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FICTIONPoor Richard’s LamentA Most Timely TaleTom FitzgeraldThe most ambitious project Hobblebush has ever undertaken, Poor Richard’s Lament is “not only a grand and gorgeous novel, it is also, as Fitzgerald’s Franklin might put it, a most timely one.” So says Michael Zuckerman in his equally timely Foreword.“A re-imagining of Benjamin Franklin you will not soon forget...” says Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Steve Jobs. But this is also more than a re-imagining of Franklin. It is a re-imagining of America itself. Where did the cultural legacy of Ben Franklin go wrong? We come to understand this, even as Franklin himself comes to self-realization in this book, during his “celestial trial” and during his dramatic reintroduction into 21st-century America. At the end, a better country emerges.isbn 978-0-9845921-3-5 Hardcover, 640 pages $30.00Gypsy TearsLoving a Holocaust SurvivorCora SchwartzA beautifully written and important first novel by Cora Schwartz, based on the true story of her life living with a holocaust survivor. In a magical and haunting style, Ms. Schwartz weaves an intense love story that answers the question asked so many times since her husband’s death: “What was it really like living with a holocaust survivor?” As Ms. Schwartz carries us along in a grand sweep through Yugoslavia, Russia, and Romania in the 1960s, the depth of her relationship with Rudy becomes a tragic work of art as she allows us a peek into the soul of a holocaust victim in an artful and deeply moving way.isbn 978-0-9760896-9-8 Hardcover, 256 pages $21.95603-672-4317 A publisher of fine books that will change your world • 19