The Landscape Of My Disability In Original Poems And Paintings. ($25.98 from Amazon.Com) Here, in LARGE PRINT and large page size of 8" x 10", in my newest book, are fifty-eight poems and over forty paintings. In the 104 full-color pages you'll see samples of my art work and my poems about love, relationships, triumph and ability. I contracted polio at age five in 1951. I use a vent to breathe and a motorized wheelchair for mobility. Educated in public and parochial schools, on home instructions and at Hofstra University, I'm an artist and a writer. I'm the author of a number of books and numerous plays, short stories and poems. You can find them all on Amazon.Com. Here's what some are saying about The Landscape Of My Disability In Original Poems and Paintings:
"A profoundly beautiful cry for love and truth."
Yoshiko Dart, Disability Activist and Advocate, and widow of the great Justin Dart, Father of the
Americans with Disabilities Act
"It is excellent to have poetry by someone who understands disability so perfectly."
Jan Garrett, Executive Director, Berkeley, CA,
Center for Independent Living
The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of: More Short Stories To Read With The Night Light On ($15.98 from Amazon.Com) is Robert Mauro's newest book. Its 216 pages contain thirty fantastic tales of suspense and imagination. Mysteries, comedies and tragedies are all here to entertain, frighten, fool, tickle and tantalize the reader. In Mauro's exciting new book, you'll read about a very unfortunate fortune teller, an illegal alien who is not at all of this Earth, and even the discovery of a lost world that just might be the legendary Atlantis. And that's just three of the thirty stories. Mauro is a published playwright, novelist, poet and artist. The cover background of this book is one of Robert Mauro's watercolors.
The Whacking Of Maddy Exotica: A Sci-Fi Satire takes place in the 25th Century. It is over four hundred years after the death of Windows Gates, who gave birth to this brave new world. But now that brave new world lies in ruins after several NukeWars and the Devastation. The population has strangely exploded while the food supply has drastically dwindled, leaving humanity to revert to the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest. Max Riddle is born into this wild and crazy world and becomes its savior by killing the evil tyrant Maddy Exotica. This science fiction thriller is filled with action, adventure, comedy and controversy. It'll keep the reader thinking, laughing, and, most of all, turning pages! Order it on Amazon.Com.
Hollywood Homicide: A Harry Apple Mystery starts out with the discovery of the body of a beautiful, young, tattooed blonde. Her body is found in an L.A. drainage ditch. Is she a starlet? A hooker? One thing's for certain: she's dead, shot in the head with a .22. Looks like a mob hit, but is it? Harry Apple, a former crime reporter, now a best-selling mystery writer and amateur sleuth living in L.A., is determined to find out who killed the tattooed blonde -- and why. Apple nearly gets blown up, gunned down and stabbed in the process of investigating this Hollywood homicide and writing his second novel, based on this true crime. During his investigation, Apple turns up a terrorist plot and a few more bodies. This novel is filled with Hollywood hotties, hunks and honchos. The bodies might pile up, but so do the thrills, chills and laughs in this charming, comic crime romp. Order it on Amazon.com.
A Child Of The Holocaust: A Non-Survivor's Story Of Survival. The happiness of a Jewish family is destroyed when the Nazis invade Holland on May 10, 1940. At first life goes on as usual, despite the Nazis' occupation of Holland. But then the round ups of Jews begin and this once happy family must hide or die. A gentile friend gives them shelter. But eventually they are turned in and are sent in cattle cars to a death camp in Poland. All, except the oldest son, Peter, are gassed; however, the novel is narrated by the spirit of the youngest son, Hans. The Nazis may have gassed this young boy, but they could not destroy his spirit. He relates how his brother survives the death camps, the DP camp and makes his way to Palestine, where Peter helps found the State of Israel. A Child Of The Holocaust is history, tragedy and triumph. It is a must read for all who hope for peace in the Middle East. Order it from Amazon.com.
When I Was Seventeen: A Novel About Love, Friendship And Becoming An Adult is about a group of teenagers coming of age in suburbia. The main character, Jodie Banks, a shy seventeen year old, works on his high school newspaper. He's in love with Robin Klein, the newspaper's charming, pretty editor. The newspaper's staff includes a diverse group of teens, including one teen with a disability. Important and topical issues such as teen sex, AIDS, and abuse are covered in this exciting, touching novel, which every teen and every teen's parent should read. Order it on Amazon.Com.
The Night-Light Zone: Short Stories To Read With The Night Light On by Robert Mauro contains thirty-one Twilight-Zone-like tales of mystery and intrigue with a dash of humor thrown to keep the reader amused. Each story has a surprise ending. And each can be read in a single evening, preferably in bed with the night light on! From the classic monster-under-the-bed horror tale to a sci-fi story about a desert roadside attraction that turns out to be something much more real and much more frightening than some overgrown spider or a stuffed snake, these thirty-one fright-filled little yarns will keep the reader from yawning and possibly make him or her howl with laughter or fear! Mauro is a published playwright, poet and artist. He is the author of six other books, including Two-Character Plays for Student Actors, On Stage, How-To Live Longer With A Disability, Finding Love And Intimacy, The Landscape Of My Disability and his autobiography, Sucking Air, Doing Wheelies: Memoirs Of A Fifties Polio Survivor. CLICK HERE TO BUY IT ON AMAZON.COM
While my supply of my new book lasts, you can also order an autographed copy of THE NIGHT-LIGHT ZONE directly from me and save! Just send $20 + $4 shipping and handling to ROBERT MAURO, 257 Center Lane, Levittown, NY 11756-1042. Make your check or money order payable to Robert Mauro.
ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK BY ROBERT MAURO And One You Might Be in If You Know Mr. Mauro Sucking Air, Doing Wheelies: Memoirs Of A Fifties Polio Survivor is the touching, unforgettable autobiography of Robert Mauro, a 1950's polio survivor. Published on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Salk polio vaccine and spanning the years from 1946 to the present, in its 451 pages you'll see how one baby boomer, despite severe polio, a motorized wheelchair and a respirator, goes on to become an artist, the author of six books and a playwright praised by Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theater. It all begins in Queens, New York City with Mr. Mauro growing up in a time when Howdy Doody and Uncle Milty were on every black and white TV in post-war America, and when terrified parents and children feared a deadly plague bourn by the wind: polio. Mr. Mauro contracted polio on his 5th birthday, in 1951. During his life, he has gone from hospital to hospital, doctor to doctor, and endured painful rehabilitation and several surgeries. As a child he ended up in a horrible "special" school for the disabled, but his feisty mother fought to get him into their local Catholic school. Then, as a result of two spinal fusions, Mauro, as a teenager, ends up on home instructions for four years. It is during this time he discovers the joys of painting, reading and playwrighting. Following this he goes on to college during the Vietnam War, which is a time of political assassinations, campus unrest and countless antiwar demonstrations. In college Mr. Mauro begins to suffer from Post Polio Syndrome, severe depression, and he's put on antidepressants and a respirator. Despite all that, Mauro helps found a disability advocacy group at college. He and his disabled friends make the campus accessible and there Mauro meets and befriends a fellow disabled student named Ron Kovic, who goes on to write Born On The Fourth Of July. At college Mauro has his poems and short stories published and his first play is produced. After graduation, he begins to sell him plays, poems and articles, and creates a dating service for the disabled, which is mentioned on the Montel Williams TV show. Mauro goes on to find joy in his art and his writing. He has several intimate relationships, and begin to sell his paintings. Finally, Mauro begins to have his books published and, after several failed love affairs, he finds the love of his life, a nondisabled woman who doesn't care about his disability or his respirator. They fall in love and get engaged. Sucking Air, Doing Wheelies: Memoirs Of A Fifties Polio Survivor says a lot about courage, persistence, perseverance and never letting one's disability disable you. Mr. Mauro's motto has always been "disability doesn't mean inability. " And Sucking Air, Doing Wheelies: Memoirs Of A Fifties Polio Survivor should be a book read by everyone who wants to see what the human spirit is capable of. CLICK HERE TO ORDER
You can also order an autographed copy of Sucking Air, Doing Wheelies: Memoirs Of A Fifties Polio Survivor directly from Robert Mauro by sending $25 + $4 shipping and handling for book rate/media mail or $25 + $6 priority mail to Robert Mauro, 257 Center Lane, Levittown, NY 11756-1042. Please send only a postal money order payable to Robert Mauro.
THE LANDSCAPE OF MY DISABILITY, 40 pp, published by The Lemonade Factory, is my fifth book. It contains 31 of my poems including "The Landscape of My Disability". You can order your copy of LANDSCAPE from Robert Mauro, 257 Center Lane, Levittown, NY 11756, by sending a check for $6, plus $1 shipping and handling. Make the check payable to Robert Mauro. OR just click on ADD TO CART to buy pay via PayPal.
FINDING LOVE AND INTIMACY, published by Accent On Living Special Publications, is the best of my former print international personals newsletter for disabled singles, PeopleNet. In this book you'll read articles, short stories, book reviews, and poems -- plus some material never before seen. All are about sexuality and romance for the disabled single, or any single. FINDING LOVE AND INTIMACY will help you indeed find love -- if you read it.
Some of those who have read my work in PeopleNet have already married as a result of what they've learned from my writing. Copies of FINDING LOVE AND INTIMACY are available for $8.50 sale price plus $4 shipping and handling from me at the address below. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR pay via PayPal by clicking on ADD TO CART.
Co-written with Elle Becker, and published by Accent On Living Special Publications, HOW TO LIVE LONGER WITH A DISABILITY has been extensively researched and well documented. It will tell you how your disability might change with age. Besides chapters on Sexuality, Medications, Psychology, and Benefits programs, you'll read about how the aging process can affect a disabled person's job, energy level, sexuality, interpersonal relationships, and his or her general quality of life. You'll learn about just what psychological effects disabled persons might be feeling as they grow older. Depression, denial, anxiety, loneliness are all discussed. And ways of dealing successfully with these emotions. You'll also read the personal testimony of disabled men and women, who tell how they cope with disability and aging. The book has an extensive bibliography and is excellent reading for friends, family, spouses, doctors and counselors -- everyone who lives, loves or works with disabled men and women. And it was written by two extensively published authors who know disability and aging well. For your copy, send $11 sale price plus $4 shipping and handling to me at the address below. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR PAY VIA PAYPAL BY CLICKING ON "ADD TO CART".
TWO-CHARACTER PLAYS FOR STUDENT ACTORS ($16), published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd., it has an introduction by Gary Burghoff, who plays Radar on TV's M*A*S*H. The 192-page book contains 15 comedies and dramas about such things as learning disabilities, surrogate mothers, women's rights, nursing homes, dating, romance, friendship, and love. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR PAY VIA PAYPAL BY CLICKING ON "ADD TO CART".
ON STAGE!, also published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd., ($15), has a number of plays in it, including one about an independent college woman with a disability. It has been endorsed by Helen Hayes. You can order it from the address below. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR PAY VIA PAYPAL BY CLICKING ON "ADD TO CART".
I HAVE A DREAM is my radio drama about Dr. Martin Luther King, jr, published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Get your copy for $5 plus $2 shipping and handling. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR PAY VIA PAYPAL BY CLICKING ON "ADD TO CART".
CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST, published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd., is my 1-act young adults' play. It's $5, plus $1 S&H. Make check payable to Robert Mauro. OR PAY VIA PAYPAL BY CLICKING ON "ADD TO CART".
Note to non-U.S. residents: If you buy any of the above, you must pay in U.S. Funds. My bank charges a fee of $25 to cash foreign checks drawn from a foreign bank in the foreign country's currency. Naturally, I cannot accept such checks. Therefore, you must pay me only in U.S. Funds drawn from a U.S. bank -- or in cash. Ask your bank about how you can purchase a U.S. bank money order, which is payable to ROBERT MAURO in U.S. Funds.
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Robert Mauro
257 Center Lane
Levittown, NY 11756
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