Two young people, one white and one deemed black, products of their environment, separated by the rigid, inhumane caste system of the Jim Crow South, meet by chance, bond, and begin a forbidden relationship which nurtures and grows, even when they attempt to terminate it, knowing the potential consequences if they are discovered. As they secretly flaunt the laws and traditions of the day, they aggressively pursue their individual ambitions to escape the equally binding economic shackles. As their commitment to each other becomes stronger, they become bolder, and challenge the status quo in ways that cannot be ignored by the power structure. Their actions coupled with fate trigger unforeseen events with tragic consequences.

It was a time of extreme peril. The Great Depression was winding down and World War ll was starting. The author witnessed the Greatest Generation first hand as he saw many young men--including his older brother--leave town and go off to war. On the home front, there developed a closeness and support of family, friends and neighbors, not seen before or since. Through good and bad times, the towns young boys hiked, fished, hunted and trapped in the streams, fields, forests and mountains surrounding their homes. It was truly an era that will never be again.

Victoria, a time traveler must find someone to send back to the 14th century to retrieve an amulet without which she cannot survive. She finds Laura, a computer programmer who has been working on a virtual reality program that takes place in a 14th century castle. With no time to really prepare her Victoria sends Laura back. Here she encounters refugees from the plague and an omnipotent Lord who wants to marry her off. The book brings to life a medieval world and the people in it where there are no real clocks, no privacy and the concept of human rights is unknown. To Laura the world around her is as alien as life would be on a distant star. Constantly on her guard she can only hope that Victoria realizes her plight and send help before it's too late!

Another Time, Another Place is about an ordinary man, who, through a skydiving accident, is transported back in time and finds himself in 1916. He doesn't know quite how he got there or how to get back to his own time. So he must make the most of his situation. He arrives there less than one year before the United States enters the war. He meets several soon-to-be great men of early aviation. With the knowledge of late twentieth century technology, he persuades them to build a lightweight engine and a small fighter plane to help the United States and the Allies win the war sooner. He meets Elizabeth Stuart, and events make Hugh Ericson uncertain about his future. He doesn't know if he will stay and live out his life there or whether he will return to his time, even if the opportunity arises. He doesn't get the chance!

In the fifties, life in Sicily was very grim for the poor, and Pino’s family was impoverished. As a young man, he falls in love with Mariella, who comes from a rich family, and Pino learns that he can’t have things his way. Only pain and anger remain when they are separated. She is married against her will and he joins the army without being able to see her again. Time goes by and Pino embarks on a career in the hotel and restaurant business owned by the family of his army buddy Piero. Piero’s sister, Francesca, falls in love with Pino and tells him so, but he has still Mariella on his mind. He and Francesca take over a hotel in Kenya and their love blooms as they make a success of their hard work. After Francesca is killed in a car accident, Pino retires. He receives a call one day from Mariella, who is being harassed by local thugs. He travels to help her and discovers that Mariella’s oldest son is his own. Will Pino, Mariella, and their child be able to turn back the clock to Another Time . . . Another Place?

Another Time, Another Place is a fantasy that also delivers a message to a society that has strayed. Stephanie, expecting a simple life of home and hearth, marries a man who finds more pleasure in ambitious, expensive undertakings. Once savoring success, he is driven to ever more ambitious and expensive ventures. The loss of their son is a turning point in her life. Stephanie goes off alone to the Another Time resort, a charming place in the ambiance of days gone by, back when the world moved at a slower pace, when there were no cars, planes or televisions. In an unusual occurrence, she follows what she believes to be her destiny and leaves this world to enter one of another dimension where she finds happiness.

Phoebe Fox is desperately unhappy when she flunks her audition at the School of American Ballet in New York, but agrees to help her great-aunt Weezy drive from Santa Fe to Denver. When they stop at a hot springs resort she meets Cody Moon, a blue-eyed charmer who works there, and they fall deeply in love and share five blissful days. But Cody has a sister, Wynonna, who raised him and has no intention of giving him up. Phoebe realizes it's hopeless, and as they continue on to Denver, Weezy tells her of her own lost love during World War Two with a young soldier named Mickey McGuire, and why she's still haunted by the fact that she never knew what happened to him. Was he killed in action, or caught and tortured by the Nazis? In Denver they meet Franny, Phoebe's older sister, who has left her doctor husband and is living with a cook, with whom she's just had a baby. They also spend time with Weezy's older sister, Jenna, who resents the fact that her once poor-as-a-church-mouse baby sister is now a woman of means, and in the course of time a long-kept family secret is finally revealed. Also a mysterious white rose found on her pillow brings Weezy an unexpected peace, and on the ride home they run into Cody again. A mesmerizing tale of two loves, two generations apart, yet eerily similar in their hopes and intensity.

A beautifully written account of an idyllic childhood. Told in the first person against the milieu of show business, bounds of freedom and family idiosyncrasies. If only things were so straight forward. Instead this recount of the lifes transitions is juxtaposed against the backdrop of the second world war, bringing into question a sense of identity, belonging and loyalties. The author cleverly takes the reader along a cathartic journey of making sense of the past . Are we tied up and restricted by our history or do these events just pave the way towards what we are able to achieve?

The Brownsville/East New York neighborhood of the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s is now but an almost faded memory, a “time warp” as it were. Today it is a neighborhood that has been eviscerated and exists only as a geographic locale. Through the collective memories of the famous and the not-so-famous, Jerry Chatanow and Bernie Schwartz have elicited and chronicled a treasure trove of anecdotes and remembrances that bring back to life a once vibrant and exhilarating neighborhood. The authors vividly transport the reader back to a bygone era of street games, egg creams, mello rolls and knishes, patriotism at the home front, plush movie palaces, the Dodgers, the Knicks, boxing venues, old time radio and the neighborhood settlement houses with its open doors waiting to welcome the teeming masses. Anyone from small town or big city who was ever enriched by the nurturing warmth, the loyalties and camaraderie of a “neighborhood” will enjoy this major contribution to the oral history of America. This is a story told within the context of this country’s transformation from “The Great Depression” to World War Two to “Baby Boomer” prosperity. The authors were both observers of and participants in what in retrospect proved to be a triumphant generation.