Most Popular Books by David Weiss

Zwei Leichen, eingemauert in ein Kriegerdenkmal an der österreichisch-tschechischen Grenze, sind nur der skurrile Anfang eines Alptraums. Reporter Paul Wagner und Historiker Gerg Sina sind einem Geheimnis auf der Spur, das am Fundament der katholischen Kirche rüttelt. Gesucht wird ein brisantes Archiv, das in den letzten Kriegstagen von Himmlers Wewelsburg in die Alpenfestung transportiert werden sollte, jedoch nie dort ankam. Irgendwo in Österreich ist es verschwunden... Der vatikanische Geheimdienst und eine geheimnisvolle Bruderschaft sind nicht zimperlich, wenn es darum geht, dieses Wissen wiederzuerlangen - und eines wird schnell klar: Alle, die je mit dem Archiv zu tun hatten, sind eines gewaltsamen Todes gestorben. Doch da ist noch etwas Älteres... viel Gefährlicheres ... seit Urzeiten ein Spiel spielend ... Als Sina und Wagner das erkennen, ist es schon fast zu spät.

You could say that Little Mirror is a book-length conversation with an inanimate object. Or you could say it''s a monologue in forty-seven fragments told to a different kind of fragment--a piece of mirrored glass. Or it''s a confession made to a listener who cannot hear. Or a cri de coeur to a fellow traveler who cannot feel. Or a series of meditations on failure and grace and how to live, addressed to a companion who can reflect but not reflect on. This is a book whose plain talk with a thing of little value becomes a refiner''s fire to burn away self-deception and dishonesty and replace it with clarity.

New collection of poems by David Weiss, author of Per Diem. A new collection of poems by the author of Per Diem and six other books. Rarely does a poet demonstrate such mobility, plumbing the depths of the psyche while giving it new sounds, new light, new configurations of consciousness. "No One Sleeps Tonight is a collection of poems that asks the reader to ''listen to your being there.'' There is a boy kneeling at the foot of a wheelchair to help his grandmother put her feet on the steel plates; there is a man in love with ''a dozen of roses'' and the phrase ''a dozen of roses,'' bloodied and beautiful and musical; a speaker searching for a line of poetry, ''small night celebrates the great night,'' and finding it by not finding it--which is another way of finding the elusive presence, this time through solitude, that ultimate presence. In fact, all of No One Sleeps Tonight is a small life celebrating a great life through a vision that is so deliciously embodied, it makes you want to rip off the covers, get out of bed, naked, thrust open the window, and let all the evenings of your life visit you again and again and again."--Matthew Lippman Poetry. Jewish Studies.

Douglas Reingold, loving husband, father to teenagers, and an engineer by trade, has a close call riding his motorcycle one day. He''s struck by a tortured thought: how would his wife and children''s lives go on if he were dead? Obsessed with the answer to this question, he persuades the showrunner of a reality TV show called Do Us Part, devoted to documenting stories of terminal illness, to stage his dying. He is propelled into a world of intrusive producers, documentary intrusiveness and layers of lies and watches the ways his family, colleagues, neighbors, and friends begin to adjust in surprising ways to the idea of his absence. Will he actually go through with it? Even Douglas is not sure as he grows ever sicker.

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Rather than just a cookbook, this piece of writing covers the journey of a french Chef who became successful in the United States of america. After owning a french Bistro for several years, I decided it was time to reveal the secrets of some of my most classic dishes. Allow me to show you the delightful but yet simple french cuisine. I''m sure you will have fun impressing your family and friends. Let''s cook together!

Voici le récit de la trajectoire étonnante d''un prodige du hassidisme devenu professeur à l''université de Columbia, à New York. Né dans un petit village au croisement de la Roumanie, de la Pologne, de l''Ukraine et de la Hongrie, David Weiss grandit dans la pauvreté, illuminé et porté par l''étude, auprès d''un grand-père talmudiste à la pensée originale et d''une mère divorcée. Protégé dès son plus jeune âge par son " génie ", David connaît déjà de grandes parties du Talmud par cœur. Il continuera à étudier jusque dans le ghetto et le camp de concentration où périra toute sa famille. Ce récit autobiographique, souvent poignant par sa retenue et sa sobriété, retrace le parcours d''un homme extraordinaire, qui consacra sa vie à l''étude et à la pensée. David Weiss Halivni a su concilier sa très grande piété avec une approche scientifique du texte et une ouverture d''esprit hors du commun. Ces mémoires sont également le lieu d''une réflexion passionnante sur la Shoah, et sur la culture traditionnelle comme seule défense face à la barbarie du monde.