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THE BOOKS
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SHADOWS OF SHAME​
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Harold Apple is a Jewish reporter willing to do anything for a story. When he’s asked to risk his life to infiltrate the Nazi Bund in late 1930’s New York, he jumps at the chance.Leaving behind his fiancée and the safety of his home, Apple goes undercover in search of the real story.
Before the world knew enough to fear them, the hate-filled paramilitary mob known as the German American Bund terrorized the Jewish citizens of New York. After years of rumored reports of these attacks, Harold Apple finally gets his chance to expose them. He witnesses a piece of history unknown to many Americans and experiences the brutal cruelty of the Bund first hand.
Becoming the enemy gives him his story. If he’s brave enough to tell it.
SICK STREET
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It is the 1950's in Cleveland. Bryan Wiseman never looks for trouble but trouble finds him. It's a hot summer day when two bullies throw him down a ravine, then toss his bike on top of him.
A year later Bryan, now eight, is in the hospital dealing with a rare neurological disease caused by his fall. His disorder, dystonia, is cured by a series of operations. Between the surgeries Bryan and his friends deal with the bullies.
Along the way they meet Al Rosen and Herb Score of the Cleveland Indians and learn some lessons about life.
AUNTIE'S GHOST
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Emily Clark is twelve years old when her great aunt comes to live with her family in a small central Florida town in 1958. Auntie dies soon after but returns from the afterlife to help Emily through the problems of growing up in that time and place.
AGLOW IN THE BRONX
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Adam lives in Westchester but he visits his grandfather, Bernie, in The Bronx often. Bernie runs a small food market right next to a Catholic church. Rafe, a boy Adam's age, goes to the church. He and Adam do a secret kindness for the priest which turns out to be the greatest miracle in the tri-state area in years.