Sadie Weinstein runs a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn in 1969 with her husband, Nathan. A quirky amateur detective, she persists in solving a murder that takes place when she is present at a home in Staten Island. The murdered victim is a bigamist who had two wives, and possibly more, in different far-removed locations. She tracks down suspects from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and as far away as Biloxi, Mississippi. Sadie is a suspect herself and must solve the mystery to clear her name. Nathan warns her constantly not to stick her neck out, but she is undeterred. Her charming pickle-eating customer and psychic Rhajmah has revealing visions. The excitement mounts in Biloxi during the savage onslaught of Hurricane Camille. The story involves anguish, but Sadies antics and repartees lighten tension. This is a gripping Sadie Weinstein mystery, Luxenbergs fourth.

This octogenarian author has followed up her last book, An Old Ladys Confessions, with an old lady sequel in which she shares her writing experience with aspiring writers. The book covers tools, space, health, planning, working habits, and writing tips. She gives advice on writing novels, mysteries, and short stories. She emphasizes research, writing group involvement, and the necessity of emotional support. Contests, agents, and self-publishing are covered. She concludes with the meaning of success in writing. In answers to questions about the sources of her inspiration, she reveals several secrets.

This is a saga of an unusual family that takes place from the late 1800s through 1930. The author fictionalized the stories that her mother told her about her family’s life. The Kamensky family flees the destruction and wreckage they suffered in Kovno, Lithuania, to emigrate to the United States. Each child in the family grows up in the New World following different paths. History is incorporated in the story of their lives. Moishe changes his name to Morris and goes on to become a millionaire. He marries Annette, the last child of sixteen siblings, who has been raised by wealthy adoptive parents who rescued her from poverty. Morris loses his fortune in the Great Depression. His life comes to an end quite unexpectedly in a tragic way. Ida changes her name to Ada and remains an ‘old maid’ until Ben comes along. She gives birth to Reva and lives until the age of 104.

This book affords enough space for you to answer the 200 stimulating prompts and also keep a succinct journal. Have you ever given a thought to how a dog is feeling on a certain day? What about your feelings about marriage? Has it occurred to you to write a story about your best ever vacation? The book’s prompts will get your creative juices flowing. The challenging exercises will benefit your brain’s neuroplasticity. One day in the future your descendants will discover your book written in your handwriting and chock full of wisdom, and they’ll be delighted to learn about their interesting forbear.

Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and roles and its metatheatrical qualities. In addition, Terence's response in his prologues to the play's two putative failures is important, if tendentious, evidence for the mechanics of theatrical performance in the second century, especially the conjunction of theatrical and gladiatorial shows. This edition opens the play's many interpretive challenges to wider scrutiny while remaining attentive to the linguistic needs of students at all levels.

During a counseling session Joan Pearl reveals to her psychologist, Dr. Becca Grove, that her husband Spence is a billionaire. Becca, who is immoral and greedy, conjures up a plan to exacerbate Joan’s relationship with her husband with the intent of encouraging her to divorce so that she herself could marry Spence. Despite complications Becca pursues her devious plan. On the couple’s vacation to Australia, Joan, who is a librarian, meets the Australian Sherilee—also a librarian—and they form a strong sisterly bond. They develop the entrepreneurial idea to be partners in the creation of the largest mystery bookstore in the world. When Spence refuses to part with monies that would facilitate their enterprise, they nevertheless persist in their plans. Becca moves from her expensive apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to a Brooklyn basement apartment. The pandemic and its consequences begin

Genres Mlange: Humor, Word Play, Personae, Sonnets, Fiction, Memoirs, Interpretation contains writings in the seven different categories, five of which (apart from wordplay and personae) are definitely genres. Personae is unique; with Word Play, the author may be starting a trend. Each category contains respective elements of the other six. This work, a sequel to Edwards Humor and More, features the new genres of sonnets and fiction. Interpretation ranges from the scripture to Talmud to Shakespeare to Reva Spiro Luxenberg Levenson.

Methuselah, the recording angel of history, is correcting the mistakes in Exodus that the dyslexic and nearsighted scribe who copied the Bible first made. For instance, Moses’s mother takes an entire month to make the basket for the baby since Macy’s has not yet come into existence. The infant’s sister, Miriam, places the basket in the bulrushes of Nile to save the Hebrew baby from being killed. Pharaoh’s daughter, who has severe psoriasis, rescues the infant and raises him in the palace. When Moses is ten, he is taught how to box. At the age of sixteen, he learns how to drive a chariot. That gives him the inspiration to initiate chariot races when he’s seventeen—long before the Roman ones as depicted in Ben-Hur. Moses is placed in an anger management class that he hates. He becomes an unquestionably great leader but never fully controls his temper for the rest of his eventful life.

For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.

A New York Times bestseller: "Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow humans." —San Francisco Chronicle Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.