A boy runs away from the Maimonides Home for Jewish Boys to seek out one of the home's great athletic legends. His outlook and self understanding begin an extraordinary unfolding.

An Orphan's Tale

Neugeboren, Jay

New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston

This story is about Nathan Malkin who returns to New York from a premature retirement in Israel. He bears a heavy baggage of memory - his parents' marriage, the deaths of his wife and son, and his relationship with his brother. Central to his schemes is The Stolen Jew a novel he wrote years ago.

The stolen Jew

Literature & Fiction

United States

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

In Imagining Robert, Jay Neugeboren told the sad, deeply personal, often harrowing story of one man and one family's struggle with chronic mental illness. Now, he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed, articulate, comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's shortcomings and of new, effective, proven approaches that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans afflicted with severe mental illness. A book for general readers and professionals alike, Transforming Madness is at once a critique, a message of hope and recovery, and a call to action. Filled with dramatic stories, it shows us the many ways in which people who have suffered the long-term ravages of psychiatric disorders have reclaimed full and viable lives.

Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

University of California Press

The Stolen Jew

Pinnacle Books

In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, combined with a series of unexpected pressures, goads him into an ironic comeback -- playing on an all-black team for a B'nai B'rith championship in a local Brooklyn synagogue with a cast of unlikely heroes and friends. A tight, jabbing novel that moves with the speed and hard grace of basketball itself, BIG MAN puts Jay Neugeboren among "the surprisingly tiny company of fiction writers who have captured the essence of the athlete as a human being" (Kansas City Star).

Big Man

Harper-perennial

In a compelling memoir, the author of Imagining Robert offers a fascinating account of his battle with severe coronary artery disease, discovered during a routine checkup, the life-saving emergency bypass surgery he underwent, and the four life-long friends, all prominent physicians, who sustained, informed, and supported him on his journey through the medical system.

Open Heart: A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Drawn, under the influence of his Uncle Abe, head of Brooklyn's Jewish underworld, to a life at odds with his nature, David Voloshin escapes to begin life anew in a small New England town

Before My Life Began

Simon&Schuster

A novelist offers a touching and uplifting tale of love as he explains the joys and difficulties involved in having a relationship with his mentally ill brother

Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival : A Memoir

Community & Culture

William Morrow & Co.

In Imagining Robert, Jay Neugeboren told the sad, deeply personal, often shocking story of one man and one family's struggle against chronic mental illness. Now, in his wide-ranging, well-informed new book, he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed, articulate survey of our mental-health-care system's shortcomings and the new, effective, proven approaches that can make a real difference in the lives of the millions of Americans afflicted with severe mental illness, offering new hope to them and their families.
A book for general readers and professionals alike, Transforming Madness is at once a critique, a message of reassurance and hope, and a call to action with the impact of such groundbreaking books as The Other America and Death at an Early Age. Comprehensive, dramatic, and richly textured, it goes beyond mere indictment of what's wrong to point the way toward a promising future. Indeed, Transforming Madness is less about how the health system has failed America's mentally ill than it is about programs that work -- success stories that provide genuine hope for a permanent recovery. This book is unique in that it gives us the good news: while madness has hitherto had the power to transform us, we now have the knowledge and means to transform madness.

Transforming Madness: New Lives For People Living With Mental Illness

Exercise & Fitness

William Morrow

Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival : A Memoir

Henry Holt Co.

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