Aboard Air Force One
200,000 Miles with a White House Aide
Ken Chitester
304 pages, paperback, photos, $15.95
ISBN 1-56474-234-2
"This book of contemporary interest gives insight into the Clinton administration as well as what it is like to work as part of any White House Staff." —Library Journal
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An American Family
Natalie Rothstein
176 pages, paperback, $14.95
ISBN 1-56474-280-6
"Kitty said it best after she finished this wonderful book. 'This is our story,' she said, and so it is for all of us who are the sons and daughters of immigrants. Beautifully written and impressively researched, it tells the story of America and its immigrants as well as anything I have ever read." — Governor Michael S. Dukakis
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Anabel
A History
Claudia Harper
128 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-273-3
Anabel Kennard Harper, known and loved as "Muntie," the matriarch from a Southern family, lived a rewarding but difficult life that tested the mettle and proved the strength of a woman. Above all it was her quiet pride and indomitable devotion to her family that left an indelible and poetic impression on Claudia, her first granddaughter, who fondly remembers Anabel's Packard "traveling car," her cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains, and their frequent conspiratorial movie trips to Market Street during school hours. This insightful family history, collected from family documents and oral histories, gives the reader a personal glance at America from after the Civil War to the beginnings of World War II.
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Babies by the Dozen
Free Home Delivery, 1941
Edwin H. Riedell, M.D.
112 pages, paperback,
$10.95
ISBN 1-56474-233-4
The exciting adventures of a doctor who made housecalls free of charge, delivering the babies of welfare mothers as the Chief Obstetrical Resident for Los Angeles County Maternity Service in 1941.
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Delivery Boy
A Memoir of Life and Love in San Francisco
Roland Bianchi
ISBN 1-56474-436-1
224 pages, paperback, $12.95
Roland Bianchi, author of Tunes from a Tuscan Guitar and The Migration of Moro, recalls growing up in San Francisco during the 1930s and 1940s. This memoir sheds light on the Italian-American community and the values Americans had during the Depression and the World War II years. The author also remembers the Korean War and his long career with the Bank of America. Mostly, this is the story of two wonderful marriages: the author's first marriage ended when his wife died of breast cancer; the second is still going strong.
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The Dragon King's Daughter
A Memoir
Denice Fawcett
ISBN 1-56474-406-X
128 pages, paperback, $12.00
Denice Fawcett was born into a dysfunctional family. She, like her older sisters before her, was sexually molested by their domineering grandfather. Her father was a weakling and a drunk; her brother got involved with drugs and committed suicide. Denice had her own troubles too. She moved to Brooklyn to live with her sister, got in with a fast crowd of musicians and addicts, became a heroin addict in the midst of various sexual liaisons. She was finally rescued from this tailspin by chanting Buddhism. She takes off on a road trip to find herself, and the memoir ends with hope.
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A Dream of the Heart
The Life of John H Gibbon, Jr.
Father of the Heart Lung Machine
Harris B Shumacker
304 pages, cloth, $24.95
ISBN 1-56474-276-8
One of the most important advances of the past half century was the development of the heart-lung machine. In 1953, after almost twenty years of experimentation, Dr. John Gibbon successfully used the device he designed to repair an atrial septal defect in an eighteen-year-old girl.
Dr. Gibbon was a pioneer in every sense of the word. Harris Shumacker, Jr., spins his story well, and offers a portrait of his friend and colleague that will appeal to readers in the lay public as well as in medicine.
—From the Foreword by Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
President and Surgeon-in-Chief Texas heart Institute, Houston, Texas
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Ernie’s World
The Book (based on Ernie’s World, the Column)
Ernie Witham
ISBN 1-56474-410-8
192 pages, photos, paperback, $12.95
Based on the popular humor column in the Montecito Journal, this collection of humorous essays takes us step-by-painful-step through the pitfalls of male life in the suburbs. Romance. Fathering. Home repair. Sports. These are not easy frontiers to pass, but Ernie's humor helps us survive them.
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Frenchy
A Young Jewish-French Immigrant Discovers Love and Art in America—and War in Korea
Simon Jeruchim
ISBN 1-56474-449-3
256 pages, paperback, $14.95
Having survived the horrors of the Holocaust as a hidden child in Nazi-occupied France, the 19-year-old Simon Jeruchim immigrates to America with his two siblings to live with relatives in Brooklyn. There he has to adjust quickly to a new culture, a new language, a new family, and the search for a new job. He does find a good job in graphic design, and he does learn English. As the young Frenchman comes of age in his new land, he has his first love affair and then is drafted into the U.S. army to serve on the front lines of the Korean War. He survives the brutal war and returns to America, ready to embark on an adult life with a good career and a loving, committed marriage.
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Growing Up With Joey
A Mother's Story of Her Son's Disability and her Family's Triumph
Sandy Papazian
256 pages, cloth, photos, $24.95
ISBN 1-56474-184-2
"This should be required reading for all professionals in the field of developmental disabilities."
—Ronald S. Cohen, Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy, Los Angeles County
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Hannibal by the Sea
Boyhood Recollections of Growing Up in Santa Barbara
Andy Bisaccia
416 pages, paperback, photos & drawings, $16.95
ISBN 1-56474-252-0
Childhood before World War II was a simpler, kinder time, but it wasn't without its hilarious adventures, as this illustrated memoir shows. Here's what Tom and Huck would have done if they had lived on the California coast in the 1930s.
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Heart Notes
A Mingle-Mangle
Norma Lundholm Djerassi
ISBN 1-56474-336-5
96 pages, cloth, $15.00
In these letters by an eighty-two-year-old woman to friends and family members who have died, she reviews her life by revisiting those relationships.
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Hidden in France
A Boy's Journey Under the Nazi Occupation
Simon Jeruchim
ISBN 1-56474-360-8
240 pages, cloth, $24.95
The author and his siblings were born in Paris but were sheltered here and there around France during the Nazi occupation. Unfortunately their parents failed in their attempt to escape to the non-occupied zone and were victims of the Holocaust. This is the story of three courageous youngsters and of the charitable friends who risked much to shelter them.
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In the Shadow of Love
Stories from My Life
Walter Meyerhof
ISBN 1-56474-393-4
128 pages, paperback, $12.00
Walter Meyerhof was born in 1922 to a well-to-do Jewish family in Kiel. As he grew up, Hitler came to power, and he and his family fled Germany. Meyerhof lived in France, but when that became intolerable too, he had to flee again. He made it to America where he pursued an academic career in physics. His remarkable stories stories span eight decades and two continents.
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Inshallah
In Pursuit of My Father's Youth
Viviane Wayne
ISBN 1-56474-381-0
160 pages, photos, paperback, $12.95
In 1977, and again in 1991, Viviane Wayne and her husband traveled to Turkey to discover the land that had shaped her parents, to learn about her father's early life, and to find the source of Inshallah.
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Is the War Over?
Postwar Years of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust
R. Gabriele S. Silten
ISBN 1-56474-429-9
224 pages, paperback, $10.95
Gabriele Silten spent much of her childhood in a Nazi concentration camp, and most of her family were victims of the Holocaust. Now she lives in the United States, and she lives a happy and productive life, but the memories of her childhood still haunt her. This moving memoir chronicles those awful years and the years that followed, as Gabriele patched her life together. Many photos illustrate this autobiography.
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PAPERBACK EDITION!
Memories From a Russian Kitchen
Edited by Rosalie Sogolow
272 pages, paperback, $18.95
ISBN 1-56474-310-1
"The recipes and reminiscences meld to delight the palate and warm the heart. The dishes and the recollected tales brought to America from Eastern Europe are both fading from memory. How wonderful to be able to retain them through this collection."
—San Jose Mercury News
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The Migration of Moro
My Other Grandfather's Story
Roland R. Bianchi
112 pages, paperback, photos, $9.95
ISBN 1-56474-209-1
Fortunato Campi came to America as a stowaway, became a teamster, and built a new life in San Francisco's Italian-American community. "A brisk, pleasurable read. When politicians rail against immigrants, it doesn't hurt to be reminded how tough their lots were and how much they contributed." —San Jose Mercury News
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Miriam's Gift
A Mother's Blessing--Then and Now
Rosemary Mild
ISBN 1-56474-295-4
176 pages, paperback, $12.95
Miriam Wolfe died at age twenty on Pan Am Flight 103 when it exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Miriam's Gift is a celebration of the short life of this remarkable, talented, compassionate young woman.
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Missing in Action
A World War II Memoir
Nick Moramarco
128 pages, paperback, $10.95
ISBN 1-56474-269-5
In 1943, fresh out of high school and against his father's wishes, Nick Moramarco joined the U.S. Army to do his part in World War II. Assigned to the Army Air Corps, he was stationed at Deopham Green, England, with the 8th Air Force, 452nd Bomb Group, 728th Bomb Squadron, serving as tail gunner aboard the Lucky Lady. On her thirteenth mission, the Lucky Lady was shot down over Hamburg, Germany.
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Montecito Boy Abroad
An Irreverent Journey, 1939
Nevill Cramer
ISBN 1-56474-331-4
128 pages, paperback, $13.95
Enjoy the author's impertinent, impudent, sassy comments about the European scene as he found it in 1939--the same flavor that delighted so many readers of his childhood memoir, Montecito Boy.
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Mostly Santa Barbara
Pen-and-Ink Drawings
Lynn Richardson
224 pages, cloth, $35.00, 8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1-56474-301-2
Lynn Richardson's charming book of a lifetime's pen-and-ink drawings will appeal for many reasons, aesthetic and otherwise. The lover of graphic art will appreciate her finely wrought, exquisitely detailed line drawings of houses, trees, flowers, animals, birds, the seashore, mountains, office buildings. And these scenes will appeal to anyone who's ever lived in or been to Santa Barbara. Browsing through these accurate descriptions of homes and businesses, some gone but not forgotten, is to evoke a pleasantly nostalgic stroll down memory lane. Lynn Richardson's Santa Barbara is a treasure box of the recent past of a city that's constantly changing even as it remains the same."
—David Dahl, writer, Santa Barbara resident thrity-three years
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My Divided Brain
W.R. Baker
ISBN 1-56474-298-9
80 pages, paperback, $11.00
Reminiscent of the Joyce-Beckett connection, My Divided Brain is thought-provoking. Part memoir, mostly dialogue, it explores the consequences of conformity in a thoroughly commercial culture.
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Purchase Knob
Essays from a Mountain Notebook
Kathryn K. McNeil
80 pages, paperback, $8.00
ISBN 1-56474-279-2
High up in the southern Appalachians is a farm surrounded by the misty mountains of the Great Smokies. Here in a temperate rain forest lies a land of incredible boidiversity and beauty. Purchase Knob is a collection of writing from the thirty summers the author has lived here, walking softly through her woods and meadows noting the wildflowers, the animals, and her mountain neighbors that keep her company.
The Purchase Knob property is due to be donated to the National Park Service and become part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the year 2000.
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On the Texas Frontier
Autobiography of a Texas Pioneer
Mrs. Henry Beck
296 pages, cloth, $24.95
ISBN 1-56474-303-0
Written at the request of Mrs. Beck's children, On the Texas Frontier captures the history of a family and state at the turn of the century. This is a collection of delightful and intelligent stories of life as a pioneer in Texas.
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Read That Back, Please!
Memoirs of a Court Reporter
John R. Reily, CSR
288 pages, paperback, $14.95
ISBN 1-56474-284-9
Just about everyone has been in court at some time (with luck, it was for jury duty of a traffic ticket) and seen something of what goes one there.
But take it from career court reporter John R. Reily—you haven't seen anything yet! In this account of his thirty-one years behind the Stenograph, Reily gives us all the humor, pathos, and social significance of incidents involving judges, lawyers, bailiffs, and clerks, as well as prosecutors, defendants, and civil litigants. His anecdotes range from the wildly hilarious to the soberingly poignant, from behind the scenes as well as before the bench. It's an informative and entertaining look at how—and why—our justice system really works.
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Ruchele
Sixty Years from Szatmar to Los Angeles
Rose Farkas, with Ibi Winterman
272 pages, cloth, illustrated $22.95
ISBN 1-56474-245-8
In this memoir of loss and recovery, the author describes her Jewish childhood in Romania, her survival of the Holocaust in Budapest, and her later life in Southern California.
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Short Rage
An Autobiographical Look at Heightism in America
Deborah Burris-Kitchen
ISBN 1-56474-403-5
96 pages, paperback, $12.00
The author of this memoir and this insightful critique of American society is an academic sociologist who cares and writes about the plight of the working class, the minorities, the disadvantaged, and others who suffer from prejudice in our society. Standing four feet, nine inches, she's had to fight the stigma and disadvantage of being short. She has been patronized, overlooked, rejected, and underestimated. Deborah Burris-Kitchen speaks out for short people, demanding equal respect. In the process she tells a poignant life story and ends by expanding her demand for fair treatment for all the disadvantaged in our society.
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Spiritual Homecoming
A Catholic Priest's Journey to Judaism
Armando Quiros
ISBN 1-56474-356-X
256 pages, paperback, $14.95
Quiros grew up in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona and entered the priesthood, but saw legal and ethical problems rotting the Church, especially anti-Semitism. He left the priesthood and eventually he met and married a Jewish woman, and converted to Judaism (Reform). He sees his life as one that unites, rather than separates, the Abrahamic religions.
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Tales My Stethoscope Told Me
Martin Duke, M.D.
144 pages, paperback, $10.00
ISBN 1-56474-258-X
Martin Duke was a cardiologist in a small New England community for thirty years. Here he looks back on a lifetime dedicated to caring for people, and tells us about his experiences.
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Thirty Years in Deep Freeze
My Life in Communist China
Ching-chih Yi-ling Wong
ISBN 1-56474-333-0
322 pages, cloth, $27.95
The author was a teenager when Mao took over China. Thirty years later he left China forever. In between his life was, in his opinion, wasted in a land where he was not allowed to think for himself. This is his story of those years in China.
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Through the Dragon's Mouth
Journeys into the Yangzi Gorges
Ben Thomson Cowles, Ph.D.
328 pages, cloth, $24.95
ISBN 1-56474-294-6
"Four hundred million Chinese live in proximity to, and are influenced by, the Yangzi River. It is China's major river and the world's third largest. Cowles, and American, grew up in China. Just after World War II her traveled the gorges in junks. Trackers in harnesses pulled the boat upstream, straining along narrow riverside paths, chanting to the beats of drummers. His descriptions are strong, as are his knowledgeable musings on Chinese history and culture. He also writes alarmingly of the dam now under construction along the river and the enormous toll it will take in human and ecological terms. Far more than a travel narrative, this is a major book on an important topic and is recommended for all libraries." —Library Journal
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Tony's World
Recollections of a Pilot, a Sailor, an Ice-boater, a Skier, a Bobsledder, a Winemaker, a Museum Director--and a Natural Storyteller
William E. Doherty, Jr.
Edited and Introduced by Charles Champlin
288 pages, cloth, $29.95
ISBN 1-56474-290-3
Doherty writes of all his lively and often risky pursuits in this warmly anecdotal reminiscence. He was born in Massachusetts and spent his earliest childhood years in New Orleans, where his father sold Curtiss aeroplanes, but home base for William E. "Tony" Doherty was the lovely village of Hammondsport, New York, on Keuka Lake, one of the deep, clear, glacier-carved Finger Lakes in the western part of the state. In his later life he served for several years as the director of Hammondsport's Glenn Curtiss Museum.
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Travel Here and There
Anita Zelman
160 pages, paperback, photos, $12.95
ISBN 1-56474-231-8
"Zelman is a widely published travel journalist whose contagious enthusiasm for the places she has visited around the globe whets an appetite to follow in her footsteps. Zelman conveys both a seasoned traveler's practical experience and the excitement of the trip." —Publishers Weekly
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Two Women Under Water
A Confession
Peggy Phillips
224 pages, paperback, $12.95
ISBN 1-56474-239-3
On a dive trip in the Red Sea, former Broadway press agent and TV writer Peggy Phillips encounters photographer Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite filmmaker. Each must face the demons of her past.
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