Also by Cynthia P. Gallagher
Two tools to incorporate the message of tolerance into your curricula and programs:
The Eyes Have It, Cynthia Polansky’s powerful companion story to Far Above Rubies, published in:
Books & Novels
Fiction written as Cynthia Polansky
Nonfiction written as Cynthia P. Gallagher
Far Above Rubies
FAR ABOVE RUBIES is based on the true story of one woman’s courage in the nightmarish hell of Hitler’s regime, and her determination to survive it. As the Nazi persecution of Europe’s Jewry escalates, all six Rijnfeld girls are called up for deportation. Rather than allow her stepdaughters to venture alone to an arcane fate, Sofie insists on accompanying them, ignoring the dangerous implications. After several months in a Dutch transit camp, they are transported to Auschwitz where Sofie discovers a strength and ingenuity she never knew she had. But can her indomitable spirit help keep her daughters alive?
Sofie’s fortitude will be put to the test many times during the war. But even so strong a woman as Sofie is not left unscathed by the horrors of the Holocaust. Had her decision to go with her stepdaughters been the right one?
This is the story of a woman who refuses to be bested by circumstances. Like a phoenix, she rises from the ashes of tragedy to triumph as a heroine who calls to mind this passage from Proverbs, “A woman of valor who can find? For her price is FAR ABOVE RUBIES.”
Death and the Maven
Formerly in print as Remote Control.
“If the spirit of a loving wife can’t nudge her husband in the right direction, who can?”
So thinks thirty-something Judith McBride, a Jewish control freak with an unlikely last name. When Judith dies in a medical mishap, she calls on her supernatural status to “rescue” her widowed husband from the sexy clutches of their gold-digging, thrill-seeking blonde accountant. But interfering with earthly events is strictly verboten and the repercussions ripple outward, deeply affecting not only Judith but the lives of her husband and best friend.
Judith’s journey from the physical to the spiritual world is peppered with adjustments, choices, and self-discovery ultimately leading her to the realization that loving sometimes means learning how to let go.
Books Edited by Cynthia P. Gallagher
- The Pomeranian by Lexiann Grant (TFH Publications 2006)
- The Border Collie by Tracy Libby (TFH Publications 2006)