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Fred Burstein shares his career as a boxer, poet, children's author, teacher, and devoted family man. His memoir reveals a passion for all of the above while also capturing what many people miss -- the little things that children see so vividly and what we, as readers of his new book, will awaken to - the beauty of poetry and a life well-lived.

NY City of Kings chronicles the history of graffiti's genesis in New York from its late 1960s origin to the present, as seen through the lens of writers who started the movement. This narrative intends to help elucidate how the unprecedented movement of NYC graffiti culture spread internationally, and how graffiti has become so lodged and influential within our present popular culture. The accompanying exhibit installation features a monumenta...

Dr Tan's personal half-century of experience with patient care as well as national and international diabetes programs makes him a great resource for the casual or expert reader...Dr Tan takes the reader on a centuries' old journey and gives one a greater appreciation of where we are today." ~ S. Sethu K. Reddy, Senior Associate Dean of Research, College of Medicine, Central Michigan University Taking us into the world of diabetes and the rec...

Gobi (Gobee) was born a pedigreed dog outside of Los Angeles, California. By the time he was a year old he had hit some hard times and ended up at a dog rescue, where he was then taken in by the Aniello family. Gobi blossomed into a social butterfly cozying up to anyone who came to visit the Aniello house...in anticipation of a cookie or two! His only character flaw was the bad habit of running off with things that weren't his and hiding them ...

Gobi (Gobee) was born a pedigreed dog outside of Los Angeles, California. By the time he was a year old he had hit some hard times and ended up at a dog rescue, where he was then taken in by the Aniello family. Gobi blossomed into a social butterfly cozying up to anyone who came to visit the Aniello house...in anticipation of a cookie or two! His only character flaw was the bad habit of running off with things that weren't his and hiding them ...

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He had discovered late in life that love has no age and, so he too could fall in love again. First with a colleague, unexpectedly, unintentionally, who was happily married and had two young children. Then with a much younger woman, unmarried, who he mistakenly thought had sent clear encouragement of romantic possibilities. After that pathetic, misguided failure he travelled thousands of miles to lands he had inhabited centuries before, in sear...

One snowy Christmas Eve in 1972 while walking home from a poetry reading in Cambridge, Massachusetts during a winter storm that stopped all traffic, there on the street, I realized poetry was all around me. In the silence of the snow, in the shop lights reflected on the parked cars blanketed in white, in the empty night-traffic lights turning green and red but without cars and drivers to notice them, then yellow and green again without the pas...

Amelia and the Magic Ponies was inspired by the story of Tío Vivo, an antique carousel in Taos, New Mexico. This charming carousel is a star attraction at the Fiestas de Santiago y Santa Ana held every July in Taos, New Mexico. Sue Houser's captivating tale tells what happens to the wooden horses after a terrible storm. Beautifully illustrated picture book.

There is so much about his best friend, Max, that is a mystery to Jeff. His fascination with guns. His hatred of Jews. His strange response when someone poisons the neighborhood dogs. He at times seems like a man to Jeff, and at other times is just a little boy. What is it about Max that makes Jeff want to be like him? And more important, what would Max think of him if he ever found out about Jeff's family? Based on a real event in his boyhood...

Fred Burstein is the author of eight children's books, many of which have won awards.Reviewers have said that he sees through the eyes of a child. However, in this book he is seeing through the eyes of his dog, Gracie. As we read we get to know a variety of birds in their natural environment. The same for Gracie. So the reader follows in her rather large footsteps and learns how each bird in the woodland lives, eats, sees. This book is like Gr...

Here is the untold story that underlies the oft-told tale of the famous Magi and their brethren. It is not the story most people know, but it is informed by archaeology and the ancient writers of the historic era of the Magi. When the story unfolds, the seeds of war have already been sown between the the Parthians and the Romans. The powerful and mystical Magi have also shown they are a magical power to be reckoned with, and because of this, K...

Set along the international border between El Paso, Texas, and Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, AMERICAN TUMBLEWEEDS tells the bittersweet story of a Mexican-American family's struggle to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s America.The novel is seen through the eyes of Inez, an innocent and vulnerable thirteen-year-old girl, who suffers the pangs of growing up in more ways than one -- she is a part of two cultures, one ...

By embracing the full storytelling and archetypal potential of the American Southwest, Frank Waters wrote some of the finest literature of the 20th century. Through his 28 volumes of fiction and non-fiction, including Book of the Hopi and The Man Who Killed the Deer, Waters' achievement as both a novelist and a philosopher is comparable to Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, and Terry Tempest Williams, a rare accomplishment in the literary world. A...

Strawberry Roan is one woman's search for meaning in a world of competition, isolation and passion. Her family is loving and supportive but her father's pressures become her own. She becomes a horsewoman, a breeder and raiser of horses, a kind of equne princess who must always win competitively against girls somehow better equipped than she. In time her life pursuits lead her towards doctoring and she becomes a neurologist with a driving ambit...

In Saving Sight, Dr. Andrew Lam explains the intricacies of human sight and shines a light on the heroes who fought to save it, while also revealing the personal side of life as an eye surgeon - the stress and joy of a man who, on his best days, can turn darkness into light. Many remarkable life stories illuminate this autobiographical/biographical/historical work. Included are Louis Braille, Judah Folkman, Harold Ridley and many others who ha...

A study of world mythology and stories that have influenced our lives. A further inquiry into the life's work of Joseph Campbell and a manual on how to interpret dreams, using myths.

Animal Dreams by poet, teacher and children's author, Fred Burstein, is a special way of seeing how children see the creatures of their imagination. In this case, it's a baby buffalo, a horse, a goldfinch, and a pod of whales. Each animal has a special message to impart to the dreaming boy, who, one imagines is the author. The animal dreams come swiftly on magical hooves, wings and fins. Every morning, after the dream, the boy asks his mother ...

Her Soldier of the Queen features little known historical facts on The Troubles as they were known in northern Ireland during the 1980s. The story also sheds light on the undeclared conflict of the United Kingdom and Argentina during the Falklands War. The author delivers a completely authentic and romantic historical novel that is a fast-moving tale of passion, sorrow and surrender. Reading this novel you'll not forget the handsome soldier of...