Joseph J Sollish: 5 books

Tell Me A Story is a mystery novel set in a small southern town during the Depression of the thirties. Loren Oakers, an attorney, is a man who, tyrannized by an abusive father, spent his early adulthood spiting that parent, to the point of bringing home a bride he knew his father would reject. The...

Forty-year-old Louise Berman has been wallowing in self-pity ever since her husband left her for a woman half her age and twice her brassiere size. Her English literature professor daughter, Laurie, has been living with her, all while attempting to keep a relationship with her father and his new wife....

Family Forever features a murder trial, a legal dispute taken to the international court of justice in The Hague, a holdup of a Whitman restaurant by a gang of thieves, the brutal murder of the gangs leader, a traditional Jewish wedding, a noted philatelists hunt for a stolen stamp, and the production of a movie starring a Whitman.

In 1893 Baltimore, Cornelius Maximilian, a rugged ships master who has been summarily dismissed from the merchant navy as a result of the conniving of an avaricious trader, meets strong-willed, independent Vanessa Tompkins. Over everyones objections, Vanessa accompanies him to the Shelbourne coal...

Guardians of the Dream is a sequel to Gates of Horn and Ivory, continuing the story of Cornelius and Vanessa Maximilian and the unique town they built on the site of a restored coal mine in 1893. The years carry the town and the family through the destructive machinations of their son, the Great War,...