Marcia K. Matthews
Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas
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Sexual slavery is today’s news. Drugging, abduction, rape, beating, and threats of disfigurement victimize women in a harrowing, sad and sordid underworld. ...Read Review
Cabin Gulch
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When I was young, my father owned the Zane Grey collection, and I read many volumes. I found some of them bland and ...Read Review
Fan-Tan
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The tale begins with a cockroach race in a Hong Kong prison in 1927. Like guardian dogs outside a Chinese temple, the repulsive details ...Read Review
Glimmering Girls
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At intimate distance, Glimmering Girls captures the subtleties of adolescent discovery, how innocence negotiates the “biological imperative.” Writing in the present tense, Gerber ...Read Review
The Swimmer
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Bank writes in an understated style, using poignant details to relate a story of abandonment. Kata and her brother Isti are small children ...Read Review
Cotton
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Cotton is a modern-day Orlando, in which an identity-shifting protagonist must adapt to changes several times in one lifetime. Lee Cotton is born ...Read Review
A Bride Most Begrudging
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In the 17th century, women were indentured as “tobacco brides” to Virginia farmers. Lady Constance Morrow boards a shallop to say goodbye to ...Read Review
The Cruise of the Sea Eagle
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This rollicking yarn stars a runaway nobleman who learned his trade as a common sailor, befriended an emperor and sailed the seven seas. ...Read Review
Jericho’s Road
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Jericho’s Road is a cow trail on the border between Texas and Mexico that’s ruled by cattle baron Jericho Jackson. The ...Read Review
The Stone That the Builder Refused
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This tome answers the question of how a former slave defeated Napoleon. The title is from scripture, “The stone that the builder refused ...Read Review