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Name of Book: The third daughter Author: Talia Carner ISBN: 978-0-06-289688-9 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: Russia, prostitution, Argentina, shtetls, 1889-1897, south America, life, dancing, family, friends, tricked, Zwi Migdal, loyalty Year it was published: 2019 Summary: From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a remarkable story, inspired by little-known true events, about the thousands of young Jewish women who were trafficked into prostitution at the turn of the 20th century, and whose subjugation helped build Buenos Aires. The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing   with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America.  Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she...

Name of Book: Hotel Moscow Author: Talia Carner ISBN: 978-0-06-238859-9 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: Russia, Boris Yeltsin, 1993, Duma, Moscow, treasures, anti-Judaism, pride, character flaw, sacrifices, women's rights and issues, mistrust, kindness, wariness, drudgery, lack of resources, control, conspiracies Year it was published: 2015 Summary: From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman--the daughter of Holocaust survivors--who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism, and finds herself embroiled in a perilous mafia conspiracy that could irrevocably destroy her life. Brooke Fielding, a thirty-eight year old New York investment manager and daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors, finds her life suddenly upended in late September 1993 when her job is unexpectedly put in jeopardy. Brooke accepts an invitation to join a friend on a mission to Moscow t...