In this intimate and open account--nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read--Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen's love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe "Ed," but never "Eddie"), written while still mourning...

"Simple text and photographs present brothers and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.

As famine overtakes the land, Simeon leads his brothers into Egypt to buy grain. He doesn't recognize the vengeful ruler he must bow before: Joseph, his long-lost brother, the very brother Simeon sold into slavery years ago. Now, it is the brash Simeon's turn to endure imprisonment. Only Mandisa, the handmaid who interprets the ruler's language, is his saving grace. The beautiful widow and her young son see another side of Simeon, the tenderness beneath...

"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem—efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...

Brothers is an original, phantasmagoric piece of fiction that is steeped in myth and fable. In a world of "gruesome, gargantuan creatures, two-headed fish, turtles with shells as big as islands, whales with mouths so large they could consume entire cities," two brothers set out to find their dog of a father. The elder brother is missing an arm, while his younger brother has been fashioned by his mother from that arm. Excess and adventure abound as...

Two young boys Tommy and Billy come from extremely poor and unloved background, and the eldest of the two, Tommy, feels totally responsible for his younger brother, Billy. Tommy decides to take matters into his own hands regarding supporting Billy and himself, which takes them on a journey of death, misery, and being on the run from the policehis dreams of making everything right for them both is just too much for him. Their mother believes that she...

Brothers is comprised of the following short stories…The Answer---A stormy night triggers an epiphanyOut of Sync---A bittersweet memoryThe Pickup---An encounter at a grocery storeA Christmas Gift---A trinket prompts a recollectionBrothers---Three brothers embark on an assignmentThe Commandments---Moses at Mount SinaiThe Waitress---A man's heart is tugged by a waitressA Sign of the Times---Problems abound at a recruiting campWhile You Were Away---A...

On October 22nd, 1982, at Sharei Tzedek Hospital, two babies are born at exactly the same time, one to a Jewish mother, the other to a Muslim woman. Amid the turmoil of that day, the hospital becomes the unwitting partner to a crime of passion, a crime involving the covert swap of the two babies. It isn't until 28 years later that a nurse, who was in the delivery room reveals the truth, triggering a series of happenings both tragic and profound. In...

The world struggles to find peace. Two old guys discovered the answer. Fifty years after they fought in Vietnam, they worked it out. They grew up together and went to the same schools, yet they had never met. They served in the army together, were both shot down in helicopters, and lost some of their best friends in combat, but they had to wait to meet. The answer was not in combat, military training, or book learning. They were tough soldiers who...

During a dangerous rescue mission, Commander Tiejin and his troupe are locked in heated battle when he stops dead seeing none other than the brother he lost five years before, now fighting alongside the enemy.