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    Historical Fiction

    Cover of A Tugging String: A Novel About Growing Up During the Civil Rights Era
    Chil­dren’s
    A Tug­ging String: A Nov­el About Grow­ing Up Dur­ing the Civ­il Rights Era
    David T. Greenberg
    Cover of Rashi’s Daughter: Secret Scholar
    Chil­dren’s
    Rashi’s Daugh­ter: Secret Scholar
    Mag­gie Anton
    Cover of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice
    Chil­dren’s
    The Inquisitor’s Apprentice
    Chris Moriarty; Mark Edward Geyer, illus.
    Cover of Sarah's Key
    Fic­tion
    Sarah’s Key
    Tatiana de Rosnay
    Cover of All Other Nights
    Fic­tion
    All Oth­er Nights
    Dara Horn
    Cover of A Pigeon and a Boy
    Fic­tion
    A Pigeon and a Boy
    Evan Fal­l­en­berg
    Meir Shalev
    Cover of Stones Don't Bear Witness: A Historical Novel of the Kishinev Pogrom
    Fic­tion
    Stones Don’t Bear Wit­ness: A His­tor­i­cal Nov­el of the Kishinev Pogrom
    Boris Sandler; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
    Cover of Rashi's Daughters, Book Three: Rachel
    Fic­tion
    Rashi’s Daugh­ters, Book Three: Rachel
    Mag­gie Anton
    Cover of Triangle
    Fic­tion
    Tri­an­gle
    Katharine Weber
    Cover of Rashi's Daughters: Book One: Joheved
    Fic­tion
    Rashi’s Daugh­ters: Book One: Joheved
    Mag­gie Anton
    Cover of 1939: Into The Dark
    Fic­tion
    1939: Into The Dark
    Paula Phelan
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    Fic­tion
    Jerusalem Maid­en
    Talia Carn­er
    Essay

    Mag­gie Anton on Jews and the First Crusade

    Mag­gie Anton
    September 4, 2009
    Essay

    Mag­gie Anton on Being a His­tor­i­cal Novelist

    Mag­gie Anton
    September 2, 2009
    Essay

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    November 6, 2008
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