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THE WINNING SPIRIT

The star of the 1996 New York City Mara-
thon came in last. Long after timekeepers and
onlookers had gone home--in fact, 27 hours and
26 minutes after the race started on the
Verranzano Bridge the previous morning--Zoe
Koplowitz finished the race.
Listen to words of wisdom from this woman
who captured America's heart--a multiple
sclerosis sufferer who has nevertheless
finished the New York City Marathon nine
years in a row. The Winning Spirit: Life
Lessons Learned in Last Place is an inspirational
look at the true stories and lessons Zoe
Koplowitz has learned from living triumphantly
with MS: the importance of self-acceptance,
following your dreams, courage in the face of
adversity, and excelling despite perceived
limitations.

FICTION

Doubleday, $21.95

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Road Kill
By Kinky Friedman; Simon 6 Shuster;
$23.
Funny, bawdy and politically
incorrect, country-
singer-turned-mystery-
writer Kinky Friedman
(sans his group the Jew
Boys) is back with his
alter ego in a new novel.
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Here, Friedman
country-singer-turned-
detective — is off to
cheer up his old friend
Willie Nelson — yes,
that Willie Nelson —
whose tour bus, the
Honeysuckle Rose, has
been in an accident. The
Kinkster is plunged into
a mystery involving
Indians, cops and former wives.

A Jewish Mother From Berlin and
Susanna
By Gertrude Kolmar; Holmes 6- Meier;
$24.
Gertrude Kolmar died in the Holo-
caust in 1943. Now, Brigitte M. Gold-
stein has translated two of Kolmar's
short novels for this volume. In the
first novel, a mother loses her only
real connection to the world: her 5-
year-old daughter; the second novel
is an erotic memoir of an elusive,
mentally unstable girl. The author
explores "alienation and misfortune
with a vivid, emotionally piercing
force," says the New York Times.

NONFICTION

Balaam's Prophecy
By Naphtali Lau-Lavie; Cornwall
Press; $24.95
With a Hebrew version first pub-
lished in 1993 under the name Am
K'Lavie ("Nation as a Lion"), Bal-
aam's Prophecy is a personal account
of Jewish history in the years 1939-
1989. Written by Ambassador
Naphtali Lau-Lavie, a journalist and
Israel diplomat who survived the
horrors of Nazi concentration
camps, the book reflects upon major

historic events during the second half
of this century as experienced by the
author. In addition to a behind-the-
scenes look at Israel's wars and peace
negotiations, Lau-Lavie analyzes the
ambivalent relationship between the
Israelis and the rest of
World Jewry.

The Akedah
By Louis A Berman; Jason
Aronson Inc.; $30.
Berman was born in
Detroit, attended United
Hebrew Schools, received
his undergraduate degree
at Wayne State University,
where he was an instruc-
tor in psychology, and
completed his doctoral
studies at the University
of Michigan. In this vol-
ume, he examines the
place of the akedah story — Abraham's
binding and near-sacrifice of Isaac —
in world mythology, history, psycholo-
gy, Christian and Islamic thought, art
and music, and in the literature of Eng-
land, America and Israel.

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