Barefoot to Benefactor: My Life Story of Faith and Courage
Publication Date: 09/14/2021
An Asian American immigrant’s journey from poverty in India to the heights of the medical profession in America—and the faith that made his accomplishments possible. When Lenny Peters was a boy playing marbles among the lush mangrove trees in impoverished India, he had one overriding wish: to be the best…
A Complicated Jew: Selected Essays
Publication Date: 09/07/2021
Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, historical—Hillel Halkin’s finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture are an education in themselves. Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of literary criticism, biography, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as for his celebrated achievements as a translator. Born and…
From Prison Cells to PhD: It is Never Too Late to Do Good
Publication Date: 08/17/2021
A captivating story detailing how resilience and inner strength can be combined to overcome mountainous barriers to reach one’s full potential. Growing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Stanley Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. He started selling dope and was arrested for the first time at fourteen…
Clarence Thomas: The Things He Learned
Publication Date: 08/03/2021
Clarence Thomas is a Justice of the Supreme Court, one of America’s most important jobs—but he was once a kid just like you! Building houses, planting a vegetable garden, driving his grandfather’s truck, and helping those in need…these are just a few things Clarence Thomas learned while growing up in…
There Will Be Lobster: Memoir of a Midlife Crisis
Publication Date: 07/20/2021
You know her. You’ve seen her. You may even see yourself in her. If you’re arriving to the midlife crisis party—the one that’s serving low self-esteem, desperation, unreliable behavior, forgetfulness, carelessness, and the loneliness of loss—the stories and anecdotes in this memoir will assure you that you are not alone.…
Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply
Publication Date: 07/06/2021
Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart. In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator…
Dinner With Eleanor
Publication Date: 06/29/2021
The saga of two strong women who built lives in America—culminating in a fateful dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt. Dinner With Eleanor is the story of Helen Niemtzow Pratt. In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen’s grandmother, Hannah, is disgraced after a divorce. She leaves the comfort of her…
Citizen Trump: A One Man Show
Publication Date: 06/15/2021
“Trump knew from early on that he who controls the story controls the world.” Writer/director Robert Orlando, locked down during the Covid-19 pandemic, learned Citizen Kane was Trump’s favorite film, and the parallels were astonishing. Both Kane and Trump are swaggering masters of media, and both claim to stand for the working…
Half of a Whole: My Fight for a Separate Life
Publication Date: 06/08/2021
Half of a Whole explores the intimate bond between a twin brother and sister, the cruel consequences that occur when one of them becomes mentally ill, and the courage required to break away when love is not enough. Just when Marilyn Peterson Haus thought she had escaped life as the child…
Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination
Publication Date: 06/01/2021
If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy’s complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby’s enemies would not have happened—changing the course of history and preventing the murder of…