Dorothy Sucher was a psychotherapist, a journalist and editor, a painter, and above all a writer and lecturer. Among her works was a mystery, Dead Men Don't Give Seminars, which was an Agatha Christie Award finalist, and a much praised collection of essays about Vermont gardeners, The Invisible Garden. In 1992 she ventured alone to Russia and Belarus in search of information about her grandparents. During this trip she kept a journal and took many photographs, forming the basis of a number of presentations to large audiences. This material, edited by her husband, retired physicist Joseph Sucher, is presented here. In it Dorothy paints a vivid and moving picture of the state of Belarus at the time, not long after the Chernobyl explosion, with writing which will capture the reader's attention.

Return to the Shtetl

Dorothy Sucher

Summit Crossroads press

Isadore Seeman, called Sam by his friends, grew up in apartments behind storefronts in Baltimore, the fourth of five children of Austrian immigrants. The family struggled in poverty as the father went from cobbler to storekeeper to restaurant owner and most of the family delivered newspapers. As he worked his way through school and college, he dabbled in the theater, but at 25, Sam came down with tuberculosis and spent 14 months of bed rest in a TB sanitarium outside Baltimore. That episode changed the course of his life, steering him toward a career in public health and community organization. This is the story of a man at age 99 who lived through and played a part in the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, a volatile century that endured eight wars, the development and use of the atomic bomb, vast social changes, and great technological advances. As a community and national leader in public health and social welfare, he helped shape the nature of those services in ways that affect all of us. The story is told in prose and poetry with historical notes to enrich the narrative.

The Twentieth Century Through My Eyes

Biographies & Memoirs

Isadore Seeman

Historical

Award-winning author Dr. Roger McIntire updates his popular book for parents raising teenagers to include suggestions for dealing with the problems and concerns of cell phones, computers, and social media. Practical and easy to read, Dr. McIntire's guidance for parents during the teenage years includes tips on communication strategies, social and school skills, substance abuse, and protecting the well-being of parents.

Teenagers & Parents: 12 Steps to a Better Relationship

Parenting & Relationships

McIntire, Roger W.

Parenting

Seven crucial habits help parents raise good kids, maintain a loving relationship, and counter the dangerous examples, attitudes and temptations children face in today's multimedia world. Practical guidelines are illustrated with over 200 examples and more than 60 parent-child dialogues. This book covers the basics from toilet training, sleeping habits, and listening skills to sibling rivalry, sex, drugs, and social skills. It also addresses single-parent problems and strategies and parent activism in the school and community.

Raising Good Kids in Tough Times: 7 Crucial Habits for Parent Success

Dr. Roger W. McIntire

This treasure of practical advice by award-winning author Dr. Roger McIntire provides the help parents need when they are challenged to keep a steady disposition, manage fair discipline, enjoy the job and stay lovingly close to their children. Parental solutions and strategies are offered through vignettes, dialogues, and examples on every page. They cover the daily challenges from eating problems to cell phones and from social problems of pre-schoolers to the swirl of violence and sexual suggestions in a teenager's television and computer. What should you say to your kids at supper? How should you react to their less thoughtful remarks? Chapter 1 of What Every Parent Should Know About Raising Children begins with examples and guidance in these conversations. Chapter 2 proceeds to problems at home and school. In the chapters that follow, Dr. McIntire offers solutions for dealing with the beginnings of bad language and bad habits and then describes discipline strategies that are often required. Children want to know "Do you like me?" and "Can we talk?" Parents ask, "How can I deal with his tantrums? What about his computer addiction? What can I do about the bullies she faces every school day? How do I handle it when he (or she) gets interested in sex? Alcohol? Drugs?" Dr. McIntire's book provides effective, practical and proven answers to these questions. Dr. McIntire, father of three, is professor emeritus of psychology, University of Maryland. His books are published in eight languages.

What Every Parent Should Know about Raising Children

McIntire, Roger Warren

Erika Schulhof Rybeck enjoyed a magical childhood in Austria, escaped to a convent boarding school in Scotland, and started a new life in America. She tells her story as a tribute to the parents who shielded her from the Nazi horrors swirling around her, horrors that led to their deportation and disappearance. After being a teacher, mother and volunteer, among other activities, in Ohio and in the Washington, DC area, she looks back at age 84 at rare experiences--living in castles and cottages, being sheltered by Catholics, discovering her Jewish heritage, and learning of her illustrious family.

On My Own

Rybeck, Erika Schulhof

Memoirs

Resist, Endure, Escape: Growing Up in Nazi and Communist Hungary

History

Darvas, Susan F

Europe

Eight Decades from Busti to Baltimore: A Simple Farm Boy's American Journey of Growth and Discovery

Hazzard, Norman Dale

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