Bob Gibbs, a bigoted Florida judge, has made a career of oversentencing convicted felons, but now it is his job to pick out the one who is trying to kill him from an assortment of bad guys, sociopaths, and punks, while Kathy Baker, a young probation officer, finds herself caught in the middle. Reprint
Archive for the ‘Literary’
German Short Stories 2/Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 2
Features parallel German and English texts of eight short stories that range in style from the classical method of Ernst Penzoldt to the montage technique of Alexander Kluge
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy, a probe that leads them to Rebbe Fold, the charismatic leader of a mysterious sect. 250,000 first printing.
WLT: A Radio Romance
From the creator of ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ and bestselling author of Lake Wobegon Days comes the trade paper edition of the hilariously bawdy novel that is ‘irresistibly delicious . . . a satisfying romp with a yarnmaster who can make you howl’ (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers plunge into broadcasting to rescue their failing restaurant and go on to make radio history over the next quarter century.
Two Lives
The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti’s wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.
