“Border Crossings is the well-told and dramatic story of a young man whose comfortable life is abruptly transformed by the savagery of World War II. Forced to rely on primal instincts and his familiarity with the rugged highlands of Moravia, Charles Novacek casts his lot first with the anti-Hitler Underground and then with the resistance to the Nazis’ Communist successors. “My recollections pain me,” he writes, “still, they have made me who I am.” Novacek’s experience as a Hungarian-speaking Czecho-Slovak patriot demonstrates the folly of petty nationalism and the resilience of human decency and love.” ―Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

READ AN EXCERPT from Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek.

COMING EVENTS:

Grosse Pointe Public Library
Book Talk & Signing
November 20, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Ewald Branch
15175 East Jefferson Avenue
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230

“Local Authors Roundabout”
Small Business Saturday
November 30, 2013
12 noon – 5:00 p.m.
Source Booksellers
4240 Cass Avenue, Ste. 105
Detroit, MI 48201

Art, Book & Gift Fair
December 4, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
The Oakland Center
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309

RECENT PROGRAMS:

Great Lakes History Conference
Sponsored by Michigan Council for History Education &
Grand Valley State University
“Collisions & Encounters: Migration in a Global Perspective,
15th Century to Present
October 11-12, 2013
Grand Valley State University PEW Campus,
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
http://tinyurl.com/mlm23bn
1021 Press, publisher of Border Crossings: Coming of Age
in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek will be an
exhibitor.

First Container Collision Works Story Box
Book Talk & Signing
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Eastern Market – First Container
2934 Russell Street, Detroit, MI 48207

“A Conversation with Librarians”
Honoring Our Legacy of Detroit Libraries
Sunday, October 20, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Source Booksellers
4240 Cass Avenue, Ste. 105
Detroit, MI 48201

Border Crossings Revisited
Exhibit of Paintings by Charles Novacek
September 29 – October 31, 2013, during library hours
Saline District Library
555 N. Maple Road, Saline, MI 48176
http://saline.lib.mi.us/

Annual Slovak Heritage Festival
Talks, Performances, Displays & Vendors
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning, Oakland
Sunday, November 3, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

BOOK AWARDS:

2013 Eric Hoffer Awards
Honorable Mention – Memoir
Finalist – da Vinci Eye Award
Finalist – Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award
Finalist – Montaigne Medal

21st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Winner – Life Stories

Foreword Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Awards
Honorable Mention – Autobiography/Memoir

2013 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards
Winner – Bronze Medal – World History

2012 Midwest Book Awards
Winner- Gold Medal – Autobiography/Memoir
Finalist – Book Cover

2013 National Indie Excellence Awards
Winner- History

2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Finalist – Memoir (Historical/Legacy/Career)

Reader Views 2012 Literary Awards
Second Place – History
Winner –“I Have Something to Say Award” for the Best
Book Sharing Life Lessons Through Storytelling

The Book Designer November 2012 e-Book Cover Design Award
First Place- Nonfiction