Product Description: Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made into two movies. It has been called “a novel about the martyrdom of Europe’s Jews that has never been surpassed” (Times Literary Supplement)...read more

Product Description: Jürek Becker (1937–97) is best known for his novel Jacob the Liar, which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lódz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfiction, and the essays, lectures, and interviews collected in My Father, the Germans and I share a common thread in that they each speak to Becker’s interactions with and opinions on the social, political, and cultural conditions of twentieth-century Germany...read more

Product Description: For ages 8 and up, it's the human body from head to toe!

Describes how to draw decomposing human heads, bloodsucking leeches, meat-eating maggots, and other foul things

A coloring book featuring the most odious organs in the human body.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing insects and spiders are accompanied by scientific facts about each species