Chester Aaron

Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become. It is a story of joy and grief, of love and anger, and of a boy who grows to manhood while the world he knows crumbles and falls. In his first novel, reprinted now after nearly three decades, Chester Aaron's clear eye leaves hidden neither the triumphs nor the tragedies, the sense nor the madness that are inevitable when human dreams and fears collide.

About Us

A gang of abandoned children, living together during the Depression in order to survive, is galvanized into action when a hobo kidnaps one of its members.

A Novel

Lackawanna

Gideon

Changes begin to occur for twelve-year-old Marian as she slowly begins to transform from an ordinary girl into a mermaid.

Home to the Sea

Malcolm Clark

Mushrooms and garlic go together like a horse and carriage, so The Marriage of Mushrooms and Garlic is a perfect title for this superbly illustrated collection of essays and recipes from two of the world's leading experts. What Chester Aaron and Malcolm Clark don't know about garlic and mushrooms respectively likely doesn't matter, anyway. With the help of skilled chefs Suzanne Adams and Pic Sangsana, and filled with the fabulous photographic art of Roger Adams, they have produced a small book worth its weight in delicious information.

The Marriage of Mushrooms and Garlic

Life is what happens. "This collection of stories is called Wars and Peaces because some of the stories take place in time of war, some take place in time of peace. "Why did I write these stories? "I will not try to convince you or myself to even try to say that because having participated in a war I will not, cannot, ever be at peace again. I have learned one fact that must be honored. That is the fact that neither war nor peace can ever destroy the need to love." — Chester Aaron In a writing career spanning more than 60 years, Chester Aaron has written about war, peace and the pieces of our lives that reveal us at our most human. In this collection of his short stories, spanning those six decades from his first published work to the 21st century, that humanity stands exposed in all its shame and glory and pleasure and pain.

The Collected Short Stories of Chester Aaron

Wars and Peaces

For 14-year-old Alex Kellar, the war can't be over soon enough. His beloved older brother Oliver is with the 101st Airborne, right in the heart of Nazi Germany's last-ditch battle for survival. That battle is about to come closer to home, beginning with Alex and his friend Larry discovering a drowned man washed up on the beach. When the body is identified as a German spy, the boys bask for a brief time in the spotlight. It's an exhilarating moment. Except once the spotlight is gone, Alex discovers that spy was not alone, and the lives of two elderly women his brother made him promise to look after—not to mention Alex's parents and older sister—are in great danger. Dare he tell the authorities the secret? If he doesn't, will it betray all Oliver is fighting to protect?

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