but as an existential vote for life, liberty and all things non-totalitarian. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-052-4 Pages: c.200 8˝"x5˝" US$ 19.95 Publication date: May 2004 More Info...
The Chimney Tree by Helaine Helmreich The eldest daughter of the Rabbi of Dubnitz had always been a little different. Not satisfied with the mundane expectations of her friends, she refuses the suitors she is offered by her family. Yet Miriam's daring draws her down forbidden paths... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-031-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 More Info...
The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington Arkansas, 1914: A 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, Nail Chism, from Stay More, is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair - until his innocence is championed by the staff artist of the state's leading newspaper, a woman whose past amongst the artists in Paris is even stranger and more solitary than Nail's. Will she succeed in saving Nail? Or will the singing - "choiring" - of the trees that Nail hears while strapped into the chair be the last earthly (or unearthly) sound he will ever hear? Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-103-2, Pages: c.400, US$14.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
The Clowns of God by Morris West What would happen, if the members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end? Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power? Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-83-4 Pages: c.330 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 More Info...
The Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalongs, apprehend their environment through sniff whips and commit unwitting malapropisms about the mysterious world of Man (and Woman), Harington unleashes a sprightly, antic imagination. Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-72-9 Pages: c.400 8˝"x5˝" US$14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
The Colonel's Dream by Charles W Chesnutt Around the turn of the twentieth century and after having achieved financial success in New York, Colonel French returns to his hometown of Clarendon, NC, determined to use his great wealth to bring about racial harmony through economic prosperity, in a south still reeling from the social upheaval of the Civil War. He devises schemes to bring jobs to all members of the community - without regard to 'race' - but underestimates the power of deep-seated racism to undermine his efforts. Written by the first African American writer to be given serious attention by the mainstream American literary establishment. ISBN 1 59264 062 1, paperback, $7.95 ISBN 1 59264 063 x, hardcover, $9.95 Publication date: April 2004 More info...
The Crime of Writing by Haim Lapid This is an intelligent, sensitive and tense novel about the intimate triangle of man, woman and child, exploring sexual identity and the relationship between life and literature. A young woman meets an elderly Englishman, George Brown, while she is visiting London. After his death, she receives his written confession. Her husband, a novelist, decides to publish it... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-62-1 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
The Cybeline Conspiracy by Albert Noyer Surgeon Getorius Asterius, his wife Arcadia, the eunuch archpriest of a pagan fertility cult, the female head of a heretical Arian church, and an ambitious senator in league with a Chinese merchant: these are the prime movers in this mystery set in Ravenna, Italy, in A.D. 440. When Getorius is summoned to examine the castrated body of a youth found by Thecla in her Arian church, who is the sobbing "Vestal Virgin" nearby? Why is the senator smuggling counterfeit Western coins to the Eastern Empire, and contraband Chinese products back to Ravenna? Paperbackr: ISBN: 1-59264-033-8, Pages: c.400, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$14.95 Publication date: May 2005 More Info...
The Dance of Geometry by Brian Howell Brian Howell has masterfully interwoven three imagined episodes from the life of Johannes Vermeer. We observe the painter’s childhood and apprenticeship. We read a crime story involving an episode from the life of a modern-day ‘copyist’ who is blackmailed into forging a masterpiece to save the woman he loves. We follow a French connoisseur who travels to Delft to visit Vermeer, only to find himself embroiled in a clandestine and deadly debate of the Painter’s Guild about a new invention... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-47-8 Pages: 214 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Death of King Tsongor by Laurent Gaudé The marriage of King Tsongor's only daughter, Princess Samilia, to Kouame, the Prince of the Salt Lands, was to have been his crowning achievement, but when a lone rider, a mysterious stranger from the past, challenges the King's chosen suitor, presenting a counter-claim that even Samilia cannot gainsay, a chain of tragic events is started that leads to ferocious battles and ends in blood, ashes and unending destruction... Winner of the PRIX GONCOURT DES LYCÉENS Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-030-3 Pages: c.130 8˝"x5˝" US$ 17.95 More Info...
The Fire was Here by Anna Enquist The poems in The Fire Was Here bring together the three themes of Anna Enquist's adult life - music, psychology and motherhood - in an autobiographical harvest. These are poems about ordinary life written with extraordinary sensitivity and insight. A courageous and insightful collection, it stirs us with the powerful and emotional moments we all recognize - the touch of tenderness, the ache of longing, and the sweep of passion. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-81-8 Pages: 120 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 17.95 More Info...
The Flying Island by Romana Petri The Flying Island is an account of an Italian woman's solitary stay on the Azores. The islanders are poised between their open generosity and simplicity, their traditions bordering on the magic and the supernatural; and the brute realism of the new American culture imported with returning workers who increasingly view the Azores not as home but as holiday destination... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-64-8 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
The Forwarding Agent by Austen Kark Written by the former head of the BBC World Service, we meet Ben, an ex-marine newly set up in the forwarding business - forwarding people, not packages. An accidental bystander at a terrorist attack, he and his family are hunted at home in Cyprus and throughout the Middle East. Austen Kark was a master storyteller, and no one knew the beauty and tensions of the region better. Nominated for the 2000 SAGITTARIUS PRIZE Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-02-8 Pages: 224 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin Shulamit, a biblical scholar from England, returns to her grandparents’ home in Jerusalem for a visit, after an absence of many years. Almost immediately she becomes embroiled in a family feud over possession of the so-called Shepher Codex, a mysterious and valuable manuscript which has been discovered in the attic. In tracing the origins of the Codex she uncovers the history of the Shepher family itself: of her great-grandfather, who traveled to Babylon in search of the ten lost tribes; of her grandfather, a dreamer whose Zionist ideals brought him into confl ict with his religion; of her parents, and their tormented love affair; and of her own orphaned and unhappy past. At the same time, she struggles to find answers to pressing questions: what is the significance of the Codex and where does it come from? Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-085-0, Pages: c.550, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info...
The Golden Bowl by Henry James The Golden Bowl, Henry James' last completed novel, is a story of the union of European class and American money. American millionaire and widower Adam Verver lives with his daughter Maggie in Europe, where they spend their time collecting objet d'art and enjoying each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to the aristocratic but penniless Amerigo, ignorant of the fact that Amerigo had previously had an affair with her best friend Charlotte... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-046-X Pages: c.300 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-047-8 Pages: c.300 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 More Info...
The House in Morocco by Rosalind Brackenbury In an old stone house on the west coast of Morocco, Sarah Henderson, an American journalist, is welcomed by its inhabitants: Nick, the aristocratic English owner, Yann the French sailor, Aisha, the mother of Yann's child, and Aziz, with whom she falls passionately in love... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-76-1 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Ice Carriers by Anna Enquist What happens to parents when a teenager runs away from home? The Ice Carriers revolves around the charged relationships between husband and wife, parent and child. Nico and Louise both have successful careers: Nico is a director of a psychiatric hospital, and Louise a teacher of classical languages, but their successes in life become meaningless when their only daughter runs away from home. Outwardly they continue as ever, but internally they are falling apart... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-78-8 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
The Injury by Anna Enquist The Injury brings together ten of Anna Enquist's best short stories. A dramatic rescue in the North Sea in the 1840s. A school soccer match as a symbol of struggle. A devastating injury. A figure in a painting by Vermeer... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-22-2 Pages: 252 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-23-0 Pages: 252 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
The Last Cantata by Philippe Delelis In 1747, at the command of Frederick the Great, Bach composes his last cantata. But there is an error in the score, one which is studied by a young woman from the Paris Conservatory many years later. An error? Or a secret, which leads to the murder of friends and teachers...and Mozart. Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-31-1 Pages: 352 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
The Last Confession by Morris West West’s last novel is a strong story of the philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno, who was burnt by the Inquisition for his heresy. "...fugitive monk, magus with a box of conjuring tricks, boaster, prevaricator, would-be torchbearer trudging through his own darkness, garrulous in dialogue, viperous in debate." Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-44-3 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
The Lifeguard by Katharina Hacker This is a stunning first novel by a young German writer who has been hailed as an original new voice. The closing of a municipal swimming bath in East Berlin brings forth the memories of its lifeguard suppressed for 40 years, and the horrors committed there when he was young. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-45-1 Pages: 216 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Masterpiece by Anna Enquist Enquist’s impassioned novel revolves around the artist Johan Steenkamer, the women who are drawn to him, and his troubled family relationships: an absent father, a manipulative mother and an emotionally crippled brother... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-05-2 Pages: 240 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-21-4 Pages: 278 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
The Mothers by Keith Botsford The Mothers are the women in Jim Mount's life: his adoring (and rejected) mother, Felicita, and the four women he loved and lived with: Louise, a sexually voracious painter; Maria, Mount's real beloved, a mini-skirted prole; Natasha, she of the prodigiously curly hair and deadpan attitude, a rich man's wife; and Francine, who is leaving as the novel begins, the ultimate cool, Cartesian, perfect woman, in whose arms Mount thought he'd die... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-57-5 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Owl & Other Stories by John Auerbach This is the first collection of the stories of John Auerbach to appear in English, the language in which they were written. Many were originally published in magazines, including Commentary, The Boston Globe Magazine and others. They draw upon the themes running through Auerbach's life: his years at sea, on a kibbutz in Israel, as an alienated man in America, his own and others' survival of the war and Holocaust. 'The Owl' was winner of the PEN/UNESCO award of 1993 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-79-6 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
The Republic of Letters Keith Botsford, ed. Our friends at News from The Republic of Letters have entrusted The Toby Press with the publication of their outstanding and unusual journal, published twice yearly. TRoL was founded by Saul Bellow and Keith Botsford, and continues to be edited by Botsford in his unique and imperious way. Now in journal form, TRoL features both new and newly discovered writings from American and European writers undeservedly lesser known. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-088-5 8˝"x5˝" US$ 9.95 Publication date: December 2004 More Info...
The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen Tamar Finegold is a happy young bride in one of Brooklyn’s insulated ultra-Orthodox enclaves. But this staid, predictable life is violently altered when Tamar is raped by an intruder as she baby-sits for her nephew. Humiliated and confused, she refuses to risk the unbearable stigma of discovery, but in her attempt to hide her shame, she is sent plummeting into a moral crisis... Large Type Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-74-5 Pages: 674 9Ľ"x6Ľ" US$ 24.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-52-4 Pages: 445 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
The Scarlet Letter & The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, a young woman in Puritan Boston who bears an illegitimate child and is sentenced to wear a red A. as a badge of shame. The House of the Seven Gables is the story of a distinguished New England family, the Pyncheons, who are troubled by a centuries-old curse... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-13-3 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-12-5 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
The Secret by Anna Enquist Three storylines run through The Secret, like themes in a symphony, sometimes merging, sometimes overlapping, and sometimes going in different directions: this is the story of Wanda Wierickhe, the story of her past and the story of Bouw, the man she left. Winner of the 1997 DUTCH READERS PRIZE Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-07-9 Pages: 274 8ľ"x6ľ" US$ 19.95 Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-12-5 Pages: 274 8˝"x6˝" US$ 15.95 More Info...
The Secundus Papyrus by Albert Noyer A Gothic Empress, a doctor and his trainee wife, an ambitious senator, a pious abbot...these are the prime movers in this gripping mystery set in 5th century Italy. When Getorius is invited to the palace and visits the newly built Mausoleum, he discovers an ancient papyrus with explosive contents that would have huge and devastating repercussions on the Empire if it were made public... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-034-6 Pages: 300 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West The pope has died, and the corridors of the Vatican hum with intrigue as cardinals from all over the world gather to choose his successor. Suddenly, the election is concluded with a surprise result. The new pope is the youngest cardinal of all--and a Russian from behind the Iron Curtain... Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-84-2 Pages: 240 8˝"x5˝" US$ 14.95 More Info...
The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl by Joseph Telushkin Murder isn’t unusual in LA. But when feminist Rabbi Myrna Wahl is found dead after appearing on a controversial radio talk show, together with a radical nun and female minister, radio host Rabbi Daniel Winter finds himself the prime suspect. He’ll only survive if he can develop the secular talent for detection — all the harder since he seems to be falling in love with the lady cop assigned to the case! Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-107-5, Pages: c.200, US$9.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
The White League by Thomas Zigal Blackmail, a secret organization hiding within the elite society of New Orleans, a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana; these are the key ingredients in this fine Southern crawfish boil of a novel about guilt, privilege and racism in one of America's most exotic cities. Coffee magnate Paul Blanchard's comfortable world is turned upside down when his old fraternity brother, Mark Morvant, threatens to expose the secret that Paul has been harboring for twenty years unless he bankrolls Morvant's bid for governor. More importantly, Morvant also demands that Paul secure the financial and political backing of a clandestine organization called The White League... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-115-6, Pages: c.250, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter The story of the Khazars comes to vivid, unforgettable life in Marek Halter's rich tapestry, which unravels when writer Marc Sofer is invited to speak at a conference where he is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a stranger. Intrigued, Sofer is drawn into investigating the enigma of the Khazars. Why did these Steppe warriors decide to become Jews? And then why, Why after centuries of power and prosperity, were they effaced from history? What is the connection between this ancient people, and the terrorist group calling themselves the New Khazars? Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-028-1 Pages: 319 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...
Unto Death by Amos Oz Unto Death comprises two novellas by one of Israel’s most gifted writers. In Crusade and Late Love Oz explores the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews live, die, or degenerate into insanity. Considered to be some of Oz’s finest writing, Unto Death has appeared in America, England, France, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Holland, Russia, and Poland. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-037-0 Pages: 150 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95 More Info...
*Walt Whitman: Collected Poetry & Prose* One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His main collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 but was continually augmented and republished throughout his life. Whitmanˇ¦s poetry presents the physical body and the transcendent spiritual experience as innately interlinked. Hardcover: ISBN: 1-592640-16-8 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 9.95 Student Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-15-X 8˝"x5˝" US$ 7.95 More Info...
Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson "On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on and the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story that a person carries beneath their breastbones for safekeeping." Water Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and friends who live on Water Street in a small town in Kentucky. Nominated for THE ORANGE PRIZE 2003 & THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2003 Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-59-1 Pages: 192 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95, Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-055-9, Pages: 192, US$12.95 Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
What You Need to Know About: Terror by Micah D. Halpern What does a terrorist look like? How do terrorists select targets? Why do they hate us? What are the different terrorist groups of the world, what are their specific motivations? What You Need To Know About: Terror gives answers to the questions we are all asking, and in so doing demystifies the threat of terror. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-026-5 Pages: 160 8˝"x5˝" US$ 9.95 More Info...
When She Sleeps by Leora Krygier Two years after the fall of Saigon, half-sisters Lucy and Mai find one another in the world of dreams. Mai is the Amerasian child of a former U.S. Army surgeon and a Vietnamese linguist. In the chaos of the American evacuation, Linh and her child were left behind. Bereft of a father, Mai lays claim to what she believes is rightfully hers - her mother's memories of the doctor, locked away in dreams. She steals them away, and sends them out into the night to her half-sister Lucy, the doctor's West Coast daughter by his American wife... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-086-9, Pages: c.200, 8ľ"x5ľ" US$19.95 Publication date: November 2004 More Info...
With by Donald Harington Impossible to categorize, With is a sensual, irresistible tale, full of unexpected twists and turns. What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top. Without ‘human’ company for a decade, forced to live off the land, Robin is never alone; her animal companions grow more numerous year by year, and the ‘live ghost’ of a young boy who once lived on the mountain is her constant companion... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-050-8 Pages: 500 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info...
Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra How does a handsome young man who keeps company with poets and dreams of fame and fortune in the movie business become a brutal killer who massacres women and children without turning a hair? Wolf Dreams reveals this transformation in a novel of unflinching detail and commanding prose... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-75-3 8ľ"x5ľ" US$ 19.95 More Info...