Jacobson: 502 books
The Lampshade
A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prisoners to makes common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession...
Shane Jacobson
The Long Road to Overnight Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From the star of the film Kenny, the story of his long road to overnight success. After the film 'Kenny' catapulted him to national and international fame, actor, writer, producer Shane Jacobson was told by people that he had a talent for acting. Which was great news as he'd been on the stage since...
Shylock Is My Name
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against...
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances
Memoirs of a Life among Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music critic Bernard Jacobson. Its pages are populated by eminent composers ranging from Hans Werner Henze to Andrzej Panufnik and by renowned performers, including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Sviatoslav Richter,...
Memories of Asaph
Mnemohistory and the Psalms of Asaph
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Although the Psalms of Asaph (Pss. 50, 73‒83) contain a concentration of historical referents unparalleled in the Psalter, they have rarely attracted sustained historical interest. Karl N. Jacobson identifies these psalms as containing cultic historiography, historical narratives written for recitation...
by Abbi Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the mind of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, author of I Might Regret This, a wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us—all through the framework of what we carry.**
“Jacobson’s art is warm, textured, and carefully...
Teenage Hipster in the Modern World
From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“Nothing less than a riveting snapshot of life in the ‘modern world,’ particularly New York.” —Booklist
Mark Jacobson has published pieces in Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Esquire, and more. His journalistic beats range far and wide, delving into the realms of politics, sports,...
J
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
**Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling...
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
The Best of Howard Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts,...
It's A God Thing
When Miracles Happen to Everyday People
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Some things in life have no earthly explanation.
Miracles are not reserved for the characters in the Old and New Testaments; they happen to everyday people.
Series creators Don Jacobson and K-LOVE Radio have joined together to produce one of the most remarkable collections of modern-day...
The Shy Single
A Bold Guide to Dating for the Less-than-Bold Dater
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2004
Nearly 50 percent of adults in the United States describe themselves as chronically shy, and an even larger number are single. These numbers prove what we already know: There are a lot of us sitting home alone, letting the dating world pass us by. But it doesn't have to be that way!
In The...
by Steven Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
“The most effective way to protect yourself from subconscious manipulation is by being aware of how it works,” states author Steven Jacobson. And with extensive documentation, Mr. Jabobson takes us on a journey of the multi-faceted dimension of mind control and shows us how to save our mind and...
Labor of Love
Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid...
Barbarous Antiquity
Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater...