Ashes and Ruins begins in the home of an affluent Jewish German family in 1935. The protagonist, Clara, came from a large and very wealthy family, and her eight siblings […]
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Author: K. Lang-Slattery
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What Keeps Us
Author: Jeanine Boulay
Many people, as they stroll through cemeteries, notice the names and dates on the headstones of strangers. They might comment about how old—or, sadly, how young—someone was at death. They […]
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Isabela’s Way
Author: Barbara Stark-Nemon
Isabela’s Way is a historical novel set in the 1600s centered around the Inquisition. For many, including myself, the Inquisition may have been a period receiving little attention other than […]
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All God’s Sparrows
Author: Leslie Budewitz
Many people take to heart the notion of charity, or performing helpful deeds, as a prerogative of simply being human. For every one person we learn or hear about, thousands […]
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Rules for Mothers
Author: Julie Swendsen Young
When Elly Sparrow opted for marriage over graduate school and a career, she didn’t imagine the reality that such a domestic life might offer. She loves her four children and […]
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Her Daughter
Author: Fran Hawthorne
Every mother of a daughter will find something to relate to in Fran Hawthorne’s novel about a woman who loses her connection with her beloved teenage daughter and wonders if […]
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