Gold Medal for the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in HistoryWinner of the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in Regional: North-EastSilver Medal for the 2025 IPPY AwardFinalist for the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book FestHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book AwardsOn July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rab...

A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved f...

Gold Medal for the 2024 IPPY AwardWinner of the 2023 Best Book Award from American Book FestFinalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book AwardIn Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China’s “Wild East”—and an explosive mixture of nati...

2020–21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year FinalistIn the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kos...

Grand Prize Silver Winner for the 2025 Reader Views Literary Award in NonfictionGold Winner for the 2025 Reader Views Literary Award in HistorySilver Winner for the 2025 Reader Views Literary Award in NonfictionFinalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book AwardBronze Medal for the 2026 IPPY AwardToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In t...

*2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book FestA Second Reckoning* tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried - through legal shenanigans - by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-rai...

2019 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner (Gold) in U.S. HistoryIf you’ve ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Miranda rights by heart. But you likely don’t know that these rights had their roots in the case of a young Chinese man accused of murdering three diplomats in Washington DC in 1919. A frantic search for clues and dogged interrogations by gumshoes erupted in sensational news and editorial coverage and intensified international pre...

2022 IPPY Silver Medal2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book FestA Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried—through legal shenanigans—by an all-white jury, and w...

2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards Gold Medal Winner '2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in American Jewish Studies2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist 'In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the ...

East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years of experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behaviour and make positive impressions.

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China's "Wild East"—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspé, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly a...

Ten years ago, Sasha Gong and Scott D. Seligman collaborated on a groundbreaking cookbook that told the story of China's chaotic Cultural Revolution (1966-76) through its cuisine. During that period, approximately 17 million city youth were "sent down" to the countryside to "learn from the peasants," and they discovered that toil in the communes was arduous and food was scarce. But many also learned that remarkably tasty and healthy dishes could be prepared with the fresh, wholesome ingred...