career path who takes up with a non-Jewish
boyfriend twice her age. Langer's debut novel is a
coming-of-age tale of life in the 1970s along
Chicago's California Street, a Mason-Dixon bound-
ary dividing the city's west side affluence from the
middle-class east side.
Another innovation is a joint venture with the
JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival that will
feature Imaginary Witness: Hollywood 6- the
Holocaust, directed by Emmy-winner Daniel Anker.
The documentary explores Hollywood's silence on
the Holocaust until after the war.
Last year's "Lunch with the Authors" program is
back by popular demand. Novelists Tova Mirvis
(The Outside World), Kate Wenner (Dancing With
Einstein) and Edeet Ravel (Look for Me) will speak
Nov. 11.
In addition, both Book Fair Sundays include

What Queen Esther Knew: Business
Strategies from a Biblical Sage, by
Connie Glaser
And you thought the Book of Esther
was just about saving the Jewish people!
Within Esther's tale are the seeds for
success every woman needs in today's
business world. Former Detroiter Glaser
deconstructs Esther's path from beauty
contestant to savior of her people and
translates them into strategies that
women can use to get ahead.

Journey from the Land of No: A
Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary
Iran, by Roya Hakakian
Hakakian sheds light on Iran, its
revolution and the rise of fundamen-
'talism. Never before has the story of
the Iranian revolution been told from
the perspective of an ordinary Iranian
teen (the author was but 12 in 1979),
a secular Jew swept up by the promises
of the Ayatollah Khomeini of a free
and prosperous Iran.

Hope and Honor, by Sid Shachnow
with Jann Robbins
This memoir from Major General
Shachnow recounts his childhood years
in a Nazi concentration camp, his immi-
gration to America and his service in
Vietnam and a divided Berlin to his
becoming a major general responsible
for U.S. Army Special Forces worldwide.

A Fat Girl's Guide to Lift, by Wendy
Shanker
Not for fat girls only, former Detroiter
Shanker's memoir is part self-help, part
entertainment, part you-go-girl-valida-
tion for body-image obsessed women of

events for families: On Nov. 7, at the Oak Park
branch, parents can bring children to view the play
Smudge Fundaes; on Nov. 14, the West Broomfield
JCC event features children's author Harriet Ziefert,
who will read from her books, which include You
Can't See Your Bones with Binoculars and One Smart

Skunk.
Other intergenerational entertainment on Nov. 14
includes the Festival Dancers, who will perform a
celebration of Eastern European music and dance,
featuring The Golem, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Not only are Schonberger and her minions com-
mitted to giving new authors a start, the efforts of
local authors also are warmly supported. More than
a dozen authors will be on hand Nov. 7 from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. to discuss and autograph their books.
While economics dictated charging for evening
events last year, the decision didn't impinge on

any size. This slice of the large side of
life is marbled with humor and dol-
loped with determination to take back
the word "fat" from the purgatory of
pejoratives.

SPORTS

Wire to Wire: Inside the 1984 Detroit
Tigers Championship Season, by
George Cantor
On the 20th anniversary of the
unforgettable year when the Tigers
won it all, Cantor's deftly written
book launches readers back to that
season from beginning to end. ,

MEDIA

Tick, Tick, Tick: The Long Life and
Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes, by
David Blum
For two years, author David Blum
talked to everybody connected to 60
Minutes and, incredibly, everybody
talked to him. Blum's unprecedented
inside access takes us into story meet-
ings, blood-on-the-wall editing ses-
sions, turf wars and the heart of the
rivalries and the myths going as far
back as the earliest black-and-white
days.

Machers 6- Rockers: Chess Records and
the Business of Rock ea' Roll, by Rich
Cohen
Cohen tells the engrossing story of
how Leonard Chess helped turn rock
`n' roll into a multibillion-dollar busi-
ness, riding the crest of a wave that
would crash over a whole generation.

attendance. Says Fisher, "By our third day, 300 pass-
es had been sold."
The passes — $36 for JCC members; $45 for
nonmembers — guarantee seating for all ticketed
events (excluding luncheons) and are a bargain for
those attending several author appearances. They
can be purchased in advance, as well as during Book
Fair, by calling (248) 432-5577.
So, Detroiters, get ready. Clean your eyeglasses;
get out your bookmarks. As Schonberger proudly
notes, "As far as I know, the Detroit Jewish Book
Fair is the largest literary event in Michigan, as well
as the largest Jewish book fair in the country."
She and her team have every right to be proud.
What follows is a listing of featured authors sched-
uled to appear at Book Fair at press time. See the
accompanying schedule for times and ticket prices.
Happy reading! ❑

The Beatles Come to America, by
Martin Goldsmith
When the Beatles touched down in
New York on Feb. 7, 1964, for their first
visit to America, they brought with
them a sound that hadn't been heard
before. In this intriguing cultural history,
Martin Goldsmith examines how and
why the Beatles struck such a lasting
chord.

HISTORY/POLITICS/
BUSINESS

into-the hearts minds and lives of
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy
Carter, George Bush and Ronald
Reagan.

GI Jews: How WWII Changed a
Generation, by Deborah Dash Moore
Over half a million Jews entered the
U.S. Armed Forces during World War
II. Moore offers an unprecedented view
of the struKles these GI Jews faced, as
well as how military servi c e transformed
them.

A Promise to Remember: The
Holocaust in the Words and Voices of
Its Survivors, by Michael Berenbaum
Imagine visiting a Holocaust museum
between the pages of a book, and you
have Berenbaum's deeply moving record
of the Shoah, from the background of
the Final Solution, ghetto life and the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising to the partici-
pants and bystanders, rescue by sympa-
thetic non Jews and, finally, liberation.

Rescued From the Reich: How One of
Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, by Bryan Marc Rigg
The escape of Jewish Lubavitcher
leader Rebbe Schneersohn from Hider's
Warsaw in 1939 has always been a sub-
ject of speculation. This book uncovers
the true story of the rescue and the
heroic role of the part-Jewish German
soldier who led the operation.

Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret
Campaign that Denied Saddam the
Bomb, by Rodger W Claire
In 1981, a small group of Israeli pilots
destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in
one minute, 20 seconds. Claire captures
all the details of the mission, including
the compelling personal stories of the
pilots whose military daring changed
history.

Those Who Forget the Past: The
Question of Anti-Semitism, edited by
Ron Rosenbaum
Contributors such as Philip Roth,
Frank Rich, Amos Oz, Frank Rich and
others debate questions such as, "What
distinguishes anti-Semitism from anti-
Zionism" and "Is the 'new' anti-
Semitism actually new?" Ultimately all
pieces grapple with one of the most dis-
turbing and urgent questions of our
time.

Fraternity, by Bob Greene
What if you set off on a vacation trip
in search of history — and your destina-
tion was the men who had been presi-
dent? Asking, and answering, this ques-
tion took Greene across America and

American Judaism: A History, by
Jonathan Sarna
Sarna chronicles the 350-year sweep
of Jewish history in America from the
Colonial era through the present day.

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