I thought you might find some interest in other books I’ve written over the years. They can be purchased through the used book sections at Amazon and other online booksellers. Just type my full name into the author part or type in the book title at Amazon and there will be lots of choices.

Social Issues Books

Growing Up Empty is an expose of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. In 1981, President Reagan incongruously announced to the world that there were no hungry souls in the richest nation in the world, that poverty had been virtually wiped out. Twenty years after her landmark book on hunger, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty, she returned to see how things had improved and discovered that it was all the same. As she tracked this hidden political and emotional battle, she was shocked to find that hunger is deeper and wider than she could have imagined, that it has reached epic proportions. It is running rampant through urban, rural and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians, Jews and nonbelievers alike. And it is getting worse. Schwartz-Noble portrays an unforgettable reality of human suffering that need not exist.

For the first time since Robert Kennedy traveled the muddy back roads of Mississippi and the war on poverty rose and fell, starvation in America is documented. Schwartz-Noble has retraced Kennedy’s steps and found that marasmus and kwashiorkor, the most extreme diseases of protein and calorie deficiency, still exist in the United States today. There are 30 million American’s living below the poverty line and groveling for food, and their number is increasing. Schwartz-Noble spent seven years traveling across the country and speaking to the hungry in rural shacks, urban ghettos, on Indian reservations and in previously middleclass homes. Her book is their story told in their own words. But it is also the story of federal corruption and abuse. The government turns countless numbers of eligible people away from existing food programs, it allows millions of infants to be born malnourished, and it seems to be oblivious to the citizens who are starving and dying.

True Crime Books

Main Line, Pennsylvania knew about murder, but not next door, not in the pleasant Philadelphia suburbs where Susan Reinert lived and worked, not murder like this. A gentle, unassuming English teacher at one of America’s finest public high schools, Susan was found naked, bound, and abused in the trunk of her car. Her children, Karen and Michael had disappeared. For seven years , dozens of state troopers, FBI agents, and prosecutors searched for the bodies of the children, now presumed dead, and for the men who had murdered them. Found and prosecuted, two respected men of the community, William Bradfield, engaged to Susan and the English Department head at Upper Merion High and Dr. Jay Smith, principal at Upper Merion, were convicted and sent to prison. This is a riveting and terrifying book about three murders that shattered the basic tenets upon which every community depends for survival.

Shortly before dawn on November 5, 1989, forty-two year old, Betty Broderick entered her ex-husband’s home and shot the powerful lawyer and his young bride as they lay in bed. Broderick’s subsequent murder trial which ended up in a hung jury inspired national headlines and a highly rated TV movie. Although a 1991 retrial resulted in a conviction on two counts of second-degree murder, the jury again violently disagreed over whether Betty Broderick had committed a crime of passion or an act of cold-blooded murder. Even now, despite years of media attention, few people know the real facts behind her harrowing ordeal. This book is more than the chronicle of a toxic divorce or an American dream that self-destructed. It is every woman’s ultimate nightmare, evoking primal emotions from greed and passion to rage to the hunger of redemption.

Women's Issues Books

Mary Beth Whitehead never expected to become a household name and media figure when she decided to help a childless couple by signing a surrogacy contract. But when Mary Beth realized that she could not give her baby away and refused to do so, she literally became an object of public contempt. But there is another side of the story. In her own words, Mary Beth reveals the truth about the Baby M case. If you joined in the public perception of her, this book will challenge your beliefs and may well change your mind. Her story is difficult to put down and impossible to forget.

The whole world is familiar with the harrowing story of Ernest and Regina Twigg, grieving parents of a mortally ill daughter. They discovered shortly before her death that she had been switched with their own healthy newborn in a small Florida hospital nine years earlier. Having searched out their birth child, the Twiggs battled to win custody of her from Bob Mays, the single parent who claimed that, regardless of biology, the Twigg’s effort to separate him from his beloved little girl, Kimberly, was cruel and unethical. Utterly gripping as human drama, this pioneering work not only seeks to correct the law’s and media’s misconceptions but also to give Regina, Ernest and Kimberly that there may someday be a happy ending.

Fiction

The Journey takes place during the last hours of an elderly woman’s life. As she drifts in and out of consciousness, she relives a twenty-seven year search for her lost lover. Moving between past and present and crossing into the afterworld, the novel recreates in simple, lyrical prose a stunning love affair between two middle-aged, married people. When David Hamilton, a fifty-one year old artist and loner spots Laura Williams, a quietly desperate forty year old wife and mother, a connection is made that will haunt them both forever. The Journey explores the boundaries of erotic love, spiritual love, maternal love, guilt, empathy and responsibility. It touches on the struggle between sexuality, aging and illness, enlarging our understanding of the body’s hunger for continuance and connection. It reveals a passion so strong that it fuses the souls of a man and woman and carries them beyond life.

You Are on the OTHER BOOKS Page