 
QUINTETby Hugh Aaron A collection of five novellas, including: Doctor Banner's Garden Family Agendas Ambition The Ultimate Success A Son’s Father, a Father’s Son: A Tale of Two Wars Read more about this book 
WHEN WARS WERE
WONby Hugh Aaron - An epic, richly crafted coming of age story during World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Acclaimed enthusiastically by reviewers and all who read it. Calling it: "poetic," "a compelling tale," "movie material," "a literary treat," "a story about the loss of innocence," "powerfully poignant," "a sensitive novel," "a moving and emotional story of friendship, love, heartbreak, despair and triumph of the spirit," "one of the most interesting and exciting books I have ever read." Read more about this book 
LETTERS from the GOOD
WAR,A Young Man's Discovery of the World by Hugh Aaron - Almost 1,000 WWII letters written home by a young Seabee, taking the reader from the first day at boot camp to the day he returns from the Southwest Pacific. Together they are a character study of a young man coming of age. Written on the scene, they are also a window on the times. Readers and reviewers describe this book as "palpably real," "a remarkable history," "a commitment," "a portrait of a complex and amazing young man." Includes sixteen pages of photographs and fifty-nine pages of notes on events and personalities of the era. Read more about this book 
Gringo,THE MAKING OF A REBEL by Emil Willimetz - A well written memoir of an unconventional life, this book offers both general readers and scholars a journey behind the lines of the Great Depression, combat in Normandy and northern Germany, and early civil rights and labor organizing in the South. Readers and reviewers say: "You will be fully immersed in his richly detailed stories", "I know I will read Gringo again, rediscovering paragraph by paragraph the story of this modest, delightfully stubborn, uncannily familiar - rebel." "Willimetz autobiography is rather a rough diamond." "a sensitive and candid autobiography," "Willimetz's personality shines on every page." Read more about this book 
IT'S ALL CHAOS,Tales of the Young, the Old, and the Middle Aged by Hugh Aaron - Twenty-three short and not so short stories revealing the complexity of human relationships among people of all ages and walks of life. Every reader can find stories he or she can identify with. Reviewer comments: "Aaron's short story fiction captures many of the thoughts and memories that plague us all, no matter what age we are." "In these riveting stories of stark prose and lacerating dialogue Aaron's authentic vision of the post World War II's sterile era sparkles." Read more about this book 
BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL,How to Win Managing a Company through Hard and Easy Times by Hugh Aaron - Concrete and powerful essays on how to run a business, based on experience, not theory. This book is being used in business school classrooms; some chapters have been copied entirely into other texts. Eight of its 68 sub-chapters were published in the Manager's Journal column of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Some comments from readers and reviewers: "knocking my socks off, a jewel," "A delightful book, I like its direct and refreshing style, as well as the validity of his examples and the honesty of his reactions." "an engaging business memoir," "candid and wise," "refreshingly unacademic, so effective as a tutorial manual for running businesses today." Read more about this book 
DRIVEN,Notes of a Neurotic Entrepreneur: His Trials, Failures, and Victories by Max Barnet - A business novel with locomotive force, rare in its honest presentation of the drama of business. The author holds nothing back in this story about running a small manufacturing company. He writes of the double dealings, the betrayals and petty dishonesties, as well as the acts of generosity, trust and loyalty that occur in his relationships with his employees, his customers, the bank, his friends, his wife and his mistress. Revealing his deepest conflicts, fears and doubts, brutally self-aware, the protagonist is DRIVEN to succeed, and does so at great personal cost. Reviewer comments: "A crackling novel, damn near Shakespearean in its drama, psychology and insight." "No one should get and MBA until they've read DRIVEN." "A tale worth telling." "Every business person and the spouse of every business person should read this book." Read more about this book 
GO WEST OLD MAN,A Father's Journey across America with His Son by Max Barnet - An excruciatingly honest journal. Fathers, sons and mothers are responding emotionally to this true account. Once they begin, they're hooked. Reader and reviewer comments: "captivating and uplifting," "Its insights and the lessons it teaches should appeal to anyone with a longing for the reflections and refuge of the road." "Outlines the struggles and joys of the relationship between child and parent and speaks to everyone of us." "The real journey is across uncharted feelings between Harry and Danny." "Continues in the great American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues." "A satisfying, readable trip, written from the heart." Read more about this book 
SUZY, FAIR SUZY
by Hugh Aaron- A child's story in verse for children ages three to eight concerning the introduction of a new sibling. A sensitive, spoken song with beautiful imagery and sweet refrains, giving pleasure to both listener and reader. Colorfully, imaginatively illustrated, offering much to see on every page. Read more about this book 
FILMS IN REVIEW,(From 1959 & 1960) My Meteoric Rise and Fall as a Film Critic by Hugh Aaron - Daring and irreverent reviews written when the author was young. Published for nearly thirteen months in a local weekly newspaper, they ceased being published due to an astounding event explained in the Afterward. This collection of twenty-seven reviews exists for the sole purpose of giving the reader delight. They contain a refreshing intimacy. One has the feeling that the reader is ever present in the reviewer's mind. A partial list of reviews: The 400 Blows, Room at the Top, South Pacific, The Mouse that Roared, The Nun's Story, On the Beach, Grand Illusion. Read more about this book |