Marilyn Oser: 2 books

Where do you turn when love turns to hurt, when loss turns to fury? Impetuous is not a word you’d use to describe Claire Bramany. She’s capable, reliable and steady. But when a sudden accident in Brooklyn in 1995 takes the life of her lover, Jessie Friedman, Claire’s world implodes. And worse...

Russia, 1914. Rivka, daughter of a prosperous boot maker, seems destined by tradition for marriage and the humdrum rounds of shtetl life. Then war breaks out, and things go badly for the tsars army. When demoralized troops begin deserting their posts in the trenches, one unlikely officer recruits a...