My Books Pimp My Walker
Haiku is an age-old art form, and in Pimp My Walker, Mike Slosberg has pulled the rug out from under it and turned it into an art form for old age – or, at least aging. You may not look at aging the same way again; and if you do, it’s probably only because you’ve already forgotten what you saw in the first place. Old age really sucks, and one has to be philosophical and poetic to survive. Humor is the only defense – except for copious amounts of surgery that few can afford. Humor is the alchemy that can magically turn tragedy into comedy. Pimp My Walker is brimming with dozens of Haiku poems that celebrate the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with hilariously appropriate illustrations.  A Novel The war has reached its final, desperate hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers execute a daring plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds. Sixty years later, in a local strip mall near West Palm Beach, Florida, Moe Green, a retired octogenarian seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor, at the end of the Second World War. But when the stamp’s existence surfaces on the Internet, the killings begin. THE HITLER ERROR is a fast-paced yarn that transports the reader on a breathtaking ride, filled with twists and turns. The action ricochets rapidly between New York, Florida, London, Israel and France, as Jake Green, the old man’s son, is sucked into the vortex of an international scheme to locate the stolen diamonds. The cast of characters include an elusive and ruthless assassin, an ex-Nazi general whose real identity has long ago been erased, and a beautiful Israeli spy. The vivid characters and stomach-churning plot will keep you awake and guessing. And just when you think the mystery’s been solved, you’ll be off on another path of intrigue.  THE AUGUST STRANGERS
(a novel) Mike and Mandy August were a happy couple. They married, bought a house, and eventually gave birth. To a lie! A lie so well guarded, they came to embrace it themselves. Now they, along with their two terrific kids, live in a big white colonial with a tennis court and a mortgage, in Westport, Connecticut. Suddenly, and without warning, it all starts to fall apart. The lie they’ve buried for more than a dozen years, suddenly surfaces to haunt them in ways they never could have imagined. What are they trying to hide? And whom must they try to protect? The search for answers to these questions launches Mike August on a desperate and dangerous cross country odyssey. And the incredible scheme he devises to save his family makes up the plot of this gripping novel. THE AUGUST STRANGERS is a sensitive and exciting story of what can happen to a decent family when tragedy strikes, forcing secrets to be revealed, and ordinary lives to be peeled apart, for all the world to see. It is a story that will take you beyond its words, and into the lives of its sharply drawn characters. So settle into your favorite chair, and find out who the August strangers are, and what their overpowering secret might be. |
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