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In the seamy atmosphere of Miami Beach's Collins Avenue, Mila Katz, a streaky card shark and confidante of mobsters, lives by the wits with which she has survived the Holocaust. Second Hand Smoke is the story of Mila's sons, Issac and Duncan, the one secretly abandoned in Poland, and the other, American-born, raised as an avenging Nazi hunter, poisoned with rage.

Told in bursts of fractured realism and dark comedy, Second Hand Smoke is a postmodern mystery of great lyrical power, deep insight, and emotional resonance.

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, only more interesting or less interesting films, and the pieces collected here, from an appreciation of Marilyn Monroe s intelligence to a classic discussion on and with Jean-Luc Godard, amply testify to his broad intellect and...

No Place for a Lady charts Thea Rosenbaum's turbulent life from a little girl escaping the Soviet Army with her mother in Berlin in 1945 to becoming Germany's first woman stock broker at Oppenheimer and Co. to Germany's only woman war correspondent in Vietnam. She then embarked on a career as producer for ARD German television in the US, where she was White House pool producer for foreign correspondents from the late '70s to late 2000s. In this capacity, she traveled with five presidents and was present in Germany for the end of the Cold War as the Berlin Wall fell. Her life, as a...

A touching and insightful memoir . . . an unfolding clinical account, a love story, and a personal journey intertwined. The author's strengths and energies really leveraged what might have been a complete travesty into a story of perseverance and triumph. This narrative will benefit so many whose lives are touched by ADD/ADHD and its behavioral manifestations." Theodore R. DeRoche, Ph.D., LMHC

"My husband Bob is intelligent, good looking, witty, loving, and has ADD. Ouch That last one hurt." Linda Rosenbaum, Author

Have you ever wondered if you or someone important to you has ADD -...