Product Description: This eclectic collection at last brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. An iconoclastic send-up of the wine industry and a celebration of unsung grape varieties, the book features, among other things, Grahm's hilarious literary parodies--Joyce, Kafka, Pynchon, Salinger, and others--together with song lyrics, other snarky satires, poems, lectures, and more...read more

Geisha, goddesses and more, Japanese women have been portrayed as objects of beauty and desire in japanese art for hundreds of years. From 18th century wood-block prints to mid 20th century magazine covers the image of beauty hovers just beyond realism, sexually alluring, yet friendly and demure.

Product Description: In Yankele: A Holocaust Survivor's Bittersweet Memoir, Alex (Yankele) Gross tells the tale of his life as a Hungarian boy amidst the turmoil of World War II Europe. Beginning with his childhood in the village of Palanok, Alex recalls happy memories nestled in the bosom of family and friends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)