A personal epic of scope and sincerity, And The Month Was May traces the life of Lillian Berliner, from her childhood in Hungary, to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, to her eventual liberation and resettlement in New York.

Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner’s voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning detail.

It is a story that affirms the resilience and infinite potential of the human spirit.

A personal epic of scope and sincerity, And The Month Was May traces the life of Lillian Berliner, from her childhood in Hungary, to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, to her eventual liberation and resettlement in New York.

Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps, and the flourishing of life thereafter, Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner’s voice, springing from the page to evoke the characters, settings, and inner motivations of her life in stunning detail.

It is a story that affirms the resilience and infinite potential of the human spirit.

In this extraordinary true story, parapsychology expert Nancy Lee Canfield reveals how her early years shaped and prepared her for a lifetime of studying the paranormal. A Rose for My Mother chronicles Nancy's turbulent childhood in and out of five foster homes and an orphanage before the age of thirteen. She gives raw, intimate details of her troubled teen years of trying to understand the emotions that come with the first kiss. Following an early marriage at seventeen and increased paranormal expoeriences, Nancy begins a lifelong study of parapsychology. What would happen in the days fllowing includes world renowned psychic investigator, Allen Spraggett inviting Nancy to participate in the 50th anniversary seance at the Harry Houdini Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, and Mike Randall of WKBW-TV dubbing Nancy a "Ghost Buster" after she successfully resolved the problems in a house that was claimed to be haunted. Following her perplexing marriage and divorce, Nancy had a whirlwind romance with a millionaire playboy and had to make a choice - should she accept the marriage proposal or continue with her research into the world of the unknown? Nancy shares insight on how to harness the powers of our own minds and imaginations in order to overcome the fears, troubles and complexities in our lives. We are reminded of the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of meditation. Her message is that "All the power is within you!" “Learning only occurs in response to challenges, and Nancy has written an absorbing account of how, in her case, overcoming incredible challenges has led to the emergence of a higher intelligence. It is not only a tale of triumph over adversity, but of the certainty of rescue from hopelessness.” Edward Green,PhD, Emeritus, Guerry Professor of Psychology “Against the backdrop of her family’s heartbreaking difficulties during the Great Depression, this story begins with a little girl who tries valiantly to understand the meaning of grown-ups’ rather confusing words and silences. Her intuitive successes told the adults that she managed well and was self-confident, but they left her feeling isolated and unloved. Does everyone have higher sensory perception? Nancy shows us that with focused work and discipline, we can nurture that infant part of us so that it can help us enjoy life to the fullest.” Dr. Joan Ashkin,EdD, LCSW, RN

In this extraordinary true story, parapsychology expert Nancy Lee Canfield reveals how her early years shaped and prepared her for a lifetime of studying the paranormal. A Rose for My Mother chronicles Nancy's turbulent childhood in and out of five foster homes and an orphanage before the age of thirteen. She gives raw, intimate details of her troubled teen years of trying to understand the emotions that come with the first kiss. Following an early marriage at seventeen and increased paranormal expoeriences, Nancy begins a lifelong study of parapsychology. What would happen in the days fllowing includes world renowned psychic investigator, Allen Spraggett inviting Nancy to participate in the 50th anniversary seance at the Harry Houdini Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, and Mike Randall of WKBW-TV dubbing Nancy a "Ghost Buster" after she successfully resolved the problems in a house that was claimed to be haunted. Following her perplexing marriage and divorce, Nancy had a whirlwind romance with a millionaire playboy and had to make a choice - should she accept the marriage proposal or continue with her research into the world of the unknown? Nancy shares insight on how to harness the powers of our own minds and imaginations in order to overcome the fears, troubles and complexities in our lives. We are reminded of the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of meditation. Her message is that "All the power is within you!" “Learning only occurs in response to challenges, and Nancy has written an absorbing account of how, in her case, overcoming incredible challenges has led to the emergence of a higher intelligence. It is not only a tale of triumph over adversity, but of the certainty of rescue from hopelessness.” Edward Green,PhD, Emeritus, Guerry Professor of Psychology “Against the backdrop of her family’s heartbreaking difficulties during the Great Depression, this story begins with a little girl who tries valiantly to understand the meaning of grown-ups’ rather confusing words and silences. Her intuitive successes told the adults that she managed well and was self-confident, but they left her feeling isolated and unloved. Does everyone have higher sensory perception? Nancy shows us that with focused work and discipline, we can nurture that infant part of us so that it can help us enjoy life to the fullest.” Dr. Joan Ashkin,EdD, LCSW, RN

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Life is too short Calvin, I’m not ready to go home yet, and I am sure that God isn’t ready for me to take my place on the thrown as of yet. So I tell you guys that they better wrap it up before they slap it, or they will be six feet under getting slapped by there friend Mr. Satin himself. So you are saying Stephen that you have never penetrated someone unwrapped? Put it like this man, back in the days there was not all these diseases as it is now. If we did anything, (which we did) we got a shot in the ass and we were able and ready again. Those we’re the days. There isn’t any one from the old school that can’t say that they didn’t slide it in with out a rubber, they would be lying. But now man, I don’t care if you are Shemar Moore, I want to cover up. Don’t get me wrong, not saying that he has anything, but I want to protect myself. I plan on being around for a long time.

Maybe that’s how Calvin lost his life, when he was Gay banged. Even though he was beaten real bad, broken ribs, fractured jaw. But those four guys had penetrated him, and told him that he needs to get out of town. We don’t like your kind here, you put a bad name on us guys. What I don’t understand about these so call men, and I did say so call men. If they we’re this so call str8t, why did they penetrate Calvin. That has me to believe that there are very few so call str8t guys out there. In my opinion every guy likes to get there we-we wet from time to time by another guy. They don’t want to admit it, because it would take away from there man hood. But I hate to say that there man hood was already taken when they first laid eyes on another man. So don’t judge me because of what I am, just love me for who I am.

Life is too short Calvin, I’m not ready to go home yet, and I am sure that God isn’t ready for me to take my place on the thrown as of yet. So I tell you guys that they better wrap it up before they slap it, or they will be six feet under getting slapped by there friend Mr. Satin himself. So you are saying Stephen that you have never penetrated someone unwrapped? Put it like this man, back in the days there was not all these diseases as it is now. If we did anything, (which we did) we got a shot in the ass and we were able and ready again. Those we’re the days. There isn’t any one from the old school that can’t say that they didn’t slide it in with out a rubber, they would be lying. But now man, I don’t care if you are Shemar Moore, I want to cover up. Don’t get me wrong, not saying that he has anything, but I want to protect myself. I plan on being around for a long time.

Maybe that’s how Calvin lost his life, when he was Gay banged. Even though he was beaten real bad, broken ribs, fractured jaw. But those four guys had penetrated him, and told him that he needs to get out of town. We don’t like your kind here, you put a bad name on us guys. What I don’t understand about these so call men, and I did say so call men. If they we’re this so call str8t, why did they penetrate Calvin. That has me to believe that there are very few so call str8t guys out there. In my opinion every guy likes to get there we-we wet from time to time by another guy. They don’t want to admit it, because it would take away from there man hood. But I hate to say that there man hood was already taken when they first laid eyes on another man. So don’t judge me because of what I am, just love me for who I am.

Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education. While numerous memoirs recount physicians’ grueling experiences during residency, few focus on the even more formative portion of medical training: the third year of medical school—the clinical year. Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor is the disarmingly honest, yet endearing and sometimes funny account of a medical student’s humbling initiation into the world of patient care.

Written during his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, James Feinstein's Short White Coat uses a series of engaging narrative essays to illustrate the universal life lessons that his very first patients teach him. He gracefully examines some of the most common issues and feelings that medical students encounter while learning how to meet, talk with, touch, and care for their patients. Along the way, he learns from his own mistakes before discovering the answer to the question that plagues every medical student: "Do I have what it takes to become a doctor?"

For more information, please visit the author's website at http://www.shortwhitecoat.com

Short White Coat has made the "short list" of finalists for the Hoffer Award: http://www.hofferaward.com/HAbookshortlist.html

Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education. While numerous memoirs recount physicians’ grueling experiences during residency, few focus on the even more formative portion of medical training: the third year of medical school—the clinical year. Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor is the disarmingly honest, yet endearing and sometimes funny account of a medical student’s humbling initiation into the world of patient care.

Written during his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, James Feinstein's Short White Coat uses a series of engaging narrative essays to illustrate the universal life lessons that his very first patients teach him. He gracefully examines some of the most common issues and feelings that medical students encounter while learning how to meet, talk with, touch, and care for their patients. Along the way, he learns from his own mistakes before discovering the answer to the question that plagues every medical student: "Do I have what it takes to become a doctor?"

For more information, please visit the author's website at http://www.shortwhitecoat.com

Short White Coat has made the "short list" of finalists for the Hoffer Award: http://www.hofferaward.com/HAbookshortlist.html

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On January 3, 1987, teenager Vaughn Ripley receives what seems to be a death sentence. A lifelong hemophiliac, he has been infused with tainted blood and is found to be HIV+. In this memoir, Ripley not only recounts his life living with severe physical ailments, but also details his fight to live. Survivor follows him as he receives his fateful news and examines how this single piece of information pushes the innocent boy headlong into a hard life of drugs and alcohol. After several years and many near-death incidents, he finally overcomes the drug addiction and tries to create some semblance of life out of the resulting carnage. He describes how he turned his life around to become a professional database administrator, how hemophilia contributed to his tendency toward being an adrenaline junkie, and how medical advances allowed Ripley and his wife to become parents. His story is one of courage and tenacity, as he demonstrates the will to face the world head-on and overcome the physical ailments in order to lead an active, productive, and positive life.

On January 3, 1987, teenager Vaughn Ripley receives what seems to be a death sentence. A lifelong hemophiliac, he has been infused with tainted blood and is found to be HIV+. In this memoir, Ripley not only recounts his life living with severe physical ailments, but also details his fight to live. Survivor follows him as he receives his fateful news and examines how this single piece of information pushes the innocent boy headlong into a hard life of drugs and alcohol. After several years and many near-death incidents, he finally overcomes the drug addiction and tries to create some semblance of life out of the resulting carnage. He describes how he turned his life around to become a professional database administrator, how hemophilia contributed to his tendency toward being an adrenaline junkie, and how medical advances allowed Ripley and his wife to become parents. His story is one of courage and tenacity, as he demonstrates the will to face the world head-on and overcome the physical ailments in order to lead an active, productive, and positive life.

From an insecure boy to a master hunter of big beautiful women across the globe, film director and author Shimon Starfury narrates the wild tale of his life. The Origins of a Big Beautiful Woman Hunter gives a compassionate and insightful look into the maturation process of the mind of a BBW hunter.

Beginning with his boyhood in Trinidad, through eleven years in the Army, three marriages, two suicide attempts, and many sexual adventures, this honest and disclosing memoir tells of his unique journey. The Origins of a Big Beautiful Woman Hunter describes Starfury’s quest for the pursuit of voluptuous beauties.

What he finds along the way, in addition to fun times and hardship, is a pure love for someone he never expected to meet so soon. Starfury ultimately discovers what he had been chasing so hard and for so long was right in front of him all the time.

From an insecure boy to a master hunter of big beautiful women across the globe, film director and author Shimon Starfury narrates the wild tale of his life. The Origins of a Big Beautiful Woman Hunter gives a compassionate and insightful look into the maturation process of the mind of a BBW hunter.

Beginning with his boyhood in Trinidad, through eleven years in the Army, three marriages, two suicide attempts, and many sexual adventures, this honest and disclosing memoir tells of his unique journey. The Origins of a Big Beautiful Woman Hunter describes Starfury’s quest for the pursuit of voluptuous beauties.

What he finds along the way, in addition to fun times and hardship, is a pure love for someone he never expected to meet so soon. Starfury ultimately discovers what he had been chasing so hard and for so long was right in front of him all the time.

My Life Among the Gentiles is a delightful and warm-hearted collection of autobiographical essays written by a school teacher who is Jewish and who grew up in an overwhelmingly gentile environmnet of an upstate New York town.

With compassion and humor, Miriam Biskin describes episodes in the lives of her colorful relatives and friends, and shows their roles in her life. You will meet her grandparents, who innocently participated in an economic fraud; Grandfather Mendel, who was under the impression that Abraham Lincoln must surely have been a Talmudic scholar; Mrs. Biskin's own mother, who administered bowls of chicken soup as if she were handing out aspirin; her beloved friend Mrs. Bohen, who took the author, when she was a child, along as a consultant for an eye examination.

Then there are the not-so-nice: her brother, who tried frantically to deny his Jewish faith; Jakie, the doll-smashing, spoiled brat, upon whom the author took revenge in a most satisfactory manner; the deaf old Yiddish teacher; the judge who thought a fair test to give applicants for American citizenship would be to ask them about the depths of rivers; and the Christian children who out of fear, ignorance, or hatred plagued the author's childhood with bigoted, or ignorant, words and deeds.

You will also learn about the world of Christmas trees, Channukah bushes, holy communions: the times when children of differing religions are puzzled by the non-observance of their cherished holidays and traditions by their playmates of other faiths.

For the Jew and non-Jew, the sociologist and layman, My Life Among the Gentiles hopefully will shed some light on the question of human relationships. For as the author tells us, "Some of my well-adjusted friends level a finger of judgment in my direction and make the pronouncement that I am a 'defensive Jew.' Their perspicacity is unimpressive because of the obviousness of the fact. My heritage, my commitment, my identity are all items worth defending, and their label fits as long as they don't stray to such idiotic euphemisms as 'Jewess.' ... And as they apologize for my conduct, I'd like them to get the name right. 'Jew' is not a dirty word or a scornful epithet: it is a simple and honorable deisgnation for that portion of the species which has been witness to man's long struggle to attain humanity."