The author describes his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and recounts how his parents sent him to safety in the Netherlands

When Time Ran Out

Zeller, Frederic

Biographies & Memoirs

Permanent Press

New Voice of Old-Five Centuries of Puerto Rican History

Acosta, Ursula

"Mother Who Lost Son Seeks Son Who Has Lost Mother," read the advertisement in The Village Voice.Those who replied, the curious, the disturbed, the opportunistic were writing to Mrs. Harrington-Smith Evans, one of the ten wealthiest women in the world whose only child, a teenage boy, had died a mysterious death.Pretentious, theatrical, wantonly self-dramatized, increasingly deranged in her grief, Mrs. Evans indulges in all the extravagant expressions of bereavement that money can buy: a seamless glass coffin; an embalming secret the pharaohs of ancient Egypt must have dreamed of; and a tomb so costly and exquisite, Shan Jahan's ghost surely groaned in its envy.Finally, the ad: in retrospect so silly and embarrassing she needn't kill herself to die. But if she found him, a surrogate son might ease her grief, forestall her encroaching madness.From the many respondents, her choice narrows down to three: Angel, an illiterate boy from New York's Spanish ghetto; Martin, a handsome, fatally ambitious young actor; and disarming Bruno, barely eighteen, an aspiring novelist who writes her perfumed letters in an absurd 19th century prose.The Rivalries, the passions, the bizarre events that follow this strange entourage include murder, suicide, and a "haunting" like no other in this world or the next.As he did in Lovers Living Lovers Dead, the author, tongue-in-cheek, mixes "comedy and ancient terror" in a lyrically layered style that critics call "a frightening lightness of tone...as eerie as the plot itself." But Bereavements also has its serious side. As its final pages chill us with the supernatural-as-metaphor, it is clear we are nearing the end of an extraordinary love story: one not eros but agapeone that distinguishes movingly between a love that is love, and a love that is Love.

Bereavements

Literature & Fiction

Richard Lortz

Poetry

Poet and lyricist Fran Landesman occupies the ironic territory between Dorothy Parker and Edna St Vincent Millay. Fran's work combines pathos and humor and glows with the tough wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of riding in fast convertibles and hanging out in smoky bars. As an art student in New York in the early 50's, she was part of the Kerouac-Holmes-Ginsberg scene on which she based her lyrics to the Broadway musical, The Nervous Set (1959), a wicked satire on the Beat Generation.From that musical came one of her most famous songs, The Ballad of The Sad Young Men. Other lyrics, including jazz standard, Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, have been enjoyed by millions through the recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Shirley Bassey, Mabel Mercer, Sharah Vaughan, and Tony Bennett.Fran is performing her own material now in such places as The National Theatre, Ronnie Scott's JAzz Club, The Edinburgh Festival, Young Vic and in America at Bradley's Bar in New York and the Washington Square Bar & Girll in San Fransisco. She is a frequent guest on radio and television in England where she has been living since 1964.She is the author of two other books of verse, The Ballad od the Sad Young Men and Other Verses, and Invade My Privacy. A musical Loose Connections, based on her verse, with music by Jason McAuliffe, produced by Bolen High, is slated for a New York production in the fall of 1981.

More Truth Than Poetry

Fran Landesman

From the work of Rachel Carson to the nightmare of Love Canal, many people have become aware that our world is being poisoned and that cancer is spreading, epidemic-likem as a principal result. But what people have not become sufficiently aware of is that virtually nothing is being done to stop the poisoning.Government protection is a sham because the merchandising of poison has become a powerful institution and business. Karl Grossman, an award-winning investigative reporter, demonstrates why this is occurring using document from industry and government, many obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and with both the testimony of whistle-blowers on the inside and many of the Poison Conspiracy's victims.The Poison conspiracy explains why the chemical horror stories continue to be with us - indeed are increasingly with us - taking their toll in massive illness and death. With solid investigative skills it shows how the government agencies which are supposed to protect us from poisons fail to do so; how these government agencies have been co-opted by those very industires they are supposed to regulate. The Poison Conspiracy documents how our health and our lives are not being guarded.More affirmatively, The Poison Conspiracy details the abundant alternatives to dirtying our nest, spreading toxins, and poisoning the planet. Grossman shows that none of this reckless pollution is necessary other than for the profit and power of those institutions and people involved in it.This hard-hitting expose scrutinizes the politics of poison, names those responsible, and documents the present effects of this folly and those calamities yet to come unless a halt is called. The Poison Conspiracy is a plea for action; a call for the poisoning to stop.

The Poison Conspiracy

Science & Math

Karl Grossman

Technology

Jason Kole, an orthodox Jewish student living in Brooklyn in 1969, comes to terms with his heritage

Damaged Goods

Lortz, Richard

Friedmann, Thomas

Children's Books

The story of Sands, who was elected a member of Parliament while imprisoned by the British government and died after a sixty-six day hunger strike, describes the background of the crisis in Northern Ireland

Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

John Feehan

Historical

1969. Woodstock Nation. Apollo Mission to the Moon. Chappaquidick. Moratorium Day in Washington. My Lai. The Draft Lottery. New York beats Baltimore in football, baseball, basketball.Nehru jackets are out. Virginity is still in. Insulated in exotic Crown Heights, Jason Kole is in heaven. Safe from his Draft Board in Seminary, comfortable in graduate school, he is busy applying his religious education to undoing religious girls. Once an Orthodox girl has permitted the very first touch, the only other boundary is to allow everything. But between those perimeters, ah, between those borders, lies the Paradise of the semi-Righteous.Jason is ready: to taste forbidden foods, to ride in a car on the SAbbath, to move out, to get it, any time he wanted it, from JEan, the pro his buddy Jonesey knows on Thiry-eigth Street. Then he meets Rachel, a girl without the pathways of Eastern Parkway in her past, a girl with her own place, her own bed, her own very good time.Damaged goods is the story of 1969 and of Jason's battles. In the shadow of the Vietnam War, he wrestles with his Old World father, his gentle mother, his ritual-filled upbringing, and the enticing but self-possessed Rachel. Damaged Goods is the story of a special Brooklyn: the Eastern Parkway promenades, the sins earned and cast away at Prospect Park Lake, Rockaway summers, special yeshivahs for the draft eligible, Hertzl House Plan parties, holidays inseparable from Holy Days. Damaged Goods reveals how many sins could be committed with one single act; how the Orthodox Secret Service likes functions; What an Orthodox Jewish Girl likes; what Friday night's mysteries are. It also chronicles a year of personal and national upheaval and triumphs.

Thomas Friedmann

United States

At 5 P.M. on a snowy night, Maurice Locksley, sometime literary stud, stops off at a Boston pub and there, with a glass of beer, launches a 10 1/2 hour journey into the riskier regions of the heart. First he's off to dinner with his wife and 4-year-old son... then on to an evening in the suburbs, where his ex-wife and teenage children wait... and then back to town for a postmidnight tryst with Maggie, his exuberant young mistress. Maurice, at forty, is poised on the brink of adventures yet untaken, but where he wanders may put him at risk, caught between the rock and hard places of love.

The Marriage Hearse

Larry Duberstein

A midsummer morning, Brooklyn, 1955. Oscar Carnovsky, a respectable (yet hardly distinguished) middle-aged man, leaves for work in the unusual fashion: takes his share of the morning paper, kisses his wife goodbye, and waves back as he turns the corner of Linden Boulevard. He has done it precisely this way five thousand times. This particular morning, however, he waves from the corner and is not seen again, nor is he heard from, for years. Decades later (at Oscar's funeral) his daybooks come to light -- a record of the missing years and of his life as The Invisible Mensch. This unremarkable man will soon become an unforgettable character as you accompany him on his flight through the 1950s in a highly original second novel from Larry Duberstein, whose earlier work, The Marriage Hearse, was hailed by the critics.

Carnovsky's Retreat

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When Time Ran Out

New Voice of Old-Five Centuries of Puerto Rican History

Bereavements

More Truth Than Poetry

The Poison Conspiracy

Damaged Goods

Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

Damaged Goods

The Marriage Hearse

Carnovsky's Retreat