In Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national and political awakening. The story takes Yacov, son of Hindele, and Binele, the daughter of the chalk vendor Yossele Abedale, to the industrial town ......
The Dutchman's Gold is a historical novel involving a pair of situational treasure hunters from New York who are enticed into a search for one of this country's largest treasures. The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in Arizona has attracted thousands of seekers over the past two centuries, all trying to use a series of tantalizing crews to locate the ......
Governor John Hunter arrives take command of the penal settlement, he must determine who he can trust. His security guard is one man who had not coem to line his own pocket.
The newest English translation of one of Haiti's most powerful literary voices DEsirEe Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot-one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world-constructs ......
The newest English translation of one of Haiti's most powerful literary voices DEsirEe Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot-one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world-constructs ......
Scarlett is a university graduate with a master's in biophysics and a chip on her shoulder. Artie is a retired professor of art history. They've been hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a cache of paintings discovered under the floorboards of an Italian townhouse. And they've taken an instant--and intense--dislike to each other. The ......
Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves - his career and marriage failing - is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China.
What if some of our nation's architects set into motion a series of acts so treasonous that we are still feeling their effects nearly two-and-a-half centuries later? That is the question at the heart of this stunning, provocative thriller. When newly minted doctor of history Jonathan Rickner stumbles across an old film canister in the National ......
