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Books by Jim Gold
For adventurous minds and hungry hearts  


Carlos the Cloud

Jim Gold excels as a writer in the joys of improbability. His stories seize upon the most unlikely of heroes and heroines, and plunge them into situations none of us could ever imagine. They come to us with a hilarious assortment of odd backgrounds, very strange attitudes, and utterly surprising needs and ambitions.
Some of them are people. Some are animals, and others plants. There are guys and gals who worry about their sex lives or their deaths, a talking turnip, a cloud with Oedipal problems, a whole world of vivid creations. And they’re all inescapable, irresistible–a tangle of living neurons and flesh we can’t help but be drawn to because they so often, and so surprisingly, remind us of ourselves. These invented souls hint of our own needs, our own frailties. . .and our own triumphs. They will leave you a happier soul.

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A Treasury of 

International Folk Dances
A Step-by-Step Guide
Choreographed by Jim Gold

★ Extensive, easy-to-follow guide to 124 new folk dances
★ Each dance comes with links to a YouTube video  
★ Step-by-step written instructions for each dance 
★ Add vibrant, exciting folk dances to your repertoire!                     
Back Cover:
JIM GOLD HAS BEEN AN INDISPENSABLE VOICE in the international folk dance community as a folk dance teacher, choreographer, and musician.  He is also the president of Jim Gold International and organizes folk tours to to such exotic countries as Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Norway, Albania, Romania, Argentina, Cuba, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ireland, and more.
He has published five volumes of insightful New Leaf journals along with folk dance and travel novels and collections of short fiction.
This book is a product of extensive research into the languages, cultural histories, and folk dances local people have performed for centuries.  Mr. Gold intends it as the first reference work of its kind—a repository of movements and dance steps, captured in his choreographies, created over many years.

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Zany: A Father-Son Odyssey by Jim Gold

ZANY!
A Father-Son Odyssey
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MAD SHOES
From Bronx Violinist to Bulgarian Folk Dancer
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Mad Shoes Review
Hi Jim,
Thought I’d let you know, that I had your book, Mad Shoes, tucked away on a shelf, since we went to Bulgaria, about 3 or 4 years ago. It’s at my cabin in NC and I have no TV here, by choice. Anyway, I picked up your book late one night (about 10:30pm) when I couldn’t sleep. Guess what? I was up all night reading it, as I just couldn’t put it down. What a fantabulous story line. Finally I dozed off about 7:15AM and had to wait until the next day to finish it. I thoroughly enjoyed it all and the final chapters in Bulgaria brought back a lot of fond trip memories that we had there.
Fondly,
Maryann Zeliznak

HANDFULS of AIR
Whimsical, humorous, philosophical stories, songs, poems, Crusader Tours, Handfuls of Air, and much more
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A NEW LEAF:Adventures
in the Creative Life

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A NEW LEAF: 5 Volumes
Adventures in the Creative Life
Individual volume of A NEW LEAF:  $15

All 5 Volumes of A NEW LEAF:  $65
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