We have the best books for your summer reading - at home, at the beach, in the mountains, at the lake. They provide hours of entertainment, escape and education. Novels, short stories, history, biography, and social studies. You'll find the best selection of fiction and non-fiction books by Jewish writers. And recent hardcover releases are on sale at 15% off list prices.

We've just added three great items: a new digital CD and DVD remastered set of the complete 2000 Year Old Man shticks of Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, director Dan Katzir's charming DVD documentary of the funny and larger-than-life world of Yiddish Theater, and a CD boxed set of the music of cantors, klezmorim and crooners that spans the past century from Yiddish music aficionados Henry Sapoznik and Sherry Mayrent.

This month, we are featuring classic and contemporary cookbooks, traditional and vegetarian, that offer the best recipes from around the world; all are on sale at 15% off list prices.

Our favorite children's picture books include a comic tale of an escaped chicken who converses in Yiddish, Spanish and English, a beautiful biography of Marc Chagall as a young boy, the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's quest for justice and equality. We have chosen books by the best writers and illustrators for your children, grandchildren or young friends.

Art Spiegelman, the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" explores the comics form--and how it has formed him in Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir. Our featured graphic novels and illustrated histories include the The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb, Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Dennis Kitchen, Dread and Superficiality: Woody Allen as a Comic Strip, and Herblock, and books by Paul Buhle, Harvey Pekar, Will Eisner, Joann Sfar and others.

From the publishers who translated Curious George and The Cat in the Hat , we are pleased to introduce Eyn Fish Tsvey Fish Royter Fish Bloyer Fish, A Yiddish translation of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. This translation by Sholem Berger captures the words, rhyme scheme and spirit of this children's classic. It includes transliteration of the texts and an alphabet chart to help those not yet proficient in Yiddish.

This is the best book for beginners with no knowledge of Yiddish. Zuckerman and Herbst's book is popular with adult learners. It features dialogues, songs, cultural history, and a slow but steady introduction to speaking, reading and writing. It begins using transliteration and gradually goes to full instruction in the Yiddish alphabet.