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The Gostynin Shul Kindle Edition
Kris Langman (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
Dr. Joanna Adelman leads a quiet life. She takes walks with her seeing-eye dog, Delilah, and tries to survive her Grandmother's cooking. Her work as a Yiddish translator adds small details to the story of Jewish immigration to Boston, but has never been the most exciting of careers. Until the Zielinski documents. They arrive in her office one morning – a jumble of handwritten pages in a cardboard box. Suddenly Joanna finds herself fending off an enraged Hasidic group intent on preserving its reputation, and a Boston society matron desperate to preserve her family's wealth and status.
With the help of Ming Leibowitz, her Chinese-Israeli assistant, and Dr. Phillipa Henderson, a colleague specializing in African-American culture, Joanna delves into the layered history of Boston’s Beacon Hill and the fight over a small plot of land once owned by former slaves.
The centuries-old struggle of Boston’s marginalized Jews and African-Americans to find a place to call home reignites in modern-day Boston, and old hatreds threaten to break a community apart.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 25, 2013
- File size526 KB
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- ASIN : B004UGMA5I
- Publisher : Post Hoc Publishing; 1st edition (November 25, 2013)
- Publication date : November 25, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 526 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 212 pages
- Lending : Enabled
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Logic to the Rescue series:
Book 1: Logic to the Rescue
Book 2: The Prince of Physics
Book 3: The Bard of Biology
Book 4: Mystics and Medicine
Book 5: The Sorcerer of the Stars
Book 6: Warlock of the Wind
Book 7: The Engineer of Evil
Book 8: Book 8 will conclude the Logic to the Rescue series. It will be available in 2022
(Castles and Chemistry is no longer on sale as a separate book. It has been included in Book 1, Logic to the Rescue.)
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My issues with book are in regards to the rather one dimensional and rather irrational villains. I really struggled see them and their motivations. Perhaps it is the author's way of making a point about the nature of greed/pride, but it seemed more like those characters and their actions received very little thought. Joanne's guide dog (Delilah) seemed to be more fleshed out. My second issue was one that would not bother most people, but there is a factual error that should bother any physical scientist. Light elements such as carbon are formed in the core of mainline stars. Only the elements heavier than iron require the immense amount of energy in a supernova to form. It is a minor point, but it really bothered me that Joanna made a lengthy comment based on an erroneous fact.
Despite these issues I truly enjoyed the story, the background information and most of the characters.
Many plot developments just don't make any sense. For example, a rich matron slaps Dr. Adelman, and Dr. Adelman does nothing? While being pursued by a murderous Micah Levy inside a museum, Dr. Adelman and her escort hide in a darkened auditorium instead of running towards the public area of the museum?
Most disappointing of all, I never understood the link connecting Micah's father, the African American property owner, and the cult in New York. The story just ends abruptly without proper closure to the questions raised throughout the story. I agree that the authors writing is engaging at the beginning of the book, but more work should have been done to draw the disparate elements to a cohesive conclusion.