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Dr. Peter Strassberg demonstrates the weaknesses of the Big Bang theory and presents a clear-headed, cogent alternative for understanding the origin of the universe.Author: Peter StrassbergPublisher:...

A record of the perils of a family's travel on a scientific pursuit in up-country Uganda in the 1960s-against a background of ever-increasing political unrest and a chronic shortage of money.Author:...

The Eyes Are The Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood...

This wide-ranging collection of short stories touches on the worldly and the other-worldly, riveting attention on creatures human and otherwise struggling at the limits of emotional and physical...

This epic novel of the struggle for the Americas is an odyssey moving from the pre-Columbian Mayan empire to the splendid Golden Age of Spain, then back to the battle for the land and soul of...

The Hidden Child Book Club has been meeting since 2007, first under the auspices of the Anti-Defamation League, and now of the Skirball Center of Jewish learning at Temple Emanu-el in New York City...

When an event, scene, or emotion catches Steven Swank's interest, it tunes his focus and attention. As he perceives the weight, texture, scent, and sound of it, he writes it down. Some poems spill...

THE BIG BANG is a modern myth. It never occurred. It, and much of current science (particle physics) is but today's version of the Biblical Creation and Fall. In this book, Dr. Strassberg takes us on...

When a sweet young Indian girl named Evening Star crosses paths with a pregnant wolf that has been badly wounded, an unlikely but enduring friendship begins. It helps them both to overcome the great...

The Lie They Told: A Young Adult NovelAuthor: Jean ArbeiterPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: June 18, 2015Number of Pages: 230 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The death of a spouse and its aftermath are the focus of this story, which, unlike so many others of its kind, engages the reader at each step on the author's journey to a new life.Author: Raechel...

The Making of a Journalist : Santhi & I: A MemoirAuthor: David R ZimmermanPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: Jul 18, 2020Number of Pages: 156 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A rule is broken-and Mercy finds she is alone. Has everyone left, or has she left them? Struggling through her confusion she finds answers by letting go of distorted truths, awakening to a glimpse of...

The Short Side of Paradise is an account of the twenty-five years Natalie Beaumont spent in Santa Barbara, California, a seemingly wealthy community in which, nonetheless, the cost of living and the...

The Thing at the Edge of Blundertown: A Young Adult NovelAuthor: Jane M BloomPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: October 25, 2019Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This is a book about dreaming and what dreams actually mean. Five-year-old Cleo has very vivid dreams, and she tells her yiayia-her Greek grandmother-all about them. Thalia Alexiou has chosen three...

"The Widower Considers Candles," Robert Lavett Smith's third full-length collection, is his most varied so far-formal sonnets interspersed among free verse poems. Familiar themes are present in...

FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER AARON has always been a whirlwind of heroic action, leading his brothers into all sorts of youthful mischief. A mysterious illness suddenly plunges him and his family into a...

Josh Kandal took his own life in December 2010. His mother Nancy has been living with her loss ever since, and-in these illuminating and deeply felt poems-has created a refuge for herself and...

Family memoirAuthor: Mary Beth YakoubianPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: July 21, 2021Number of Pages: 292 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0578886472ISBN-13: 9780578886473

April 1794: The Reign of Terror has been striking France like a plague for half a year. Daily, hundreds have followed King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine-some guilty of real crimes,...

In his sixth collection, Bay Area poet Robert Lavett Smith offers a lucid and compelling view of how to respond to getting older and facing uncertain health, limited mobility, and increasing...

"All the stories in this book actually happened as written," insists Sigfried Bader, the author of this charming, witty memoir. ." . .What?" he goes on. "You don't believe me? You think they're all...

Author: Michael F DeconzoPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: January 20, 2021Number of Pages: 310 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946989843ISBN-13: 9781946989840

To the editor, biographical requests seem straightforward--show the face, state the facts. To the author (captivated watching a robin walk the ridgeline of a neighbor's roof as the first rays of...

Vignettes & Vinaigrettes: A Memoir Of Catering Before Food Was HotAuthor: Carol G. Durst-WertheimPublisher: Full Court PressPublication Date: Mar 24, 2020Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

Ever wonder what it's like to grow up in Greenwich Village and live the fast life of a teenage kid who's breaking into the brilliant inside world of modeling and television, meeting beautiful girls,...

Denise Crawn's eye opens up profound connections with the natural world around us. As W.H. Auden once said of E. M. Forster, she "trips us up like an unnoticed stone" as we stumble through the...

Barry Sheinkopf has been writing poetry since he was fourteen, when he won the New York City Barton's Bonbonniere Passover Poetry Contest. The prize was a five-pound box of chocolate, and he had a...