Charlie Carillo

Mickey was once a teenage heartthrob with a number one hit single called "Sweet Days." Now, unable to get his act together, he returns home to Queens where he is reunited with Lynn, his former high school sweetheart who inspired the song.

One Hit Wonder

"The Skylight Room" is a tale of two amazing women locking horns in Greenwich Village - one young and famous, the other old and poor, both incredibly strong and passionate. The young one, Hannah Schmitt, is a onetime super model, married to a retired baseball superstar. Eager for the right home in which to film her family's reality show, Hannah buys a crumbling red brick rooming house in the Village, where Clare Owen has lived in the skylight room for nearly seventy years. Hannah buys out out all the other tenants, but Clare refuses to budge, and until she does, the building cannot be renovated, and the reality show can't be filmed. Their battle turns into an all-out crusade in the pages of the New York Post, spearheaded by a tabloid force of nature named Tom Becker. Read all about it! Supermodel trying to evict saintly old woman! Stressful times follow. Hannah's marriage falls apart. Her children are troubled. She must get that house, to keep it all together. And when Hannah climbs the stairs to the skylight room to negotiate face-to-face with Clare, we learn all about this old lady's jaw-dropping life in the Village of the 50s, which includes flings with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio and Jackson Pollock. She was wild, she was gorgeous, and she too was on her way to becoming a supermodel - when her crazy love life took a nasty turn. It's a dark secret Clare has kept to herself all these years, until she shares it at last with Hannah - who, it turns out, is more of a soulmate than an enemy.

The Skylight Room

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Celebrates the anniversary of "Inside Edition" with a look at the show's top stories from its twenty-five-year run.

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The Way We Are

The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end. . .funny, moving. --Mike Lupica, New York Times bestselling author of Heat In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old son in a tale that rewrites the book on quality time together. . . Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and pushing fifty, his relationships have the longevity of a fruit fly. But how many men can get themselves fired and have their only son expelled from prep school all in one day? Now, after almost eighteen years, he and Jake may finally get to know each other. (That's if his ex-wife--the super-achiever Sammy can only dream of being--doesn't find out.) Jake knows virtually nothing about his roots. So, Sammy shows him the old neighborhood in the far reaches of Queens. But it's been thirty years. The older woman Sammy lost his virginity to now uses a walker to get around. Most of his hangouts are long gone. It's dreary, born-to-lose stuff. But Jake is on a mission. Wise beyond his (and his dad's) years, he doesn't want his father to miss out the second time around on the good things he blew the first time. And they've got a whole weekend together--a journey where Sammy will confront his, dysfunctional childhood and Jake will face a past he never knew he had. This isn't your typical father-son story--one is still growing up. The other is his son. "In the tradition of Tom Perotta, Carillo explores the strength of the family bond, the power of forgiveness, and the hope that comes from embracing second chances. . .truthful, and hilarious."--Alison Grambs, author of The Smart Girls Guide to Getting Even "I don't like funny, touching novels because they make me wish I'd written them myself. I enjoyed Charlie Carillo's book from beginning to end and now I'm miserable." --Sherwood Kiraly, author of Diminished Capacity "A literary romp through the minefields of a totally normal, and totally abnormal, family. . . I actually laughed out loud and kept turning the pages to make absolutely sure that all worked out at the end." --Cathy Lamb, author of Henry's Sisters "Scathingly hilarious and truthful." --Sally Jenkins Queens-born Charlie Carillo, like his protagonist Sam Sullivan, worked at the New York Post as a journalist for many years. He is also the author of My Ride with Gus and divides his time between New York City and London, England, where he works as an independent television producer.

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