Based on extensive research author Alice Hoffman fills in the gaps in the lives of the Frank sisters, Margot 14 and the younger, Anne 11 two years before the family was forced into hiding.
“What’s love got to do with it?” Song lyrics popularized by the late, great Tina Turner encapsulate the sentiment expressed by author Marcia A. Zug in a new book, You’ll Do, A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love. Taking an historical approach with examples from colonial…
Joe Bosco graduated second, ahead of 131 other students from Harvard’s Medical School. Any parent would “kvell” about that prodigious result. But not Joe’s dad! Upon hearing Joe’s status he responds, “Do you know what second place is son”? Those stinging words would compel Joe…
Set against two major, historical disasters, The Great Fire of London and the Bubonic Plague, The Phoenix Bride, a new novel, exquisitely penned by author Natasha Siegel, recounts the interfaith romance between an aristocratic, gentile widow “bewitched” by her Jewish doctor.
The Most Human By Adam Nimoy
A longed- for reconciliation between an alcoholic father ---whose alter ego is half human ---and his son, an addicted“marijuanaholic,”might capture the interest of a few readers. But The Most Human transcends the ordinary memoir when the father is Leonar…
