Bøker av Michael Fox

The events that set in motion the holocaust told through the story of one man, Adolf Fuchs. A remarkable story spanning six decades, eight countries and two continents. Inspired by true events, it is the timeless story of Adolf's will to survive and rebuild his life. All proceeds from this book go to benefit World Jewish Relief and their work supporting people around the world. We don't get to pick the times in which we live, and we don't get to shape the world events that test us to be our best or our worst. We live mistakenly believing that we are dancing on a large ballroom floor of our own design, with all the space we need to glide and twirl and spin. But in reality, we are dancing on the head of a pin, and any slight wind, this way or that, can push us off. In late fall of 1938, the unification of Germany with Austria sent its Jewish communities into a tailspin and changed the nature of Austria's relationship with its Jewish citizens forever. A former Jewish diplomat convinced a Home Office Secretary to rehabilitate a WWI training center on the English coast as a refugee camp to save German and Austrian Jewish men while secretly preparing Britain for impending war. 4,000 men were saved by cooperating with Jewish authorities in Berlin and Vienna under direction of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Nazis' final solution. "As a child of a Holocaust survivor, I have read many, many books and stories, but Michael Fox's ability to tell the story of horror, war, personal strength, and history, is unusually powerful. It is an important meshing of memoir with historical fiction for better understanding the unbelievable." Hannah Rosenthal, Former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the US State Department "Deeply researched with an historian's eye for detail and a chazan's ear for the drama of everyday life, Michael Fox's tribute to his people is eye opening, heart wrenching and proof, if one were needed, that family, like history, is a living thing..." Ben Sidran, Internationally acclaimed Jazz Pianist, singer/songwriter, producer, author and NPR radio host. "In pursuing his own father's wartime experiences, Michael Fox, in a skillful blend of memoir and reconstructed context, has uncovered a heretofore untold Holocaust story thus deepening our understanding of this unparalleled tragic period."Henry H. Sapoznik, Peabody award winningproducer "The Yiddish Radio Project,"National Public Radio (2002)

All too soon, the first snowflakes will fall, and we will bid farewell to America's pastime for a season. We'll enter that dark period between the last out of the World Series and the first pitch of Spring Training. I invite you to join me on a pilgrimage. I hope to scratch the itch many of us feel when we can no longer switch on a baseball game or check out a box score. Accompany me as I reflect on an extraordinary journey in the autumn of 2022 to several baseball venues of the Northeast-including moments and monuments, memorabilia and memories. It was a journey of a lifetime that confirmed why baseball resonates deep within the souls of those who love the game. And, it was a reminder that when our desire is for the Lord, he is likely to manifest in surprising ways...

Monday Morning is a collection of coach-able moments, initially sent every, well, Monday morning to clients and friends. This fourth volume features 154 brief essays-many followed by challenging inquiries. They're not designed to be read quickly; they're intended for contemplation. You'll be challenged and affirmed; you may shed tears or smile as you drink in the word, wisdom, and wonder of the living Word. May these pieces prove encouraging, that together we might be "transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him" (2 Corinthians 3:18, The Message).

What moved Abraham to open his home to his young, self-absorbed nephew, Lot, and later to wage war against a powerful alliance of kings to rescue his young charge? What moved Boaz, a near kinsman of Ruth, to marry her, to lift her up out of poverty? What moved Jesus to empty himself of the nature of God and to take upon himself the nature of man-indeed, the nature of a servant-to surrender his life on the cross to redeem humankind? What moved them was a sense of allegiance. A sense of family. A sense of tribe.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, OErvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula.

Do you ache for the consolations of home? Do you feel, at times, a sense of desolation as if you are lost in a wilderness, without a sense of direction or connection? Perhaps you've reached a season where parents and siblings and even the home place are but a fading memory. Perhaps your longing is for a home you never had. Perhaps home for you is an elusive sense of identity, safety, warmth and assurance. This unique little volume might just be your third base coach waving you home. Safe at Home explores origins through the beauty of baseball as metaphor. The author, Michael Fox, is an executive coach, a trainer, a spiritual director, a writer, a reader, a baseball historian, and a graphic designer living in Northeast Louisiana.

It may not be what you think it is. Unless you think it might be an imagined series of brief conversations between Jesus and the Apostle Paul?historical fiction; that takes place on Mount Sinai and within Ancient Israel?s tabernacle; conversations that ultimately answer where?or better, who?are the thin places where heaven and earth intersect. On the other hand, if that?s what you thought it might be, it?s exactly what you think it is.Michael Fox is an executive coach, a trainer, a spiritual director, a writer, a reader, a baseball historian, and a graphic designer living in Northeast Louisiana.

Mickey Burns took pride in his dead-end job: It wasn't everybody who got to say they worked for the Queens District Attorney's Office. So what if it was a dead-end job. At least he got to work on his stand-up comedy routine. Unfortunately he had another hobby. . . gambling. And now he had to come up with twenty-five thousand dollars to pay off his bookie. That was about as low as Mickey Burns could go, until his best friend was arrested for the murder of a cop.Jack Moran, once a great cop and now hip deep in the bottle, asked Mickey for a favor, a favor he was willing to pay for. So what if it was illegal? Mickey could use the money to pay off his gambling debts. Mickey's investigation leads behind the shiny facade of a police shield to the seamy underbelly of law enforcement-a place where pay-offs and rip-offs are as much a part of the job as handcuffs and Miranda warnings. They soon find out how scarce friends become once they cross the thin blue line. Luck to Lose blurs the line between cops, prosecutors and criminals until the only thing that can be trusted is a man's word.

A book on your dog behavior and care by one of the most thoughtful writers on animal care and behavior.