This was my Ultimate Valentine! An article on Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek on the front page of the February 14, 2014 Detroit Free Press – above the fold! Thank you Zlati Meyer, Staff Writer and Kimberly P. Mitchell, Photographer. Read the article here.
“One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can’t get help from your friends or family. You’re finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.” –Shirley Temple It doesn’t take much to arouse memories of my late, beloved husband Charles Novacek! I woke up this morning …
My husband Charles liked to cook and do the grocery shopping. He took pride in selecting the freshest produce and meat at the lowest possible cost. He learned to cook as a child from both his Hungarian/Slovak mother and Czech father. Charles’ specialties were traditional Slovak, Czech, Austrian, and Hungarian dishes – his mother’s recipes: …
“Highly recommended read. . . a copy deserves to be in every community library 20th Century Biography collection for the sake of new and future generations of readers.” ―Midwest Book Review I’m thrilled! The respected Midwest Book Review has reviewed Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance in the January 2014 issue “Small …
Over the last year many articles/interviews have been published about Charles’ and my work to get Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance published. Below is an excerpt and link to one of my favorites, written by Howard Lovy for Foreword This Week, the weekly eNewsletter from Foreword Reviews magazine. FTW delivers compelling reviews of …
Book Beat called Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance “a dynamite tale by a local hero” and named it among the Top 13 books about Detroit in 2013. Detroit’s MetroTimes included Border Crossings in its 2013 Gift Guide, A Year in Detroit Books, : “Best of all was Border Crossings and it’s hardly about Detroit …
