Covers American history from the end of the Civil War to the entrenchemnt of segregation, including Reconstruction, the settlement of the west, immigration, women's rights, and other issues (view table of contents)

Product Description: Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English...read more

Israel's most talked-about young writer offers a collection of warped, candid, and beautiful stories written from the heart of his troubled country. (view table of contents)

An award-winning Israeli writer and film director presents the frantic pace of life in today's Israel, as people try to live in a society without the constant absurdity of religious strife and potential open warfare at any given moment, in a series of sho

When their dad gets a part in the circus, Audrey and Zack are embarrassed when their father starts rehearsing for his big debut at home, but matters get even worse when he gets completely carried away in front of a live audience on opening night.

Product Description: Weaving together stories filled with endearing characters and situations that are both hilarious and disconcerting, this book is full of humor, sadness, and compassion, but above all, a great sense of life’s absurdities. The unique stories concern, among other things, a fish genie capable of granting wishes, a wormhole that leads to an unknown dimension in which one can live among the lies one has told, a man capable of knowing and saying beforehand exactly what another will say in three seconds’ time, a man who is so bored he spends his days in a café pretending to be someone he’s not, a ruined surprised party attended only by three people who barely know the honored guest, and a company that sells good weather year-round...read more

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Product Description: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City...read more

Product Description: Por la mañana, Zohar se lo contó todo a su madre. Le habló de la Luna que se había ido, del búho enojado y del gato goloso; de los pinos que daban miedo, de las calles vacías y del policía, pero sobre todo le habló del hombre que quería que la Luna fuera su amiga.

Despite Dad's delight over the circus's arrival in town, no one else is especially excited or happy, until Dad decides to run away to join the circus on its travels to exotic places.

Product Description: Pizzeria Kamikaze is about a guy with a broken heart who committed suicide only to find himself at Pizza Kamikaze, a regular day job in a world where everyone died before. Now, it's about passing time.

A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.