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In the years before America was a nation, ships were bringing a steady stream of immigrants to New York. Some were fleeing their homeland, others were seeking their fortune, many arrived in chains...

From the golden era of the home bridge party comes this trio of classic books, now under one cover. Meant to be given away as either top prizes or booby prizes, these books entertained winners and...

A droll comedy/drama about love and the gods, Confessions of a Rain God is set among the classic Mayas. They, of course, did not predict the end of the world. (It caught them by surprise.) The book...

Dr. Michael Lee, smart and literate, is the chairman of ophthalmology at a major California hospital. He may be up for a Nobel Prize. Without wanting to, he has fallen madly in love with a beautiful...

The Tsunami is a cargo ship. Things get put into her, taken across space, and taken out. There's nothing unusual about that. The crew, now that's another matter. Sure, Captain Indio Tremaine is...

Before the Guardians of the Galaxy gathered, before Firefly flew, there was FUSION. The Tsunami is a cargo ship. Things get put into her, taken across space, and taken out. There's nothing unusual...

Before the Guardians of the Galaxy gathered, before Firefly flew, there was: FUSION. Now the graphic novel that launched the series is in book form for the very first time. The Tsunami is a cargo...

Grab It!Author: Howard Albrecht, Sol WeinsteinPublisher: About ComicsPublication Date: Jul 12, 2020Number of Pages: 195 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949996166ISBN-13:...

Cartoonists of the 20th century were known for their humor and their love of golf. Here, some of the funniest and most famous newspaper and magazine cartoonists turn their love into knowing ridicule...

Hollywood has a dark side, an underbelly hidden by the bright lights and smooth talkers of the film industry. A stunt master, a struggling actress, and an aspiring stand-up comic may seem like an odd...

How did a coloring book spend 14 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list The year was 1962. America was in love with the young family in the White House, speaking of them with awe...

Sure, you know about chicken soup, but do you know about a souped-up chicken?Jonathan Segal Chicken was just another piece of kosher poultry, but he decided he wanted something more. He wanted to...

Genuine letters sent from the kids of the early 1960s to JFK show you the dreams, obsessions, and general attitude of America's children. New York Times best-selling book creator worked with the...

Before his acclaimed work on "Rocky and Bullwinkle," before he won both the Silver T-Square Award and the Special Features Award from the National Cartoonists Society, Al Kilgore drew a series of...

This graphic novel ollects the complete comic book series about beautiful anti-intellectual assassins.Author: NAPublisher: About ComicsPublication Date: Aug 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Israel Bond may seem like a simple-if-sexy salesman for Mother Margolies' Old World Chicken Soup, but when the Holy Land needs his skills - his quickness with a pun, his second-to-none semitic...

Things are really smoking on the island of El Tiparillo when the Holy Land's superest, secretest agent Israel Bond is called to wield his weaponized mezuzah to save innocent lives and...

These are the memoirs of Robert Mayer - journalist, columnist, novelist. It tells the tales of his wielding words, from co-writing a scandalous best-seller to digging the dirt on the local...

My Favorite Funny StoryAuthor: Bill AdlerPublisher: About ComicsPublication Date: Oct 18, 2020Number of Pages: 131 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949996263ISBN-13: 9781949996265

Dayenu cartoons brought laughs to many readers of Jewish newspapers in the 1960s, with their very Jewish eye on the Jewish world - and here is a collection of dozens of them. Written by Rabbi Henry...

What are black and white and read all over? Nun Funnies! Back before Sister Act, before Nunsense, before Sister Mary Elephant and even The Flying Nun, nuns were tickling our funny bones in cartoon...

When the President of the United States is kidnapped, only one man can save him... but oh, what a man!Diplomat. Author. Love machine. Henry Kissingherr was the man of the moment, the one to get...

It's dire times for Israeli intelligence agency M 33 and 1/3. Auntie Sem-Heidt and her sinister agents of TUSH have been killing off Hebrew agents, as part of a devious plan to eradicate Jewish...

Dayenu was a popular cartoon in its day, appearing in over 60 papers across the English-speaking Jewish world. These gags by "Henry Leonard" (in reality the team of writer Rabbi Henry Rabin and...

Sam was born in slavery, Annabelle was born in wealth. They live on the same plantation, but in very different worlds. Now the Civil War is upending life as they've known it: Each of their fathers is...

This is the tale of John Neville, a man of science, born to the staid life of an academic. But when his assistant goes missing, Neville's search for her takes him to places he could never imagine,...

This final novel from the acclaimed Robert Mayer is a tale of the horrors of Nazi Germany, the wonders of the American Dream, the tragedies of the American reality, the joys of love, and the magic...

From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire.A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVILThis book has it all: the diets, the devil, witch-craft, religion, and one man's struggle to save his...

All four of Sol Weinstein's classic Israel Bond Oy-Oy-7 spy parodies under one cover for the first time. Loxfinger; Matzohball; On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen; You Only Live Until...