Carol Bergman

Another Day in Paradise; International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories
A powerful anthology of first-person stories by aid workers. From Afghanistan to Cambodia, Rwanda to Vietnam, Ecuador to Bosnia, these stories reveal how it really is on the ground in the world's hot spots. Covering natural disaster, war, and all-too-fragile peace, these emotionally raw accounts open an uncensored window onto the lives of aid workers and the triumphs and tragedies of the people they are trying to help in a troubled world.

Searching for Fritzi
Like other children of the Jewish Holocaust, Carol Bergman grew up oblivious to her parents' story of resistance and escape. Breaking her mother's silence and recording an oral history grew into a hunt for a missing cousin, Fritzi Burger, the beautiful Olympic ice skating champion who disappeared at the beginning of the war and then resurfaced during the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair.

Mae West
"Baby Mae" started out in Vaudeville in 1900 and went on to become a star of stage, screen, radio, and television. Her unique blend of wit, sexual innuendo, and self-parody delighted millions, but she was often denounced as "immoral." Among the first to dramatize interracial marriage and homosexuality, she battled the forces of censorship throughout her professional life.

Sitting for Klimt; Five Novellas
Each story evokes the work of a famous artist—Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, John Singer Sargent, Maria Izquierdo, and a Sumerian woman working in Egypt during the reign of Akhenaton and Nefertiti more than three thousand years ago. Bergman explores the artists’ models, families, and the times in which they lived. Loosely based on historical research, these stories are gems of color, light, and love. Told in a variety of literary styles from first and third person to realistic and magically real, Sitting for Klimt is an elegant portrayal of the artistic mind.