Product Description: Now in paperback and "brimming with wondrous surprises . . . There's magic in The Pinch" (The Boston Globe)Steve Stern's prodigious imagination finds a wondrous home in the Pinch, a once-thriving Jewish community in Memphis. The Pinch revolves around a single enchanted day containing years, during which the antics of a group of Jewish mystics threaten to ravage the life of general store proprietor Pinchas Pin with miracles, and his nephew Muni's ardor for an alluring tightrope walker collides with his passion for chronicling the wonders of North Main Street...read more

Product Description: A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant...read more

Product Description: J & L Books’ acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: “This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should...read more

Product Description: Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base...read more

In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three people depart from their ordinary lives in the wake of a series of extraordinary adventures. By the award-winning author of The Wedding Jester. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The Philadelphia Inquirer has said, "Steve Stern is an astonishing writer." Whatever the source, the critics agree that Stern offers immense delight, and outright laughs, throughout his award-winning books...read more

Product Description: Novellas and short stories featuring Zen Intergalactic Ninja. Zen is a space-faring solider of fortune and bounty-hunter. These prose adventures of the popular comic-book extraterrestrial are written by creator Steve Stern, with five illustrations by Zen co-creator, artist Dan Cote...read more

Three novellas about the Pinch, a forgotten Jewish community in a backwater of Memphis, Tennessee, weave a tapestry of lives scarred by the past and transformed by the promise of assimilation and the sacrifices of preceding generations (view table of contents)

Product Description: The nine stories in this collection all share either the theme or the setting of the mythical Jewish neighborhood of North Maine Street in the author's native Memphis, Tenn. He writes about mischievous "cheder" boys who try to lead a "lamedvovnik" into temptation, of the Lord bullying Morton Gruber into a book collaboration, and of his Aunt Esther's very strange, literally unworldly, suitor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When floods leave town cemeteries unfit for his grandmother's burial and with his parents distracted, young Harry slips out nights to explore Memphis' shady Beale Street

Product Description: Discusses China's past, peasants, land, politics, government, cities, industries, arts, communication, application of science, and future.

Hershel is saddened by the imminent departure of his friend Mr. Twinkl, the organ grinder, until a strange encounter with the musician's monkey results in its changing places with Hershel.

This collection of stories revolves around a mythical Jewish neighborhood where a host of different characters share a common tendency to ignore the usually agreed-upon bonds of reality

Mickey takes a living clay giant out of the attic of an abandoned synagogue in an old Jewish section of Memphis and brings him to cheer his dying grandfather

Product Description: Fiction. "Can't recall where it was I first came across ISAAC AND THE UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER and the alliterative no-nonsense monosyllables that gave me the name of its author. Recall only that I straightway made for a typewriter to whip off a love letter...read more