BOOKS
My work encompasses a variety of topics.
- I love food – and share my cooking adventures with readers of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, my local paper, each week. My cookbook, Garden Gourmet, includes many recipes arranged by seasons.
- I love nature and the outdoors – which is reflected in many of my poems and some of my children’s writing. Loon Summer was published in 2022.
- I’m neurodiverse – which inspired my first book, Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability: Stories and Strategies, the poetry collection Different, and some of my children’s stories.
- I’m also an immigrant and descended from Holocaust survivors – which inspired my mom’s memoir, My Nine Lives, some of my poems, and Good in the Midst of Evil.
Would you like to order signed or personalized copies online?
Oh, yes, you can! You can purchase personalized signed copies of nearly ALL of the books or anthologies I've been part of! For autographed copies and to support a local merchants, order from the Saranac Lake Village Mercantile.
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Oh, yes, you can! You can purchase personalized signed copies of nearly ALL of the books or anthologies I've been part of! For autographed copies and to support a local merchants, order from the Saranac Lake Village Mercantile.
THE VILLAGE MERCANTILE
97 Main Street
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
518 354 8173
[email protected]
Newest Book - Loon Summer
nature poems and wilderness photos
From landing on just-thawed lakes in spring to raise their chicks, until they migrate to ocean waters in the fall, loons enchant us with their haunting calls and black and white plumage.
Diving, swimming, fishing, raising their chicks are portrayed through Yvona Fast’s lyrical poems and Nina Schoch’s stunning photos.
Fun science facts accompany each poem and photo, providing scientific information about loon calls, diving abilities, fishing skills, and how they raise their chicks.
PLACES TO PURCHASE:
Harvard Book Store
Abe Books
Alibris
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Better World Books
Walden Pond Books
Good in the Midst of Evil
Yvona Fast and Dana Fast, authors of Good in the Midst of Evil
REVIEWS "An amazing story of good people reaching out and helping others." - from an Amazon reader "The day I received this book, I read it cover-to-cover and realized this memoir of childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and its surrounding countryside is all-too-relevant today." - from an Amazon reader Review on Goodreads |
Good in the Midst of Evil
One Girl's Survival of the Holocaust After a daring escape from the Warsaw ghetto, 11-year old Lilka is torn away from her family. With a name change and new identity papers, her life becomes a masquerade. She must learn to act the role of a Catholic girl living in the Polish country, a role she's not familiar with or prepared for. Will she succeed?
Dana became a strong, independent woman, with a degree in chemistry and a career in medical research. She retired to gardening, hiking and volunteering in her community of Saranac Lake, where she has lived almost a half-century. She was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by Assemblyman Billy Jones in 2022. She is an Adirondack 46er, has hiked across England, grew all her own vegetables and flowers for many years. She volunteered at the Saranac Lake Free Library, as a Master Gardener Volunteer, at the Paul Smith’s Visitor’s Interpretive Center both with school kids and at the butterfly house, at the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge Habitat Awareness Day, at the Saranac Lake Village Improvement Society, and other venues.
Dana’s message for many years has been that it has been unfair to deny the heroism of many Poles who risked their own lives as well as the lives of their families. In her memoirs she describes the individuals who helped her find Good in the Midst of Evil.
Questions? Contact Yvona at [email protected].
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Rise (Imprint of Clear Fork Publishing, April 5, 2022)
Language: English
Paperback: 194 pages
ISBN-10: 1950169693
ISBN-13: 978-1950169696 |
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EMPLOYMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME OR NON-VERBAL LEARNING DISABILITY
With practical and technical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field. Purchase at Amazon |
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GARDEN GOURMET
If you shop farmers markets or belong to a CSA, this is the cookbook for you. The recipes are easy to follow and yummy. Purchase at Amazon |
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ZESPOL ASPERGERA I NLD
The Polish language translation of Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability: Stories and Strategies. |
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MY NINE LIVES: A MEMOIR
A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. “This well-written and deeply affecting memoir is extraordinarily timely—not only as a lesson in how suddenly and violently the world as we know it can collapse, but as a beautiful reminder of the bravery and compassion abiding in our fellow man.” – Niki Kourofsky, Senior Editor, Adirondack Life Magazine Purchase at Amazon Listen to Joe Dockery's interview with Dana Fast, who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto as a young girl during the Nazi occupation of WWII – episode 2 at www.fromthehipradio.net and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCm9dC5Y_88&t=1482s Susan Hoffer mentions the painting she did of Dana, a Holocaust survivor, in this North Country public radio interview: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43022/20210113/art-that-celebrates-connections-during-a-time-of-isolation and https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/images/Warsaw_Ghetto.jpg |
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