ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Michelle Cameron is a director of The Writers Circle, a New Jersey-based organization that offers creative writing programs to children and adults, and the author of works of historical fiction and poetry: The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz (Pocket, 2009) and In the Shadow of the Globe (Lit Pot Press, 2003). She lived in Israel for fifteen years (including three weeks in a bomb shelter during the Yom Kippur War) and served as an officer in the Israeli army teaching air force cadets technical English. Michelle lives in New Jersey with her husband and has two grown sons of whom she is inordinately proud. Her website is michelle-cameron.com.
SELECTED TITLES FROM SHE WRITES PRESS
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Dark Lady by Charlene Ball $16.95, 978-1-63152-228-4
Emilia Bassano Lanyer—poor, beautiful, and intelligent, born to a family of Court musicians and secret Jews, lover to Shakespeare and mistress to an older nobleman—survives to become a published poet in an era when most women’s lives are rigidly circumscribed.
Elmina’s Fire by Linda Carleton $16.95, 978-1-63152-190-4
A story of conflict over such issues as reincarnation and the nature of good and evil that are as relevant today as they were eight centuries ago, Elmina’s Fire offers a riveting window into a soul struggling for survival amid the conflict between the Cathars and the Catholic Church.
Light Radiance Splendor by Leah Chyten $16.95, 978-1-63152-178-2
Set in Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and culminating in contemporary Israel and Palestine, Light Radiance Splendor shows how three generations of the Hebrew Goddess Shekinah’s devoted mission keepers grapple with betrayal, love, and forgiveness.
The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger $16.95, 978-1-63152-907-8
A compelling and powerful story of two girls—cousins living on separate continents—whose strikingly different lives are forever changed when the Nazis invade Vilna, Lithuania.
Even in Darkness by Barbara Stark-Nemon $16.95, 978-1-63152-956-6
From privileged young German-Jewish woman to concentration camp refugee, Kläre Kohler navigates the horrors of war and—through unlikely sources—finds the strength, hope, and love she needs to survive.
The Vintner’s Daughter by Kristen Harnisch $16.95, 978-163152-929-0
Set against the sweeping canvas of French and California vineyard life in the late 1890s, this is the compelling tale of one woman’s struggle to reclaim her family’s Loire Valley vineyard—and her life.
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