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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Library World!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I have had the pleasure of hosting author Berl Falbaum in the past at Novi Library. He has recently come out with a new book and I wanted to make you aware.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jacket cover is included as well as a press release with contact info if you should want to host him. He is a great speaker and has always had interesting topics. I introduced him to my older adult community and they really enjoyed him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks,<br>Julie</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><img width="846" height="379" style="width:8.8166in;height:3.95in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D50750.3597B310"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <b><span style="font-size:20.0pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Release: May 10, 2019</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">SUBJECT: VETERAN JOURNALIST/AUTHOR TELLS STORIES ABOUT LIFE IN WW II</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> SHANGHAI GHETTO TO CAREER IN JOURNALISM, POLITICS AND MORE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan, May 10)---He writes about life as a young boy in a war-torn Shanghai ghetto during World War II, and his immigration to the U.S. where, in the Detroit area, he had a career in journalism, politics ,and corporate life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In writing <i>Recollections and Reflections</i>: <i>From a WWII Shanghai Ghetto to Journalism, Politics</i> <i>and other Journeys along the Way</i>, Berl Falbaum, stressed that he wanted to capture stories that he believed needed to be saved, from which he learned important lessons, and others might find valuable.<b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">“This is not about any achievements,” said Falbaum. “These stories were important to me and I hope others will find them useful as well.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The foreword was written by William M. (Bill) Brodhead, former congressman from Detroit’s 17<sup>th</sup> District. Among the public officials and journalists already praising the book, are:</span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Nolan Finley<b>, </b>editorial page editor, <i>The Detroit News</i>, called it “captivating.”<b> </b></span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Alan Hitsky, who held several editor positions at <i>the Detroit Jewish News</i>, said it is a “fascination look back at world and Detroit history…”</span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">---more---</span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282a">DETROIT AREA JOURNALIST/AUTHOR WRITES MEMOIR</span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Michigan Appeals Court Judge Mark J. Cavanagh wrote, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#26282a">“The</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282a"> book is not only good, but is culturally and historically important.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282a">Herschel Fink, <i>Detroit Free Press</i> legal counsel, said the book was “beautifully written and compelling…”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282a">Michael Layne, president of the Marx Layne & Co. public relations firm, described the book as “riveting.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Among his many stories, Falbaum writes about covering the reaction in Detroit to the assassination of President Kennedy; the 1967 Detroit riot; and the controversy at the defunct Bendix Corporation in the early 1980s, perhaps one the biggest scandals in modern corporate history. He also reports on “lighter subjects” such as stories from his extensive travels, including watching a bullfight from inside the ring, swimming with dolphins in the open ocean, and his participation as a supernumerary (an extra) in four operas.</span></p><p class="yiv2709117437msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">Falbaum’s career includes ten years as a general assignment and political reporter for <i>The Detroit News</i>, fifteen years in corporate public relations and four years in as administrative aide to Michigan’s lieutenant governor. He has published nine other books, one of which, <i>Shanghai Remembered</i>: <i>Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe</i>, won an IPPY award from the Independent Publishers Association. For 45 years, Falbaum was an adjunct faculty member in the journalism department at Wayne State University in Detroit. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;layout-grid-mode:line"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">Falbaum is donating half of all proceeds from the book to EnPuzzlement, a Toledo, Ohio, non-profit organization that, since 2009, had provided assistance to organizations that help the needy with </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#26282a">food, hygiene items, cleaning products and medical supplies. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">(EnPuzzlement: en=to cause; puzzlement-exercise your mind; ment=achieve results.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#26282a"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">The proceeds are being made in the name of Allan Marks, Falbaum’s friend of 65 years who died in December 2018. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">Hardcover books can be ordered by sending an email to <a href="mailto:sdbooksllc@yahoo.com">sdbooksllc@yahoo.com</a>. Ebooks are available at Amazon.com.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;layout-grid-mode:line">Berl is available as a speaker. If you interested in scheduling an event with him, call him directly at 248-855-5383.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:white"><tr><td width="189" valign="top" style="width:75.0pt;padding:0in 6.0pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><img width="177" height="177" style="width:1.8416in;height:1.8416in" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D50752.1990CB50" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1a1hecCo_tHMMH0i3Pb03DPoNkUQOHx4x"> </span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 6.0pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width:312.0pt"><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#000001"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#b45f06">Julie Farkas</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#b45f06"> - Library Director</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#000001">Novi Public Library 45255 W. 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