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- JD Solomon
Saturday, September 13th - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- Meet Westfield resident JD Solomon author
of The Tinen Killings on Saturday,
September 13, 2008 from 2-4 PM. In April,
1898 as America heads for war with Spain,
Pat Tinen, an aging Civil War officer and a
Union hero at Gettysburg, is sleepwalking
through old age at the National Soldiers'
Home in Virginia. Then Tinen's son, a
failed Klondike prospector, is murdered
after a clumsy attempt to blackmail a
powerful financier. Conducting the
investigation is Sheriff Jed Roberts, the
son of a Confederate officer killed in
Pickett's Charge. Roberts has no interest
in the past. He wants to run for Congress,
but he knows he must solve this brutal
crime first. Meanwhile, the financier has
his own troubles, caused by decades of
double-dealing. Out of options, he turns
once again to a dark business he learned
from his grandfather years ago: the buying
and selling of human beings. Sheriff
Roberts enlists Tinen's help in tracing the
crime to Philadelphia, where he gets
unexpected aid from the major's estranged
daughter. There they will come to terms
with the desperate financier, who has
ordered his allies to stop the
investigation at all costs.
JD Solomon is an independent marketing
consultant and business writer. He is also
the co-author, with his father, of
Overcoming Macular Degeneration: A Guide
to Seeing Beyond the Clouds (Avon,
2000). JD and his wife, Maureen Tinen, live
in Westfield with their two children, Jesse
and Eric.
- Dave White
Saturday, September 20th - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- Meet New Jersey resident Dave White author
of The Evil That Men Do on
September 20, 2008 from 2-4 PM. Stripped of
his private investigator’s license and
slumming it as a night security guard at a
Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne
thinks he’s finally hit rock bottom. Then
the bottom really falls out: The sister he
hasn’t seen in years shows up, needing
help.
Turns out Donne’s Alzheimer’s-stricken
mother has begun hinting at long-buried
family secrets from her hospital bed,
suggesting a sinister–even murderous–past.
Meanwhile, Donne’s relatives are suddenly
being greeted by blackmail, car bombs, and
bullets to the back of the skull.
All Donne wants is to disappear–preferably
into a nice frosty pint glass–but he soon
realizes that his only chance at saving his
family, and himself, is by solving a
mystery more than sixty years old. Now he
needs to figure out how a hit man, crooked
cops, corrupt politics, a kidnapping, and
the city of Bayonne all fit together. He’ll
discover that old family secrets still have
the power to kill in this razor-sharp PI
story that makes classic noir new again.
Dave’s previous book When One Man
Dies earned him a starred review in
Publishers Weekly. He is a winner, as well
as a multiple-time nominee of the Derringer
Award for best short story and was
shortlisted for storySouth's Million
Writers Award in 2005. He has contributed
to many
anthologies and collections, including
The Adventure of the Missing Detective
and Damn Near Dead.
- Edwin Rausch
Saturday, September 27th - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- Meet Cranford resident Edwin Rausch, author
of Planning, Common Sense, and Superior
Performance on Saturday, September 27,
2008 from 2-4 PM. This book is intended to
help enhance common sense which is the
combination of intuitive decision making
and critical thinking skills. Common sense
and with it the ability to make sound
decisions intuitively with minimum thought
is vastly better for an adult than for a
teenager. Experience and learning that
translates itself into better judgment and
reasoning ability is what accounts for this
change as we mature. More precisely, new
knowledge can lead to thought habits that
become so solid that hardly a moment has to
be spent on decisions to which they apply.
That is how common sense and judgment
mature.
Practicing the relatively simple formula
that this book offers and developing the
habit of applying it
regularly can bring a quantum step toward a
higher level of common sense in making work
decisions as well as for personal ones.
Erwin Rausch is retired president of
Didactic Systems, Inc., Cranford, NJ,
publishers and consultants on education and
training. Most of his many books articles
and simulation games focus on improving
decision making at home and at work, and on
skills for management, leadership and
selling, including effective settlement of
disputes and controversies. He has been
active in mediation in Union County courts
and as arbitrator for the American
Arbitration Association.
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