A FIGHT FOR MIAMI

A gangster. A dreamer. One city up for grabs.
In The Fight for Miami, award-winning author Joseph Kovler delivers a pulse-pounding
historical thriller set in the glitter and grit of 1920s–30s Miami Beach — where the American
Dream goes to war with the American Underworld.
Al Capone, fresh from Chicago’s bloody empire, sees Miami as his next conquest. Carl Fisher,
the visionary who built the city from sand and swamp, will risk everything to keep it a “sundown
town” guarding its privilege behind polite walls. Their clash ignites a battle for power, pride, and
control of paradise itself — a fight that mirrors the struggle for America’s soul.
Riveting, cinematic, and steeped in real history, The Fight for Miami brings to life an age of
corruption, ambition, and transformation — when paradise and vice shared the same shoreline.

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THREE MILE HARBOR

In 1700 New York City, the beautiful Sarah Kidd is an enigmatic figure. The wealthy wife of the notorious pirate Captain William Kidd possesses both riches and extraordinary mystical abilities. With the gift of vivid dreams and the power to summon valuable treasures to her hands, Sarah walks a fine line between fortune and fear, knowing that such gifts could lead to accusations of witchcraft and, if convicted, death.

Fast forward to 2026, where her descendant, Roberta Kyd Rousby, a talented artist and retired US Army Command Captain, discovers she has inherited more than just Sarah's sprawling estate at Three Mile Harbor on Long Island. Burdened by her new abilities and haunted by the echoes of her ancestor's past, Roberta finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue. Three Mile Harbor once believed to be a possible hiding place of Captain Kidd’s legendary treasures, is now home to a secret government research facility probing the mysteries of teleportation, dream physics, quantum cryptography, and the paranormal.

As Roberta navigates her newfound gifts, she becomes the focus of clandestine operations that could change the course of history. Will she harness Sarah’s powers to uncover the truth behind their family's legacy, or will she fall victim to the dark forces that seek to control her? Join Roberta on a thrilling journey of discovery, danger, and the magical intersection of past and present, where dreams may hold the key to unimaginable treasures—and perilous secrets.

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AT THE CORNER OF HITLER AND GOERING

Dealing a Blow to Nazi Ideology

In 1938, against a backdrop of the war in Europe, German Max Schmeling loses to the American Joe Louis in the first round of a fight at Yankee Stadium. After watching the defeat of his national hero to a "schwarze," and to Max Baer, a Jew, a few years earlier, Karl Seger decides to stage a boxing exhibition at Camp Siegfried, the Nazi youth camp he runs on Long Island, inviting three Jewish boxers, trainer Jackie and his proteges Ruby and Moe, to serve as sacrificial lambs in a display of German superiority.

For Seger, the exhibition is a way to advance his career and to restore his wounded pride and the pride of his people. For the Jewish boxers it is a chance to physically take a stand against anti-Semitism and deal a blow to Nazi ideology.

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Five-Star Bronze Winner for the Novella Category in the 2022 HFC Book of the Year contest

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From the author of "At the Corner of Hitler and Goering"

The dramatic accounting of the experiences of two Cuban refugees sponsored by the CIA and the Catholic Church as part of "Operation Pedro Pan" and sent to live at the Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk, NY during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the inspiration for Kovler's script, "Camp Hero," and the novella, "Dangerous Crossings."

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HENDERSONVILLE OLYMPICS

In the summer of 1965, Josh, an athletic fourteen-year-old Jewish boy from New York City, travels to Hendersonville, North Carolina. He spends this summer with four distant and culturally different cousins who invite him to participate in the teenage rural "Olympics."

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These sports, all foreign to him, include shooting, rock skipping, horseshoe throwing, wood chopping, fishing, and mountain relay races. Living next to a white supremacist soldier returning from Vietnam and his brother, who is about to leave for Vietnam, Josh is exposed for the first time to a war that has yet to make the headlines. The police suspect these two brothers of stealing and killing family dogs in and around Hendersonville. As the police question them, Josh finds himself in mortal danger, and he experiences anti-Semitism at a level he hasn't seen before.