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Since the initial publication of the first three groundbreaking volumes -- Horror, Science Fiction, and The Western -- The Overlook Film Encyclopedia series has been deemed the most authoritative, stylish, and compulsively readable film reference series ever. In The Gangster Film, series editor Phil Hardy has created yet again a landmark in film reference.Included in this lavish volume are critical entries on more than 1, 500 gangster films, c...

Kitty Crozier wakes up in the hospital and sees the fleeting image of Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania. A subsequent vision of Virgil signals the beginning of the most important relationship of Kitty's life---one in which previous lives will be oddly connected.

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Six-foot-nine and 400 pounds, "Goon" is a one-man gore-machine of the Wrestling Conference. Police captain Philip Straker isn't a wrestling fan. The bodies pile up like dirty laundry, and Straker is determined to solve the rash of rape and mutilation murders with trimmings that beggar description.

The Catskills" tells the story of one of America's most historically rich and romantic regions. Alf Evers evokes the special charm of the Catskills region with explorations of its flora and fauna, legends, superstitions, and natural and unnatural wonders. Packed with illustrations detailing the history of the Catskills from the time of its first settling through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Borcht Belt years, the famed Woodstock festi...

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Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies: in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the globe.

Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova stood at the pinnacle of twentieth-century Russian literature, and their works continue to stand as monuments of literary achievement, yet they also suffered brutally under Stalin's regime, martyrs to its paranoia and its suppression of free thought. In the early 1960s Akhmatova encouraged Emma Gerstein to record her memories of Mandelstam, but Gerstein's vivid and uncompromising account was not at all what s...

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A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of "The Name of the Rose", set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the 16th century. A marvelous read, a challenging mystery and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon" compels and entertains.

This highly informative book by noted U.S. landscaper and designer Hagy discusses the principles of garden design and shows how one can easily visualize what the land from lawn garden to backyard to field can provide. He outlines a step-by-step procedure for combining all one's ideas, dreams, and tastes to create a setting that is both eye-pleasing and food-producing.

The Jade Unicorn celebrates 25 years of underground circulation and acclaim. A horror story that shatters the limitations of the genre, The Jade Unicorn takes the reader on a multi-dimensional cyclone from innocence to evil, and from decadence to enlightenment and self-sacrifice. Armageddon looms. The survival of the entire universe depends upon the choices made by two very different people and the coterie of friends and enemies that accrue to...

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Historian Levine presents a vivid and distinctly human perspective on how the Jewish people survived 800 years of persecution. This is an impressive and immensely readable book, one that is an important contribution to the literature of Jewish history.

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Israel, ISRAELI PAINTING charts the winding course of Israeli art in the 20th century. The book spotlights the work of exceptional Israeli artists and various aspects of their work. It is the only volume of its kind and certain to become the standard work on the subject. 200 color illustrations.

The New York Times Book Review called Jane Rogers' Mr. Wroe's Virgins "an engaging, serious, and gleefully ironic novel, one that leaps headlong into the most ambitious territories: faith, love, and existential meaning". In Island, Rogers describes a place where things are not quite as they appear, a strange place where the murder of a reclusive woman is not a cut and dried case.Nikki Black, intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at ...

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Kate Malone has been acclaimed as one of the most fearless innovators in the field of ceramics. She brings to her work a maverick sensibility, outrageous sense of humor, formidable dexterity, and a penchant for exploring the boundaries between high and low culture. "Kate Malone: A Book of Pots" follows the evolution of her dynamic career, with 321 full-color photographs tracing the continuity of each dazzling creation to the next, while at the...

In time to coincide with the release of the motion picture directed by Oliver Stone comes a biography on the infamous Macedonian king and conqueror. Author Cartledge is academic consultant on the forthcoming Discovery Channel documentary "Becoming Alexander.