Sherry V. Ostroff
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A Wonderful Story Just finished The Physician. It was recommended to me because I am also a writer of historical novels. Noah Gordon created wonderful characters, exotic settings, and a great story. I was hooked from the very beginning. |
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I don’t know if this is allowed in this group, but I wrote an historical novel about Scotland. It’s called Caledonia. It’s about the Darien Scheme. My
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"I was thrilled to get an advanced copy of this book to read and review. Told through the memories of a little girl, the author, Sherry Ostroff takes you through her own family’s saga of living in a shtetl of Eastern Europe; living through hope, trage"
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"Sherry’s latest novel, The Wall at the Sugar Factory, is my favorite book she has penned thus far. The story details the harrowing journey of two strong, female Jewish characters, Shaindel and Elta, escaping the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Sherry’s "
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“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose

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