Chapter One - The Flower (15:00)

Chapter Two - The Mad Russian (24:02)

Chapter Three - The Tick Tock Man (14:23)

Chapter Four - The Coal Man (17:04)

Chapter Five - The 'Bo (12:55)

Chapter Six - The Dove (22:56)

   This talking book project was placed here on a 'listen-only basis" to help spread the word about "Berto's World", the wonderful, new book by Dr. R. A. Comunale - author and practicing M.D.
   You are invited to "traverse the memories of life growing up in the tenement neighborhood of Roberto Galen, the gifted son of immigrant parents who also became a medical doctor.
    Among the remarkable people in Berto's World are Galen's mentor, Dr. Corrado Agnelli who, along with a dead lady, set Berto on his life's path, the Mad Russian who always carried his meat cleaver whenever he got a shave from Thomas the Barber; Giuseppe  - "Joe the Junkman" - who roamed a neighborhood too poor to throw anything away; the Old Guys, veterans of The Great War who never tired of sharing their war stories with neighborhood kids; the Candy Lady who was anything but sweet; and the little Jewish dentist who deafeated the Nazis, only to fall victim to Cupid's arrow from a completely unexpected direction. You will meet Sal, Tomas and Angie, Berto's pals with whom he confronts many of life's greatest mysteries; and many more wonderful characters - the unforgetable denizens who make up Berto's World.

    R.A. Comunale is an author, a specialist in aviation medicine,  and semi-retired physician in family practice who lives and works out of his home office in McLean, Virginia.
   Dr. Comunale enjoys writing, gardening, electronics, pounding on a piano, and yelling at his dimwitted cat. He describes himself as an eccentric and iconoclast. His patients agree.

    The cat is seeking legal counsel.