End of Season Book Sale
Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, October 7-8, 2023; 10 AM to 4 PM
Meet the Author: Sunday, October 8; Lenny Levine writer, studio singer, and composer of many successful jingles
Location: Island Arts Center (barn), 1127 U.S. Rte. 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Tickets: Free admission. Books by donation.
This two-day book sale is a stop on 2023 “Weekend in the Islands” adventure map. More than 4,000 books cater to every taste. All books are organized by subject for your easy discovery. There are paperbacks, hard-covers, and some beautiful books to display. The subjects are varied and include Fiction, Mysteries, History, Travel, Cooking, Psychology, True Stories, Biographies, and more. Browse at your leisure in the airy space that is the Island Arts Center barn.
About Lenny Levine:
Lenny Levine was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and his soul has never left. Before turning to fiction writing, he enjoyed a twenty-year career as a studio singer and composer of many successful jingles such as McDonald’s, Lipton Tea, and Jeep. He has written songs for Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, and Barry Manilow and sung backup for Billy Joel, Peggy Lee, Carly Simon, and others.
His short stories have been widely published in literary magazines and journals, and he received a Pushcart Prize nomination for short fiction. Diehard Fan is his third novel.
Reviews
“The ingredients all work to deliver a compelling, entertaining novel. The author builds the suspense masterfully, combining the diverse plot elements – baseball, a young boy’s coming-of-age story, a murder mystery, 1950’s nostalgia and a suspenseful subplot – into a compelling story. Give Diehard Fan a whirl; you’ll enjoy it.”—Baseball Books for Baseball People
“A well written and well constructed thriller with the end of the 1951 National League baseball season as much more than just background. Although baseball and Brooklyn enthusiasts will eat up the nostalgia, mystery buffs of all kinds, baseball fans or not, will thoroughly enjoy and be totally wrapped up in the intrigue.
Forgive the word play, but throughout the novel, the author constantly throws us “curves, sliders and even an occasional “screwball” with masterful “changes of pace!” Highly recommended reading!”—Goodreads
Brief Synopsis from Diehard Fan
Eddie Fein is a twelve-year-old boy living in Brooklyn. It’s the last week of the 1951 baseball season, and his beloved Dodgers are enduring the epic collapse to the hated Giants that will be punctuated by Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world.”
Eddie’s love for the Dodgers springs from his love for his father Barry Fein, a passionate Dodger fan, but an alcoholic who’s prone to bouts of depression and anger.
When two Giant fans are murdered, Nick DiFazio, lead detective on the case and Barry’s best friend, is afraid of what his suspicions are telling him.
Eddie somehow learns of Nick’s feelings. He secretly embarks on a desperate mission to prove his father’s innocence, a quest that only seems to worsen things.
In the meantime, and throughout, we witness the Dodgers’ final week, sometimes through radio and TV, sometimes from the playing field itself.
And as Bobby Thomson crushes Ralph Branca’s fastball into baseball history, Eddie will face the terrifying truth.
Island Arts book sale. Books for every interest.
All proceeds benefit Island Arts Youth Programs
