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Sherry V. Ostroff

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Sherry V. Ostroff writes the stories history forgot — the ones tucked into the margins of great events, waiting to be told.
Her writing has been compared to Geraldine Brooks and Ken Follett.

THE LUCKY ONE
A young woman. A crumbling empire. One daring escape.
This award-winning memoir — a Top 20 Indie Book of 2017 — follows Ostroff's own mother fleeing Eastern Europe in the 1920s. A story of survival, courage, and the cost of leaving everything behind.

CALEDONIA (3-time award winner)
Two women. Three centuries apart. One unbreakable bond.
What connects a woman in modern Scotland to one who walked the same land 300 years ago? A sweeping, romantic, and mysterious novel that moves between the Scottish Highlands and Central America.

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	Caledonia: A Novel 4.39 avg rating — 101 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Expulsion: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition 4.46 avg rating — 76 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lucky One: A Memoir of Life, Loss and Survival in Eastern Europe by Sherry V. Ostroff (Goodreads Author), Elaine Vernick 4.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Wall at the Sugar Factory: A Novel 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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CALEDONIA: AN AWARD WINNING BOOK

CALEDONIA won first place in the adult fiction category in the Indie Diamond Book Awards for 2019.

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“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: inquisition, torture, truth

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