“Only a person with Friedl’s humanity, tenacity and artistic genius could have had the strength and courage to teach Tein’s children how to draw and how to cope.”

-Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
Simon Wiesenthal Center

Fried!

The works of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis are currently being shown at the Jewish Museum in New York City through January 2005. The exhibit has already been to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Stockhold, Prague and Atlanta and will be in Dallas and other American cities in the future.

An Artoir by John Sacret Young

Read About then Own the Art Collection!

In Pieces of Glass, award-winning Hollywood screenwriter John Sacret Young mixes the "art" side of his life with a personal memoir to create a unique Artoir spotlighting and exploring the deep, moving, and explosive effect art has had on him, his work, and his soul. From Mark Rothko, John Marin, and Richard Diebenkorn to Johannes Vermeer, Norman Rockwell and Charles Burchfield, Young comes to realize that paintings, drawings, sketches, and even chalk on an old garage wall have helped shape him into the best of what he is today. 

Remembering the Last Days of John F. Kennedy

Can you figure out whodunit?

This intriguing collection of short stories features brain-twisting tales of murder and mayhem that will keep readers guessing until the very end… or will they? All the clues are provided, just add ingenuity.

Personal memories from a tumultuous period in American history!

A Nation Lost and Found
1936 America Remember by Ordinary and Extraordinary People

A Nation Lost and Found provides an extraordinary look at the moving personal stories of people who lived through the turbulent mid-1930s – a period in which the spirit of the individual, and the collective spirit of a nation, were awakened.

A “behind-the-scenes” look at Hollywood through the eyes and pens of 48 top screenwriters

Doing It For Money
The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood

Ah, the life of a successful screenwriter…

Sitting in your Malibu beach house finishing the script that will bring in the next million dollar check… Doing lunch at The Ivy… Hollywood party-hopping where you’re the idol of stars, movie execs and paparazzi…

Yeah, right!

Not if you’re “Doing It for Money.”

20th Anniversary Edition

Newly Revised and Updated 2021 Edition featuring Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad and many more current films and TV shows.

Write Screenplays That Sell
The Ackerman Way

“Hal Ackerman’s new book is exceptional.”

-Scr(i)pt magazine, May/June 2004

“…this [book] will become one of the more popular screenwriting books out there.”

-Screentalk magazine, January 2004

“Here is another excellent screenwriting book. Very important addition to your screenwriting library.”

-Script magazine, Summer Book Review 2004

Now, L.A.’s most popular recipes can be made anytime, anywhere!

Home cooking never looked or tasted like this!

Compliments of the Chef

Great recipes from great restaurants, Los Angeles

A unique collection of 33 endlessly imaginative recipes from the world-class chefs who work their culinary magic at Southern California’s most famous restaurants! Now the home-based “chef” can wow dinner guests with these sumptuous savories from celebrated eating spots, or simply create a romantic evening, topped with inspiring cuisine.

Winner of NAPRA’s 2003 Nautilus Award

A beautiful book of prayer and comfort.

painted prayers
imagination and comfort for a questioning world

Wisdom and prayers from many of the world’s ancient and modern spiritual traditions and beliefs.

Inspired full-color paintings by artist Jody Uttal beautifully capture the powerful words of the masters.

Also available in a Limited First Edition Hardcover

A mechanic milks a cow, a recluse walks outside for the first time in three weeks, two teenagers watch tennis on mute, a grown man drinks a juice box in his underwear ― all of these moments strike the artful balance between intellectual acuity and lighthearted absurdity, establishing Toddy Smith and Darren Nuzzo as the new literary voices to listen to, laugh with and follow.

Max is back, and he’s got a little brother!

The Sibling Thing
How I Went from Prince to Pest in Four Short Years

In his Tallfellow bestseller, The Grandfather Thing, Saul Turteltaub created a warmly comic memoir of his grandson Max’s first year, highlighted with Max’s “own” commentary and sage observations.

Now three years old, Max faces "a new kid in town" with the arrival of Baby Brother Ross...

Before the inspired nonsense of Monty Python, David Letterman and the Far Side, there were Droodles. With a few squiggles in a simple square, these clever drawings created absurd scenes like SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH (used by Frank Zappa as an album cover), EYEGLASSES FOR A POTATO and CLAM WITH BUCK TEETH And they were all the creation of one brilliant and unpredictable man: Roger Price.

At the height of their popularity in the mid-1950s, fans enjoyed the Droodles TV show, a Droodles daily newspaper column, Droodles magazine features, Droodles cocktail napkins, even Droodles in ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Like hula hoops, drive-in movies and UFOs, Droodles were one of the biggest fads of the 1950s.

A Smile on every page!

The Grandfather Thing
(A Warmly Comic Memoir)

If you believe that your brand new grandchild is the most beautiful creation in the world, you’ve got “The Grandfather Thing.” If you find yourself showing baby pictures to strangers, you’ve got “The Grandfather Thing.” And if you belive that you’re above all this sentimatnality and frivolousness, maintaining a cool objectivity, you’re in denial and have the most severe case of “The Grandfather Thing!” In this warmly comic memoir of grandson Mac’s first year, humorist Saul Terteltaub – who believes he’s immune to “The Grandfather Thing” – is converted from objective bystander to super enthusiast as “The Grandfather Thing” works its wonders on his psyche.