"Corman's novel is a work of art. The journey is joyous." -Los Angeles Times The classic, best-selling novel of a successful ad man from the Mad Men era. Steve Robbins, burned out, his marriage failing, returns to his roots in his old neighborhood in the Bronx to find the piece of himself that he left behind. Caught in the mainstream of modern ......
Not as famous as Al Capone, but perhaps even more vicious, are John 'Mushmouth' Johnson, Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover from the Chicago underworld. Ron Chepesiuk reveals, for the first time, the stories of these African-American gangsters who were every bit as powerful, intriguing and colourful as the Windy City's more famous gangsters of the ......
My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up - in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams and double feature movies, street games ......
Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive
Breeding Between the Lines is the first book to outline the significant genetic and physical advantages of mixed-race heritage. In places, mixed marriages remain taboo and frequently lead to conflict, even violence. Those against mixing races list negative consequences, and even those who support interracial marriage speak of the prejudice that ......
The Kafka Society by Ron Felber finds Jack Madson, (A Man of Indeterminate Value), on another adventure. After a night of clubbing, Jack has no memory of how stripper, Amber Starr got into his bed. Great sex doesn't make up for the discovery of a severed head in the trunk of his Mustang convertible. Is Madson a murderer? Before that question can ......
How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
While the Jewish contribution to film, theatre, music and comedy has been well-documented, the Jewish role in the creation of the All-American superhero has been left unexplored - until now. The early comic book creators were almost all Jewish, and as children of immigrants, they spent their lives trying to escape the second-class mentality which ......
A Cop's Tale focuses on New York City's most violent and corrupt years, the 1960s to early 1980s. Jim O'Neil, a former NYPD cop, delivers a rare look at the brand of law enforcement that ended Frank Lucas grip on the Harlem drug trade, his cracking open of the Black Liberation Army case, and his experience as the first copy on the scene ......
From Vienna to Shanghai to America-A Brother and Sister Escape the Nazis
Now in paperback, An Uncommon Journey is the true story of a Jewish brother and sister who fled their native Austria in September 1938, a week before war broke out. Destination? Shanghai. An Uncommon Journey addresses the universal issues of persecution and the will to survive. This unique memoir is told by siblings ten years apart who share very ......
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union position on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Arguably an avoidable mistake from which the Southern war effort never fully recovered psychologically, much has been written as to why Lee had to make the ......
