The Yiddish MimeChaja Goldstein’s life is full of color, glitter, passion, and romance, but her art means everything to her. At first, all that mattered was to be a star. After Hitler became the chancellor of Germany, she escaped to Holland. From there, her career took her throughout the world. As the Yiddish Mime, she portrayed the Other. She fought against fascism and intolerance through her audience. In 1942, she was transported to Westerbork Transit Camp from where nearly all the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz. As fate would have it, she was saved. The Commandant needed her talent for his very own cabaret. Available now on Amazon |
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The Chicago TrilogyA dynamic series that follows a family of strong women from the depths of the 1930’s depression to the protests of 1968 and Viet Nam. The Sisters KBook 1: 1934- In an uncertain age of poverty, amidst the glow of jazz and swing dancing, eighteen-year-old Sylvie leaves home to find work in Chicago. Ambitious and unafraid to break a few rules in order to get ahead, she makes her way into the fashion industry. Her career is on the rise and then she meets Adam. Read more… |
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Cold WarsBook 2: 1953- From the close of the romantic Big Band Era to the start-up of Rock n’ Roll, Sylvie clings to ghosts of the past. As a high powered career woman in a man’s world, she can handle anything that happens in the glamorous fashion industry. When it comes to love, she won’t come out of hiding, but then Harry comes to call. Read more… |
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A Time to SpeakBook 3:1968- Home or abroad, Viet Nam is the headline, and the next generation of the Levin family can’t escape a world set on fire. Flower children pound the drums of change. The National Guard is armed and out in full force. Cousins Annie and Bela couldn’t have more different lives. Annie is a stay-at-home mom with three kids and Bela is a budding journalist, but when Annie’s husband is tapped to fly bombers over Viet Nam, and Bela is caught in the explosive Democratic National Convention, Viet Nam becomes personal. Read more… |
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Fanny and SimonFanny was a young child when her family moved away from a small village in Lithuania to the slums of Manchester, England. Other than having a few years of public school education, she has spent most of her childhood helping her mother at home while her father struggled to make a living. Simon has just graduated from the Vilna Yeshiva. He comes from a long line of rabbis and being a scholar in his devotion to Ha Shem is the essence of his life. With an arranged marriage awaiting him, he sails to England to meet his sixteen-year-old bride. Read more… |
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The DiariesPlagued by the fate of her older sister, Pearl escapes with the rest of her family before their shtetl in Ukraine burns to the ground during a pogrom. As she adjusts to a new life in America, The Great War breaks out, and her family is cut off from her sister completely. Read more.. |
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Ulla’s DaughterCurl up in your favorite window seat for an old fashioned romance. Ulla’s Daughter opens at the glamorous St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904. At the heels of her mother’s death, Canadian correspondent Anna Liisa Neimi is on her first international assignment. Before she reaches the showy front gate of the exhibition, she meets Frank Bradshaw and is immediately taken aback by his brash arrogance. Read more… |
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Murder on OranienburgerstrasseIn a world gone mad, no one is safe. Civil liberties had been disbanded months ago. Red banners with black crosses stream down every building. Speaking out is punishable by death. Hana Schiffler and the underground network she belongs to have packed it in before getting caught. Now at the brink of dawn, Hana eludes a storm trooper to reach her fiancé’s flat so they can make plans to get away. Breathless and desperate to fall into his arms, she opens the door, but he isn’t there. Read more… |
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My Eighteenth YearThe talented and beautiful Flora Peters is running away from her past, hooked on drugs and living with a sociopath. Her ex-best friend from high school, Carrie Wells, has earned a scholarship to a prestigious women’s college out East. She is trying to fit in and doing a spectacularly bad job of it, and then Flora ends up at her doorstep. Read more… |
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The White Shingle HouseSixteen-year-old Emily Braddock can’t stand her mother. After her parents’ divorce, her mother dragged her away to her grandmother’s white shingle house in Minneapolis, away from everything and everyone she knew, especially from her father whom she hadn’t heard from in months. Read more… |
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The TunnelTen-year-old Evie finds a treasure map while staying with her twin cousins at her grandparent’s house. If she can only convince Leo and Ian to go along with her, she’s sure a great adventure is in store for them. Little do they know that the tunnel will lead them into the middle of Sioux country, over a hundred years ago. Read more… |
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Esme the WitchEsme is a seven-year-old witch who mixes up her spells. She can’t concentrate or get anything right. What is wrong with her and is there a magic cure? Read more… |
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