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Sherry V. Ostroff earned a Bachelor's in education from Temple University and a Master's in history from Millersville University. She taught all levels: elementary, secondary and college. Ostroff happily devotes time to her writing, her family, and traveling around the world. She lives with her high school sweetheart in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The author's first book is THE LUCKY ONE. It is based on her mother's memoir detailing her frightening escape from Eastern Europe in the 1920's. It is available as an e-book and paperback. THE LUCKY ONE placed in the top 20 Indie Book category for 2017.
Her second book, CALEDONIA, the winner of 3 awards including finalist in the Chanticleer International Awards, is an historical novel about two ...more

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CALEDONIA: AN AWARD WINNING BOOK

CALEDONIA won first place in the adult fiction category in the Indie Diamond Book Awards for 2019.

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“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: inquisition, torture, truth

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