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History brought to life through storytelling – By Judy Reeves

Posted on March 23, 2015 by beverlymagid in Review

When a good story with compelling characters also brings history alive for me, I am hooked. Sown in tears is such a book. We may learn the facts about Czarist Russia in the early twentieth century – the pograms, and the devastation of Jewish communities by the Cossacks from history books, but let a writer […]

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Impressions in Ink – Sown in Tears – Review

Posted on December 13, 2012 by beverlymagid in Review

Title: Sown in Tears Author: Beverly Magid Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on 18 September 2012 Genre: Historical Fiction Labels: Russia, Russian History, Jewish History, Early 20th Century, Revolution Format: Paperback Age: Adult Pages: 194 Rating: 5 Stars Summary: Rural village of Koritz, Russia 1905. Leah and her husband Morris and sons Benny and Joseph, […]

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Ima on and off the bima – Review

Posted on November 29, 2012 by beverlymagid in Review

Sown in Tears by Beverly Magid – In this story, Leah survives a pogrom with her two young children. As she rebuilds her life as a widow, she finds herself tangled up with the local Russian commander as well as the growing Communist/worker movement. I was very taken with Leah’s story and found the book […]

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Editor at American Jewish Librarian raves about Sown in Tears

Posted on November 8, 2012 by beverlymagid in Review

This gripping book opens with a scene of a raid on Jewish village in Czarist Russia as local peasants unleash a torrent of violence against its occupants. The reader is thrust int the cruel world inhabited by Leah Peretz, the main protagonist, as she and her husband, Morris, struggle to protect their young children from […]

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Events

Author talk /WHERE DO I GO
Sherman Oaks Library

October 1, 6:30pm

 

“Women Made A Difference”
Discussion about women’s roles in three eras
Stephen Wise Temple

December 13, 10:30am

 

Reading for the “No Rules Book Club,”
San Diego, CA

January, 9, 2017

 

Discussion with “Dine and Discuss,” women’s group,
Los Angeles, CA

January 25, 2017

Beverly signing & selling books

LA Times Book Fest
USC Campus
Noon-2pm, April 12 at Booth 953
(the Greater LA Writers Society booth)

 

Authors Panel,
May 8, 2014 6pm

Platt Branch, Los Angeles Public Library
23600 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA
Beverly will read and discuss SOWN IN TEARS

 

“Big Orange Book Fair”

Chapman University,
1 University Drive, Orange, CA
Authors Pavilion
October 12, 13, 2013

Duarte Book Festival,

October 5
Sponsored by the Friends of Duarte Library, 10am-4pm
Westminster Gardens
1040 Santo Domingo Avenue,
Duarte, CA (just past Pasadena)

SOWN IN TEARS

Featured on RedRoom (www.redroom.com) the week of September 16, along with a guest blog.
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Reading/Signing – 2 Book Clubs

Palos Verdes, CA
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4pm
Vromans Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA

 

March 2, 2013

Grand Avenue Park Book Festival (downtown LA)
Book signing/reading

 

November 5, 2012

Book reading/signing
Westwood Library
1246 Glendon (near corner of Westwood & Wilshire Blvd) at 6pm.

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