New Releases by Susan Dworkin

Maxie Dash, the heroine of The Garden Lady, is a famous beauty, a fashion icon, the face of many national TV ads. She has a gift for comedy and one best friend whom she treasures as a sister. Her first husband, a world-class photographer, took pictures of her in the nude which are so beautiful that they now hang in museums. On the cusp of her 50s, Maxie decides to make one more marriage, something permanent and restful, to a rich man who will guarantee her an affluent life and future security. Amazingly she finds the perfect man. Even more amazingly, she grows to love him. Albert shares Maxie''s passion for the opera. He willingly supports her favorite charities. He indulges her delight in public gardens and allows her to endow the community with their beauty. All he asks in return is that she give him her love and her unswerving loyalty and agree to know nothing - absolutely nothing - about his business.

Het leven van een Oostenrijks-joodse vrouw die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog trouwt met een Duitse legerofficier om aan de jodenvervolgingen te ontkomen.

"Este livro extraordinário é uma das melhores memórias sobre o Holocausto já escritas." — Library Journal Até onde você iria para sobreviver a uma guerra? Edith Hahn era uma mulher austríaca extrovertida e de opinião forte quando a Gestapo aprisionou os judeus em um gueto e, depois, em um campo de trabalhos forçados. Quando Edith retornou à Viena, ela sabia que seria cassada pelos nazistas. Resolve, com a ajuda de uma amiga cristã, criar uma nova identidade. Assim emerge Grete Denner. Foi como Grete que ela conheceu Werner Vetter, um membro do partido nazista que se apaixonou perdidamente por ela. Apesar de seus protestos e de confessar ser judia, Werner a pediu em casamento e manteve sua identidade em segredo. Neste relato incrível, Edith conta como era viver em constante medo. Ela revela como os oficiais nazistas casualmente questionavam a linhagem de seus pais; como ela recusou analgésicos durante o parto de sua filha; o momento em que seu marido foi capturado pelos soviéticos e ela foi expulsa de sua casa, escondendo-se em escombros porque soldados russos bêbados estupravam mulheres na rua. Suas experiências formam um testemunho emocionante de um dos períodos mais avassaladores da história. "Uma história incrível." Jewish Post "Um exemplo inspirador de perseverança diante de adversidades terríveis." Publishers Weekly "Este livro cativante mostra como o instinto de sobrevivência nos leva a dormir com nosso inimigo." Kirkus Review "Uma linda história de sobrevivência e superação de seus maiores medos." Washington Jewish Weekly

It is the year 2165. Climate change has impoverished the world. One giant corporation governs North America and controls the food supply. When a fierce wheat plague threatens everyone with starvation. an alliance of plant scientists, robot spies, and fed-up farmers organize to fight it. And at their center is a young woman named Lizzie who dreamed of being an ordinary pop singer and becomes instead the voice of the revolution.

The Farm Bill is a very funny play. And then you realize how serious it is. Luana is a low level clerk at the mammoth U.S. Department of Agriculture. She enjoys her job and likes her co-workers. She doesn''t think much about what she''s actually doing. When somebody she respects tells Luana that what she is doing may be bad for the country, she''s embarrassed; defensive; bewildered. She starts thinking about who''s being helped and who''s being hurt by this policy and that technology. She starts wondering whether some of those nice people she works with are really public enemies, undermining the bounty of the great American land. And one day, in the middle of the ordinary routine of her ordinary office, Luana launches a one-woman revolution that, for a few triumphant moments, brings the mammoth bureaucracy grinding quietly to a halt. In a single taut, fascinating act, award-winning playwright Susan Dworkin takes us through one woman''s political awakening and brings the politics of farming into human focus for every audience. Says director Ahvi Spindell, whose production of The Farm Bill ran off-Broadway in New York: “The Farm Bill is a timeless play, hilarious and scathing. It strikes at the heart of government''s frequent inability to serve the people it is supposed to represent. As an audience we relish the wit and passion with which Susan Dworkin''s characters do battle. She gives voice to the rebellion many of us wish we could join.”Ideal for theatres, schools, organization meetings, The Farm Bill is exceptionally easy to produce. There are four characters, two men, two women. The play runs about 35 minutes (sometimes more with the laughs.) The simple set is comprised of a couple of desks and chairs, a book case, some files and a 70s era phone. The issues of the play are with us always. Who controls the food supply? What''s the trade-off between saving the planet and growing enough food for everyone? What happens to the soul of the people when all connection to the land is lost? The Farm Bill can serve as a terrific “trigger play”, igniting discussion and debate. (Suggested questions for discussion are bound right into the script.) Actors will find it laden with powerful scenes, perfect as audition selections.And the royalties are most reasonable, as potential producers will discover when they contact [email protected] the author: Susan Dworkin''s book The Nazi Officer''s Wife, has become an international best seller. The story of one woman''s extraordinary escape from the Holocaust (written with the woman who lived it, the late Edith Hahn Beer), it has been translated into a dozen languages. Her most recent book was The Viking in the Wheat Field, the story of the great seed banker Dr. Bent Skovmand and his struggle to preserve the world''s crops for future generations. She was for ten years a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine, where she interviewed scores of celebrities, among them Meryl Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Roseanne Barr, and Carol Burnett. Her film study, Making Tootsie, is a staple of film school curricula. Susan Dworkin''s other plays include The Baking Song, about two geniuses trying to succeed at being in love; The Old Mezzo, the story of a great singer''s struggle for freedom under fascism; All Day Suckers, a comic satire on American health care; The Miami Dig, about some feisty senior citizens trying to rewrite their own history. The Book of Candy, a musical written with composer Mel Marvin, strikes a theme common to much of Ms. Dworkin''s work: the political awakening of the individual citizen. It was voted best new musical by the critics in New Jersey where it was first produced. Susan lives in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. She blogs at susandworkin.com – often about environmental politics and the role of the individual in answering the needs of a screaming planet. Her latest novel, The Commons, will appear next fall.

“A perceptive and provocative work.” —Los Angeles Times “A stunning job of research, observation and reporting.” —Larry Gelbart, co-writer of Tootsie and writer on TV’s “M*A*S*H*” “This fluid, marvelously detailed book goes a long way toward explaining why Tootsie has already achieved a reputation as a classic film comedy.” —People Making Tootsie is back, three decades after the creation of the blockbuster Hollywood motion picture that the American Film Institute rated as #2 on its list of the 100 Best Comedies of All Time (second only to Some Like it Hot). Playwright, author, and Ms. magazine contributing writer Susan Dworkin was granted unprecedented access to the film set, the cast, and the crew during the filming and through post-production of the 1982 classic, and her riveting, detailed chronicle offers a fascinating window into the art of movie making—as well as painting indelible portraits of the two main men who made Tootsie happen: director Sidney Pollack and star Dustin Hoffman. No movie buff, film historian, student, or fan will want to miss Making Tootsie.

#1 New York Times Bestseller 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. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith''s protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust—complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

The gripping story of how Bent Skovmand and others preserved the world''s wheat harvest. In 1999, a terrifying new form of stem rust—spotted in Uganda and dubbed "UG99"—quickly turned robust golden fields into dark, tangled ruins. For decades plant scientists had bred wheat varieties with rust-resistant genes, but these genes did not work against UG99. Unchecked, UG99 could spread all over the world, including the United States. Breeders everywhere began searching wheat germplasm collections for sources of resistance. The largest collection was at the Center for Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT ) in Mexico, developed by the brilliant Danish scientist Bent Skovmand. For three decades, Skovmand amassed, multiplied, and documented thousands of wheat varieties. He served as an advisor on wheat genetic resources to dozens of countries, and hunted for seeds that would contain the genes to protect the harvest from plagues like UG99 and the stresses created by global warming. I n an era when corporations and governments often jealously guarded breeding information, Skovmand fought to keep his seed bank a center for free, open scientific exchange. By telling the story of Skovmand''s work and that of his colleagues, The Viking in the Wheat Field sheds a welcome light on an agricultural sector—"plant genetic resources"—on which we are all crucially dependent.

L''arrestation par la Gestapo, le confinement dans le ghetto juif de Vienne, l''étoile jaune sur le manteau et l''insigne " J " sur les papiers, l''envoi dans un camp de travail... Prisonnière de cette spirale infernale, Edith Hahn ne devra sa survie qu''à une amie chrétienne dont elle empruntera l''identité afin de gagner Munich, où elle rencontre Werner Vetter, un nazi, qui tombe amoureux d''elle et l''épouse en dépit de sa condition juive. Edith, jusqu''alors méprisée et persécutée, devient dès lors une citoyenne aryenne modèle, et la mère du seul enfant juif né dans un hôpital du Reich en 1944. Désormais réfugiée dans un silence lucide, elle s''interdit de penser, se replie sur elle-même, un moyen comme un autre de " traverser l''enfer sans se brûler ". Ce récit sans égal relate à la fois le combat d''un être humain pour la vie et la tragédie déchirante de la perte d''identité.

Edith Hahn var 24 år gammel og studerte jus i Wien da nazistene festet sitt grep om Østerrike. I løpet av kort tid ble hun internert i en arbeidsleir. Da hun endelig kom seg ut igjen, var moren deponert, mens søstrene hennes hadde klart å komme seg ut av Østerrike. Selv om hun visste at hun ville bli en jaget kvinne, rev hun av seg den forhatte gule stjernen og gjemte seg så godt hun kunne. En venninne lånte henne indentitetspapirene sine, og hun klarte å flykte til München. Der treffer hun den tyske offiseren Werner Vetter, som hun forelsker seg i. Han gifter seg med henne selv om at han vet at hun er jøde, og redder dermed hennes liv. Edith Hahn Beer beskriver frykten hun følte i alle krigsårene. Tyske myndigheter kalte henne stadig inn til avhør om hennes bakgrunn. Hun var en av de få som overlevde, men det hadde sin pris... Illustrert med noen fotografier i svart/hvitt.

After contracting AIDS through a tainted clotting factor, hemophiliac Ryan White, at age 13, confronted the ignorance and bigotry all around him with strength and determination. The one woman who stood beside him throughout his ordeal, his mother, Jeanne White, now tells the uplifting story of their struggle to the bitter end, when Ryan died in 1990. of photos.

Here is the story of the transformation of a suburban housewife into a tough-minded community leader that recalls elements of both Portnoy''s Complaint and Diary of a Mad Housewife. Susan Dworkin is the award-winning author of Stolen Goods, a Literary Guild Editor''s Choice.

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Discusses the making of the film Body Double, and offers a profile of its director, Brian DePalma

Traces the changing role of the American woman from the turn of the century to the present, and looks at notable women and their accomplishments.