This memoir traces the journey of three American women--a Jewish Holocaust survivor, her daughter, and her granddaughter--in search of their family's history. The search begins in New York with an attempt to find a missing cousin, Fritzi Burger, the beautiful Olympic ice skating champion who disappeared at the onset of the war. It ends in Vienna in the wake of the Nazi genocide.

Searching for Fritzi

History

Bergman, Carol

Military

Mediacs

Devastated by the sudden death of her younger brother, Davy, Emma's grief sends her on a heroine's quest from a hurtful reality into a magically exciting world with a mission to complete. In time, she returns to her family, her victory won, ready to move forward on her personal life's journey.

The Christmas Tree Angel

Children's Books

de Bruin, Joan A.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Harpooning Donald Trump is the first substantial literary response to President Trump. In this collection of ten essays—written in controlled outrage—Tom LeClair recounts his weeks of solitary protests at Trump Tower and discusses literary works that give us a deep comprehension of Trump the man and cultural phenomenon. Although Harpooning Donald Trump is a collection, it’s also a personal narrative: of an aged and discouraged novelist rejuvenated by street protest that leads him back to literary writing, to profound writers of the past and to promising writers of the future who can help readers understand and, perhaps, undermine the demagogue.

Harpooning Donald Trump: A Novelist's Essays

Literature & Fiction

LeClair, Tom

Essays & Correspondence

Valerie Pepe’s autobiography is an inspirational story of a woman’s successful struggle to overcome a crippling physical deformity and live a normal life. Born with joint contractures and abnormal fibrosis of the muscle tissue in her lower body, a rare birth defect known as Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), Valerie has fought a never-ending battle against those who would isolate her and other deformed individuals. As a child growing up in the New York City borough of Staten Island, Valerie was encouraged by her parents and older brothers to play street games with the neighborhood kids despite her dependence on crutches. After entering school, however, she was segregated into classes for disabled children—an experience which left her with the life-long determination to never again allow herself to be isolated from so-called normal people. In her strong, down-to-earth, no-nonsense voice, Valerie tells her story of a disabled person rising to the challenges of college, career, sexual relationships and marriage.

Deformed: My Remarkable Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Pepe, Valerie

Community & Culture

Rosebud: The Cat Who Lost Her Nine Lives; An Otherworld Adventure

Decker, Douglas R.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

In moments of quiet despair following the death of her eldest son in the September 11 attack on The World Trade Center, Vasu Varadhan thought of her mother and father, a United Nations diplomat and champion of nuclear disarmament during the Cold War who died at the early age of 50; her childhood in New York City and young adulthood in India, and her arranged marriage at the age of 16. Circling back into personal family history led to her decision to write this memoir, a search for better understanding of life

On My Own Terms: A Journey Between Two Worlds

Varadhan, Vasu

In the tradition of Willian Styron's Darkness Visible and Marya Hornbacher's Madness: A Bipolar Life, and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Josh Wickom's Colden and Wick: Mind Intruders documents the extraordinary experience of an individual powerlessly witnessing the theft of his life by deviant alter egos.

Colden and Wick: Mind Intruders

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wickom, Josh

Mental Health

Cut adrift by the sudden and unexpected breakup of his 17-year marriage in 2006, British-born chemist Paul Rowbottom took up employment at Pfizer’s New York City headquarters. Nine years later, when the company offered him a generous severance package, he took the money and ran. Literally! Paul has spent the last two years traveling extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and the North Pacific Ocean —a wanderlust interrupted only by brief stays with his sons, Luke and Alex, in the U.K., and in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “I realized losing my job was an unexpected opportunity to travel the world and share my experiences with others by writing about them." Whenever possible, Paul combines his love of travel with his passion for keeping super fit. His sightseeing trips usually involve biking, hiking and skiing up and down mountains or through rough terrain, running marathons with his Road Runners Club and Race2Adventure buddies, climbing cave walls, scaling the steep steps of ancient Aztec ruins — physically-challenging activities that invariably end with collegial gatherings and plenty of cold beer. This book, Paul’s first, is adapted from his blog, www.wherespaulo.com

Where's Paulo: Hiking Biking Running Abroad

Rowbottom, Paul

Travel

In this sequel to Deformed: My Remarkable Life (Mediacs, 2016), Valerie Pepe updates the inspirational story of a woman's struggle to overcome a crippling birth defect in pursuit of a "normal" home and work life. Picking up where her first memoir left off, Valerie takes the reader on a heartfelt journey into middle age; the loss of family members, including her dad; a new and deeper love affair, and volunteer work to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy and others who like her were born with the joint contractures and abnormal muscle fibrosis of Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC). Born and raised in Staten Island's Italian-American community, Valerie Pepe has written a sequel that once again stands as a shining example of how a strong and independent person with a severe physical disability can refuse to be marginalized.

Deformed: My Remarkable Life Continues

Alexa Stuart Frisbie's new book provides parents with a timely and practical guide to what all children need to be happy and successful as they learn. In her book, Ms. Frisbie, herself an award-winning teacher, teacher-trainer and parent, describes hidden causes for lackluster education - from teacher-bullies to disconnected curriculum - and practical fixes parents can use to hurdle over them. "The school system, even with the best of intentions," says the author, "can fail your child. My book will enable parents to understand common issues to help their children."

Secrets of Your Child's Education: Hidden Causes of Success or Failure

Parenting & Relationships

Frisbie, Alexa Stuart

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