Laurie Gwen Shapiro

"The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This...

To save the family company, Greenblotz Matzo, from bankruptcy, Heather Greenblotz agrees to let the Food Channel broadcast a Greenblotz family Seder. The problem is, the Greenblotz clan is anything but kosher and they don't celebrate seder, so Heather has to get her family to cooperate and, even more difficult, to act "normal" on TV.