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Hathaway Barry

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Ruhama Veltfort was a young Barnard graduate living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when she gave up her newborn son for adoption. Thirty-one years later, she discovered that he was living only five blocks away from her home in San Francisco's Mission District. With tenderness and wry humor, these fourteen well-observed stories trace the roots of that cycle of relinquishment and reunion, offering an intimate perspective on the social transformations of the mid-to-late twentieth century. Lovers, husbands, children and a "rag-tag band of seekers and screwballs" wind their way through this vivid and even-handed memoir of a Bohemian "red-diaper" childhood in 1950's California, a rebellious coming-of-age in the earliest days of the Grateful Dead and an Ivy League education gone sour. Universal themes of idealism, betrayal and redemption weave through a moving account of the author's adventures in political activism and the human potential movement to culminate in a maturity graced by family, friends and an eclectic spirituality.

The Things We Do for Love: Stories of My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Veltfort, Ruhama

Memoirs

Against a backdrop of Las Vegas in the 1970s, when the Mob was still in power, Looking For a Waterhole portrays four women, following their destinies in a town that was infamous for losers and addictions. From Native American stripper, Wanda Moon, to her Mob-connected boyfriend, Sol Wolfe, the adventures and suspense revolve around them as well as the other women in the novel: showgirl, Suzanne Cane, waitress, Violet Kandinsky and Ruby Songer, a topless dancer.

Looking for a Waterhole

Rae, Colleen

Literature & Fiction

The year is 1964. Imagine a country where you are a slave. You have no rights. You cannot attend public schools, the public library, restaurants, parks, churches, or movie theaters. You cannot vote or meet and organize with others like yourself who are denied these rights. That country is the United States of America, in the State of Mississippi. You are black. Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer is a ﬁrst-person account of Charles Prickett, a college student and civil rights activist, who worked during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of1964. This moving account explores rural Mississippi and the black community’s efforts to change the stiﬂing and brutal system of racism that touched every life. The Mississippi Freedom Summer focused on four goals: Freedom Schools tried to ﬁll in the gaps left by a segregated educational system that denied black citizens a quality education. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party tried to give a political voice to disenfranchised black citizens. Black farmers were organized so they could share in federal programs that support agriculture. Voting registration drives tried to register black citizens to vote. All these efforts were met with violent resistance. What emerges is a triumph of democracy, as Mississippi became the state with more black elected public ofﬁcials than any other state in the U.S.

Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer

Prickett, Charles O.

Leaders & Notable People

These 18 stories probe the lies and secrets, the "fictions" in the lives of of parents and children, siblings, Germans and Jews, confused adolescents, and elderly lovers. "The actors in these beautiful, often sad stories carry with them complex histories of desire and pain, often longing for what they can't or shouldn't have. You've met them, fathers and mothers, daughters, sisters, uncles, lovers, presented here with humor and dignity, with a keen and dispassionate eye, reminiscent of another great Canadian storyteller, Rosen's cast will surprise you, instant by instant.”– Daniel Coshnear, Occupy &amp; Other Love Stories“In Rosen's book, amidst gorgeous imagery, people we care about stumble through attraction and betrayal. And move over Portnoy, with your raw liver in a milk bottle. Let a girl show you how it's done. The title story contains the most imaginative portrayal of self-pleasuring you'll ever read.”– Norma Watkins, The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure“A young woman prepares to declare her independence from her parents only to discover that her mother is secretly struggling for her own autonomy; a free-spirited bartender deftly plays off the two women who try to hold him; an elderly husband tries to protect a favorite vacation spot from the encroachments of youth and time. Each situation opens a window onto another universal aspect of human character. Children, young people and the aged all have a voice here, and almost every one of them either hides a secret or uncovers someone else’s. Rosen’s writing is crisp and precise. Without a single excess word she paints a series of varied pictures ranging from the German countryside, a working-class Toronto neighborhood, or the American open road. Each story is a pleasure to read, and the collection as a whole demonstrates Rosen’s talent in a dazzling variety of times, places and themes.”– Ruhama Veltfort, Strange Attractors

What They Don't Know: Selected Fiction

Rosen, Jo-Anne H.

Short Stories & Anthologies

A SOLDIERS WIND is a rollicking story about love, loss and life on the water. It playfully weaves its net of quirky characters including salty live aboards, world class sailors and purveyors of alternate medicine. The central figures navigate through their lives with as much seamanship as their life permits, transporting you from scene to scene with lots of action. It’s a fun book to read and an adventure that’s sure to induce you to keep turning the pages until the very end. — Steve Sekhon, Co-Founder Gratitude 24/7

A Soldier's Wind

Riddell, Stuart

Genre Fiction

In 1977, a fireman named Dan White saved a woman and her babies from a fire in the Geneva Towers apartments in San Francisco. It is this scene which opens White Knight, the story of one witness to that fire, Barney Blatz, and his entanglement with the political and personal catastrophe which followed. With the November, 1978 Jonestown Massacre of 912 people and, three days later, White’s murder of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city and Barney unraveled. “There’s a bumper sticker that reads ‘Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once,’ but this November, it isn’t working.”

White Knight: or how one man came to believe that he was the one who caused the San Francisco City Hall killings and the Jonestown Massacre

Hitz, Henry

Based on a true event, One Sausalito Summer is the story of how one enclave of rock music began in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cass and Lia visit the Charles Van Damme dry-docked ferry boat for a summer. Cass's musical experiences and involvement with Jesse a musician, contrast with the romantic endeavors of the boat Captain, Howard and Lia. The Van Damme's coffee house, The Ark is the meeting place for all the rock and folk musicians for miles around. This one summer begins the legend of the San Francisco Bay Area rock music history.

One Sausalito Summer

Romance

Historical

A Gift to America: The Story of the Gettysburg Foundation

David F. Remington

ALSO in HARDCOVER. Thirty years ago conditions at Gettysburg disgraced the nation. A new Park Supertintendent traveled the country conveying a stern, stark message: "Gettysburg is broke and someone must help us." He found the help he needed and therein lies the story of the Gettysburg Foundation.

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The Things We Do for Love: Stories of My Life

Looking for a Waterhole

Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer

What They Don't Know: Selected Fiction

A Soldier's Wind

White Knight: or how one man came to believe that he was the one who caused the San Francisco City Hall killings and the Jonestown Massacre

One Sausalito Summer

A Gift to America: The Story of the Gettysburg Foundation

A Gift to America: The Story of the Gettysburg Foundation