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- Baby Dunks-a-Lot
2026
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All-star Baby Dunks-a-Lot is back and ready to help his team solve a basketball mystery in this hilarious and sporty tale from NBA champion Jayson Tatum“There’s only one person who can save the game of basketball . . .”When all the basketballs in the world mysteriously stop bouncing, the Commissioner of Basketball knows just who to call: Baby Dunks-a-Lot, the world-famous dunking baby! Join Baby D, his sta...
Baby Dunks-a-Lot
A Picture Book
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- Baby Dunks-a-Lot
2024
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NBA champion Jayson Tatum scores with this hilarious tale of a baby turned basketball superstar!Inspired by Jayson Tatum’s life as both an NBA superstar and a loving dad, this laugh-out-loud picture book is the story of what happens when a tot becomes an NBA teammate.Coathored by Sam Apple and featuring Parker-Nia Gordon’s sweet and appealing art, Baby Dunks-a-Lot is “delightful . . .silly and sporty in equal measure” (Kirkus).When...
Antisemite 144
A Novel
2027
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Antisemite #144 by Sam Apple is a whip-smart, darkly funny debut novel about a secular Jewish guy, Aaron, with a rare medical condition: He's turning into a Hasidic Jew. At least, that's what Aaron suspects. His doctors diagnose him with rare hormonal disorder that causes men to sprout prodigious beards. But could it really be a coincidence that the condition set in right after Aaron's unsettling encounter with a Hasidic mystic? Aaron isn't sure, and the less sure he is about what...
Available Mar 23, 2027
American Parent
My Strange and Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland
2013
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Part memoir, part journalism, part history, part downright strange and hilarious, American Parent takes readers on a unique tour of the world of new mothers and fathers. As Sam Apple embarks on his own journey into parenthood, he decides to put his background in journalism to good use by talking to a wide range of experts. Along the way, Apple visits with the mohel who circumcised him, enters a trance with a childbirth hypnotist, goes on a stakeout with a nanny spy, and attends a lecture o...
Ravenous
Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
2021
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openl...
2016
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In a cheeky and hilarious picture book, author Sam Apple and illustrator Sam Ricks share a silly story about the potty-training experience…from the toilet’s point of view!Danny would sit anywhere and everywhere: a comfy couch, a bean bag chair, his mom’s lap, a playground swing.The one place Danny wouldn’t sit?The toilet.When the pain of rejection becomes too much, the toilet does what any self-respecting toilet would do: He leaves home....
Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
2009
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Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as a shepherd’s apprentice. For thoroughly urban, slightly neurotic Sam, stumbling along...
Ravenous
Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
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- Mark Bramhall
Unabridged
12 hours 58 min
2021
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openl...
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2007
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The practical, comforting, honest, and hilarious bestseller for moms-to-be, with more than one and a half million copies in print!Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real skinny when you’re pregnant?Your girlfriends, of course—at least, the ones who’ve been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the wa...
The Nazi Officer's Wife
How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust
2012
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIn this gripping WWII historical nonfiction, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground, a true story of survival by hiding in plain sight. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Naz...
Beyond the Sling
A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way
2012
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A real-world guide to Attachment Parenting from the Big Bang Theory actress, neuroscientist, and mother Mayim Bialik—a book hailed by Dr. William Sears as “delightful” and by Ricki Lake as “a fantastic guide to birth and parenting that is packed with invaluable wisdom.”Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom, but she definitely didn’t follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD in neuroscienc...
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- A Bernie Gunther Novel
2017
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When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany’s defeat in World War 2...The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie’s old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice—and he’s not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they’v...











