Talia Carner
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
399, 12 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside with her family, fleeing the endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Her new "husband" does indeed bring her to America: Buenos Aires, a vibrant, growing city in which prostitution is not only legal but deeply embedded in the culture. And now Batya...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While Esther understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her.
