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Sarah Segal tells the horrific tale of the Holocaust, the gripping story of her family and her ravaged home. She relates the story of a family member who served in the special Sonderkommando unit in Auschwitz, who spent six years in the Holocaust with death breathing down his neck. She describes how this brave group of strong Jewish men were forced to aid the Nazis in carrying out the Final Solution to the Jewish problem. How these prisoners of Auschwitz managed to go on after sending their victims to the gas chambers and then to the crematoriums. 

In 1372, on the desolate North Sea shore of England, a small community of nuns inherit a deserted medieval castle. As the sisters settle in to their new abbey, they must unearth the horrific secrets that lay buried in the castle's past and that now threaten the lives and sanity of all the sisters.

After Marianne discovers that her bankrupt stepfather sold her into marriage to the highest bidder, she flees Philadelphia and heads west to start a new life. Unfortunately for her, danger follows. First, a stage coach accident leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere - with an injured driver. And henchmen hired by her spurned would-be husband are hot on her trail, threatening to return her to Philadelphia and the man who is determined to own her. Just when things seem hopeless, Marianne is rescued by a handsome cowboy who offers temporary refuge.

Ella Kanner grew up as a secular Jew until age 18. Today, she is Orthodox, with insight into both sides of the Jewish experience. Her book reveals the emotional and spiritual response of different women to the inner sanctity of the Mikveh, the Jewish ritual of purification and one of Judaism’s oldest and most special ceremonies. Body of Her Own presents absorbing monologues by women of various ages, localities, and levels of society.