The Ghost of Hannah Mendes, (Paperback)

from lauriebrown54

I admit I picked this book off the shelf because of the beautiful cover. Also, it had a ghost. And memoir 500 years old, that there is a search for. What's not to love? Catherine has been told she only has a short time to live. She is sad that her two granddaughters don't follow the families Seph...

from sakismom

Lots of interesting, and disturbing, information on the Spanish Inquisition. Pretty good story line about contemporary Sephardic-New York family, the younger onew with no Yiddishkeit or curiousity about their forebearers. The two granddaughters are quite annoying and shallow and portrayed somewha...

from jessibud2

I was a bit disappointed, overall. I truly loved the historic sections, the old manuscripts that revealed Hannah's back story. Those were rich and lovingly written. It was the present-day chapters that annoyed me. I truly never liked either of the 2 granddaughters, felt they were completely one-d...

from lilibrarian

Sisters Francesca and Suzanne head off to Europe to research and find a manuscript written by an ancestor who lived through the Inquisition. Their steps seem led in a mystical way, and they find more than the manuscript.

from BettyTaylor56

Loved this book. I visited her museum on one of my trips to Tiberias.