Mamaleh Knows Best

• Author : Marjorie Ingall
• Publisher : Harmony
• Release : 30 August 2016

We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education,

• Author : Marissa Moss
• Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
• Release : 01 May 2017

Last Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. Using her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she, her husband, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. After returning

• Author : Alana Newhouse
• Publisher : Artisan Books
• Release : 19 March 2019

With contributions from Ruth Reichl, Éric Ripert, Joan Nathan, Michael Solomonov, Dan Barber, Yotam Ottolenghi, Tom Colicchio, Maira Kalman, Melissa Clark, and many more! Tablet’s list of the 100 most Jewish foods is not about the most popular Jewish foods, or the tastiest, or even the most enduring. It’s a list of the most significant foods culturally and historically to the Jewish people, explored deeply with essays, recipes, stories, and context. Some of the dishes are no longer cooked

• Author : Nancy Kalikow Maxwell
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 March 2019

Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love more often, why don’t more people join the tribe? “More deli than deity” writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters—“Worrying,” “Kvelling,” “Dying,” “Noshing,” “Laughing,” “Detecting,” “Dwelling,” and “Joining”—exploring what it means to be “typically Jewish.” While unearthing answers from rabbis, researchers, and her assembled Jury on Jewishness (Jewish friends

• Author : L. Rust Hills,Tom Jenks
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 April 1985

• Author : Kate Figes
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 April 1991

The ideal literary form for contemporary urban life, the short story flourishes. This collection brings together the best stories published in Cosmpolitan in the past ten years. It includes household names of today and household names of tomorrow, Christine Harrison and Janice Galloway, recent winners of the Cosmopolitan Short Story Prize.

• Author : Charlotte Zolotow
• Publisher : Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Release : 16 April 1986

Featuring works by E.L. Doctorow, Carson McCullers, Katherine Mansfield, and seven other authors, this volume collects short stories that exemplify the impact of early sorrow

• Author : Mikel Vause,Carl Porter
• Publisher : Gibbs Smith
• Release : 16 April 1997

Gathers fiction and poetry by writers who have participated in the National Undergraduate Literature Conference, including Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, E.L. Doctorow, Maxine Kumin, Tim O'Brien, Larry McMurtry, and Peter Matthiessen

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 1984

• Author : John Donald Kingsley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 April 1991

• Author : Jennifer Coburn
• Publisher : Strapless
• Release : 16 April 2021

After agreeing to her husband's suggestion to remain married in name only to create a stable environment for their child, Lucy Klein, while dealing with her strange situation, children's parties, her cousin's wedding to herself, and dating, discovers how to be a great mom without losing her self-identity. Original.

• Author : Edeet Ravel
• Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
• Release : 16 April 2021

Maya and Rosie meet one day at the local dry cleaner's and their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors, but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother's past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents' haunted world.

• Author : Bruce Weber
• Publisher : Pocket Books
• Release : 16 April 1986

Twenty-five short stories, grouped into three sections--first, second, and third person--that display the rich variety found in each technique, feature contributions by such authors as William Faulkner, Bernard Malamud, Ann Beattie, John Cheever, and Ring

• Author : E. L. Doctorow
• Publisher : Random House Incorporated
• Release : 16 April 1984

A young boy is asked to maintain the fiction that his father is alive. A young woman is shot at by a hunter. A schoolgirl dies in an exploding car. In Lives of the Poets, six tense, poignant, and mysterious stories are followed by a novella in which the writer emerges from his work to reveal his own mind. Here the images and the themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator's unsparing confessions about his own life.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 April 1996