Writers House: 47 books
by Max Apple
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
It was my fascination itself with the English language that made me a writer," Apple wrote in an essay for the New York Times Book Review. Its endless suggestiveness has carried me through many a plot, entertained me when nothing else could." Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking family, Apple writes a prose...
Asshole
How I Got Rich & Happy By Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Martin Kihn was the nicest guy in the world – and it was killing him. But on the day he turned forty, Marty decided to change his life – for the meaner. Tired of being passed over for promotions at work, Marty set out on a journey to transform himself from Mr. Nice Guy into a rule-breaking, order-giving...
by Julia Albain
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
When I was 22 I hopped a plane for New York City, off to pursue my destiny, sure that I’d never look back. This is my story of looking back. Of a journey that took on a whole new meaning and purpose. A year in New York City. A year of discovering the best and worst parts of myself. A year of learning the lessons that you can only learn the hard way.
Blacksnake?s Path
The True Adventures of William Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This splendid novel about an unsung hero of American history carries its prodigious learning lightly in order to tell vividly the authentic story of William Wells’s remarkable life. Blacksnake’s Path recreates an entire period (1770-1812), showing how the Indians lived, fought for their homeland,...
Company C
An Americans Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who...
Phoenix
Shimon Peres and the Secret History of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
"The Jewish people doesn’t know what it owes to Shimon Peres.” Said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father.
Indeed, the young Peres, operating in secrecy, was the builder of Israel’s military might. In Israel’s Independence war, he acquired weapons from all over the world, and...
Dreams from My Father, Okay?
The Secret Memoir of Mitt Romney
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In what the Washington Post has called the scoop of the century,” the author and political operative John Sedgwick discovered Mitt Romney’s secret tell-all memoir in the Romney family vault in the basement of the Mormon tabernacle built in 1867 by Mitt Romney’s great grandfather. Never intended...
How to Save the World on $5 a Day
A Parable of Personal Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
How to Save the World on $5 a Day provides a fascinating, multi-cultural look at the history and traditions of charitable giving, and offers innovative instruction on the theory and practice of a new form of altruism dubbed personal philanthropy - all in the form of an inspirational novelette. Designed...
Gilded Lili
Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Blond and beautiful, Lili St. Cyr shimmied across the country’s nightclubs as one of the century’s great sirens. She inspired future femme fatales including Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and Dita Von Teese. She helped cultivate the modern-day impression of striptease. And, with stage routines featuring...
by Robert Reed
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Since the beginning of the universe, the giant starship wandered the emptiest reaches of space, without crew or course, much less any clear purpose. But humans found the relic outside the Milky Way, and after taking possession, they named their prize the Great Ship and embarked on a bold voyage through...
Chandlefort
In the Shadow of the Bear
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
It has been just months since Clovermead Wickward discovered that she is really Demoiselle Cerelune Cindertallow — daughter of Lady Melisande Cindertallow, the sovereign of Chandlefort — and that the man she had called Father all her life was actually an embittered servant who stole her away when...
Zip
A Novel of the Left and the Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
So what's a nice Jewish boy like Ira Goldstein doing managing a flashy Puerto Rican boxer named Jésus? What is his mother doing in the arms of Solomon, the scrap-metal king of Detroit? And what, for toppers, is J. Edgar Hoover doing in a chair suspended over a boxing ring in Havana, Cuba? Charge it...
Sorrel
In the Shadow of the Bear
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The fight against the evil Lord Ursus continues, and the fate of the battle lies in the hands of fifteen–year–old Clovermead Wickward. Chandlefort's army is in need of reinforcements, and Clovermead is charged by her mother, Lady Cindertallow, to seek allies among the nomadic Hordes of the Tansy...
A Clean Sweep
An Aaron Asherfeld Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When San Francisco private eye Aaron Asherfeld is hired to track down a missing businessman, his investigation takes on a kinky dimension as he meets a host of characters from the city’s sleazy underside.