Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she knowthat this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await.
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma’s astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to
Contents The Life of Frank Stockton • Jane Yolen Foreword • Jane Yolen 1. The Lady, or the Tiger? 2. The Discourager of Hesitancy (A Continuation of "The Lady, or the Tiger?") 3. The Griffin and the Minor Canon 4. The Sisters Three and the Kilmaree 5. The Bee-Man of Orn 6. Old Pipes and the Dryad
In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father’s
