Harriet Rochlin

Desert Dwellers

Reformer's Apprentice (Feb-1996)
First Lady of DOS Cacahuates (Feb-1998)
On Her Way Home (Apr-2001)

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  Reformer's Apprentice
  

  • Feb-1996
  • / Historical
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  Desert Dwellers
  

  San Francisco, 1875-1880

  Torn Between her feminist group leader and her traditional Jewish family, Frieda leads a double life aspiring "Elevated Feminine Spirit" and unpaid, overworked cook at her father's kosher boardinghouse until a lusty Arizon...

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  First Lady of DOS Cacahuates
  

  • Feb-1998
  • / Historical
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  Desert Dwellers
  

  Arizona-Sonora outpost, 1880: Her adoring husband promises love, status, camaraderie, wealth. Her father predicts she'll cry to come home. Frieda experiences sandstorms, flashfloods, hard work, heat, infidelity (hers), chicanery, disappointment. She ...

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  On Her Way Home
  

  • Apr-2001
  • / Historical
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  Desert Dwellers
  

  Frazzled Family Ties and Tin Horn Justice in the Arizona Territory Rochlin offers a fascinating tale of the Old West from a Jewish perspective that is not often found in books, while her expertise in early Arizona life will appeal to all western afi...

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  The Desert Dwellers Trilogy
  

  • Jul-2004
  • / General Fiction
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  Comprised of Rochlin's three highly acclaimed historical novels of a Jewish girl's life in the American West, the Desert Dwellers Trilogy is packaged in a gift wrap.

  Frieda Levie, the trilogy's headstrong heroine, is seduced by Bennie Goldson's pr...

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