Featured Book: An Uncommon Journey
Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs
September 2011 | $24.95 | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-1-56980-452-0 | BUY IT
It's Septemer 1939 and Nazi Austria turns on their Jews with a vengeance. The family Wacs flees Vienna, saving their lives. Destination: Shanghai; alien to them - different language, people, culture. Had they not escaped, one week later war broke out, and this family's fate might have been quite different. An Uncommon Journey addresses several universal issues - persecution and the will to survive. This unique memoir by a sister and brother born ten years apart shares different memories, often of the same events. The truth becomes a mosaic with many facets, creating a moving portrait of a family uprooted.
Spotlight: True Crime
Gaming the Game (IN BOOKSTORES NOW!)
In June 2007, the FBI informed the NBA that one of its referees, Tim Donaghy, was the subject of a probe into illegal gambling. Within months, the public knew the broad outlines of a scheme involving Donaghy betting on games he officiated …
MORE...
More True Crime Titles:
Spotlight: Jewish Interest
Back Door Channels
This book reveals the interplay between official government channels, covert intelligence agents and others, who acted largely behind the scenes of the peace process between Egypt and Israel that began in 1978 and is still holding. The world leaders: Jimmy Carter, Menachem …
MORE...