Are you searching for a brand new learn for your self or a beloved one? As Girls’s Historical past Month attracts to a detailed, we needed to share these newest releases from 4 Arizona-based Jewish authors.
Linda Pressman’s newest e-book, “Jewish Ladies Gone Wild.”
Lisa Pressman, writer of “Jewish Ladies Gone Wild”
Scottsdale resident Lisa Pressman simply launched her second novel, “Jewish Ladies Gone Wild.” Pressman is a full-time writer and teacher who teaches “Life Tales” via the town of Scottsdale and “Memoir By a Jewish Lens” at places all through the native Jewish neighborhood.
She described her e-book as “A coming-of-age story that’s humorous, tragic and common. I recreate the world of the Nineteen Seventies – teenage angst, silent crushes from afar and an everlasting pull towards residence, wherever that’s.
“My e-book is humorous and tragic. It’s meant to evoke the locations I grew up and let people who find themselves gone reside on the web page once more,” Pressman continued. “[In the book] I can by no means escape the truth that I’m a toddler of two Holocaust survivors rising up in a world that was denied to them. There’s at all times the dichotomy in my books of me rising up protected sufficient to declare my Jewishness out loud and my mother and father hiding or camouflaging it from the world.”
Her first e-book, “Wanting Up: A Memoir of Sisters, Survivors, and Skokie,” tells a narrative of rising up with mother and father who’re survivors and following the struggle moved to Skokie, a northern suburb of Chicago. “Wanting Up” gained the grand prize within the twentieth annual Writers Digest contest. It’s within the everlasting collections at Yad Vashem, the Nationwide Library of Israel and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Pressman is internet hosting a meet-the-author and e-book launch occasion on the Martin Pear Jewish Group Middle at 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd. in Scottsdale on Sunday, April 3, from 2-3:30 p.m. For extra data, go to lindajpressman.com.
Deena Goldstein’s e-book “OK, Little Chicken,”
Deena Goldstein, writer of “OK, Little Chicken”
Former comedienne and multimedia artist, Scottsdale resident Deena Goldstein is the writer of “OK, Little Chicken,” which she described as “an irreverent, inspiring and shaggy dog story of an unforgettable father-daughter connection, advised via voicemails, letters, cantankerous household dinners, anecdotes, wry banter and numerous love. Readers fly with Little Chicken as she navigates the best loss in her life with the reward of humor from her father.”
Goldstein describes her father as a “bigger-than-life, humorous man – a cowboy, snappy dresser and he might be stern as nicely,” The youngest of three, she shared that every little one had a unique relationship with their father. “Mine was distinctive as I pushed previous his stern and gruff [exterior] and found an unimaginable heat and finest buddy,” she shared.
She admits that she had at all times been capable of make her father snicker and really feel good and was tasked with navigating new waters when confronted along with her father’s terminal prognosis and imminent dying – all in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and his isolation in a gaggle residence.
“I needed to discover ways to be OK with what was taking place, and I used the reward of humor from my father to cope with shedding him and transferring ahead,” she continues. “I would like readers to snicker, really feel impressed and know that humor performs an essential position in coping via unthinkable circumstances.”
For extra data, go to oklittlebird.com.
The quilt of Judy E. Laufer’s newest kids’s e-book, “I Respectfully Disagree.”
Judy Egett Laufer, writer of “I Respectfully Disagree”
Paradise Valley resident Judy Egett Laufer is something however new to writing widespread books for kids and younger adults. Her newest title, “I Respectfully Disagree,” is her eighth e-book and a part of the Gigglyville collection for younger kids and their households. It’s a collection of tales that helps promote dialogue in households about numerous social and emotional points as kids be taught and develop.
“This e-book is a narrative about respecting others and their opinions,” Laufer mentioned. “We used to reside in a world the place we might have a distinction of opinion with our mates. [This is] a really present subject and social dilemma that must be understood and addressed. My hope is that the subsequent era will do higher, and I’m providing them some language which will assist.
“I actually hope my e-book will assist begin discussions about respect and everybody’s proper to having their opinion,” she added. “The hope is that individuals gained’t be afraid to share their opinion for worry of being ‘unfriended.’”
A full-time writer, writer and speaker, Laufer’s books can be found via Little Egg Publishing Firm. For extra data, go to littleeggpublishing.com or Amazon beneath her pen title, J.E. Laufer.
Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford’s e-book in regards to the first Latino Governor of Arizona, “Raulito.”
Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford, writer of “RAULITO – The First Latino Governor of Arizona”
A Tucson resident of 34 years, Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford is a bilingual writer, editor, translator, speaker, presenter and retired trainer.
She was born on the Arizona-Sonora border to a pioneering Jewish household. “I grew up talking primarily two languages – English and Spanish, concurrently and fluently – and discovered some Yiddish alongside the best way. I then studied French for six years in highschool and school,” Rivera-Ashford defined. “I additionally embraced the Mexican and Indigenous cultures as the entire ‘nanas’ in my life (who have been all Mexican, apart from my Jewish nana) supplied unconditional love and assist all through my childhood.”
After she married Daniel Rivera Ashford 50 years in the past, her Latina and Catholic mother-in-law continued the love, assist and teachings that she now shares in her tales and life.
Her newly launched e-book, “RAULITO – The First Latino Governor of Arizona,” is a bilingual flipbook for intermediate readers and recounts the life story of the late Raúl H. Castro, who was elected the primary Mexican American governor of Arizona in 1974. “His story has left us a legacy, one from which all can be taught to include in their very own lives,” Rivera-Ashford mentioned.
Rivera-Ashford is the writer of a number of different bilingual titles meant to teach kids and adults alike which have offered greater than 150,000 copies. She co-wrote, alongside along with her son, Aaron Rivera-Ashford, a companion e-book for the Disney/Pixar film “Coco” referred to as “Miguel and the Wonderful Alebrijes.” For extra data, go to butterflyheartbooks.com. JN
Michelle Talsma Everson is a contract author, editor and PR advisor in Phoenix.