Rhoda Trooboff

Rhoda Trooboff

Before founding Tenley Circle Press, Ltd., a DC publishing house for children’s books, Rhoda Trooboff taught for many years at National Cathedral School and in the Arlington, VA, Public Schools. A Child Protection Mediator in the DC Superior Court Multidoor Division and reader at Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic), she blogs at thisisntaboutme.blogspot.com. Her first novel, Correspondence Course: The Bathsua Project, was published in 2014.


8 entries by Rhoda Trooboff

Book Review

The Tumbling Turner Sisters: A Novel

A fast-paced story of survival and feminine strength.

Book Review

The Illuminations: A Novel

By Andrew O'Hagan

The Illuminations: A Novel

A beautifully written story with valuable messages about both aging and war.

Book Review

My Life in Middlemarch

Rebecca Mead

My Life in Middlemarch

A thoughtful, tenderly erudite love song to George Eliot and her acclaimed novel.

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Burial Rites: A Novel

By Hannah Kent

Burial Rites: A Novel

Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman to be executed in Iceland, faces her final months in this gripping historical tale.

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Enid Shomer

Twelve Rooms of the Nile

A novel exploring the experiences — both real and imagined — of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert in mid-19th-century Egypt.

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Laurent Binet

HHhH

This stunning and complex debut novel, winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt, centers on the real-life plot to assassinate the “Butcher of Prague.”

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Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers: A Novel

In this sweeping historical novel set on the ancient fortress of Masada, four dynamic women explore the female condition in the male realm of holy war.

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By Francisco Goldman

Say Her Name: A Novel

This elegiac tribute blurs the line between memoir and fiction.