My Father Wakes Up Laughing

My Father Wakes Up Laughing

In this biography of her parents, Jo Simons chronicles how the oldest orchestra conductor in the country, Ed Simons (now 99), and his wife, Janet, enriched the musical opportunities in Rockland County, New York from 1950 to the present. This humorous and joyful personal biography reveals how Ed and Janet revolutionized Rockland’s music scene, and also inspired four generations of musical family members.

Published by Jo Simons

Pages: 314
Pub Date: 01-23-2017
Softcover: 18.96 978-1-63393-448-1
Hardcover: 32.44 978-1-63393-449-8
Ebook: 6.99

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"Jo's romp through her family's personal and public history keeps just the right balance between insider perspective and music history review, with plenty of her clear, warm voice to carry the reader through."

–Miriam Hall, writing teacher

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By turns action/adventure, political thriller, his

By turns action/adventure, political thriller, historical and literary fiction, DRINKING FROM THE STREAM is set during 1971 and 1972, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution were at their peak. The action ranges through nine countries, from Louisiana to Tanzania.
STREAM is a generational tale of modern Africa told by Karl Appel, a restless, disillusioned Oxford dropout, and by Jake Ries, a Nebraska farm boy turned oil roughneck, a fugitive who has accidentally killed a homicidal white supremacist on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Throwing caution to the wind, and struggling with their personal demons, the two twenty-two-year-olds hitchhike through Ethiopia and East Africa, where they discover dictatorship and mass murder are facts of life.

"Drinking from the Stream" by Richard Scott Sacks. Coming March 11, 2025 from Koehler Books.

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The Mass Psychology of Addiction by Brian Johnson, MD
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Muddy The Water available 1/28/2025 from @barrowsb

Muddy The Water available 1/28/2025 from @barrowsbeebebooks and @koehlerbookspub

When a popular fishing captain is murdered on his own trawler, everyone in Haversport, Massachusetts, knows the culprit is a young deckhand named Ben Broome, including Detective Lillian Grimes. But Ben has discovered the perfect hiding place: as a reporter writing for the tiny Coastal Packet, a newspaper down in South Carolina.
Shown from three perspectives, killer, detective, and reporter, Muddy the Water brings readers inside the newsroom of a struggling small newspaper on the bucolic South Carolina coast and speaks to the concept of identity—and whether anyone ever shows their true self.
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Getting to know Ralph Berg, the pioneering open-he

Getting to know Ralph Berg, the pioneering open-heart surgeon, was not easy. Many years passed before he was willing to divulge what informed so much of his later work: Jason, his youngest son. But Ralph Berg's own story began many decades before Jason's birth.Ralph became a doctor during World War II and quickly grew fascinated with the human heart. After his chest residency, he assembled a remarkable heart and research team that helped bring open-heart surgery and advanced surgical procedures on blue babies to Spokane, Washington, in 1959. Then, in 1969, with the medical community on the cusp of discovering the cause and treatment of heart attacks, Jason was born to Ralph and Mary Berg-a doomed blue baby.Learn how Ralph Berg sought to save his son and how he and Dr. Francis Everhart developed the lauded Spokane Experience protocol. Witness the joy Ralph shared with Jason and his family. Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization is a powerful story about hope, innovation, and the love of family.
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Coming soon from @erinnieto Dive into an immersiv

Coming soon from @erinnieto

Dive into an immersive, captivating love story, inspired by a real, early 20th-century correspondence. In a narrative that explores the complexities of both scientific discovery and matters of the heart, LOVE & CONDUCTIVITY reveals the profound resonance of true connection amidst the swirling currents of change.

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