Carol Ascher

Carol Ascher has published six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her new novel, A Call from Spooner Street, depicts the reconciliation between an octogenarian Jewish refugee who spent the war years in Camp Sherbrooke and his estranged daughter. She is working on an exhibit for the Sharon Historical Society, “A Chance for Land and Fresh Air,” which depicts this hidden history of Jewish farm families in northwest Connecticut, to open October 22nd. Visit carolascher.net.

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Carol Ascher
In Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg , a lively look at the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, co-authors Shana Knizhnik, a law student, and Irin Carmon, a reporter for MSNBC, mix chatty stories, photographs, charts, letters, and cartoons with legal decisions to illustrate the illustrious career of the first Jewish woman Supreme Court justice.

American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

Carol Ascher
In American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest (HarperCollins) , award-winning author Hannah Nordhaus treats us to a genealogical detective story that combines memoir, cultural history, and ghost hunting in her quest to discover the truth about her great great-great-grandmother.

When Your Great-Great-Great-Granny Is a Famous Santa Fe Ghost

Carol Ascher

In American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, award-winning author Hannah Nordhaus treats us to a genealogical detective story that combines memoir, cultural history, and ghost hunting in her quest to discover the truth about her great-great-great-grandmother.