Frogs and Snails and Mobster Tales takes readers on an intimate childhood journey as the son of Al Capone's attorney, Abe Teitelbaum, struggled to survive abuse and neglect while a carousel of mobsters rotated through his confused life. It reveals how an innocent child struggled to develop resilience in an environment ripe with greed and entitlement. Robert has dedicated his life to helping those in extreme need. Behind the veil of "Frogs and Snails and Mobster Tales: Growing up in Al Capo...

"A brilliant and harrowing novel" about a deadly epidemic fueled by corruption, based on real-life events in China ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a ...

The words of China’s most famous political prisonerIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a website, Uyghur Online. In 2014, Tohti was arrested; accused of advocating separatism, violence, and the overt...

The words of China's most famous political prisonerIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a website, Uyghur Online. In 2014, Tohti was arrested; accused of advocating separatism, violence, and the overt...