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Name of Book: The Book of Esther Author: Emily Barton ISBN: 978-1-101-90409-1 Publisher: Tim Duggan Books Type of book: alternative history, Khazar Jews, WWII, Esther retelling, female to male transgender character, Hitler, Judaism, meaning of life, spiritualism, Kabbalah, gender roles, desert, journey, path, Khazaria Year it was published: 2016 Summary: What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen—and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia? Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania—and a city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad. After years of Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europa, fleeing the war, Germania launches its siege of Khazaria. ...