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Comrade Anna
"It was amazing," stated Suspense/Horror Author Chris Mentillo. 5.00 stars (rating details on Goodeads) The novel focuses on Anna, a fictional Jewish resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, her relations with a Treblinka death camp guard and with an Auschwitz survivor who is hunting him and has marked him for execution for mass murder. The themes of redemption and resurrection are developed to a surprising and powerful conclusion. Yad Vashem generously permitted the use of many of the archival photos. At the novel's outset, the idealistic Anna tells her university friends in Warsaw that they should meet the German invaders with Tolstoyan passive resistance, not with violence. But Anna learns that extermination of the Jews is the grand plan as she desperately tries to save ghetto children and herself.Julian Kravetz, a New York City novelist, discovers the story of Anna after the death of his parents in the late 20th Century when he finds their diaries at his father's former Chinatown apartment. Kravetz slowly pieces together in a novel what actually happened to his parents in Poland and later in Germany.
The Lucky Lobsters (4.6 stars Amazon) Kindle & Print
When Leo and his family celebrate his birthday beneath their pink coral reef, he has no idea of the adventures awaiting him later that day after Lena and Libby, his childhood friends, persuade him to go exploring in a deep green kelp forest. There they become lost, take the bait in a lobster trap and panic turns to terror. The tale was inspired by a dive I once went on in some North American waters - a related account is in the book. Illustrator: Jennifer Taylor, Victoria, B.C., Canada. The trap rises and they enter a world they have never seen. Fortunately two kind humans buy them from a grocery store and set them free. Age level: 7-15 but younger children - even toddlers - will benefit from the beautiful graphics (full color) and from an adult reading to them.
Here is one of several five-star New York City teacher reviews:
"As a New York City teacher of young children, I strongly recommend this book...very exciting...Readers will empathize with these so likable creatures of the sea as we await their fate...heartwarming...suspenseful...conveys with humor the values of kindness to animals, childhood friendship and parental care ... I loved this book. " -Patricia Martone
Jack: Book 2 in the Trilogy: Murder on the High Seas
Release Date: May 18, 2016
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Jack: Book 1 in the Trilogy: School Days
The historical fiction novel is set in the American south (Charleston primarily) one year prior to the civil war. It focuses on three characters who are children at a fictional schoolhouse in Charleston (Charleston did not have a public school system at that time) who challenge their racist schoolmaster, a former preacher on a slave ship on the high seas. Jack is at the center of the revolt against "Master Whittemore" and ultimately defeats him during a "trial" that master conducts in his little schoolhouse. This trial is one of the many humorous parts of the book. Master, after some reflection, sees the criticism his students have tried to make and understands that his efforts to sing the praises of the plantation slavery system and of the benefits of secession were wrong. He decides to return to the same slave ship on the ruse that he will again preach (he's an unordained minister) the necessity of slavery. He does the exact opposite and tries to incite rebellion. Master is thrown overboard. Jack and Jeremy had signed up for the journey to Jamaica and other slave-trading ports after they saw the change in their teacher. In Jamaica they meet two free blacks-America and her friend-and together the four conspire to take the ship and set free the entire slave cargo.This novel was written over the past 11 years.