78 Spring Street (Tavasz Utca 78)


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The apartment building where I grew up had peeling paint and unkempt trees and bushes. Perhaps the twenty families living in nineteen apartments didnt even notice that it was not only the walls of the building that were chipping away little by little simply because they were glad that they had a roof above their heads. As I was growing up, each family represented its own soap opera to me. As a child, I became fascinated and, as a teenager, was appalled by the people, the tenants, who lived there and the hypocrisy that surrounded my family and me in our everyday life. One could only imagine how deeply they came to be part of my life with good but, most of the time, bad intentions. After all these years, those memories are as fresh as a harvested bouquet of flowers that still had the morning dew on its buds. I had to write about them; I needed to write about them. Why? Because I owe them a great deal. For what? you may ask. The answer lies in the stories that took place at 78 Spring Street: Tavasz Utca 78.




... and then, the Fat Lady Sang


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My mother began to tell me stories when I was about 12 years old. As the years passed, her stories become even more intricate. I knew one thing for certain, one day, I will write down as much as I could recall, so I did, although it took me over 45 years. The large Willinger family’s story begins with a matchmaking attempt and the birth of a number of children. My mother was the second born. Their hardship that I wrote about was common of the era, but through Ilona’s life and encounters, the lives of others in the Budapest ghetto come alive and that include her first and significant heartbreak. VOLUME I is two books, the second one concludes on March 21, 1973, the day I arrived in the United States and where I began my own adventures. VOLUME II will continue my life story from 1973 until Present Day. VOLUME III will include fascinating individual stories of my family members.




The Peculiar Case of Preacher M. Brand, Jr.


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Marion Brand Jr. was a twenty-year-old preacher who inherited his fathers revival ministry after a horrific childhood that left him psychologically scarred for life. He was an incredibly handsome and charismatic young man who had a great effect on people who surrounded him and who attended his revival sessions, primarily young women and girls. When a young woman, Helen McCarthy, was brought to his luxurious trailer, for the first time in his life Marion fell head over heels in love and would do anything to keep her to himself. After moving to a new location in Oklahoma and setting up his large tent to conduct revival sermons, some of his staff members, who were former convicts, attracted the polices attention, as on several locations where the revival personnel stayed for a month at a time, young girls began to disappear, never to be seen again. His life was entangled with two familys own tragedies: his caravans cook, once a famous chef, Sara Weinstein, and a former mob hitman, Giovanni Mano Rossa, who was investigating the disappearance of his two youngest daughters. Preacher Brand Jr. soon began to question his own sanity and the loyalty of the people with whom he surrounded himself and who would cover up all his horrific secrets. Just how far would a grieving father go to find out the truth about his daughters? If only Preacher Brand could figure out if his nightmares were real or just bad dreams, he would not have to worry about his future, but things are not as they may have seemed.




The Gifted One


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Well-known landscape and portrait artist Maggie Davis-Anderson sunk into a coma after a routine heart procedure and sees a vision that she could not forget when she awakes. Her loving husband, Paul, assures her that it was just a dream, but Maggie began to have visions of murders, explosions, and catastrophic crashes of which she paints in great detail in a catatonic state. Her predictions arouse the curiosity of all law enforcement agencies, especially of Homeland Security. The following months of her recovery from coma and the procedure, Maggies entire life turns upside down and she loses the ability to know who she could trust. Her new friend, police detective Kathy Calhoun (KC) is the only person she could trust, until she met KCs partner, Tony Morales, who ignites a romantic flame in her dormant heart. Deceit after deceit and uncertainties tests her sanity, which she begins to question after a series of her visions come true, and not seeing them when she should have. Is she truly Gods Gifted Oneone who could see visions to warn people about upcoming events, or she is a victim of a diabolical plot by someone whom she trusts and believes in?




The Chava Diamond Chronicles


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In this third sequel of The Chava Diamond Chronicles: A Song to Remember, Chava receives an invitation from her niece who resides in Mexico, for Juliet’s fifteenth birthday party, her quinceañera. After Chava’s best friend and literary agent, Angela, agrees to join her, she accepts the invitation. Once they arrive, surprises are waiting not only at her ex-in-laws’ home but also at a local establishment where Chava develops strong feelings for a mariachi singer while he sang “Malaguena Salerosa.” Juliet’s father, Arturo, who is in charge of the Federales investigating a drug cartel that moved into the area, warns Chava to be careful. At her party, Juliet meets a boy named Romero and she falls in love with the boy from the other side of the tracks. Chava and Arturo fear that another Shakespearean tragedy is in the making, like Romeo and Juliet, and they do everything to prevent that from happening. While Arturo’s compound is under attack by the cartel, it is up to Chava to come up with an idea to get the young lovers to safety without causing any harm to them. Chava learns that not everything is as it may seem. A lesson that questions her own humanity and trust in another man that she thought she was in love with, as he was most certainly not someone that he appeared to be. Chava and Angela prayed very hard that the lesson they learned would last for a lifetime, a lot longer than they were facing in the hands of strangers.




Before . . .


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Before graduating from Yale Law School, Mira Chambers hoped for one thing and one thing onlyto have her mother, Jessica (Jessie), present when she received her law degree. However, Mira understood and accepted the reason behind her mothers absence; her mothers life depended on remaining in hiding. She was not certain why her mother hid her away in a boarding school in Switzerland and why she was taken from her hotel room in Barcelona, Spain, by someone who was trusted by her mother. Not knowing her destination, Mira relied on her escort, and after some treacherous endeavors including being rescued by commandos at sea, she was taken to the port city of Eilat, Israel. While under protection of Shin Bet, she receives a locked box with five notebooks written by her mysterious mother. As she read the notebooks, Mira realizes the shocking truth about her immediate family. Her escort, Moshe, whom she named the Trusted One, turned out to be more than just that when the two of them fell into forbidden love. Mira must find out what happened to her mother and why Mira was locked in the hotel suite with Shin Bet looking over her day and night. Was her life truly in danger? How long were they going to keep her isolated from the outside world? Would Moshe be able to save her and love her despite the circumstances? Mira could only hope and pray.




From Where I Sit . . .


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Charlotte (Lotte) Coleman never thinks much about religion or faith in God, yet she hopes for a great future. She believes that she does not need to pray for things that she can accomplish herself. Her outlook dramatically changes when a car accident sends her and her fianc, Craig, to the hospital. While Craig quickly recovers, Lottes injuries are devastating and leave her unable to see. Craig does the unthinkable and leaves Lotte to face her future without him. During Lottes second hospitalization, she receives a visit from a priest, Father Gabriel, who tells her that she must regain hope and faith in God to succeed in life. Upon his suggestion, Lotte and her family depart on a pilgrimage to Ftima, Portugal. There, while Lotte crawls toward the shrine on her elbows and hands, a man talks to her about his own pilgrimage and prays with her for miracles that he believes could happen. Lotte becomes a believer in God and resigns to her faith, but miracles begin to happen when they land in Geneva to wait for a transfer flight. A doctor from the Geneva Casablanca Institute approaches Lotte with an offer that was too hard to refuse. Lotte believes that it is the beginning of what the strange man and what Father Gabriel were talking about, so she agrees. In Gstaad, Switzerland, she falls in love with two men, Roman, a man in his early sixties, and his right-hand man, Carlos, about Lottes age. Once again, Lotte arrives at a crossroad in her life and she must choose carefully and wisely. Lotte is only certain of one thing, her unshakeable faith in God, and she hopes that she has chosen the right man to live with for the rest of her life.




The Chava Diamond Chronicles: “The Pebble”


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“Chava, I expect you to keep your promise,” said my mother. I promised her that I would return a pebble that I illegally took from the historic Israeli fortress called Masada. I did not suspect that my second trip there held surprises of biblical proportion for me. After being invited into the home of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rebbe Fleischmann told me the story of his marriage, and of his first-born son, Emanuel, who was running for Governor of Pennsylvania. At the Rebbe’s request, my friend Angela and I contacted Emanuel in Bethlehem, PA, who then took me into his confidence. Emanuel performed a miracle on live TV, and it woke the Vatican’s curiosity. The Pope took Emanuel and I with him to Jerusalem, where the Pope asked him to perform a test. After passing the test, Emanuel began to receive multiple threats from drug cartels, opposing his war against them. After a vicious attack, it was confirmed that Emanuel’s life was in imminent danger, but somehow a person from my past managed to intercept the first attackers. Was Emanuel truly the person he claimed to be or was he an impostor? What about the miracles he performed? Never in a million years did I think what followed, something so extraordinary, that humankind needed to take an inventory on their faith in a Higher Power, and a deep look inside their soul to find forgiveness for doubting Emanuel.




A Good Doctor


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Everyone who knew Ilana Portman was certain that someday the young girl would grow up to be a popular cardiologist and pulmonary specialist. Seeing her ailing grandmother, Ilana became ever so determined to fulfill her destiny to become a doctor, so she pursued her goal with a vengeance. Finishing school years ahead of her peers, she became a doctor barely out of her teen years. After several personal tragedies in her life, the heiress of one of the largest businesses in the USA found herself alone. Abigail (Abby) Page, a fellow medical student, entered Ilanas life at a vulnerable time, and she welcomed her new friend not only emotionally but also allowing her to move in with her. A short time later, Abby introduced a young man, Manfred Man Griffin, to Ilana. He was also a medical student whom Abby grew up with in Germantown, Pennsylvania; the three of them became close friends. Discovering a betrayal, Ilana moves to Washington, DC, to try to start a new life until Manfred reenters her life. Just as she thinks that she has finally found happiness, her newest discovery of a potentially deadly betrayal forces her to come up with a dangerous plan that could cost her her own life. If she succeeds, it would give her the ultimate revenge. Is she willing to risk her careermoreover, her own lifeto fulfill her plan of revenge, or will she forgive those who know no mercy when it comes to ruin or even taking her life? That question cannot be answered lightly.




The Secrets of the Gobi


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After the sudden death of Joseph Darnell, head of the Darnell Corporation, his only child, his daughter named Moon Light, takes over the family business, which was primarily overseeing their mines production and safety. With her assistant, Jon Johnson (JJ), she travels the world where their mostly gold, diamond mines were located. The latest mining contract possibility leads them to Mongolia, where she finds an unexpected love interest and faces choices to make about her future. Unforeseen circumstances throw Moon Light's life not only in turmoil, but also in danger, by facing the fact that she could lose everyone who means everything to her. To prevent that, she must find her inner strength to survive, and fight for the life of the man who appears to be the love of her life.