"Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this "holographic history" Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it...

Working toward manhood on the plains of 1940s Colorado gave one small boy lessons for life....

The memoirs of a Jewish-Greek woman who was taken from occupied Greece and transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz. She survived two-and-a-half years in the camps and later escaped to Yugoslavia. Translated from the Greek . Distributed by ISBS....

The dramatic and varied experiences of young Jews who fled the Nazis. Publishers Weekly "For them it was a question of swimming or sinking. For some of this generation it can certainly be said that but for Hitler and the...

A new kind of rancher and a new kind of environmentalist, Linda M. Hasselstrom speaks with an eloquent simplicity in Land Circle while exploring her visceral connection with the land and the people of the Great Plains. A true voice...

Lucy Fischer-West knows the power of birthplace and of borders and rivers. Her memoir begins with the story of her parents, one reared in Germany, the other in Mexico, and how they found each other on the Texas-Mexico border. Fischer-West's...

After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by...

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Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion—one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward—recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety.Chronicling more than twenty years in the life of a...

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