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Books On My Reading List This Week
Posted on October 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along With Me This week, I’m continuing my focus on Jewish literature. I’m still working my way through Elie Wiesel’s Night Trilogy. I wish I would have picked this back up sooner. Wiesel’s writing is absolutely brilliant. The second book on my list is a new release from Kyra Robinov, URGE to ROME: My […]
[Book Review] A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard by Jill Culiner
Posted on October 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Jill Culiner In her latest work, Jill Culiner takes her reader on a journey through 19th century eastern Europe as she searches for a rebel and contrarian, Velvel Zbarzher. Zbarzher spoke in favor of Jewish Enlightenment at a time when communities were ruled by the Hasidic rebbes and Jewish law controlled all aspects of […]
Books On My Reading List This Week
Posted on October 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along With Me This week, I’m focusing on Jewish literature. I hope you’ll read along with me as I visit some contemporary classic Jewish literature and a newly published work by historian and artist, Jill Culiner. The first work on my list is I and Thou by Martin Buber. Regarded as a classic text, […]
[Book Review] The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Posted on September 29, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Sarah Penner Nella is an apothecary in 18th century London like her mother before her. But when a lover’s deception brings tragedy to her doorstep, Nella begins dispensing tinctures, powders, and the like to women desperate to be free of men in their lives. Each customer, and her intended victim, is recorded in the […]
Books On My Reading List This Week
Posted on September 28, 2021 Leave a Comment
Read Along With Me Over the weekend, I made a trip to my local library, in search of some new reading material. I find it incredibly relaxing to wander among the shelves, browsing the spines until something jumps out at me. On a recent trip, I discovered a biography on Charlotte Bronte, a favorite of […]
[Book Review] Under His Spell by Luv Lubker
Posted on September 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Luv Lubker Book one in The Rival Court series, Under His Spell is a historical romance novel following the love story of Prince Fritz of Prussia and Princess Vicky, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. The young couple aspires to unite Germany into a peaceful kingdom but Fritz’s uncle Karl has other aspirations. This story […]
An Interview with Author Rose Ross
Posted on June 29, 2021 Leave a Comment
Rose Ross was the first child born in the Neustadt, Germany displaced persons camp (1946). “Growing up in the Bronx, the only child of Holocaust survivors, affected me deeply, filling up my mind and the very air I breathed, ” says Ross. “Their story, and the stories of other survivors, and the second generation of […]
[Book Review] Celestial Persuasion by Mirta Ines Trupp
Posted on June 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
By Mirta Ines Trupp Abigail Issacs is a gifted astronomer. But the loss of her father places her in a perilious situation that requries help from her brother, who has been away at sea. When she receives a tragic reply, Abigail finds herself in the charge of Lieutenant Raphael Gabay and pursuing a different ambition […]
An Interview with Author Madilynn Dale
Posted on June 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
Madilynn Dale is a mixed genre writer based out of Oklahoma US. She is married and has one little boy who is three. Madilynn has a group of rescue pets and she enjoys being outdoors. And is an avid reader and enjoys reading in her downtime. Q: Can you sum up Releasing Her Power Within in […]
An Interview with Author Isaac Kal
Posted on June 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
Isaac KalBorn in 1958, he is married and has 4 daughters. Isaac is an international businessman who lives in Toronto Canada.Isaac used to work over 20 years for the Israeli Prime Minister office. In the midst of the Covid-19 closure, the author had plenty of time to go through the photos and documents of his […]
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