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  • Rashi

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesFrom Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sonderberg Case

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions he’s made, he longingly reminisces about the relationships ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hostage

    A novel

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Truffaut

    A Biography

    by Antoine De Baecque, Serge Toubiana ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    One of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, Francois Truffaut was an intensely private individual who cultivated the public image of a man completely consumed by his craft. But his personal story—from which he drew extensively to create the characters and plots of his films—is itself an extraordinary human drama.Now, with captivating immediacy, Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana give us ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking

    Conversations about Art and Performance

    by Charles Rosen, Catherine Temerson ...
    Translated by Catherine Zerner ...
    Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century’s greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a concert pianist. He began studying at Juilliard at age seven and went on to inspire a generation of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Origins

    A Memoir

    by Amin Maalouf ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    A Lebanese-born journalist chronicles his family's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in this epic memoir—"An extraordinary achievement" (Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati )."A journey well worth taking, an elegant meditation on mortality and our relationship to the past." —Juliet Wittman, The Washington Post Book WorldOrigins, by the world... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Isaac B. Singer

    A Life

    by Florence Noiville ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century. His translated body of work, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, is beloved around the world. But although Singer was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. In Isaac Bashevis Singer, Florence Noiville offers a glimpse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stolen Images

    Lumumba and the Early Films of Raoul Peck

    by Raoul Peck ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Raoul Peck. Collected here for the first time are Peck’s three early feature and documentary screenplays as well as his seminal film Lumumba.In this collection of screenplays are Raoul Peck’s award-winning pair ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Second Life of Linus Hoppe

    by Anne-Laure Bondoux ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Series series Linus Hoppe
    After intentionally getting himself expelled from Realm One, Linus Hoppe believed he would experience more of real life. But life in inferior Realm Two is a nightmare. For months Linus has been imprisoned in a factory, where he toils on an assembly line. At night, he’s so tired that he no longer dreams of a future, of the destiny he wanted to create for himself. As for his family and friends, he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Destiny of Linus Hoppe

    by Anne-Laure Bondoux ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Series series Linus Hoppe
    Linus Hoppe has always lived in Realm One, an ideal world. Now, at 14, he must be tested by the Great Processor to determine where he deserves to live from here on. If he achieves a high score, nothing in his life will change. But if he scores too low, he’ll be relegated to an inferior realm, possibly far from his family and friends. There’s really nothing for Linus to worry about—unless, of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Marie Antoinette

    The Last Queen of France

    by Evelyne Lever ...
    Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 34 min

    Married for political reasons at the age of fourteen, Marie Antoinette was naïve, impetuous, and ill equipped for the role in which history cast her. From her birth in Vienna in 1755 through her turbulent, unhappy marriage, the bloody turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason (during which she was accused of incest), and her final beheading, Marie Antoinette’s life was the ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hostage

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His ... Read more

    $15.99 USD