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Cynthia Polansky's Books

based on the inspiring true story of a Holocaust survivor
Apr.15.2008
On the morning of May 10, 1940, the last thing Sofie Rijnfeld expected was the sky to start raining German paratroopers. She and Jan, her husband of 3 years, were living contentedly in Amsterdam with Jan's six daughters. Life held the promise of a bright future for the Rijnfelds, until the German occupation of Holland and a six-pointed star made of yellow cloth with the word Jood...
Control-freak Judith McBride is dead and never looked better, but has a little trouble giving up the ghost...so to speak.
Jan.02.2008
"If the spirit of a loving wife can't nudge her husband in the right direction, who can?" So thinks thirty-something Judith McBride, a Jewish control freak with an unlikely last name. When she dies in a medical mishap, she calls on her supernatural status to "rescue" her widowed spouse from the sexy clutches of their gold-digging, thrill-seeking, blonde...