Living Well Homegrown Talent The Hero ithin I Local authors offer a wide range of books for a broad audience. SHARON LUCKERMAN StaffWriter T hael Adler, The Magical ?f Pee Wee Mulligan Apel, Memory Effects: The twat and the Art of Secondary Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Searching in. the Holocaust ene Brooks, Journey Into anxiousness hen, Jewish Detroit ovensky, Zohar Fox and Kate K. Smith, Journey ns, The Handy Answer (And Parents) an, I Remember om Kalib, The n o fthe Eastern °Pie Levin, The Glass Heart rh McClellen, The Hero History of Track 6- Field in Century I Panush, The Splice of ts and Israel-David ng/Berenice Last Queen . Bob Schwartz, I Run, Therefore Nuts! . Magda Selineci, There and ere and Now laine Serling (musical CD), in the Circle 17. Jill Sklar, The First Year: Crohns isease 18. Karen Tintori, Trapped: The 909 Cherry Mine Disaster 19. Ethel Wasser, The Baboon Man ats a Mother To Do?) 0. Joyce Weiss, Take the Ride of our Life 2002 114 . he seventh annual Local Author Fair at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit is big- ger than ever, with several authors who are making their mark not only in Detroit but around the coun- try. Twenty local authors will meet the public and be available to discuss their books from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at the JCC in West Bloomfield. For the first time, the fair will feature a songwriter. Elaine Serling of Birmingham was "inspired by Jewish traditions and values" to create her CD Join the Circle (Danza Publications; $18), featuring original music for young people. Also, two of the local authors, Karen Tintori of West Bloomfield and Dr. Sidney Bolkosky of Oak Park, will speak at the 51st Annual Book Fair, which opens Wednesday, Nov. 6, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 17. He speaks 11 a.m. Nov. 6; she speaks 10 a.m. Nov. 11. This year's works by locally based writers range from a magi- cal children's story and a cookbook for people in recovery, to humorous sports essays and new ways of looking at the Holocaust. Following is a roundup of some of the authors and their varied works at the Local Author Fair. • What happens when a six-inch character gets into a magical book of maps? He gets to go wherever he lands! So begins West Bloomfield's Dr. Raphael Adler's book The Magical Adventures of Pee Wee Mulligan (1stBooks Library; $14.90). Dr. Adler says he wrote this story many years ago when he worked in New York state's Catskill Mountains. He invented Pee Wee's adventures to keep kids busy so their parents could have fun at the resort. But soon the parents came along with their children to hear his stories of the little hero. • In Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (Rutgers University Press; $28), Dora Apel of Pleasant Ridge analyzes the ways artists born after the Holocaust have come to terms with that experience — especial- ly their sense of Jewish ethnic identity. "Meaning is not fixed; it's mutable," says Apel, the W Hawkins Ferry Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University "The stories my mother [a Holocaust survivor] told me about her experience were haunting, painful," Apel says. Part of the pain is the way memory changes. You never quite know what's true and what isn't. In her book, Apel analyzes the ways in which artists born after the Holocaust represent a history they did not experience firsthand. • Jenny Fox of Orchard Lake, a dietician, and Kate K. Smith, a chef in Birmingham, developed original recipes designed to stabilize blood sugar levels, which is especially important for people who are recovering from food or alcohol addiction. Their collection of recipes became Recipes for the Journey: A Cookbook and Guide to Good Health in Recovery (Morris Press; $19.99). • When psychoanalyst John Hartman of Ann Arbor made a trip to Przemysl, Poland, to explore his grandparents' roots, he TRAPPED THE 1909 CHERRY MINE DISASTER never guessed he'd write a book with Clockwise: the young Polish archivist he met in the "The Hero Within town. Though Hartman does not speak Us: A History of Polish and Jacek Krochmal doesn't Track & Field in the speak English, the two spent three years 20th Century" interviewing and writing about the by Keith McClellen Holocaust from both a Jewish and non- Jewish perspective. The result is I I Run, Therefore I Remember Every Day (TPN; $30). Am Nuts! Hartman says that proceeds from the by Bob Schwartz book are going toward restora- tion of the Jewish cemetery in Memory Effects: The Przemysl. Holocaust & the An Krochmal was interested in of Secondary writing this book, Hartman Witnessing says, because Jews were not by Dora Apel included in the history of the town since 1939 — a majof omission. Trapped: The 1909 "The townspeople's positive and neg- Cherry Mine Disaster ative views of Jews [today] ," he adds, by Karen Tintori "shows the variety and complexity of the Polish Jewish connection." Hartman says the biggest surprise in writing this book was learning the extent t o which some Poles went to rescue Jews. • The only short-story writer in the group, attorney Robert Edward Levin of West Bloomfield, says his stories reflect the place where the heartfelt and the heartless meet. The Glass Heart (lstBooks Library; $14.50), his second book, is about people trying to escape a haunting past or looking for reason in the face of madness." • In The Hero Within Us: A History of Track & Field in the 20th Century (Eastern Michigan Press; $24), Keith IV1cClellen of Oak Park focuses on Michigan athletes, many of them Jewish, in the history of track and field this century. He says that Jews were attracted to these sports because in the 1930 and 1940s, track and field was the first sport in the United States that was opened to all. "