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A Cherished Heritage

By: REVA SPIRO LUXENBERG

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This is a saga of an unusual family that takes place from the late 1800s through 1930. The author fictionalized the stories that her mother told her about her family’s life. The Kamensky family flees the destruction and wreckage they suffered in Kovno, Lithuania, to emigrate to the United States. Each child in the family grows up in the New World following different paths. History is incorporated in the story of their lives. Moishe changes his name to Morris and goes on to become a millionaire. He marries Annette, the last child of sixteen siblings, who has been raised by wealthy adoptive parents who rescued her from poverty. Morris loses his fortune in the Great Depression. His life comes to an end quite unexpectedly in a tragic way. Ida changes her name to Ada and remains an ‘old maid’ until Ben comes along. She gives birth to Reva and lives until the age of 104.

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1984577751

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9781984577757

Grand Army Plaza

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Grand Army Plaza

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

GRAND ARMY PLAZA By Reva Spiro Luxenberg Jamal Holden, an eleven year-old black boy, tries to cope with the death of his mother as he resumes his life in the home of a compassionate Jewish widow. Jamal Holden, an outstanding present day childrens writer, is squeamish about his past. But when Mamie Carmichael interviews him on television she presses for the truth, and Jamal reveals what happened in his eleventh year. It was quite a year, he says. Plunged into a nightmare of despair after his mother dies, Jamal faces a clash of cultures when his Jewish neighbor, pitying the eleven year-old orphan, takes him into her home. GRAND ARMY PLAZA deals with the stormy and loving relationship between a Jewish widow, Chaya Bloom, and Jamal Holden who has to adapt to a lifestyle that he had no idea existed. Its gefilte fish versus pork and beans. Its no television in the home, no bread on Passover, and matzo that tastes like cardboard. Jamal and Chaya encounter prejudice coming at them from all sides-- her neighbors who ask them to move--her daughter who advises her mother to let the boy fend for himselfblack and white children who want to see a black kid live with black folks. Chaya introduces the depressed child to the beauty of books in the main library of Brooklyn. She hopes that the Grand Army Plaza library will eventually fill a void in Jamals life, helping him to grow and heal. Meanwhile the child remains traumatized by the murder of his father when he was five, and in attempt to capture the killer he agrees to assist detectives by exposing himself to danger. This causes Chaya a great deal of anxiety. Both Jamal and Chaya struggle with the question of whether the best place for him is with black professional adoptive parents or in the home where Orthodox Jewish laws reign. This book deals with a cultural clash that apparently defies resolution.

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1462843743

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9781462843749

Murder at the Second Lily Pond

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Murder at the Second Lily Pond

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Murder at the Second Lily Pond is an entertaining read on a coast-to-coast flight. Sadie Weinstein, cute, zany, and the most unlikely sleuth imaginable gets a call in her grocery in Brooklyn from her son, Jeffrey, a student at Oxford, that he has been arrested for the murder of his archaeology don. After she shlepps to Oxford, along with her husband, Nathan, to free her son, she gets involved in a flirtation with Sir Donald Ward, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, is accused of murder, adopts a cat she names Inspector Ebony, and sets a fire, all in the name of the investigative process.

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1469755602

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The Cereal Killer

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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The Cereal Killer

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Sadie Weinstein, wife and joint owner with her husband, Nathan, of Weinsteins Grocery, is a wacky amateur defective detective modeling herself after Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She enlists the help of the Cereal Killer Squad in her quest to aid the police capture the infamous Cereal Killer who murders dope pushers and sprinkles cereal on their bodies. Nathan objects to the squad of two prostitutes, a guidance counselor, an aunt of a victim, and an Indian psychic, but zany Sadie doesnt heed his warning. Her persistent sleuthing fails to uncover a single clue until she comes face to face with the Cereal Killer who finally loses his appetite for cereal and murder.

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1463437579

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9781463437572

A Flickering Flame

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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A Flickering Flame

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

A FLICKERING FLAME is a compelling tale about Jeffrey Shulman, a brilliant pathological liar, an emotionally scarred man with a rare condition named by psychiatrists as Pseudologia fantastica. It is an engrossing chronicle of his life, from his infancy when he was abused, to when he becomes a convincing impostor, to a time when his wife attempts to murder him with a .357 magnum aimed at his chest, and his subsequent struggle to survive and get custody of his children.

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1491871156

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An Old Lady’S Confessions

Tips for Senior Women

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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An Old Lady’S Confessions

Tips for Senior Women

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

The author is a senior citizen who has the desire to share some of her experiences and practical, down-to-earth learning with other mature women. The book covers relationships with children and husbands and advice about mind and body that includes senior moments, food, clothes, skin, and care of nails and hair. The author talks about weight, interests, finance, cleaning, medical and age discrimination, and housing and winds up with hints for making travel easier and more pleasurable. Mrs. Luxenberg hopes that older women will benefit from her suggestions.

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1543430694

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The Bumbling Bigamist

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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The Bumbling Bigamist

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

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Sadie Weinstein runs a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn in 1969 with her husband, Nathan. A quirky amateur detective, she persists in solving a murder that takes place when she is present at a home in Staten Island. The murdered victim is a bigamist who had two wives, and possibly more, in different far-removed locations. She tracks down suspects from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and as far away as Biloxi, Mississippi. Sadie is a suspect herself and must solve the mystery to clear her name. Nathan warns her constantly not to stick her neck out, but she is undeterred. Her charming pickle-eating customer and psychic Rhajmah has revealing visions. The excitement mounts in Biloxi during the savage onslaught of Hurricane Camille. The story involves anguish, but Sadies antics and repartees lighten tension. This is a gripping Sadie Weinstein mystery, Luxenbergs fourth.

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1543464394

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An Old Lady’s Prompts

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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An Old Lady’s Prompts

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

This book affords enough space for you to answer the 200 stimulating prompts and also keep a succinct journal. Have you ever given a thought to how a dog is feeling on a certain day? What about your feelings about marriage? Has it occurred to you to write a story about your best ever vacation? The book’s prompts will get your creative juices flowing. The challenging exercises will benefit your brain’s neuroplasticity. One day in the future your descendants will discover your book written in your handwriting and chock full of wisdom, and they’ll be delighted to learn about their interesting forbear.

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1796076708

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Exodus According to Methuselah

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Exodus According to Methuselah

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Methuselah, the recording angel of history, is correcting the mistakes in Exodus that the dyslexic and nearsighted scribe who copied the Bible first made. For instance, Moses’s mother takes an entire month to make the basket for the baby since Macy’s has not yet come into existence. The infant’s sister, Miriam, places the basket in the bulrushes of Nile to save the Hebrew baby from being killed. Pharaoh’s daughter, who has severe psoriasis, rescues the infant and raises him in the palace. When Moses is ten, he is taught how to box. At the age of sixteen, he learns how to drive a chariot. That gives him the inspiration to initiate chariot races when he’s seventeen—long before the Roman ones as depicted in Ben-Hur. Moses is placed in an anger management class that he hates. He becomes an unquestionably great leader but never fully controls his temper for the rest of his eventful life.

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1796034371

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Curl up and Die

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: REVA SPIRO LUXENBERG

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Curl up and Die

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: REVA SPIRO LUXENBERG

After Reva Spiro Luxenberg retired as a psychiatric social worker she began a second career as a writer with three cozy mysteries starring her favorite protagonist, Sadie Weinstein. Shes written a childrens book that she illustrated, an anthology of short stories, two dramas, a non-fiction book, and seven screenplays. Playing Scrabble helps her relax as does her class in ceramics.

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An Old Lady’S Writing Tips

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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An Old Lady’S Writing Tips

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

This octogenarian author has followed up her last book, An Old Ladys Confessions, with an old lady sequel in which she shares her writing experience with aspiring writers. The book covers tools, space, health, planning, working habits, and writing tips. She gives advice on writing novels, mysteries, and short stories. She emphasizes research, writing group involvement, and the necessity of emotional support. Contests, agents, and self-publishing are covered. She concludes with the meaning of success in writing. In answers to questions about the sources of her inspiration, she reveals several secrets.

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1984526510

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Recipe for Love

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Recipe for Love

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Emotionally alienated from her parents but living in their home, Sara Solomon is helped in therapy. She gains the strength to move from Tampa, Florida, to Palm Oasis on the east coast where her landlady, Helen, an older woman, both employs and befriends her. The women find dates through an online dating service. Sara meets a policeman with whom she falls deeply in love, but two weeks before their wedding, he is shot and killed. The trauma afflicts Sara with amnesia accompanied by confusion, depression, and fear. Will she recover? This is the gripping story of a courageous young womans fight through psychological tangles to reclaim a normal life and to find love again.

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1524562785

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Exodus According to Methuselah

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Rock Painting with Reva

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Rock Painting with Reva

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

She has experience as a sewing teacher who made projects easy and fun. Her painted rocks are used as gifts and are selling in stores.

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After the Wedding

A Lloyd and Lori Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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After the Wedding

A Lloyd and Lori Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

The wedding that takes place in the ballroom of the 5-star Palm Tree Hotel in Key West is upended when Flora, the bride, is murdered in the bridal suite. The groom, Mark Morris, a physical therapist, is arrested by the sheriff. Meanwhile, Lloyd, the bartender, and Lori, his wife and concierge, set out to clear Mark, who is in deeper trouble than he’s ever known. Lloyd and Lori suspect that the killer may be one of the people who visited Flora after the wedding—maybe the stepmother, or one or both of her twin sisters, or her first cousin, or, possibly, the chambermaid. Mark is prosecuted in a lengthy courtroom trial for the murder of his wife. Lloyd and Lori race against time to identify the killer before the jury would render a guilty decision for a crime the defendant didn’t commit.

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1796088226

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After the Wedding

A Lloyd and Lori Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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After the Wedding

A Lloyd and Lori Mystery

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Step by Step

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Step by Step

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

During a counseling session Joan Pearl reveals to her psychologist, Dr. Becca Grove, that her husband Spence is a billionaire. Becca, who is immoral and greedy, conjures up a plan to exacerbate Joan’s relationship with her husband with the intent of encouraging her to divorce so that she herself could marry Spence. Despite complications Becca pursues her devious plan. On the couple’s vacation to Australia, Joan, who is a librarian, meets the Australian Sherilee—also a librarian—and they form a strong sisterly bond. They develop the entrepreneurial idea to be partners in the creation of the largest mystery bookstore in the world. When Spence refuses to part with monies that would facilitate their enterprise, they nevertheless persist in their plans. Becca moves from her expensive apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to a Brooklyn basement apartment. The pandemic and its consequences begin

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An Old Lady’S Confessions

Tips for Senior Women

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Reflections and Recollections

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Reflections and Recollections

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Reflections and Recollections is a delightful collection of imaginative stories. It contains memoirs and poemssome of which are hilarious. Once you start reading the book, you wont want to put it down. The section on memoirs is unusual, to say the least, as the author relates her brief relationship with boxer Tommy Hurricane Jackson and her close call in almost burning down the Empire State Building. This is a book you might like to read at many separate sittings.

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1524556203

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Genesis According to Methuselah

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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Genesis According to Methuselah

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

Methuselah, the oldest person who has ever lived, goes on a quest for truth, expanding the Bible with humor. He writes, My best marriage was to Sheilabenautumn, a living doll. I called her She. She called me Meth Honey. But I suffered from the neighbors evil gossip. I was 603, and She was a mere 133. The neighbors said I had robbed the cradle. The author, with tongue in cheek, traces the world of Adam and Eve, Noah, and the patriarchs through Methuselahs eyes and ears in a style that is a mock modernization of the terminology in the Bible. For example, God named the first man Adam and said, Live long and prosper. When Eve became overweight, Adam couldnt understand why. She explained, I think theres a person inside of me because I feel kicking in my stomach. I dont know from which orifice he will come out. This is a new version of the Bible that will cause readers to laugh aloud.

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1984544772

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An Old Lady’S Writing Tips

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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The Beauty School Murder

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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The Beauty School Murder

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

There are four suspects in the beauty school murder in Florida. Sadie Weinstein, the quirky amateur sleuth who owns a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn with her husband, Nathan, is the primary suspect. Sadie prevails upon her reluctant spouse to help her entrap the murderer while they are on a much-needed vacation. She also contacts Rhajmah, her psychic, pickle-eating customer and friend to help her unravel the enigma and keep her out of jail. She needs all her skill, energy, ingenuity, eccentricity, and Poirot-like grey cells to unravel the mystery. The Beauty School Murder is an expansion of an earlier version of the cozy mystery story, Curl Up and Die.

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1524588784

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Genesis According to Methuselah

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The Cruise Ship Murders

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

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The Cruise Ship Murders

A Sadie Weinstein Mystery

By: Reva Spiro Luxenberg

The Cruise Ship Murders A series of murders besets the four thousand passengers on a luxury cruise ship headed to Honduras, Belize, and Mexico. Sadie and Nathan Weinstein have sold their Brooklyn grocery and relocated to a senior community in Florida. Sadie, a zany amateur sleuth in the past begins an investigation, but she also becomes a suspect herself. Enlisting help in cracking the case, she organizes the Cruise Ship Murder Squad. The visions of Rhajmah, a pickle-eating psychic, are indispensable. Nathan, calling the ship a “boat” consistently, warns his wife to mind her own business. But Sadie doesn’t listen even in the face of life-threatening danger. The action takes place in the casino, the buffet, the infirmary, and on many decks. It was not a relaxing cruise to be sure.

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