Phil Bookman–Author

INTERNET PIONEER MURDERED!
Barely a week before Internet pioneer Hunter York, founder of Yippee, died in an auto accident, he gave his old friend Mike Gold an envelope. “Just something I’d like you to open when I die,” he said with a big grin. But when Mike opens the envelope, he finds an enigmatic letter from Hunter, stating that he had uncovered serious wrongdoing of some sort and was concerned about how long he had to live.

The letter also asks Mike to help Hunter’s estranged 21-year-old son and only heir, Jason, cope with his inherited wealth and controlling interest in Yippee. To do that, Mike becomes CEO of Yippee, where his main task is to break up and sell the fading portal company.

Mike soon uncovers evidence that Hunter York was murdered. Then Jason’s Uncle Albert is killed in a drunken shootout with police, and is named by the cops as Hunter’s murderer and, perhaps, the murderer of Jason’s mother and brother five years earlier.

But Mike Gold discovers that he has only scratched the surface of the insidious conspiracy behind the Yippee murders. And, if he doesn’t solve this mystery quickly, more deaths may be on the way.

Protect Your Crown Jewels–Attack Theirs
How do companies like Microsoft and Google protect themselves against strategic competitive threats and grow their revenue and profit at the same time? This groundbreaking book reveals the strategy they use to divert their competitor's resources away from the product that threatens them. This book introduces the Strategic Competitive Defense Planning Process. Step-by-step instructions walk you through assessing competitive threats, selecting the ones to focus on strategically, and planning defenses against them.

• The three key factors that determine which competitive threats are truly strategic
• How to defend your strategy and build a new growth line of business
• How to get another company to defend your strategy
• How to protect your strategy with almost no investment
• The eleven steps to assuring attack success

Through The Golden Doors by Barbara Bookman
The history of a Jewish-American family, from Brest-Litovsk to Brooklyn to Long Island to California
Edited by Phil Bookman

Barbara Bookman was a first-generation American born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920. She died in 1996 at the age of 75 in Walnut Creek, California. She was a wife, mother, grandmother, friend, student, leader, school-builder, public servant, and role-model for women long before the adjective liberation was applied to them. She was well into her 60s when she began writing seriously. She wrote from the heart, as she did all things. Her memoir, Through The Golden Doors, was written during her last decade. It tells the story of a Jewish-American family, from the pogroms of Brest-Litovsk at the dawn of the 20th century to Brooklyn and beyond, through two world wars and the Great Depression.