Description A wonderful life turns into a nightmare for Joshua Greene, 12, and his sister, Lucinda, 17, when their parents die in a hotel fire in September, 1876. The family had worked happily together to make their bakery a popular and thriving shop in Kankakee, Illinois. When Josh and Lucinda

This is my fourth photobook on Rome, after 'Italia Nostra', 'Expressive Romans' and 'Seven living Splendors'; this book includes poems and portraits of contemporary Roman personages.

Portraits of the author, alone or accompanied, taken in Africa, The US, Europe, where he has resided, and around the world, in different stages of his life, with pictures of his abode. Note: the quality of the photos is variable, this book being primarily a photographic history of the author rather than a professional photobook. Some of these pictures are erotic, some, very kitch, and others frankly ridiculous, like life itself at times. Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 80 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in both English and French, his two mother tongues (Italian being his 'paternal' tongue; he also speaks Spanish and German and still has notions of Swahili), is the recipient of many awards, such as The New York Poetry Forum and Amelia (CA) awards, The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several Writer's Digest poetry and fiction awards, and the Prix Colette, among others. His work has been translated into a dozen languages in 25 countries, on the five continents. He has garnered several prizes for his photography books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. Some of his photos have been exhibited at the prestigious Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Author's website: www.albertrusso.eu

Fotoripples, vol.2: Photos I have taken throughout my life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - as well as during my travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes and periods in wild card fashion.

Photos I have taken throughout my life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - and during my travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes and periods in wild card fashion.

Book of poems accompanied with full-page (mainly) Color and some B&W photographs which I took around the world (including the 3 continents where I have lived: Africa, America and Europe) during various periods of my life. 132 pages View my other poetry, fiction and photobooks on my website: www.albertrusso.eu Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 75 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in both English and French, his two mother tongues (Italian being his 'paternal' tongue; he also speaks Spanish and German and still has notions of Swahili), is the recipient of many awards, such as The New York Poetry Forum and Amelia (CA) awards, The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award and the Prix Colette, among others. His work has been translated into a dozen languages in 25 countries, on the five continents. He has garnered several prizes for his photography books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. Some of his photos have been exhibited at the prestigious Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Other Awards: *Winner of the 2008 AZsacra International Poetry Awardsponsored by the Taj Mahal Review, India -cash prize of500 US$ - http: //cyberwit.net/ * WINNERS OF THE 2009 BOOK AWARDS www.indieexcellence.com IndieExcellence WINNER: Gay/Lesbian Non-Fiction: Gaytude: A poetic journey around the world by Albert Russo and Adam Donaldson Powell - www.albertrusso.eu Indie Excellence Photography Awards, Beverly Hills, California, USA www.indieexcellence.com Finalist: City of Lovers - City of Wonder, by Albert Russo www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4357-4 Finalist: Body Glorious / Corps a corps, by Albert Russo www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-2515-5 Finalist: New York at Heart / New York au Coeur, by Albert Russowww.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4359-8 2011 NIEA SPONSOR'S CHOICE PRIZE WINNERS Indie Excellence Photography Awards *Photography-General Winner: Mermaids of the Baltic Sea Albert Russo - Blurb, Inc. Finalist: Eilat, Petra & Tel Aviv Albert Russo - Blurb, Inc. Researchers and students of literature may now access theAlbert Russo Literary Archives inBrussels, Belgium, the capital of Belgium and of the European Union: ARCHIVES & MUSEE DE LA LITTERATURE Bibliotheque Royale Albert Ier Boulevard de l'Empereur 4 - B1000 Bruxelles - Belgique http: //www.aml-cfwb.be/rechercher/catalogue search / rechercher: Auteur / Author: Albert Russo The author's website: www.albertrusso.eu

Black and white photos of Venice, Rome, Paris, New York, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Jerusalem, that mix art, craft, architecture and street scenes, with humorous juxtapositions, and in wild card fashion

Photos, poems and the full NOVEL entitled AND THERE WAS DAVID-KANZA based on my parents' lives in Africa and Europe, and eulogy received from family and friends around the world, relating to my beloved mother Sarah Russo during her long itinerary from her birth in 1920 on the island of Rhodes (Greece), through Southern and Central Africa, Italy and Belgium, where she lived, as well as through her travels with my father to the five continents, up to her last journey, on the 24th March 2013. She was a passionate reader, in English, French, Italian and Spanish. A wonderful pianist, she loved poetry above all. But more than anything else, it was the purity of her soul we admired the most, with her compassion, her generosity and her sense of humor, for she could be very funny. Thinking of her, we now laugh, cry and laugh again. website: www.albertrusso.eu

Photos, prose and poems relating to my beloved mother Sarah Russo during her long itinerary from her birth in 1920 on the island of Rhodes (Greece), through Southern and Central Africa, Italy and Belgium, where she lived, as well as through her travels with my father around the world, and her last journey, on the 24th March 2013. She was a passionate reader, in English, French, Italian and Spanish. A wonderful pianist, she loved poetry above all. But more than anything else, it was the purity of her soul we admired the most, with her compassion, her generosity and her sense of humor, for she could be very funny. Thinking of her, we now laugh, cry and laugh again.

Photos the author has taken throughout his life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - as well as during his travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes and periods in wild card fashion.

The works of Albert Russo of the past 40 years, in both English and French, reviewed and commented in these two languages, with essays and photos by the author. excerpt of James Baldwin's letter: Dear Albert Russo: l've read everything you sent me, and I like your work very much indeed. It has a very gentle surface and a savage under-tow - the fiction - and I applaud the wicked portrait of Ionesco. You're a dangerous man. My friend, the Black woman novelist, Toni Morrison, knows what you are talking about. l'm in Paris on the 24th of this month and hope to see you. all the best, James Baldwin. ALBERT RUSSO. PAINTING THE TOWER OF BABEL. Hyde (Cheshire). New Hope International (UK) - in World Literature Today (USA) Albert Russo's poetry deserves to be put before us in this handy and attractive format. Each word is in its place, no other word would do, and extracting component strings of words by themselves do not constitute poetry to the extent they do within their completed whole, rather like jewels without settings. Yet there is nothing esoteric about his verse. To the contrary, simplicity rules, and accessibility is immediate, although successive readings do disclose certain cunning and bemused conceits invisible at first. As proof, I can only quote one exemplary poem in its entirety, Expectancy. there's a world at peace and there's a world at war the frontiers between the two shift and overlap like waves over the breakers at low tide and as you watch the evening news you feel your heart skitter across the water on the safe side or so you will yourself to believe but when in the dead of night you switch off the bedlamp the rumblings under your skin at first distant and familiar start sending out portentous signals then somewhere around the solar plexus there's an expectancy of pain searing as the alarm caused by misfired thunder it shoots through the arteries to the cortex making the flesh quiver in its wake and suddenly the echo of a reverberating crackle turns your entire body into an electric web so tightly packed you instinctively embrace all the destructive power of mankind's folly This poem is not typical, since none of Russo's are. His poems manifest a vast capacity for experimentation in form and subject, surely a signpost of a poet still busily a-growing. Highly recommended. L'oeuvre d'Albert Russo sur 40 ans, recensee en francais et en anglais, avec ses propres essais, et ses photos. James Baldwin: "J'aime votre ecriture, car dans un style police vous exprimez des sentiments violents, faisant eclater des verites terrifiantes, Vous derangez sans en avoir l'air." "La nostalgie de l'enfance decrite par un grand ecrivain: Albert Russo. Retenez bien ce nom. On en reparlera." Jean-Claude Bourret, critique litteraire "Je ne peux resister au plaisir de vous feliciter. Tout cela est excellent. J'ai beaucoup aime vos poemes." Robert Goffin, de l'Academie Royale de Belgique. "Il y a la une facon de conter qui va comme une riviere souterraine qui affleurerait de temps en temps pour replonger aussitot. Pensee allusive, langue souvent trop chargee (comme cette nature tropicale dont vous parlez si bien), mots et images parfois manieres, tout cela contribue a creer un climat chaud et blesse, un climat troublant. On ne l'oublie pas... des les premieres pages, on sent un ton nouveau auquel on ne peut rester indifferent." Paul Willems, ecrivain, poete et Directeur du Musee des Beaux-Arts (Bruxelles) "Je viens de lire les deux volumes que vous m'avez envoyes et leur ton m'a beaucoup touche" Joseph Kessel, de l'Academie Francaise. "Pierre Emmanuel (de l'Academie Francaise) tient a vous dire le plaisir qu'il a eu a lire ces pages a la fois difficiles, sensuelles et pleines d'humour." "Le message humain, c'est cela le 'fetiche' qui fait vibrer les ouvrages d'Albert Russo. Une oeuvre retentissante." La Depeche de Lubumbashi, Congo