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Elephants In The Room is a collection of short fiction and essays examining life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition.
i>Elephants In The Room/i> is a collection of short fiction and essays examining life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition.
In Elephants In The Room, Wexler's fiction and essays are grouped in five catgories.
Coming of Age features essays and fiction about growing up and reaching some of life's milestones--whether you are ready or not.
In Family and Friends, you'll meet some of the fun characters in Wexler's life and in her fiction, and inevitably you'll think about similar loved ones in your own world. The story "Elephants In The Room,&quo | |  | | Farewell to South Shore
Sherrie grew up in a close-knit, Old World Chicago family in the 1950s, but her idyllic world changes when she becomes a woman in the turbulent 1960s.
span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In /span>i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Farewell to South Shore/i>span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Charlene Wexler introduces readers to 15-year-old Sherrie, who is growing up in a close-knit Jewish family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The building in which Sherrie lives is occupied by family with Old World values, in Chicago’s South Shore community. Her relatives are loud, argumen | |  | | Lori
Lori is the story of a woman gaining strength she never knew she could achieve, and of victory over adversity—a story with tragedies and triumphs to which every reader will be able to relate.
A clash of cultures. A domineering mother-in-law. An Alcoholic husband. A fatally ill child. The possibility of economic ruin.
The sheltered, comfortable, liberal uprbringing undergone by Lori in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago in the United States did not prepare her for marriage into the difficult and quirky working-class family of her husband, Jerry--or for the sweeping societal and social changes of the last quarter of the 20th century.
i>Lori /i>deals with relationships between family and friends, divorce, alcoholism, infidelity, homosexuality, the judicial system, | |  | | Milk and Oranges
Milk and Oranges is a collection of short fiction and essays examining life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition. Whether she is tackling fiction or essays, Charlene Wexler writes from the heart. With a keen eye for detail and a way of looking at the world a bit sideways, her writings in Milk and Oranges will entertain while they make you think.
i>span style="display: inline" id="longdescr_full">Milk and Oranges/span>/i>span style="display: inline" id="longdescr_full"> is a collection of short fiction and essays by award-winning writer Charlene Wexler that examines life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition br />
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Whether she is tackling fiction or essays, Charlene Wexler writes from the heart. With a keen eye for detail and a way of looking at the world a bit sideways, Wexler’s writings in i>Milk and Oranges/i> will entertain while they make you think.br />
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In i>Milk and Oranges, | |  | | Murder Across the Ocean
Lori’s trip to England to see her granddaughgter started out even better than she could have imagined when she ran into Josh, her old high-school boyfriend—resulting in an unexpected night of passion in a London hotel room. Lori was all smiles as she stepped out of the shower the next morning, ready to slip back into Josh’s arms—until she saw his bloody corpse lying in the bed. before.So who killed Josh? Was it Josh’s beautiful girlfriend Suzi, who unexpectedly appears in London? Was it Josh’s Chinese financial backers? Was it British mobsters, led by the evil Roland McKeifer, who kidnap Lori in an attempt to find Josh’s hidden millions? Was it Baron Braun, who summons Lori to Germany to tell her a 70-year-old secret? Was it someone whose money had been stolen or heart had been broken by Josh? Or was it someone else? Find out in Murder Across the Ocean.
American Lori Brill thought she'd have a pleasant, uneventful vacation in London visiting her granddaughter, Cate.
Lori's trip started out even better than she could have imagined when she ran into Josh, her old high-school boyfriend, in line for the same flight agt the airport--resulting in an unexpected night of passion in a London hotel room. Lori was all smiles as she stepped out of the shower the next morning, ready to slip back into Josh's arms--until she saw his bloody corpse lying in the bed where they had made love only a few short hours before.
The London police na | |  | | Murder on Skid Row
Based on a true story, Murder on Skid Row is the first novel by Chicagoan Charlene Wexler. Murder on Skid Row takes the reader back to a place that was an integral part of Chicago for decades—but one today’s public officials and city-beautiful boosters would rather have us believe never existed.
span style="font-size: larger">span style="font-family: Arial">span class="style7">"Spare any change?" and "I don't know nothing" were the watchwords on Chicago’s Skid Row in the 1960s. Located on Madison Street, a little west of the city’s bustling and prosperous downtown, Skid Row was home to hustlers, winos, addicts, bums, lost souls, ripoffs, and kickbacks. Everyone, it seemed, had a secret. /span>span class="style8">em> /em>/span>/span>/span>
span style="font-size: larger">span style="font-family: Arial">Into this shady s |
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Little River
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 Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields. |
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