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"I need to imagine some end to life that transcends my tiny allotment of time and space," says the author of this wide-ranging, heartfelt, and intelligent book. "But I find it difficult to dream in a world filled with nightmarish violence. And yet I can't let go. I try to find my footing in an absurd world and search for signs of meaning and direction in the twisted turns of history that my generation has witnessed. I need to know how to dream in a world of diminishing expectations."

A very wealthy killer is coming after Gays in New York City.

A rule is broken-and Mercy finds she is alone. Has everyone left, or has she left them? Struggling through her confusion she finds answers by letting go of distorted truths, awakening to a glimpse of who she is.

A Jewish woman in a 19th-century shtetl nearly loses her mind when her six-year-old son is torn from her arms, bound for a twenty-five-year enlistment in the Russian army. She spoils her second son rotten, a foolish, headstrong young man eventually married off to avoid the army but forced to flee to America when he gets a young relative of his in-laws, who is working in their home, pregnant. In New York during the draft riots of 1863, he gets an Irish girl who loves him pregnant too, but he refuses to marry her, conniving instead to win the heart of the homely only child of a wealthy, social climbing WASP mother and Catholic father. This plain girl follows the rogue. He abandons her as well when he discovers her parents have disowned her. In a twist of fate, the spurned Irishwoman and the homely girl meet and grow close. In the end, each fashions a wholly new life from the rubble of her past against a grand backdrop of the Civil War. How that happens is the secret of this richly human saga-and it drives the reader forward with one plot revelation after another until it reaches a profoundly unexpected series of climaxes.

This second volume of Julia Torres' thrilling story takes us into the rough-and-tumble of an undercover narcotic cop's life-soliciting male escorts, rubbing shoulders with racketeers in dimly lit night spots, working an international hustle in Paris, and more-at a time in the her life when she's struggling with an abusive husband in a dead-end marriage, from which she and her daughter ultimately emerge. And then she learns that she is suffering from multiple sclerosis, caused by a drug she was ordered to take in Iraq to protect her from exposure to chemical weapons. Her tale is riveting and deeply inspiring-a true lesson in bravery and faith.

Many women are molested and raped in America, some no doubt on their prom night, but this brilliant, compelling story stands outin a category of its own. Julia Torres joined the United States Army, bound for a war zone, in order to get killed rather than open the emotional wound she had sustained, but, in the chaos of battle and surrounded by her very close buddies, found her life instead-and truth, the greatest weapon of all, to sustain her in it. Her memoir rivets and inspires.

Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that plagued many of those who had made it out alive. InPrisoners of Memory, Haahr realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about thepre-war lives, deportations, and deathsof her grandparents and other close family members. Devoting herself fully to this project after retiring from her academic career, Haahr delves into troves of family letters, takes part in numerous conversations with those directly and indirectly affected by World War II, and gathers information from contacts in Germany,archives,and other historical research. In doing so, she seeks to understand the enduring legacy of tragedy as well as of perseverance and hope in the generations that followed the Holocaust.

Jim Gold excels as a writer in the joys of improbability. His stories seize upon the most unlikely of heroes and heroines, and plunge them into situations none of us could ever imagine. They come to us with a hilarious assortment of odd backgrounds, very strange attitudes,and utterly surprising needs and ambitions. Some of them are people. Some are animals, and others plants. There are guys and gals who worry about their sex lives or their deaths, a talking turnip, a cloud with Oedipal problems, a whole world of vivid creations. And they're all inescapable,irresistible-a tangle of living neurons and flesh we can't help but be drawn to because they so often, and so surprisingly,remind us of ourselves. These invented souls hint of our own needs, our own frailties. . .and our own triumphs. They will leave you a happier soul.

It takes courage to turn a new leaf, a passion for self- discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived on its own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways that reveal us to ourselves with humor and insight. Its free spirit makes us laugh and coaxes us to be ourselves. Jim Gold brings a love of people, and of music, dance, languages, and cultures to all his work. Jim has kept journals for over thirty years. They cover all his pursuits, his struggles to remain gleefully free in a world of restraints, and his hunger to discover the vastness of the world around him and of the inner life. In making the New Leaf journals available to a wider audience, Full Court Press hopes to reveal Gold's keen eye for the truth and the preposterous to readers.

It takes courage to turn a new leaf, a passion for self- discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived on its own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways that reveal us to ourselves with humor and insight. Its free spirit makes us laugh and coaxes us to be ourselves. Jim Gold brings a love of people, and of music, dance, languages, and cultures to all his work. Jim has kept journals for over thirty years. They cover all his pursuits, his struggles to remain gleefully free in a world of restraints, and his hunger to discover the vastness of the world around him and of the inner life. In making the New Leaf journals available to a wider audience, Full Court Press hopes to reveal Gold's keen eye for the truth and the preposterous to readers.

It takes courage to turn a new leaf, a passion for self- discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived on its own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways that reveal us to ourselves with humor and insight. Its free spirit makes us laugh and coaxes us to be ourselves. Jim Gold brings a love of people, and of music, dance, languages, and cultures to all his work. Jim has kept journals for over thirty years. They cover all his pursuits, his struggles to remain gleefully free in a world of restraints, and his hunger to discover the vastness of the world around him and of the inner life. In making the New Leaf journals available to a wider audience, Full Court Press hopes to reveal Gold's keen eye for the truth and the preposterous to readers.

What happens when a beloved spouse suddenly and irrevocably leaves your life? Overnight, the life Raechel and Michael Bratnick had planned disappeared, the territory ahead chaotic and uncertain. At the outset Michael was the owner of an industrial public relations company, a healer and poet: Illness ripped his life to shreds. Without any nursing skill, Raechel suddenly became his nurse and medical advocate. Big questions like how could this malignancy sneak into their lives without a warning had to wait as his condition required constant care. After he died, she dreamed and grieved her way into peace. Dawn and dawning are themes throughout this book: His death at dawn propelled her into the dawning of a new life. Her journey takes her through shock, raw emotions, regrets, pain, and humor, as she gradually transitions into appreciation, forgiveness, and an understanding of this part of her life. A conversation between Raechel and Michael is woven in through their poetry and journals. The book concludes with a view of the author's new life, eleven years after losing her soul mate

Cora Kronen abused her son, Herb, while leaving most ofher estate to her daughter, Barbara. Then she made Herbthe executor. Herb's lawyer shows him how to steal morethan his share. Barbara's husband, a hot-shot corporate executive,hates his brother-in-law and demands she take everything back fromhim. Barbara wants to protect herself but give Herb his fair share. Teenager Terry Keller, meanwhile, needs ashare of his dead mother's estate, but his crueldrunk of a father has forced Terry's unmarriedmother to leave everything to him. If Terry can'tdo something, Barry will drink it all away. And Barney Moran is a stupid loan shark, indictedfor usury, who, unless he testifies againsthis mob bosses, could do a long stretch in prison. but if he rats, he's a dead man. His sister, Kathy,wants to keep her brother free and alive. What do these three characters have in common?They're all clients of Ian Elkins, a smart and resourceful lawyerwith nearly too much honesty and integrity, but with no criminal lawexperience. What chance does this near boy scout lawyer haveagainst all those bad guys?

One murder. Four eyewitnesses. An unknown assailant. A victim with a mysterious secret. Bystanders beleaguered by life's losses. A killer at large. . . . When Sam, the proprietor of a local cafe, is shot dead on the street, four strangers become unwitting witnesses to the crime. As the investigation progresses, this quartet of onlookers find themselves, not only haunted by the homicide, but pursued by their own pasts._x000D_As they plunge deeper into the reality of his death, all are forced to realize that the loss of Sam is far from their most devastating. Inner anguish reaches a climax point for Ella, Marco, Sarah, and Danny as the answers they are hunting for continue to elude them-and the evidence they hope will vanish refuses to disappear.???_x000D__x000D_

IN EARLY 2007, Edish.com was a thrivingdiscontinued china business with twostores, a huge internet presence, and wellover two hundred thousand loyal customers. By January 2009, the company was on thebrink of failure. Discontinued: What I Lost andFound During the Recession is the timely anddramatic story of the last six months in thelife of Edish.com. The story chronicles the ups and downsof attempting to save the business and of theauthor's relationship with her two partners-one a prominent appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, the other a renownedeye surgeon, both her close friends for almost two decades. The bookreveals shocking betrayal and profound loyalty, exposing human natureat its best and worst-and answers pressing questions you surely havelike Does bone china really have bones in it? and What didMartha Stewart do when the author suggested on nationalTV that an antique chamber pot could be used for apopcorn bowl?

How a boy from Rochester, New York, found success and happiness by staying true to the values he grew up with.

Thrust into the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks, young Elise and her mother survived the 1915 Armenian death march. Twenty years later, her new life in America is more than she could ever have dreamed possible. The dream ends when her husband Leon dies and she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She has spent her entire adult life filling the woman's role she was taught to in Syria-cooked, cleaned, prayed, and looked after her three children. But she never leraned how to drive a car or manage a bank account. Leon saved enough for her to get by after his death. But he didn't think their lawyer son would turn his eye to those meagre savings. Elise's advancing dementia dimmed her awareness of the family strife swirling around her that would mark the last five years of her life. Elise's daughter offers a close-up view here of helping a dependent mother from a thousand miles away.

LINDA PRINCIPE IS AN OLD-FASHIONED POET in one profound way: Uncommonly, she resists the temptation to write anything unless she has something to say-and this latest collection demonstrates what can be achieved by that standard.Here are poems to live with. They resonate with insights gained and lessons learned in honest encounters with the truer sides of this fleeting existence of ours-with love, friendship, and death in all their varied appearance.They are poems that glow with the smooth glow of sea-glass. For readers who have come to know Ms. Principe's work, this volume will be a treasure.And if you have never read her, the uncanny feel she has for the poetry in the very ordinary moments all of us share with her will offer you solace and joy, the lilt of humor and the plain unvarnished truth. They will ease your burdens and bathe you in reviving light.

"The lights were dim," writes the author of this compact, deeply heartwarming tale, "and I could only see shadows, but I felt a sense of warmth and peace around me. I was an infant in a bassinet. I do not remember the words my parents spoke, only the fact that I had such a wondrous feeling of love and security. I have managed, somehow or other, to preserve that feeling to this day." It''s a very powerful feeling to have somehow held onto that lies at the heart of her story. Most of us fail to manage it. Nancy Sabatino''s voice throughout is honest, clear-eyed, and utterly free of pretension. She''s a Brooklyn girl through and through. She knows, blissfully and invariably, who she is, speaking with a vivid sense of openness and confidence. Francis Loyola was right when he said that, if you gave him a child until the age of four, you could have her back for life; and the author''s character reveals itself on every page of Love of Life. She''s industrious, irrepressible, and utterly devoted to her parents, her husband, and her three boys through thick and thin. Hers is a story worth reading more than once, because it reminds us in unmistakable terms what truly matters in life-and how to find wonder and joy in all our waking moments.