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"From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood,...

"There are times when Judith Lassiter feels content, perhaps even happy. She is content to be married to a well-heeled architect who graciously remembers their fifteenth anniversary with fifteen red roses. She is content with Green Diamonds, the house her husband designed, the envy of their acquaintances. She is content with her life in the town of Wyfleet, content with her financial status, even content with her appearance." "Then why does Judith...

A collection of short stories set in modern-day Nigeria, including "The Worst Thing That Happened," in which an old-age pensioner with numerous children struggles to find someone to pick her up from cataract surgery.

In 1998, 20-year-old Mason Jenkins was charged with the murder of his own sister. His parents, who stood by him as he claimed innocence during and after the trial, could have disowned him when he finally confessed to the shooting. But they chose instead to hold on to what remained of their family. This riveting film tells the Jenkins' story and shows how the trauma and horror of their loss has played out in a most unexpected way. Interviews with Mason...

From the host of the popular Steve Harvey Morning Show comes a guide for all women that takes them inside the heads of men and shows how men think about love, sex, and commitment. Steve Harvey can't count the number of impressive women he has met over the years, women who can run a business, keep a household with three kids in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. So when it comes to relationships, why can't these women figure...