NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced ...
The Bible's Queen Esther is basically a Cinderella story; what author Tommy Tenney does is put a person under the crown. "Hadassah: One Night With the King" is about a humble Jewish girl who is picked ...
Novelist John Irving says he knew he was on track when he figured out how “Queen Esther” would end. Now he faced a new challenge: How the story began. “Like all my novels, that’s the thing I see most ...
The Jewish holiday of Purim, starting Saturday evening, centers on the biblical Book of Esther. Set during the ancient Persian Empire, the story recounts how King Ahasuerus marries the beautiful ...
Esther denouncing Haman, who, according to the Purim story, attempted to have all Jews within the Persian Empire massacred. Hutchinson's History of the Nations/Universal History Archive/Universal ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving’s next book, ...
NEW YORK – In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced Feb. 6 that ...
Luiz Armondo Diaz Mendez, 34, was officially charged with making a terroristic threat and later booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on Jan. 4, 2026. Read full article: ‘Those are ...