Jack Adler: 4 books

Few places have the mystique of California, a state that stirs imaginations everywhere. Legends abound with a flashing array of colorful personalities that permeate the state’s exceptionally rich history—adventurers and bandits, poets and authors, politicians and visionaries—and many other unforgettable characters. The Golden State in her full glory.

Kirk Johnson, a young American academic, comes to 1914 Europe at the outbreak of World War One as assistant to Colonel Edward House, the infamous special emissary sent by President Woodrow Wilson to stop the war. His path leads from idealism to disillusionment with American and European leaders and...

Seven senior citizens make their marks on history in their own time and in their own place.Seven different seniors from different eras, each ensnared in the harsh difficulties of their historical periods which range from ancient Rome to contemporary America, dramatically show a common link...

Turnabout is an ironic coming-of-age novel about a shy and bashful nerd of a 15-year old high school student who inadvertently sees one of his teachers accidentally kill another teacher and then blackmails the theacher to make him into a better person, academically and sociallyTurnabout is...