We are thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of two books by Shir Tikvah members, JD Kleinke and Mia Birk. While very different in subject matter, the two new books will explore material close the the hearts of many. Mazel tov, JD and Mia!
Catching Babies by JD Kleinke
Catching Babies is a medical novel that charts the professional and personal struggles of a group of OB/GYNs as they complete their residency in a busy urban teaching hospital, embark on ambitious careers, and try to mend personal relationships neglected through years of training and sacrifice. Catching Babies also explores the broader landscape surrounding obstetrics and women’s health…
* the culture clash of religion, reproductive rights, and medical technology
* the emotional brutality of residency training
* the politics and bureaucracy that drive today’s academic medical centers
* the struggles of disenfranchised women trapped inside a broken health care system
* the truimphs of many women to get and stay pregnant against the medical and technical odds and America’s ongoing civil war over abortion rights
Catching Babies weaves together a series of gripping stories about individual doctors, nurses, midwives, and patients, in the process telling the larger story of how and why we deliver babies and care for women in the odd and often maddening ways we do.
Check out his website at jdkonline.com or see catchingbabies.com for more information and to place a pre-order for his book
Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet by Mia Birk
I am pleased to share the release of my book Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet with the Shir Tikvah family.
I’ve been so blessed by a career of tikkun olam in my work creating a more healthy, safe, and livable world. Joyride tells the story of my 20-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With a table scrap of funding, we grew Portland, OR into the #1 American cycling city. Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. In Joyride, you get the hilarious and poignant stories of the people behind the scenes, the battles we fought, our successes and our failures. I then hit the road, helping make communities across the nation – even my hometown, Dallas TX – more human, healthy, safe, and livable. While many books today extol the pain of our world’s problems, Joyride is the antidote, offering hope to any and everyone interested in changing our world for the better, one pedal stroke at a time.
Please join me for the Joyride release party August 15th, 10 am to 4 pm, at Sunday Parkways, Portland’s heaven-on-earth car-free community celebration. We will be serving up free hot dogs at my house on SE Lincoln Street between 35th and 37th, right along the route . Live music all day from our favorite Shir Tikvah musician, the incomparable J.D. and his Sunday Parkways Bluegrass Jam Band.
Joyride will be in stores soon, or you can pre-order on my website miabirk.com, come by my house during Sunday Parkways, or let me know if you want a copy and I’ll bring to an appropriate Shir Tikvah event. $2 of each book sale to Shir Tikvah members and friends goes back to Shir Tikvah.
Thanks for your support! Mia Birk
…and check out her video here: Joyride and Mia Birk
