LOVE IN THE SECOND ACT True Stories of Romance, Midlife and Beyond More Info       Purchase	Link to San Francisco Chronicle review   "This beautifully written book will inspire readers with the knowledge that love can be stronger and more fulfilling in middle to later life." —Edith Ankersmit Kemp, LCSW, and Jerrold E. Kemp, ED.D,, Coauthors of Older Couples: New Romances, Finding and Keeping Love in Later Life   “Love in the Second Act is an innovative, refreshing insight into romance: midlife and beyond.  It’s a joy to read.”  —Sol Gordon, Ph.D., author of Another Chance for Love
	FIET'S VASE and Other Stories of Survival, Europe 1939-1945 More Info       Purchase	"A young Dutch Jewish woman vanishes without a trace, except for the small silver vase evoking her memory in Alison Leslie Gold's poignant chronicle, Fiet's Vase and Other Stories of Survival, Europe 1939-1945.  Gold, who lost relatives in the Holocaust, calls it "my job and my passion" to help aging survivors—heroic or unaccountably lucky—bear witness before it's too late.  Each record of "a life wrested from extinction" reads like a miracle, a silver chalice excavated from dust." —Oprah Magazine   "We must be grateful to Alison Leslie Gold for having done the difficult work of collecting these stories of survival, and for telling them as they should be told: in language as transparent as pure water.  This book is about the deepest kind of human suffering, and as such it is a holy book."  —Singrid Nunez, author of For Rouenna and A Feather on the Breath of God   "This important collection of stories preserves more than the memories of ordinary men and women living through one of the most terrible periods in history.  They remind us of the survival of human strength, courage and love against all odds, something we all need to remember." —Sharon Salzberg, meditation teacher and author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Loving kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
	ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold     More Info       Purchase	"Let us give recognition to Alison Leslie Gold.  Without her and her talent, too, this poignant account, vibrating with hmanity, would not have been written."  —Elie Wiesel, Chicago Tribune "Beautifully written by a person who really cares for other human beings.  Her simple style hypnotizes the reader." —Isaac Bashevis Singer "Fascinating and deeply affecting." —John Gross, New York Times “…written with straightforward, unassuming simplicity …this is a significant piece of history as well as a valuable document of humanity and courage…” —Faiga Levine, The Washington Post
	THE DEVIL'S MISTRESS The Diary of Eva Braun: The Woman Who Lived and Died with Hitler A NOVEL   More Info        Purchase	The Devil's Mistress, nominated for a National Book Award, is a chilling, satirical work of extrapolation that has been grafted onto a fragment of Eva Braun's actual diary written in 1935.  Based on extensive research and supported by a factual armature, this personification of evil takes the reader into the hidden erotic life of Hitler, and—as she was affectionately nicknamed, Fraulein Effie.  And, without ever realizing that she was the sex slave of one of the cruelest men in history, she was nonetheless able to chisel out a powerful identity for herself within a loathsome, amoral milieu of mass killers.
	A SPECIAL FATE Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust More Info        Purchase	When Chiune Sugihara was growing up in Japan, he had never even met a Jewish person.  There was no way Chiune could know that he would one day save the lives of thousands of Jews—and become a great hero to the Jewish people.  Alison Leslie Gold interviewed Chiune's wife, Yukiko, as well as other friends and family, in order to tell this story.
	MEMORIESOF ANNE FRANK: Reflections of a Childhood Friend More Info       Purchase	Readers of Anne Frank's diary "will be grateful for the fuller picture" rendered through the recollected wartime experiences of Frank's best friend, said the Publishers Weekly starred review; "Gold brings home the painful truths that Frank has come to symbolize."
	CLAIRVOYANT: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce   More Info       Purchase	"A vividly written book that plays daringly in the no-man's land between biography and ficiton.  Alison Leslie Gold deserves a wide audience." —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year "This is a fascinating and upsetting book, one that compels the reader to rethink his notions of the relation between insanity and genius." —MacDonald Harris, author of The Balloonist and Hemingway's Suitcase