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Fred Spiegel’s life-story represents this unbelievable ability of child survivors as human beings to sustain their humanity under those extreme conditions and to follow that line later in their lives. The small details of his life story tell us what it meant to go through all that and yet to remain not only alive, a survivor, but also a human being, showing his love to his fellow people and developing the ability to transmit that radiation of love to the following generations.

Professor Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Fred Spiegel’s life-story represents this unbelievable ability of child survivors as human beings to sustain their humanity under those extreme conditions and to follow that line later in their lives. The small details of his life story tell us what it meant to go through all that and yet to remain not only alive, a survivor, but also a human being, showing his love to his fellow people and developing the ability to transmit that radiation of love to the following generations.

Professor Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

The torments and triumphs of George A. Hamid, the greatest tumbler of all time, whose extraordinary career started at age 11 with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Circus. After a half century of overcoming unimaginable obstacles Hamid was hailed as "Showman of the Century."

Along the way on George's topsy-turvy journey to becoming a successful showman and producer, readers catch a glimpse of early 20th century Americana including legends such as Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beatles – and Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakly (pictured below) – the closest thing George had to a real mother and father!

Like so many survivors of the Holocaust, Evelyn Romanowsky Ripp's first memories are of a world that is lost forever, destroyed amid savage brutality. Her home town, Lachva, is only a small speck on most maps, yet it was the center of a vibrant Jewish life before the war. Its pre-war life is described here with great charm, evoking a lost age, a lost world.

In 1942 that world came to an abrupt and vicious end. With great feeling, Evelyn Ripp tells the story of the Lachva ghetto. Her poems tell much more, starting with the line: “I've been silent so long.” She is silent no more. All those interested in Jewish history will be grateful to her for her words and verses.

Sir Martin Gilbert, Historian

The adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange exploits of a youth during his family’s adjustment to a new world, these eighteen compelling boyhood memories are of an almost Tom Sawyer character, albeit with ironic Yiddish twists -- adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange.

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What would you do for a million dollars?
This is the novel that spawned the blockbuster motion picture and had everyone asking "Would you do it?" But Hollywood's rendition of Jack Engelhard's novel didn't tell the real story. Within Engelhard's Indecent Proposal: The Original Novel are the explosive Arab versus Jewish ingredients that are as volatile as today's Middle East headlines -- a part of the story that Hollywood wrote out of the film version!

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FINALIST
2002 Independent Publisher Awards

Did two Kennedys die on that tragic day?

The story of Cliff Harris, a comedian whose career depends on his remarkable talent to imitate the nation's dashing young president. After rising from obscurity to national prominence on television's entertainment institution, the Ed Sullivan Show, Harris becomes America's most popular comedic performer — doing JFK so well that even Jackie has a tough time telling them apart. But when Kennedy is tragically gunned down, what becomes of his comedic double? You probably won't guess right!

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