Sparring with Rembrandt

American literature is rich with stories about gifted young boys who don't fit the mold: Tom Sawyer, Nick Adams, Holden Caulfield, Alex Portnoy and many others. And now Monroe Katz brings us his alter - ego Norman, a troubled boy growing up poor and Jewish in the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Norman stutters miserably, blinks incessantly, wets his bed, and lives under the constant verbal whipping of his Aunt Manya. To fend off the harsh realities of his world, Norman develops a rich interior life and holds fast to the most cherished lifeline he has: his dreams of becoming an artist. Every day, he draws from memory portraits of family, neighbors and friends - only to have Aunt Manya destroy every one of them. His mother is dead, his father is a deadbeat, and Norman's future looks extremely bleak, until he is visited by a most unusual friend, Rembrandt van Rijn. This is a novel of heartbreak and challenge, misery and triumph, as Norman takes us along on his journey from Brooklyn to the U.S. naval shipyard in Vallejo California and then the fertile landscapes of the Napa Valley. Rembrandt follows him every step of the way, illuminating Norman's path - and ours as well.

Literature & Fiction

Monroe Katz

Literary

Silverado Books

This book is a story of a young, innocent Danish girl who watches Hitler's troops storm into her town in the spring of 1940. Within hours, Birgitte's safe, secure world is turned into a nightmare landscape of brutality, murder and betrayal. Birgitte joins the Danish Resistance. This is her story.

Birgitte's War

Children's Books

Schoenberger, Elsebeth

History

From the heart and mind of world-renowned orthopedic surgeon, Lawrence Dorr, M.D., comes an unforgettable historical novel, Die Once Live Twice, that combines a physician s skill, intellect and knowledge of medicine with wonderful story-telling, creating a book that celebrates the origins and miracle of modern medicine. Die Once Live Twice is an epic page-turner that begins in Philadelphia before the Civil War and carries us through to the eve of World War II, bringing to life the drama of scientific discovery and the extraordinary achievements of modern medicine from its early days to the pioneering use of vaccinations, never-before performed surgeries, and finally to the discovery of penicillin. A who s who of the history of medicine, this novel seamlessly weaves together memorable fictional characters with medical luminaries of the 19th and early 20th century, telling the story of the miracle workers who changed the face of medical care forever. The story begins in 1850, when eleven-year-old Katherine Lovington must care for a mother dying of breast cancer. This agonizing experience transforms her life, and she vows to find a way to help medicine truly heal rather than simply offer morphine and sympathy.

Die Once Live Twice

Dorr, Lawrence

Genre Fiction

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