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  Brenda Shoshanna Author
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Brenda Shoshanna
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Fiction

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Return from Exile (A Jewish Woman's Journey Home)

A spiritual memoir depicting the journey to our true home and deepest selves. The book starts and is rooted in the Hasidic world of Borough Park Brooklyn during the forties. We watch Rivkah absorb the beauty and wisdom of the world. We meet the characters who live and breathe there, including intense, demanding Rabbis with whom Rivkah engages deeply, always craving to taste the truth for herself.

We also meet her stalwart grandmother, mystical grandfather and parents who do not fit in. Rivkah struggles with questions and conflicts that arise and is finally forced to leave and wander in many other worlds.

The book is a tapestry of joy, pain and discovery as Rivkah learns to walk in the footsteps that lead her out of exile, able to embrace both her origins and the life she is living now. 
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​"Your book inspired me to sit more, pray more, write and study more. It is about the process of redemption for all of us." Alana
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.Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing)

 Book of Zen Moments Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing) is a personal journey through almost forty years of Zen practice in New York with a Japanese Zen Master. Filled with often humorous personal encounters with not only Zen Masters, but other students, friends and family, we watch a deluded Zen student’s struggle for awareness and compassion. As she engages this simple, but rigorous Zen practice, we see her wonder, folly confusion, delusions, victories and defeats. We also watch her unnerving ability to keep going and determination to endure. Simple and direct, the book is filled with both the longing for authentic living and the potholes we all fall into and hopefully climb out of again. The treasures and gifts of this beautiful practice are included, along with the inevitable dangers that must be worked through
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orever Connected, (An Impossible Love Story)  (Currently Available)
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Return from Exile (A Jewish Woman's Journey Home)

Death In The Caribbean (The Carribean Murder Series)  ( aka Jaden Skye)

                  Best Selling Series, Seventeen Books, Sold Over a Million Copies

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Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing)
                                                       

                                                       SHORT STORIES
Far Music, Threepenny Review, Fiction.
Eye of The Needle Louisville Review, 
Circles 
Silent Night, Best College Short Stories, Random House.

                                                     AWARDS:
Elizabeth Janeway Award for Fiction

                                                     EDUCATION
Barnard College, Honors in Writing
NYU, Master's Programs in Playwriting









DEATH BY HONEYMOON
​(CARIBBEAN MURDER SERIES)

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The #1 Bestseller, with over 200 five star reviews!

On the rugged, wild, eastern shore of Barbados, Cindy and Clint are enjoying their dream honeymoon, when paradise quickly turns into hell. Cindy finds her newly beloved taken away from her, drowned in a freak accident in the ocean. The local police are quick to declare it an accident, to insist that he was caught in a sudden riptide. But Cindy, left all alone, is not convinced.

Cindy must return to her and Clint’s now-empty home in New York and face her in-laws, who never wanted Clint to marry her, and who did everything to make her engagement and wedding hell. She must deal with all of these women’s backbiting, gossiping and unspoken accusations, while she tries to get a handle on her own grief and to get clear on what really happened to Clint.

As she digs deeper Cindy discovers how many secrets Clint had been hiding from his past. She realizes that she didn’t really know the man she loved. And she also realizes that he was murdered.

As she heads into the dark underside of the island, into the heart of the local villages, she is shocked to discover what really happened to her husband on their honeymoon.

But by then, it may already be too late.

The Series contains seventeen novels.
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