13 Ergebnisse.

This book, which takes place in the present, is about a family dealing with the challenges of modern life. Beyond that, however, it is a commentary about different ways, some healthy, some not, that people are choosing to network in the 21st century.

Avram Mednick is a retired educator living in San Francisco with his lovely wife, Janet. This is his second volume of poetry, his 13th book overall. How lucky.

Copasetic is the story of two families. The Stahlinkoviches are klezmorim (Jewish musicians) from Eastern Europe. The Carters are African American sharecroppers from the Mississippi Delta, home of the blues. Both families migrate to Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their lives intertwine like the notes to the score of the American experience.

Copasetic is the story of two families. The Stahlinkoviches are klezmorim (Jewish musicians) from Eastern Europe. The Carters are African American sharecroppers from the Mississippi Delta, home of the blues. Both families migrate to Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their lives intertwine like the notes to the score of the American experience.

This is Avram Mednick's third non-fiction book about music. Go figure, since his best instrument is the radio. This one is about live albums, one hundred of which he discusses. He seems to be stuck on that number.

When the eight of them - four men and four women - sign up for a literature class, they don't know that they've signed on for life. Meet the half-baked bunch - the real estate tycoon, the computer geek, the interpreter, the nurse, the stationer, the would-be writer, the teacher turned realtor, and the trek leader - an assortment of misfits who find one another at college. Brought together by a mentor and his sacred text, they form a communal b...

Sidewinders is the story of what might have happeneSidewinders is the story of what might have happened had a long line of ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis and their followers from Eastern Europe continued their dynasty in the United States in the 20th century and beyond. It is also a story about the preeminence of family, spiritual reawakening, Top-40 radio, and the willingness to believe in miracles (since you came along, you sexy thing!).d had ...

It's the oldest story in the book: Upstanding citizen and member of the community munches on the apple, unleashes the serpent and seals his fate. With some special education on the side.

This off-beat anthology will entice both poetry lovers and haters, as well as the noncommitted. As with a train wreck, you won't be able to divert your eyes. You may never think the same of poems ever again. Enjoy.

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. It was the trip of a lifetime, but it didn't work out exactly as planned...They were going to travel again, in their fiftieth year, reprising two different trips they had taken in their twentieth and twenty-fifth years, respectively. They would go to...Bolivia and Peru, but not without experiencing New Orleans again." Thus starts our adventure, wheren we learn about Peter and Ax, boyhood friends wh...

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