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Vivian's Decision by Della Leavitt

Vivian’s Decision by Della Leavitt

An evocative work of historical fiction, Vivian’s Decision is an all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one’s own. Vivian Jacobson is distraught to...

Copper Divide by Beth Kirschner

Copper Divide by Beth Kirschner

Copper Divide chronicles one woman’s story of friendship tested by a society torn apart by an infamous labor strike and the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster. In 1913, a massive and violent copper miners’ strike...

Chil­dren of Abra­ham by Marc David Baer

The 1,400-Year His­to­ry of Jew­ish – Mus­lim Relations From the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim–Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.Today, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and...