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Mother and Me
"In 1939," Julian Padowicz says, "I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing Jews to the Gestapo. As it happened, I was a Jew myself, and I was seven years old." Julian's mother was a Warsaw socialite who had no interest in child-rearing. She turned her son over completely to his governess, a good Catholic, named Kiki, whom he loved with all his heart. Kiki was deeply worried about Julian's immortal soul, explaining that he could go to Heaven only if he became a Catholic. When bombs began to fall on Warsaw, Julian's world crumbled. His beloved Kiki returned to her family in Lodz; Julian's stepfather joined the Polish army, and the grief...
Never Been This Old Before: A Love Story
In this most recent sequel to his award-winning memoir, "Mother and Me-Escape from Warsaw 1939," Julian Padowicz presents the adult years of his continuing struggle to become his own person, in the face of his domineering mother's responses to the personal challenges created by the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Three previous memoirs covered his childhood and adolescence as Julian and his courageous and creative mother struggle to survive WWII and escape to America-in this one, adult Julian, educated now in the United States, struggles to free himself of the suffocating pall his celebrated but driven and self-centered mother has laid over his life. Growing up in a venerable boarding school and the homes of relatives, while his mother pursues social objectives, Julian searches for companionship, love, and a career, achieving them eventually, after a series of missteps and misadventures.
A Ship in the Harbor
"Mother and Me recount a chilling journey during the war." A story of excape from the Nazis during WWII continues. Engrossing and vivid prose
Loves of Yulian
Loves of Yulian is the poignant conclusion to the three-part memoir recounting the author’s harrowing WWII escape from occupied Poland to America. After fleeing over the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary, eight-year-old Yulian and his resourceful but self-involved mother, Barbara, are on board a ship to Rio de Janeiro to await their turn for immigration to the United States. A former Warsaw socialite, Barbara has no marketable skills, only her looks, wits and courage. Paying their way by selling the diamonds she had concealed in her clothing, they land in Brazil with only the diamond engagement ring on her finger. Somehow, it must finance both their stay and eventual passage to New York.Yu...
When the Diamonds Were Gone
After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to write a memoir and regain her former social position. Julian just wants to fit his war-damaged psyche into the American way of life. As Barbara climbs her social ladder, she succeeds in opening for herself doors that few manage to open. In the process, she slams in Julian's face the very doors that other parents struggle to open for their children.
Alexander's Part-time Band
When Kip's boarding school roommate of fifty years ago, Alex Rappaport, shows up friendless and homeless on their doorstep, and Kip and Amanda take him in. Alex brings back childhood memories better left forgotten. But Alex also finds a surprise in the form of an old flame and a grandson he had no idea he had.
Mrs. Parsley Makes a Delivery and Other Stories
By the bestselling author of "Escaping the Holocaust" Julian Padowicz from Scholastic Books comes a wonderful, whimsical tale of a good witch and her pet cat Laptop! Mrs. Parsley is a good-witch who, with the help of her magical cat, Laptop, substitutes for the likes of Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, and the various Fairy Godmothers, when they have more work than they can handle. However, since she does not have the specialized magic powers that they possess, she is challenged to find creative ways to carry out these duties. Stories included in this collection: Mrs. Parsley Makes a Delivery Mrs. Parsley Helps the Easter Bunny Mrs. Parsley Helps Out on Halloween Mrs. Parsley Bends the Rules on Thanksgiving Mrs. Parsley Helps Santa Out Mrs. Parsley Drops in on the Hardings Mrs. Parsley and the Dog Without a Name Mrs. Parsley Talks with Todd Mrs. Parsley Crashes a Party Mrs. Parsley Has a Great Grandchild Mrs. Parsley Takes a Vacation Mrs. Parsley Repays an Old Debt Mrs. Parsley, We Don't Do Miracles
A Ship in the Harbor
In this powerful and absorbing sequel to Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Autobiography 2006), the author recalls his flight from the Nazis in Hungary as an 8-year-old boy with his resourceful and determined mother, Barbara.
Writer's Block
A sensational new novel from the award-winning author and filmmaker Julian Padowicz. From his miserable childhood to his mediocre career as a college professor, fate had not been kind, or even terribly fair, to "Kip" Kippur. But Kip's luck changes when he inherits a house in a small coastal village in Massachusetts. He chucks his previous life and moves there to write the Great American Novel—a thinly disguised autobiography. As Kip struggles to transmute a leaden life into golden fiction, he finds himself alone and rudderless in a strange community. He stumbles into a mysterious murder, an awkward romance, a married lady's hot tub, an unusual proposal of marriage—and an invitation to sail to Florida, during storm season, in a sailboat of questionable seaworthiness, with an autocratic captain and a homicidal crewmate. But Writer's Block is more than just the tale of a late-life crisis gone terribly awry. It's also an intriguing portrait of a small town and the complex people who inhabit it. It will keep you riveted all the way to its crashing conclusion.
A Scandal in Venice
Kip and Amanda, sixty-ish protagonists from previous adventures, continue their humorously dysfunctional relationship as Kip is asked to be a father figure to a troubled fourteen-year-old and plans to spend a summer of male bonding under sail, while Amanda decides to reconcile her husband with his memory of his overbearing, non-nurturing, departed mother. Of course, neither plan works out as expected, but their failures will put their marriage on the line.
