Books with author Joseph Romm

Les Lewchuck is a rink rat―he loves hanging around his neighborhood park in East End Toronto, playing hockey whenever and with whom ever he can. He's keen to hit the ice, then, when he finally gets to join a real team, the Metro Cats. He soon finds, however, that Roddy and Lenny Smith, a couple of tough, bullying brothers, run the team. When Les flattens one of the brothers in practice, they vow to get him back. To make matter worse, Les's parents have separated and things at home aren't how they used to be. When his troubles at home and at the rink reach a fiery crisis, Les has to find the courage to tell the truth about a painful situation.

Based on his own observations during an extended stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders. The illegitimate and rootless Friedrich Kargan―the Trotsky figure―goes compulsorily but willingly into exile in Siberia after openly defying the coldly amoral Savelli―the novel’s Stalin figure. Written at the height of speculation about Trotsky’s fate, The Silent Prophet is a brilliant portrayal of revolutionary idealism-turned-cynicism.

The Cat Squadron, a collection of highly trained combat pilots. Our stories come straight from the files of the Lafayette Escadrille in the year 2372. Our world had indeed come full circle, and now is populated with Rats, Alligators, Squirrels, Raccoons, and Dogs… Cat’s too! Our new species have mutated. Gone are the long tails of their ancestors, and they have risen in stature; walking upright with an average height of five and a half feet. The one ancestral trait still remains: War!

When Matt's family moves to a small Canadian town where baseball is not very popular, he accidentally hits his head on a rusted machine and is transported back to 1928 where Butts Wagner is testing out a new bat-making invention which will revolutionalize baseball.When Matt's family moves to a small Canadian town where baseball is not very popular, he accidentally hits his head on a rusted machine and is transported back to 1928 where Butts Wagner is testing out a new bat-making invention which will revolutionalize baseball

Set in Roth's native Galicia, is one of his finest and most artistically satisfying novels. The exploration of evil, justice and suffering which forms the underlying theme, is a recurrent one in Roth's writing, and with his central character, Anselm Eibenschutz, the just Inspector at odds with himself and a hostile world that will ultimately destroy him, Roth has created one of his most convincing and deeply felt figures. 'Joseph Roth was one of the really great writers of our day; his German prose has always been a model of perfect style. He wrote every page of his books with the fervor of a true poet; like a goldsmith he polished and repolished every sentence till the rhythm was perfect and the colour brilliant. His artistic conscience was as inexorable as his heart was passionate and tender.' So wrote Stefan Zweig shortly after Roth's premature death in 1939. Since that time his reputation has grown steadily, and he now stands among the great prose writers in the German language. First published in 1937 translated by David Le Vay. Introduction by Beatrice Musgrave.

There are yet several other books prewritten prior to this one that are about that Arizona crow and, in one, the animals decide to call the crow Pedro. Note that in his other short books to be released at a later date, these will explain Pedro's personal life as a crow and have other animal stories. Note that though the crow also never gives his name, the other animals call him Pedro just the same.