ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>reiss</title> <meta name="books" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <!-- start header --> <div id="header"> <table bgcolor="black" width="600" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td > <div align="center"><img src="title.jpg" width="735" height="45" alt=""><br><br> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana;"> <font color="#f5f19e"> &#80;oetry, &#70;iction, and &#77;emoirs<br>by &#76;eading &#87;riters<br> from throughout the &#87;orld</font></span></div> <font color="#f5f19e"></font></td> <td ><br><img src="booklogo2.JPG" width="169" height="225" alt=""> </td> </tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table bgcolor="black" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td > <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#f2e928>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #f5f19e" href="index.html">Home </td> <td ><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#f2e928>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #f5f19e" href="about.html">About </td> <td ><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#f2e928>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #f5f19e" href="authors.html">Our Authors </td> <td ><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#f2e928>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #f5f19e" href="books.html">Our Books </td> <td ><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#f2e928>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #f5f19e" href="news.html">News &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- end header --> <table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10"> <tr valign="top"> <td > <table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10"> <tr><table bgcolor="#f5f19e"> <td > <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"> <br> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000" <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="index.html"><h3>Home</h3></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br> </table> </td> <td > <table width="70%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td ><br><br> <h4><h4><span style="font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000>Richard Reiss</h4></h4><p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000>Richard Reiss's <i>Desperate Love: A Father's Memoir</i> is available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Desperate-Love-Fathers-Richard-Reiss/dp/0983828911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322675814&sr=8-1">Amazon.com</a>.<p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <!-- Row 1 Column 1 --> <td > <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000>In this searing memoir, a father confronts the complex issues of love and hate as he struggles to deal with his emotionally troubled and often violent son. Desperate Love examines the lengths that parents go to preserve their families and rescue children from themselves. Often gritty and occasionally funny, this extraordinary memoir follows one father s quest for love, faith, redemption and understanding in a life beleaguered with infertility, adoption and adolescent aggression. <p> </td> <!-- Row 1 Column 2 --> <td > <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<valign="top"><img src="reiss_shbcover.jpg" width="134" height="200" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> <h4>Praise</h4><p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> Finally&#151;a book that offers parents uncompromising insights into a family's struggles when a child goes awry. Desperate Love is a gritty yet elegantly told account of a son's spiral downward from suburban comfort to the Never Never Land of adolescents who fall by the wayside. And yet, incredibly, Richard Reiss also has given us an unforgettable memoir of a father who is a relentless optimist. <p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> &#151;David L. Marcus, Pulitzer-Prize winner and author of <i>What It Takes to Pull Me Through and Acceptance</i>. <p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> Richard Reiss is a brave writer who lays bare one father's struggle to love his troubled son. This groundbreaking memoir is both beautiful and brutal.<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> &#151;Jana Wolff, author of <i>Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother</i> <p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> Richard Reiss's <i>Desperate Love:A Father's Memoir</i> begins as a sweet dream of parental hope and rapidly descends into nightmare&#151;the nightmare that is the very worst one a father fears&#151;a nightmare in which his son is fighting demons, and is losing. The father tries his best to fight the demons with the boy, and he is losing, too. The worst thing about this worst nightmare any father can have is that each morning when you wake there is no relief of recognition that the nightmare was just a dream&#151;it was real! It is real! Heartbreaking, terrifying, beautifully written, fearlessly honest, yet tempered by the constant love and hope that holds a family together, Richard Reiss's Desperate Love is a book you will not be able to put down and one that you will never forget. The book concludes with a note of hope&#151;hope born of love&#151;of desperate love."<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> &#151;Thomas E. Kennedy, author of <i>In the Company of Angels</i> and <i>Falling Sideways</i> <p> <br> <br> <h4>Information about the Author</h4><p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <!-- Row 1 Column 1 --> <td > <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000>Richard Reiss began his professional writing career at the <i>Piscataway-Dunellen Review</i>, a Forbes newspaper, for which he wrote and was recognized by the New Jersey Press Association for his humor column, Reiss s Pieces. Over the next twenty five years he developed his skills as a professional fundraiser working primarily for colleges and universities. During that period he also wrote extensively about creating a family through adoption, and the joys and challenges of being adoptive parents. His writings have appeared in <i>The New York Times, ADDitude Magazine, Perigee Literary Journal</i>, and in the anthology, <i>Upstart Crows II: True Stories</i>, published by Wide Array Press. In 2008 Reiss collaborated with director and lyricist, Martin Charnin, to create the musical revue Love is Love. He is a lifetime resident of New Jersey where he lives with his wife and three children..<br> <p> </td> <!-- Row 1 Column 2 --> <td > <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<valign="top"> <img style="border-width: 0px;" src="rreiss_SHB_bw.jpg" width="100" height="144" /> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana;"><font color=#000000> <i>Logo art by Barry Lereng Wilmont</i> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"><table bgcolor="black"> <tr> <td > <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><font color=#f5f19e>Copyright &copy; 2011 Serving House Books &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- end footer --> </div> </body> </html>