This latest work by critically acclaimed historian Jerrold Packard brings fresh light to the most horrifying chapter in the nation's history since the end of slavery itself. For most of the century following the Civil War, a quarter of the nation lived under Jim Crow, a system of legalized segregation ... more »

Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it--not any ... more »

Product Info Linguistic miscues and misunderstandings pepper this humorous account of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and a mysterious lady in a raincoat. more »

Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager and friend tells all. All . The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, "the greatest career in classical music ... more »

Product Info Hint: It has something to do with Alabaster. more »

She says: There is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn't ever feel like I'm just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly ... more »

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore ... more »

Aiming to create a work that capture[s] the language and preserve[s] the culture of hip-hop, [while also serving] as a tool for education, New York City-based journalist Westbrook here offers a hoptionary defining roughly 2500 terms. The book is divided into three sections: slang to standard English ... more »

I had a great time reading Flunky...a good, ribald academic comedy. Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of A Lesser God and The Homage. Money is oil to dignity's water. So muses John Deyme, the eager bumbler of Flunky . Fully ambitious and fully talentless, John is determined to impress ... more »

In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed ... more »

The Emmy Award-winning host of Court TV's Catherine Cried Live describes an American legal system dangerously out of control-- and finds the lawyers guilty as charged. As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district ... more »

Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up. more »