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Best Book Award Finalist 2011
New Mexico Book Awards

Selected for New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival 2011

Coming Home to Yourself: Eighteen Wise Women Reflect on Their Journeys by Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro.

Eighteen women tell about major changes they made in their lives at mid-life. Drawing from the experience and wisdom accumulated in their early years, each made changes to feel comfortable, "at home" with themselves.


Best Book Award Finalist 2011
New Mexico Book Awards

The Mountain, the Desert and the Pomegranate Stories from Morocco and Beyond by Vanessa Paloma.

Stories where the mystical meets the mundane from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. From redeeming the new born child in a sacred ritual to the coyotes howling in unison with a soprano in the desert. These compelling stories entertain and enlighten.

 

Selected for New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival 2011

By Fire Possessed: Dona Gracia Nasi &
Princes, Popes
and Pirates
by Sandra K. Toro

In these books Sandra Toro follows the experiences of Dona Gracia Nasi's Sephardic family from the Expulsion from Spain to forced conversion in Portugal and eventually their escape to the Ottoman Empire, where they could openly practice as Jews.



 

Coming Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire

Princes

Princes, Popes and Pirates gives the life of Joseph Nasi who was named the Duke of Naxos. He was opposed the Christian powers and became a persona non grata in European power circles. Christopher Marlowe's figure of the Jew of Malta was drawn the historical person of Joseph Nasi, a character later adapted by Shakespeare as Shylock.

 

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