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After ten nonfiction books and dozens of articles, mostly about history and science, I had an urge to go beyond the facts to search for truth. The result: Seven Stitches, The Ninth Day, and Blue Thread, three companion novels of the Blue Thread Saga, which you can read in any order. Each one entwines two worlds that are centuries apart, an heirloom prayer shawl, and a time-traveling woman with a passion for pursuing justice and a yen for cucumbers.
After ten nonfiction books and dozens of articles, mostly about history and science, I had an urge to go beyond the facts to search for truth. The result: Seven Stitches, The Ninth Day, and Blue Thread, three companion novels of the Blue Thread Saga, which you can read in any order. Each one entwines two worlds that are centuries apart, an heirloom prayer shawl, and a time-traveling woman with a passion for pursuing justice and a yen for cucumbers.
The Blue Thread Saga
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Seven Stitches: Portland, Oregon, 2059. It’s been a year since The Big One–the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake–hit the city and devastated the Oregon coast. Meryem Einhorn Zarfati is still struggling to put her life back together when she’s called upon to save a young girl enslaved in 16th-century Istanbul.
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The Ninth Day: Berkeley, California, 1964. The Free Speech Movement is raging. Miriam Hope Friis, a shy, stuttering, teen scarred by an accidental LSD trip, plans to keep a low profile. Then she is whisked to 11th-century Paris, where she must find a way to stop a zealous father from killing his newborn son. On her mission through time to save the baby, Hope finds her activist voice. But can she put it to good use back home in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement?
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Blue Thread: Portland, Oregon, 1912. Spurning her pampered life, Miriam Josefsohn strives to work in her family’s print shop and campaigns for a woman’s right to vote. She finds an heirloom shawl, steps into a time-traveling adventure, and faces an ancient conflict over women’s rights. Miriam’s hardest struggle awaits when she returns to Portland and the woman suffrage campaign.
Winner, Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2013 |
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