Adam, who is dyslexic and has great difficulty with his homework, struggles to find the right school, resist the lure of drugs, and endure the jealousy of his older sister Caroline.

Moving from Chicago to Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1944, a young Jewish girl copes with her parents' increased fighting and adopts a new lifestyle which alienates her orthodox grandfather.

"Fourth-grader Wade Thompson is having trouble adjusting to Kennedy, the new school where he has been transferred to a class for the gifted and talented. . . . With fast-moving dialogue, humor and sympathy, Cohen weaves a story of developing friendships and self-knowledge and once again demonstrates how well she understands a child's need for acceptance".--The Horn Book.

A skeptical visitor to the village of Nemirov finds out where its rabbi really goes during the Jewish New Year, when the villagers claim he goes to heaven to speak to God.

The Jews living in the Prague ghetto gather to watch a troupe of local players reenact the story of Queen Esther.

When her father steals a rare rose from a florist shop, Isabel is pressed into employment there as payment to the hideously deformed owner.

An aged Isaac recounts to his grandchildren the story of how God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son.

Helping her widowed mother run a small inn provides 16-year-old Rachel with many opportunities to adjust to growing up.

On the Track of Murder

Probes the psychological motivations of older men who leave their wives for younger women and explores the consequences for all three members of the triangle

This is the first book that fully explores the rich history of craft art in the region of Western New York. In the early 1900's, Western New York became the hub of the American Arts and Crafts movement with the founding of the Roycroft community in East Aurora; Gustav Stickley's furniture workshops in Syracuse;and Steuben Glass in Corning. In 1950 the NY School of Clay-Working and Ceramics at Alfred University, developed by Charles Fergus quickly became a leader in its field. In 1950, Aileen Osborn Webb, a major patron of the craft movement, founded the School for American Crafts (SAC) at the University of Rochester. The region still boasts of professional artists and programs, making the area a vital community for the arts. This book features four master Wendell Castle (wood), Albert Paley (metal), Michael Taylor (glass), and Wayne Higby (clay). It concludes with a selection of contemporary work by other notable artists. This 157 page, 9" x 11" book is beautifully illustrated, and contains original interviews with the four artists mentioned.

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Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life, edited by the art writer and critic David Galloway, and published by Abrams in February 2013. The book explores her versatile career with essays by a dozen international authors, including the fashion critic Elyssa Dimant, the German art historian Christoph Benjamin Schulz, and Douglas Dodds, curator of the display at the V&A. Friends and colleagues such as Gloria Steinem, Milton Glaser, Ali MacGraw and Zandra Rhodes have also contributed their own reminiscences.

Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary of the recent art world.