Losing his tabloid reporting job at the same time his teenage son is expelled for writing a controversial essay, divorcé Sam Sullivan travels with his son to visit the boy's estranged grandfather during a shared weekend of self-discovery. By the author of My Ride With Gus. Original.

Raising Jake

Literature & Fiction

Carillo, Charlie

Humor & Satire

Kensington Pub. Corp

Once a teenage heartthrob with a number one hit single called "Sweet Days," Mickey DeFalco, now approaching middle age and unable to get his act together, returns home to Queens where he, while living with his parents, is reunited with Lynn Mahoney, his former high school sweetheart who inspired the song. Original.

One Hit Wonder

It's the summer of '69, and the whole world is eagerly awaiting the greatest achievement in human history - men are actually going to walk on the moon! Nobody is more excited about the Apollo 11 mission than Billy Gallagher, a troubled 15-year-old from Queens, New York who lives in the shadow of his big brother, a basketball star who's been felled by a knee injury. But suddenly the spotlight is on Billy when a foolish act of vandalism gets him arrested. He's at the mercy of Mr. J, the mysterious neighborhood ice cream man whose window Billy has smashed. Mr. J chooses not to press charges, and not only that - he gives him a job, pumping soft ice cream! It's the strangest summer of Billy's life as he sweats over the moon mission, learns life lessons from his boss, harbors his brother's dark secret and agonizes over Mr. J's beautiful 18-year-old daughter, a brilliant violinist with a wild streak. She's as unreachable to Billy as the moon itself - or is she? Everything comes to a head when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon, and Billy comes up with a creation to honor the triumph of the astronauts - a creation that rocks everybody's world.

MOON CAKE

Genre Fiction

Independently published

As Inside Edition celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, anchor Deborah Norville pulls the curtain back on the show’s operation, revealing its combination of stories that touch your heart, put you on the edge of your seat, and leave viewers convinced they must have made that up! Well—trust us, it’s all real. As Inside Edition celebrates its 25th anniversary, anchor Deborah Norville pulls the curtain back on the show’s operation, revealing its combination of stories that touch your heart, put you on the edge of your seat, and leave viewers convinced they must have made that up! Well—trust us, it’s all real. Only Inside Edition would take you to both the runways of Miss America and Miss Piggy—the pageant for porcine contestants (and yes, we are talking real porkers). But we’ve also reported on parents who insisted on finding a cure for their ailing child, the man who doesn’t need limbs to show the rest of us how to reach great heights, and the heroism of everyday people on 9/11 and during natural disasters. The Way We Are is a sometimes side-splitting, occasionally heart-stopping, but always entertaining journey down memory lane. It’s a reminder of what fascinated us over the past two and a half decades, with a look at the stories that made Inside Edition a success on day one—and through 8,150 episodes—and has kept it there ever since.

The Way We Are: Heroes, Scoundrels, and Oddballs from Twenty-five Years of Inside Edition

Norville, Deborah

History

Inside Edition Books

"A superb comic novelist . . . hilarious and truthful." -Sally Jenkins 
Acclaimed author Charlie Carillo revisits Shepherd Avenue, the novel that sparked his career, in a witty, moving story about growing older and (sometimes) growing up . . . 
For the second time in a few weeks, Joey Ambrosio has done something reckless. The first incident-climbing to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge to scatter his father's remains-earned him newspaper headlines and court-ordered therapy. This time, he's doing something arguably even more dangerous: buying his grandparents' old house in the rough Brooklyn neighborhood where he spent an idyllic summer half a century ago. 
With boarded up stores and bars on every window, Shepherd Avenue sure isn't the way it used to be. Then again, neither is Joey. In 1961, he was a newly motherless kid trying to find his way. Now a successful children's book author estranged from his grown daughter, he's viewed with suspicion by his new neighbors-and with amusement by the beautiful Puerto Rican laundress across the street. Amongst the colorful misfits of his past and present he's hoping to heal old wounds, forge new bonds, and figure out what exactly brought him back here . . . and how, at last, to move on. 
Praise for Charlie Carillo and Shepherd Avenue 
An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year 
"An excellent writer and a marvelous storyteller. . . . He creates a special world on Shepherd Avenue that I loved to enter and hated to leave." -Ferrol Sams

Return to Shepherd Avenue

Lyrical Press

An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year"An excellent writer and a marvelous storyteller. . . . He creates a special world on Shepherd Avenue that I loved to enter and hated to leave." -Ferrol Sams From acclaimed author Charlie Carillo comes a poignant, darkly funny, coming-of-age story set in the heart of Italian-American Brooklyn, New York, and the heat of one eventful 1960s summer . . . Ten-year-old Joey Ambrosio has barely begun to grieve his mother's death when his father abruptly uproots him from his sedate suburban Long Island home, and deposits him at his estranged grandparents' house in boisterous East New York. While his dad takes off on an indefinite road trip, Joey is left to navigate unfamiliar terrain. Besides his gruff Italian grandparents, there's his teenage Uncle Vic, a baseball star obsessed with the music of Frank Sinatra; a steady diet of soulful, hearty foods he's never tasted, and a community teeming with life, from endless gossip and arguments to curse-laden stickball games under the elevated train. It's a world where privacy doesn't exist and there's no time to feel sorry for yourself. Most of all, it's where Joey learns not only how to fight, and how to heal, but how to love-and ultimately, how to forgive. Praise for Charlie Carillo and Raising Jake "The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end...funny, moving." -Mike Lupica "In the tradition of Tom Perotta...truthful, and hilarious." -Alison Grambs "A literary romp through the minefields of a totally normal, and totally abnormal, family... I actually laughed out loud and kept turning the pages to make absolutely sure that all worked out at the end." -Cathy Lamb "Carillo has an easy way with breezy prose and likable characters." -Publishers Weekly

Shepherd Avenue

THE SKYLIGHT ROOM

Women's Fiction

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