Ron Kase Libri

The Paperback Book Club© edition of Fiddler's Return combines the newly revised novels Fiddler's elbow and Fiddler's Revenge along with additional chapters that follow the life and journey of the book's empathetic main character, Moro Moskowitz, a physician and ex-Army Ranger. He's brilliant, wealthy and dangerous, but living on a razor's edge, trying to make sense of life through a series of deeply emotional and highly sensual relationships with desirable women that are usually married to someone else. Introduced in Ron Kase's first novel, the award winning Fiddler's elbow, Moro leads readers on an odyssey while seeking his true identity. His travails are interspersed with local history and culture so that readers have a real sense of place. Moro's quest takes him from the early years in Illinois to secret places in the Caribbean; then to Europe to witness one of the late 20th Century's most disturbing events and finally to Mexico's Yucatan in his search for redemption.

An extraordinarily beautiful mixed-race woman travels through the 1930s from the Prohibition era to the dawn of World War II, moving from domestic servant to mistress of a wealthy industrialist and on to a loving relationship with maestro George Gershwin while he completes the operatic masterpiece ?Porgy and Bess.' Filled with the history of Tampa's exotic Ybor City, the home of Cuban culture in America, readers are introduced to the place and the people that produced legendary handmade clear Havana cigars for a half century. The novel also provides a perspective on the awakening of America's sexuality, glamorous old Havana, the post-Prohibition rise of organized crime and the historic uncertainties of Cuban-American relations

From 1920's Speakeasy to mid-century haunt of the famous and infamous, discover the tantalizing history of a legendary New Jersey Nightclub. Where did Frank Sinatra, Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joan Crawford and hundreds of other A-listers along with mobsters like Meyer Lansky eat, drink and dance? It wasn't in Hollywood or at the Copacabana but at Bill Miller's Riviera in Fort Lee. The Riviera's breathtaking views of New York, its stunning showgirls and its gambling hall drew the famous and infamous to its tables. After it was originally run as a speakeasy by Ben Marden during the 1920s, Bill Miller, a Russian Jewish immigrant, attracted the most sought-after performers and turned it into one of the most popular nightclubs during the 1940s and 1950s. Relive Bill Miller's Riviera and experience the excitement of his lucky patrons.