<div>“Rosen artfully blends fascinating tales of the rise of the National Football League with the bloody demise of the mob.” —Bill Geist, New York Times–bestselling author In 1935, as eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines for the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served twenty-years-to-life in Sing Sing Prison, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades. Tough Luck traces two simultaneous historical developments through a single immigrant family in Depression-era New York: the rise of the National Football League led by the dynastic Chicago Bears and the demise—triggered by Meyer Luckman’s crime and initial coverup—of the Brooklyn labor rackets and Louis Lepke’s infamous organization Murder, Inc. Filled with colorful characters, it memorably evokes an era of vicious Brooklyn mobsters and undefeated Monsters of the Midway, a time when the media kept their mouths shut and the soft-spoken son of a murderer could become a beloved legend with a hidden past. “Remarkable . . . Artfully organized and deeply researched . . . This [secret] is finally being told, respectfully and stylishly.” —Chicago Tribune “This is a great and beautifully written untold story.” —Gay Talese, New York Times–bestselling author “A fascinating story of the NFL, its growth, and one of its star players. And it is more than just a sports biography.” —Illinois Times</div>

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Tough Luck

<div>“Powerful . . . [Rosen] makes us see how the Holocaust’s hidden children succeeded against the odds” in this #1 New York Times bestselling biography (Wall Street Journal). Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist. Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors. Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her family in the home of Dutch strangers before becoming a psychotherapist and key player in the creation of an international organization of hidden child survivors. In braiding the stories of three women who defied death by learning to be “such good girls,” Rosen examines a silent and silenced generation—the last living cohort of Holocaust survivors. He provides rich, memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children who, as adults, were determined to deny Hitler any more victories, and he recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown-up “hiding places” and finally brought them together. “Rosen . . . tells the story of these women and the varied community of survivors with sensitivity and genuine affection.” —Library Journal “The three women at the heart of Such Good Girls have lived remarkable lives, and Rosen has limned them with both empathy and grace.” —Daniel Orkent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition&lt;/DESC&gt; <keywords>history;biography;historical;20th century;ww2;holocaust;survivors;Polish;French; Dutch;Jewish;survival;identity;trauma;child;war;refugees;Belgium;Poland; diaspora;emigration;United States;Righteous Among the nations;Nazi Germany;hidden;religious;identities;anti-semitism</keywords> <bisacs> BIO038000 BIOGRAPHY &amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival BIO037000 BIOGRAPHY &amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish HIS043000 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust BIO006000 BIOGRAPHY &amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical </bisacs> <isbn13>9780062877994</isbn13> Don’t Call the Wolf <author json:Array='true'> Ross, Aleksandra</author> </div>

Such Good Girls

<div>A slugger struggles with an empty ballpark and a murdered teammate in this Edgar Award&ndash;winning mystery. The Providence Jewels, an American League expansion team, have been taking a beating all season. Worse, relief pitcher Rudy Furth has just suffered a beating of a more lethal kind&mdash;and been left to die in the clubhouse whirlpool among whispers of mob corruption and violently lovesick fans. When the police investigation stalls, veteran Providence center fielder Harvey Blissberg, who knew Furth as well as anyone, decides to play detective. While trying to keep his eye on the ball, and his head above water with the spunky, beautiful sports newscaster Mickey Slavin, Blissberg quietly stalks Furth&rsquo;s killer through major-league locker rooms and the dark streets of Rhode Island&rsquo;s capital city. Lots of ballplayers keep their batting averages above .300&mdash;but how many have chased a murderer at the same time? </div>

Strike Three You're Dead

<div>A late-night TV executive falls to his death, and Blissberg must crack the case before the killer has the last laughWhen Harvey Blissberg is hired by Roy Ganz, the pretentious, pint-size producer of a legendary but fading late-night network comedy show, he has no idea that he&rsquo;s about to walk right into a television tragedy. The private eye thinks he&rsquo;s doing a short, easy job by dragging a missing guest host out of a Times Square bar. The show goes well but just as the cast and crew start to celebrate, Ganz exits a twenty-fourth floor window, plunging faster than his show&rsquo;s ratings. Hastily hired by the network to conduct a discreet investigation, Blissberg slowly makes his way through the show&rsquo;s ragtag roster of writers and actors, many of who would have relished a chance to defenestrate their manipulative boss. The joke&rsquo;s on Blissberg, however, when he&rsquo;s forced to make an unexpected detour back to the early days of television. </div>

Overdrive

Saturday Night Dead

<div>Now a private investigator, Blissberg scours locker rooms and back alleys for two missing basketball starsAfter retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg hung out a shingle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a private detective with a taste for the less savory side of sports. When key players from the Boston Celtics and the Washington Bullets go AWOL, Blissberg quickly becomes the two teams&rsquo; number-one draft choice to find them. What can a born-again black forward and a white point guard whose nickname is &ldquo;Toot &rsquo;n&rsquo; Shoot&rdquo; have in common? When both of the missing players turn up dead, Harvey searches desperately for the link between them. The hunt leads him back to the city he thought he&rsquo;d left behind&mdash;Providence, Rhode Island&mdash;and an unholy deal struck years ago between two of the city&rsquo;s most powerful figures. If he doesn&rsquo;t work quickly, Blissberg may be stuck holding the ball when the final buzzer sounds. </div>

Fadeaway

<div>Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who&rsquo;s on the verge of making historyFifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls &ldquo;sad man-ism&rdquo; when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team&rsquo;s star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio&rsquo;s &ldquo;unbreakable&rdquo; fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving racist threats, such as a decapitated lawn jockey with a note reading, &ldquo;escape retribution.&rdquo; Would Blissberg mind playing bodyguard for a while? When Cooley&rsquo;s streak ends shy of DiMaggio&rsquo;s record, the threats and hate mail continue, suggesting that there&rsquo;s more at stake than preserving a white man&rsquo;s supreme achievement. Blissberg follows the trail of clues back into the past, and finds that Moss is not the first Cooley man to be persecuted. A determined psychopath is out for Cooley&rsquo;s neck, and if he has to murder a few ex-ballplayers on the way&mdash;so be it.</div>

Dead Ball

<div>For the sake of a peculiar corpse, Harvey ventures into suburbiaDuring a long-overdue phone call with his beloved older brother, Norm, Harvey Blissberg learns of a mysterious homicide in a Chicago suburb. A friend of Norm&rsquo;s was found shot in the face, but with no sign of struggle and no clues left behind. The local police are dumbfounded, so as a favor to his brother, Blissberg tries to untangle a bitter tale of real estate, bad taste, and sexual abuse.While struggling with his own fears of marriage and mortality, Blissberg soon finds himself up to his neck in overheated housewives, predatory parents, toxic psychotherapists, and the seamier side of a sleepy suburb. He&rsquo;ll have to retrace the dead man&rsquo;s steps, all the way to the scene of the crime: a luxury housing development, with a Colt .45 aimed at his own head. </div>

World of Hurt

<div>From a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, &ldquo;a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals&rdquo; (Booklist). A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl&rsquo;s ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer&rsquo;s wildest dreams. Charlie has no idea he&rsquo;s a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo&mdash;in a true story featuring &ldquo;one of the most memorable characters in recent nature writing&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;More than a touching man-beast buddy tale . . . lovingly chronicles the history of an embattled species and its importance in the American West.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly &ldquo;Moving proof of the restorative powers of man&rsquo;s relationship with nature.&rdquo; &mdash;People</div>

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Books By R. D. Rosen (8 Books)

Tough Luck

Such Good Girls

Strike Three You're Dead

Saturday Night Dead

Fadeaway

Dead Ball

World of Hurt

A Buffalo in the House

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