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Darin Strauss: Half a Life: A Memoir
11 a.m. (WB) and 1:30 p.m. (OP)
Monday, Nov. 7
Winner of the 2010 National Book
Critics Circle Award for best autobiography,
Half a Life is Darin Strauss' memoir of an
accident: He was the driver, and a 16-year-
old girl named Celine was killed. For years,
Strauss struggled with a complex collec-
tion of feelings from guilt to grief.

Melissa Fay Greene: No Biking in the
House
1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 (WB)
Melissa Fay Greene and her husband
had four children of their own — and then
they adopted five more, one from Bulgaria
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mother. Finally, Norma Herr ended up on
the street; her daughters changed their
names and cut all ties with their mother.
Years later, the women reunite.

Tom Fields-Meyer: Following Ezra:
What One Father Learned About Gumby,
Otters, Autism and Love from his
Extraordinary Son
6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 (WB)
When his son, Ezra, was diagnosed
with autism, Tom Fields-Meyer refused to
mourn but instead embraced the unique
and extraordinary soul that came into his
life.

Lucette Lagnado: The Arrogant Years:
One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth,
From Cairo To Brooklyn
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 (OP) and 10
a.m. Friday, Nov. 11 (WB)
Following the popular memoir
about her father, The Man in the White
Sharkskin Suit, journalist Lucette Lagnado
now tells her mother's story in Egypt, as
well as that of her own childhood in New
York, where Lagnado faced tremendous
challenges and found comfort from the
women in her life.

Mira Bartok: The Memory Palace
5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 (WB)
Mira Bartok and her sister were raised
by a schizophrenic, suicidal, obsessive

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Avrom Bendavid-Val: The Heavens Are
Empty
1 p.m. (OP) and 6:15 p.m. (WB) Tuesday,
Nov. 8
Before World War II, Trochenbrod was a
small Ukrainian village of Jewish farmers.
After World War II, it was all gone. Avrom
Bendavid-Val's grandfather and father
lived in Trochenbrod, which sparked the
author's interest in the now-vanished town
that served as the setting for Jonathan
Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated.

Kathy Kacer: Restitution
10 a.m. (WB) and 1 p.m. (OP)
Wednesday, Nov. 9
When Victor and Marie Reeser left
Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, they knew
their remaining possessions would be in
safe hands with Victor's partner, Alois,
who promised to take care of the family's
goods, including four valuable paintings.
But when the war ended, the Reesers
learned it wasn't going to be that easy. It

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5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 (WB)
magazine.
How can religion condemn homosexuali-
For more on Nathan Wolfe, see page 16
ty and yet advocate compassion and under-
of Red Thread's November issue, inside this
standing? Jay Michaelson takes a fresh look
week's Jewish News.
at religious doctrine and its often-misinter-
preted passages about homosexuality.
Oran B. Hesterman: Fair Food: Growing
a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for
Nathan Wolfe: The Viral Storm: The
All
Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 (WB)
7:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 (WB)
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Mary-Lou Weisman: Al Jaffee's Mad Life
11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 (WB)
It was a mad, mad, mad, mad world at
Mad magazine. And no wonder, with the
unusual life of Mad's one and only Al Jaffee,
who spent his childhood in the American
South and Lithuania. Incredible, offbeat,
unpredictable: This is the story of cartoon-
ist Al Jaffee's Mad life.

Phillip Schultz: My Dyslexia
1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 (WB)
Phillip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize
for poetry, yet he could never let go of feel-
ings of inadequacy and memories of being
called "the slow student." Then his son
was diagnosed with dyslexia, and suddenly
Schultz realized that he, too, was dyslexic. I

Steven Wick The Long Night: William L.
Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich
8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 (WB)
In the 1930s, William Shirer was head of
the CBS bureau in Berlin. He knew everyone
and saw everything, and he provided the only
American broadcast of the Nazi takeover
of Austria. Using newly uncovered papers,
Steven Wick tells the story of one journal-
ist who covered, from beginning to end, the
greatest evil of modern times.

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David King: Death in the City of Light
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 (WB)
When police came to the door, they were
overwhelmed by a horrible smell. The
home's owner had vanished. So begins
Death in the City of Light, the incredible
true story of Dr. Marcel Petiot, a charm-
ing Paris physician and a mass murderer.
For a price, he offered Jews and others the
chance to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
But those he "helped" were never seen
again.

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Charles King: Odessa: Genius and Death
in a City of Dreams
1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 (WB)
Odessa takes readers to a lost land: a
glorious, colorful world that a large Jewish
population once called home. Odessa was
the greatest port on the Black Sea, where
men from around the world came to find
fortune and adventure but also confronted
violence, fear and death.

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Jack Mayer: Life in a Jar: The Irena
Sendler Project
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 (WB)
Irena Sendler was a Polish-Catholic
social worker who organized a rescue net-
work to save 2,500 Jewish children during
the Holocaust. Her story was virtually for-
gotten until three high school girls in rural
Kansas began work on a history project.
Hear a discussion with author Jack Mayer
and invited guests Norman Conard, Kansas
history teacher; Rene Lichtman, co-chair,
Hidden Children and Child Survivors
of Michigan, and vice president, World
Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the
Holocaust and Descendants; and Renata
Zajdman, a survivor saved by Irena Sendler.

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Susanna Piontek: Have We Met
Before? And Other Stories
3 p.m. (WB) and 7:30 p.m. (OP)
Wednesday, Nov. 9
A native of Poland, Susanna
Piontek writes witty and perceptive
short stories — first published in
German — that are filled with sur-
prises and compassion.
For more on Piontek and husband
Wayne State University Professor
Emeritus Dr. Guy Stern, currently
the director of the Harry and Wanda
Zekelman International Institute
of the Righteous at the Holocaust
Memorial Center in Farmington
Hills, see page 14.

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Dr. Barry Franklin: Prevent, Halt &
Reverse Heart Disease: 109 Things You
Can Do
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 (WB)
Cardiovascular disease affects half the
U.S. population. Is this inevitable, or is it
possible to really do something about it?
Beaumont Hospital's Dr. Barry Franklin
provides new and simple ideas to help
fight America's leading killer.

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we eat, how food is grown, packaged,
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Rebecca Rosen: Spirited: Connect to the
Guides All Around You
7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 (WB-BC)
Psychic to the stars, including Courtney
Cox and Jennifer Aniston, Rebecca Rosen
also is a best-selling author and regular
contributor to Oprah Winfrey's 0 Magazine.
In her book, Rosen teaches others how to
communicate with deceased family and
loved ones and how to tap into their own
unconscious and find happiness.
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