The Days of the Bitter End

Did two Kennedys die on that tragic day in Dallas? This is the drama during the days of Camelot when American comedy turned into Amerca s tragedy... Americans lost their innocence on that tragic day in Dallas November 22, 1963. The Days of the Bitter End takes readers back to the streets of the political and cultural focal point of the sixties: New York City's Greenwich Village -- at the moment of one of contemporary history's life-changing events -- John F. Kennedy's assassination. But for comedian Cliff Harris, whose career was based solely on his superb talent to imitate the dashing young President Kennedy, life is changed forever. After rising from obscurity in Philadelphia to national prominence on television s entertainment institution, The Ed Sullivan Show, Harris (whose character is based on real-life Kennedy impersonator Vaughn Meader) becomes America s most popular comedic performer, doing JFK so well that even the First Lady has a tough time telling the difference. But when the popular president is suddenly gunned down by Lee Harvey Wallace, the bullets that kill Kennedy also kill Harris career, taking him down along with rest of Camelot.
 The novel is populated with real people of the "beat scene." Engelhard was there during that thrilling era -- the doorman at the now-famous Bitter End nightclub that played host to many counter-culture legends including Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and Jack Kerouac. His novel is filled with lively fictionalized versions of characters he knew and worked with that capture the passion and drama of the 60s generation.The Days of the Bitter End vividly brings to life the streets of New York City s renowned Greenwich Village. That vibrant political and cultural focal point of the 1960s is stunningly reflected in all its exuberance, sex, pot-smoking, poetry and politics. 
Engelhard's heartfelt work recaptures the day American innocence turned into an American tragedy and our nation moved from the sweetness of postwar life to the bitter era of Vietnam.

Literature & Fiction

Jack Engelhard

Literary

ComteQ Publishing

The most popular book and useful book on the subject of recording family histories. Capturing family stories and preserving memories on tape or DVD to pass on to future generations has never been easier.
 Provides extensive sample interview questions on a wide variety of family subjects that can help loosen up even the "camera shy" and offers video recording tips to insure professional-looking results.
 Contains over 140 additional "holiday questions" and "questions you'd never think to ask" to even give the whole family a chance to be recorded for posterity.

How to Create a Video Family History: The Complete Guide to Interviewing and Taping Your Family's Stories & Memories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rob Huberman

Laura Huberman

Psychology & Counseling

Once the Acacias Bloomed

History

Fred Spiegel

World

Like so many survivors of the Holocaust, Evelyn Romanowsky Ripp's first memories are of a world that is lost forever, destroyed amid savage brutality. Her home town, Lachva, is only a small speck on most maps, yet it was the center of a vibrant Jewish life before the war. Its pre-war life is described here with great charm, evoking a lost age, a lost world. In 1942 that world came to an abrupt and vicious end. With great feeling, Evelyn Ripp tells the story of the Lachva ghetto. Her poems tell much more, starting with the line: "I've been silent so long." She is silent no more. All those interested in Jewish history will be grateful to her for her words and verses. Sir Martin Gilbert, Historian

The Abandoned: A Life Apart From Life

Evelyn Ripp

The adventures of 'Tom Sawyer' with an ironic, Yiddish twist." WINNER -- 2001 MPA -- "Excellence In Independent Publishing" Award. OFFICIAL Selection CANNES Film Festival 2011 for this memoir's first short story, My Father, Joe...filmed by Nikila Cole. The adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange exploits of a youth during his family's adjustment to a new world, these compelling boyhood memories are of an almost Tom Sawyer character, albeit with ironic Yiddish twist. "All the short stories within this memoir illuminate and pack a wallop. They sparkle and shine in Engelhard’s unique minimalist style…prose that is lean, reserved and economical…if there is one word to describe Engelhard’s writing, I’d choose CHARM. What a gift to those of us who understand the trials and triumphs of growing up. Escape From Mount Moriah…the finest, perhaps the greatest memoir I have ever read." Reviewer S. Dite

Escape from Mount Moriah: Memoirs of a Refugee Child's Triumph

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

ArletteÕs memoir is a window on the past, taking readers through the WWII years of a teenager living in Brussels, Belgium, coping with the occupation and trying to help her family save Jews and fight the Nazis.

Beyond the Ouija Board: A WWII Teenager in Occupied Belgium

Arlette Michaelis

In Between the Lines Anne Fox takes us behind the linesÊof herÊfamily's experience in the Holocaust. She "movingly shares with us the sorrows of parents and children separated by war, as revealed in letters that came into her possession years later." These letters are like a bottle thrown into a rolling "sea with the only gift her parents could" send before they perishedÑa record of how they tried to survive so that their family could be united once again.Ê

Between the Lines: Letters from the Holocaust

Anne L. Fox

The New Bear on the Block is about the adventures of a tiny grizzly bear who moves to a small town in the woods. Through a series of silly mishaps that occur as a result of his poor vision when his glasses are accidentally broken, his new neighbors decide to ostracize him for his perceived rude behavior. A wise turtle (the town optician), who meets the bear and finds him to be a delightful new friend, must correct the false perceptions of his fellow neighbors. In doing so, he educates them about avoiding impulsive judgement of others based on erroneous first impressions and incomplete facts.

The New Bear on the Block

Education & Teaching

Staci J. Schwartz

Schools & Teaching

In Sunshine and In Shadows: We Remember Them is a perfect title for this outstanding book, for it vividly portrays the beautiful life of a young girl, Vera, and her family — her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents — prior to 1939 and the darkness of the years during; the Holocaust and then once again the sunshine after 1945. All readers will learn much from the autobiography about family, perpetrators, heroes — especially Raoul Wallenberg. and about the consequences of the evils of bias, bigotry, and prejudice. Teachers using the memoir and the photographs will be able to assist students to learn about the Holocaust and specifically in New Jersey to meet the legislative educational mandate to teach about Holocaust and genocide. — Dr. Paul B. Winkler. Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.

In Sunshine and in Shadow

Vera Goodkin

Elizabeth Blum Goldstein, one of eight children, was born in Kisar, Hungary, in 1926. Her parents had a general store, orchards of fruit trees, and fields of wheat. In 1944 Elizabeth's peaceful family life was destroyed when the Nazis invaded Hungary. The family was sent for several weeks to the ghetto in Mateszalka, Hungary, and then deported to Auschwitz where Elizabeth was separated from everyone but her sister Ibolya. Eventually Elizabeth and Ibolya were in six concentration camps—Auschwitz, Poland; Plaszow, Poland; Hundsfeld, Germany; Gross-Rosen, Germany; Mauthausen, Austria; and Bergen-Belsen. Germany, where Elizabeth was liberated in 1945. Because Elizabeth was emaciated and ill, she was sent to Sweden to recover. In 1948, Mrs. Goldstein immigrated to the United States. Elizabeth Blum Goldstein was interviewed by her granddaughter, Shana Fogarty, over a number of weeks for an independent study with Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Although telling her story was painful for Mrs. Goldstein, she was determined to share her experiences so that Shana would better understand what happened to her during the Holocaust. Her inspiring story will appeal to young and old.

Of a Comb, a Prayer Book, Sugar Cubes, & Lice: Survivor of Six Concentration Camps

Shana Fogarty

Community & Culture

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