New York City chef cooks up counterfeiting scheme in Barsky’s “Hatched”

NEW YORK – Aug. 26, 2016 –  Sunbury Press has released Hatched, Robert F Barsky’s novel about a famous restaurant on Wall Street and the financial scheme cooked-up therein.

About the Book:
A well-respected chef in New York City has decided to fulfill a lifelong dream, to open a restaurant in the smart Wall Street area of the City that is devoted entirely to “eggy” creations. Working with an inspired architect, John erects a restaurant in the shape of a Fabergé egg, inspired by those remarkable masterpieces that were offered each year by the Czar to his beloved wife, leading up to the Russian Revolution. Fabergé Restaurant becomes ‘the’ destination for the wealthiest of NYC clients, but it’s also the place where a plan is Hatched by three former college roommates to counterfeit billions of dollars and shake the United States economy to its very yolk. A rollicking novel filled with intrigue, passion and voluptuous egg recipes, Hatched is a sumptuous treat.

Excerpt:
Immaculate imperfection. Silent to the touch, but teeming with all of the potential that can be excited by fertile stimulation. From up close, it seems painted with an imperfectly mixed, white gouache upon an uneven surface; from further back, it is an oblong globe, steadied from the center to the periphery to withstand the gentle swaying of the nest, the wind, the rain. The shell is solid, protective, and yet, always, and secretly, vulnerable. It’s hardy and well-insulated inside, but once expelled into the world of knocks and piercings, the yolk suffers and thereby reveals the single weakness of a shell pervious to rigid surfaces, its soft and mottled form suddenly blistered, cracked, dented, revealing tender, white flesh within, but concealing a core, an essence, a willing soul now and forever unfulfilled. Never to consume, the yolk now settles, haughtily, awaiting the fate of consumption. . . .

Suddenly, its very essence is reminiscent of Sunday morning, when Dad would for once sleep in and, that accomplished, would awaken the household with ‘Rise and shine!,’ accompanied by the sizzling sound of butter caressing and then solidifying the gooey translucence into white, the bulbous yellow to a globe and a world unto itself. The buttery pan, once heated, makes golden magic of this bulging, yellow world, now perched atop a gooey throne that, from the end towards the center, grows into a plastic base. The battered shells now ruthlessly discarded reveal untarnished and impeccable interiors, smooth walls now dripping with the liquid white remains, having for their trouble preserved the yellow center of the world, bulging, nearly heaving, now intact, defying gravity’s pull and begging. . . .

“Would you like another one?”

About the Author:
Robert Franklin Barsky is a professor and Chair of the French and Italian Department. He holds joint appointments with the English Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Programs in Jewish Studies European Studies, and American Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an expert on Noam Chomsky, literary theory, convention refugees, immigration and refugee law, borders, work through the Americas, and Montreal. His biography of Chomsky titled Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent was published in 1997 by MIT Press, followed in 2007 by The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower, and then in 2011 by Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism, all published by MIT Press. He has another book forthcoming:Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law (Routledge Law, 2015).

Hatched
Authored by Robert F Barsky
List Price: $19.95
Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc. (August 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620067404
ISBN-13: 978-1620067406
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
FIC002000 FICTION / Action & Adventure
FIC050000 FICTION / Crime
FIC016000 FICTION / Humorous / General
FIC037000 FICTION / Political

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Interview with Jess Steven Hughes, Author

I am delighted to have Jess Steven Hughes as my guest today. Thank you, Jess, for joining me on my website. Jess, can you tell us about yourself and your background? What do you currently do outsid…

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August 20 — Art Reception at 2nd Floor Gallery + Mark Singel

2nd FLOOR GALLERY

OPENING THIS MONTH --- Abstract Art!
Our gallery artists have contributed 30 works of Abstract Art for your enjoyment. This show will be on display through October.






Come out and meet former Pennsylvania Governor Mark Singel, who will be signing copies of his memoir "A Year of Change and Consequences," about the year he stepped in for the incapacitated Bob Casey.
This Saturday, August 20th at 6 PM until 9 PM



Also in the Sunbury Press bookstore, meet young adult author Joe Harvey, who recently released his first novel. "From Blue Ground."
This Saturday, August 20th at 6 PM until 9 PM


This Saturday, August 20th at 6 PM until 9 PM
Live Music:
Tory GatesLast chance to see the debut exhibition of Kim Troyer! Please join us to celebrate local artist Kim Troyer's first exhibition. She is a graduate of Mechanicsburg High School and will be attending her…

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Union captures Vicksburg! “I can’t spare this man. He fights!” says Lincoln of US Grant.

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Sunbury Press has released Taking Lady Gibraltar: Grant’s Convoluted Tour de Force in the West, Dick Schwirian’s historical novel about the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi by Union forces in 1863.

About the Book:
Taking of Lady Gibraltar is about one of the major events of the Civil War, the campaign to seize Vicksburg by Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant. Before 1863, Vicksburg, situated on high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, was thought to be impregnable. Grant created a new reality. The capture of Vicksburg and its garrison was, if not the signature northern victory of the Civil War, at least among the top contenders. It denied the Confederacy free access to the Mississippi River, it split the South in two, and, perhaps most importantly, it ultimately persuaded Abraham Lincoln to appoint Grant commander of all Union armies. In the words of the sixteenth president: “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”

It may be inaccurate to say that Grant won the Civil War for the North, but there is truth in the claim. His success, first in the west and later in the east, was phenomenal. Was he a military genius? Probably not. But he had a keen sense for the opportunistic moment and the fortitude to pursue a course of action relentlessly, once chosen. The Taking of Lady Gibraltar illustrates these qualities—and some shortcomings—in an exciting and stimulating read for anyone who loves Civil War history and historical fiction.

Battle of Vicksburg

Excerpt:
April 7, 1862 – The Shiloh Battlefield
On the second day of battle, Union skirmishers began forming their lines at 3:00 AM and were ordered to find the enemy. They did. The evening before, P.G.T. Beauregard had entertained great hopes for taking the day for the Confederacy but was unaware of the Union reinforcements under Don Carlos Buell, who were then arriving from Nashville under cover of darkness. Beauregard had lost half his men on the first day of battle; Grant had gained twenty thousand more. The fighting on the second day was intense but brief. By 4:00 PM, Beauregard ordered a general withdrawal to Corinth, Mississippi in the middle of a cold, relentless hailstorm, some of the hailstones as big as eggs and as hard as musket balls.

Had he wanted to, Grant could have pursued and destroyed Beauregard’s exhausted army. Pursuit of a defeated foe was, after all, a maxim of military tactical manuals. However, pursuit was an undertaking that his own bone-weary, mud-caked army might not be able to sustain. They were tired too.

About the Author:
Dick Schwirian resides in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife Jo.

Taking Lady Gibraltar: Grant’s Convoluted Tour de Force in the West
Authored by Dick Schwirian
List Price: $19.95
6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
452 pages
Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1620066508
ISBN-10: 1620066505
BISAC: Fiction / War & Military

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“Wonder Boy” caps wonderful month as Sunbury Press bestseller for July

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Sunbury Press has released the bestsellers list for July. Lawrence Knorr’s baseball biography of Carl Scheib, Wonder Boy, took the top spot. The Gingerbread Man’s School Adventure by Sherri Maret was runner up.

SUNBURY PRESS – Bestsellers for July, 2016 (by Revenue)
Rank	Last Month	Title	Author	Category
1	7	Wonder Boy: The Story of Carl Scheib	Lawrence Knorr	Sports Biography
2	NEW	The Gingerbread Man’s School Adventure	Sherri Maret	Childrens
3	2	A Year of Change & Consequences	Mark Singel	Political Memoir
4	10	The B Team	Alan Mindell	Sports Fiction
5	1	Living in the Afterlife	Michele Livingston	Spirituality
6	—	The Savage Apostle	John Kachuba	Historical Fiction
7	NEW	Maybe Tomorrow	Mela Suśe Vigil Duran Carvalko	Memoir
8	—	The Penns’ Manor of Spread Eagle and the Grist Mills of the Mahantango Valley	Steve Troutman	History
9	NEW	Cast Iron Signs of Pennsylvania Towns and Other Landmarks	N Clair Clawser	History
10	20	Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, 2nd Ed.	Mike Campbell	History
11	24	Winter of the Metal People	Dennis Herrick	Historical Fiction
12	—	Dying for Vengeance	J M West	Thriller Fiction
13	26	Call Sign Dracula	Joe Fair	Vietnam Memoir
14	19	The Closer	Alan Mindell	Sports Fiction
15	30	The Ripper’s Haunts	Michael Hawley	History
16	13	Pit Bulls	Anthony Julian	History
17	—	There Is Something about Rough and Ready	Lawrence Knorr, et al	History
18	21	Raising Monarchs	Sue Fox McGovern	Nature
19	NEW	Keystone Corruption Continues	Brad Bumsted	History
20	4	Messages from Beyond	Michele Livingston	Spirituality
21	29	Hidden Dangers	Bob Stout	Geopolitics
22	3	Bitter Sweet	Catherine Jordan et al.	Short Stories
23	—	Murder in Tuxedo Park	William Lemanski	Thriller Fiction
24	—	Hour 30	Brandon Musgrave	Memoir
25	—	Adventures in Distant and Remote Places	William Lemanski	Memoir
26	22	That Night at Surigao	Ernie Marshall	History
27	25	OneWay: The Oracle	Robin McClellan & Ruth Watson	Metaphysical Fiction
28	—	The Politics of Prevailing	William Miller	Memoir
29	11	Jesus the Phoenician	Karim El Koussa	Religious History
30	—	The 10 Second Shift	Bill Foley	Self-Help
31	—	Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania	George P Donehoo	History
32	—	Mary Sachs: Merchant Princess	Barbara Trainin Blank	Biography
33	—	Keystone Tombstones Volume 1	Joe Farrell & Joe Farley	History
34	23	Choice of Enemies	M A Richards	Spy Thriller
35	—	Keystone Tombstones Civil War	Joe Farrell, Joe Farley & Lawrence Knorr	History
36	—	Lost in the Shadow of Fame	William Lemanski	History
37	—	The Cursed Man	Keith Rommel	Psycho Thriller
38	—	The Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger and Catharina Steinbruch	Max Klinger	Genealogy
39	—	Capital Murder	Chris Papst	Investigation
40	—	Howl of a Thousand Winds	Morris Workman	Thriller Fiction
41	8	The Keeper of the Crows	Kyle Alexander Romines	Thriller Fiction
42	—	Keep It Blue	Haley Dean	Literary Fiction
43	27	Dead of Autumn	Sherry Knowlton	Thriller Fiction
44	—	Flying Pants	Lola James	Childrens
45	—	General John Fulton Reynolds: His Biography, Words, and Relations	Lawrence Knorr, Michael Riley, & Diane Watson	History
46	—	The Hidden Legacy of World War II	Carol Schultz Vento	History
47	—	Rabid Philanderers, Inc.	Nancy Williams	Thriller Fiction
48	—	Bows, Bullets, and Bears	John L Moore	History
49	—	Between Good and Evil	R Michael Phillips	Detective Thriller
50	—	Fireproof Moth	Milo Thornberry	History

Lawrence Knorr’s “Wonder Boy: The Story of Carl Scheib – The Youngest Player in American League History” nabbed the top spot thanks to a well-attended event in Gratz, PA honoring the former Philadelphia Athletic. The event also received substantial media attention. Knorr also grabbed #17 with “There is Something about Rough and Ready,” #35 with “Keystone Tombstones Civil War” in tandem with Joe Farrell and Joe Farley, and #45 with “General John Reynolds.” Sherri Maret’s new childrens hardcover “The Gingerbread Man’s School Adventure” placed thanks to advance purchases. Mark Singel’s memoir “A Year of Change and Consequences” held strong at #3 due to media attention and planned events. Alan Mindell’s “The B Team” #4 and “The Closer” #14 continue to benefit from author events. Last month’s #1 by Michele Livingston – “Living in the Afterlife” – continued to sell well, holding at #5. Her “Messages from Beyond” nabbed the 20th spot.

The company debuted a top 50 bestseller list this month. History / Memoir / Biography / Genealogy titles took 25 of the positions. Thriller Fiction was the next most prevelant category.

The company released eight new titles in July:

SUNBURY PRESS – New Releases for July, 2016
The Gingerbread Man’s School Adventure	Sherri Maret	Childrens
Maybe Tomorrow	Mela Suśe Vigil Duran Carvalko	Memoir
Cast Iron Signs of Pennsylvania Towns and Other Landmarks	N Clair Clawser	History
Keystone Corruption Continues	Brad Bumsted	History
The Making of a Don	Charles Ursitti	Thriller Fiction
Franni and the Duke	Ann E Johnson	YA Fiction
Ice Canyon Monster	Keith Rommel	Climate Fiction
Taking Lady Gibraltar	Dick Schwirian	Historical Fiction

For more info: http://www.sunburypressstore.com/BESTSELLERS_c3.htm

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Remembering James Craig Atchison

MECHANICSBURG, PA — It is with a heavy heart we say goodbye to a good friend of the Sunbury Press family. James Craig, who wrote by the pen name “James Craig Atchison” passed away last Saturday, surprising all who knew him. Jim, as he was known to us, was passionate about his family, his writing, and hockey. He had embarked on a second career as a novelist in recent years. I’ll never forget our first meeting in my office in Mechanicsburg. While a little naive of the publishing process, he was nonetheless completely in as an author. He talked of personally promoting his work in an attempt to build a following in the hockey community. Upon the release of his first book, “Blue Lines Up in Arms,” he made appearances at minor league hockey rinks and book stores throughout eastern Pennsylvania. While a trickle of sales followed his efforts, he was committed to the next novel, “Blue Lines and Old Money,” due to be released in September.

Christin Aswad, his editor at Sunbury Press, described Jim as her “favorite author to work with.”  Christin has been the editor for both of Jim’s novels. She was always moved by his positive energy and how appreciative he was for the help she provided.

Tammi and I shared a wonderful morning with Jim several months back, when he came to Mechanicsburg to have some author photos taken.  While the weather was not the best, Jim kept things light and was amazingly patient while we switched venues to try to find the perfect background for him. The old trolley station proved to be the place. (the picture above was taken that morning)

I last saw Jim for Jubilee Day in mid-June. He joined a half-dozen other authors for the largest street fair in the eastern USA. While some of his peers gave up early and headed for home, Jim stuck it out, sitting at his table with his books and hockey gear, casually talking with anyone who would come his way. He sold a few books and thoroughly enjoyed the day.

Jim was a reminder to all of us to have passion for what we do.  He will be missed.

Lawrence Knorr, President/CEO, Sunbury Press, Inc.

 

Following is Jim’s obituary:

James Craig, 69, of Lancaster, died unexpectedly Saturday, July 30, 2016 in Salem, NJ.

Born in Wichita, KS, he was the husband of Sandra (Tweedle) Craig of Lancaster, and the son of the late William and Bonnie (Atchison) Pupikofer.

Jim was a middle school teacher in the Ephrata School District for 14 years until his retirement. He was the author of the mystery novel “Blue Lines Up In Arms”.

In addition to his wife of 47 years, he is survived by 2 sons: Ryan Craig of Lancaster, and Jared Craig and his wife Kimberleigh of Millersville; a granddaughter, Marleigh of Millersville; a sister, Karen Craig of Cleveland, OH; and his mother-in-law, Clara Tweedle of Salem, NJ.

A funeral service will be held at 3 PM on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home & Crematory, 441 N. George St, Millersville with Pastor Mike Sigman officiating. Friends and family will be received from 6:30 to 8 PM on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at the funeral home, and again one hour prior to the service on Wednesday.

Flowers are appreciated, or memorial contributions in Jim’s memory may be made to the Children’s Ministries at Grace Community Church, 212 Peach Bottom Rd, Willow Street, PA 17584.

A sympathy card would be appreciated.

James Craig

 

 

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