Moving Waters

A television producer who moonlights as a cantor, an actress who leaves her husband for another woman and enters a mikvah to mark the transition, a young widow who gets her hair colored to prepare for the unveiling of her husband's gravestone Racelle Rosett’s debut story collection enters the lives of members of a Reform Jewish community in Hollywood and explores the unexpected role that ancient ritual plays in the lives of these characters living in contemporary Los Angeles.

Literature & Fiction

Rosett, Racelle

Short Stories & Anthologies

West 26th Street Press

Racelle Rosett

Good old by Merle Puhl is campaigning to be a United States Senator from Montana, and a former President is coming to Rozette to give him a hand. This means that the Secret Service is coming, too, and local police detective Ray Bartell is assigned to work with them. Bartell’s job: act as the security detail’s tour guide in the realm of local lunatics. The job starts out interesting, but takes a bad turn when Puhl decides to use one outspoken environmentalist, Henry Skelton, as campaign fodder. Skelton has a violent past, so the Secret Service—and consequently Bartell—must take him seriously. In response, Skelton seems determined to prove that everything Puhl does to portray him as a dangerous extremist is true. But where, Bartell comes to wonder, are the lines of extremism drawn? How do you recognize the difference between a patriotic fool and a foolish patriot? And how do you sort out the wreckage when the two clash?

Wild Animals

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reid, Robert Sims

Mystery

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 for publication, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, OKAY? lays out, for the first time, aspects of the Romney psyche that have long been baffling mysteries. Among them: Romney’s reservations about his Mormon faith, his troubled marriage, his tortured relationship with his father, his insatiable political ambitions, his sexual hang-ups, and his abiding hatred for his dog, Seamus. Fiercely controversial, this work has become the center of an intense legal dispute that is likely to take years to resolve. The book’s many revelations have already been seized on by both presidential campaigns, and the memoir seems destined to be a pivotal issue in the fall election.Amazing in its way, but nowhere near as good as mine.” President Barack Obama, author of Dreams From My Father. I always thought the guy was nuttier than a barrel full of pecansbut now I know I was wrong. It’s two barrels.” James Carville, political consultant, author of Had Enough? A Handbook for Fighting BackIf you believe his memoir, as I do, Mr. Romney is utterly preposterous. If I were to ask, which is the least ridiculous thing about him--his religion, his politics, his character, or his dog, no one would doubt the answer.” Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn.

Dreams from My Father, Okay?: The Secret Memoir of Mitt Romney

Humor & Entertainment

Sedgwick, John

Humor

While teaching writing at an artists colony in Woodstock, mystery editor Claire Rawlings gets some bad vibes from the writers there. And things only get worse when she finds the colony's resident beauty -- dead in the bathtub. "Who Killed Blanche Dubois is an absolutely delightful and wonderfully clued story ... captures the reader's imagination." -- Romantic Times, November 1999"Who Killed Blanche Dubois? is the work of a seasoned professional and it shows... pure entertainment at its best...." -- Geraldine Galentree, Remember the Alabi

Who Killed Blanche DuBois?

Buggé, Carole

Editor and sleuth Claire Rawlings and her 12-year-old sidekick Meredith visit a cozy New England inn where murder is an unwanted guest.

Who Killed Mona Lisa?

While teaching writing at an artists colony in Woodstock, mystery editor Claire Rawlings gets some bad vibes from the writers there. And things only get worse when she finds the colony's resident beauty dead in the bathtub.

Who Killed Dorian Gray?

The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Israeli writer Haim Watzman.In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Watzman took a two-week journey up the valley. Along the way he met scientists who try to understand the rift through the evidence lying on its surfacean archaeologist who reconstructs the fallen altars of a long-forgotten people, a zoologist whose study of bird societies has produced a theory of why organisms cooperate, and a geologist who thinks that the valley will some day be an ocean. He encountered people whose life and work on the shores of the Dead Sea and Jordan River have led them to dream of paradise and to seem to build Gardens of Eden on eartha booster for a chemical factory, the director of a tourist site, and an aging socialist farmer who curates a museum of idols. And he discovered that the geography’s instability is mirrored in the volatility of the tales that people tell about the Sea of Galilee.As an observant Jew who has written extensively about science and scholarship, Watzman tries to understand the valley in all its complexityits physical facts, its role in human history and his own life, and the myths it has engendered. He realizes that human beings can never see the rift in isolation. It is the stories that men and women have told to explain what they see and what they do as a result that create the rift as we see it,” he writes. As hard as we try to comprehend the landscape itself, it is humanity that we find.Watzman’s poetic evocation of the scientific and the human is a unique chronicle of a quest for knowledge.Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, 2008.

A Crack in the Earth

Watzman, Professor Haim

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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 had never aspired to military adventure, was a soldier.Watzman was a soldier as he adjusted to his new country, raised his children, and pursued a career as a writer and translator. At times he defended his adopted country’s borders; at other times he patrolled beyond them, or that gray area, the occupied territories. A religiously observant Jew who opposed Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he served in uniform in conflicts that he demonstrated against in civilian clothes. Throughout, he developed a deep and abiding bond with the diverse men of Company Ca fellowship that cemented his commitment to reserve service even as he questioned the occupation he was enforcing.In this engrossing account of the first Intifada, the period of the Oslo Accords, and Israel’s reoccupation of the West Bank as lived by citizen-soldiers in the field, Watzman examines our obligations to country, friends, family, and Godand our duty to protect our institutions even as we fight to reform them.

Company C: An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Each of us has a silent thunder” a quiet desire that rumbles from deep-down. For eleven-year-old Summer and her older brother Rosco, their secret dreams seem far out of reach. Both are slaves on a Virginia plantation in the year 1862. More than anything, Summer wants to learn to read and write. Rosco is eager to join the Union Army so that he can fight for the cause that would allow all people to be free. Told in alternating voices, this is a work of historical fiction by bestselling and award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney.

Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story

Teen & Young Adult

Pinkney, Andrea

Historical Fiction

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Moving Waters

Moving Waters

Wild Animals

Dreams from My Father, Okay?: The Secret Memoir of Mitt Romney

Who Killed Blanche DuBois?

Who Killed Mona Lisa?

Who Killed Dorian Gray?

A Crack in the Earth

Company C: An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army

Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story