{"id":1115,"date":"2011-12-15T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:05:25","slug":"the-dovekeepers-by-alice-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1120 size-medium\" title=\"The Dovekeepers\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Dovekeepers-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Dovekeepers-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Dovekeepers.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alice Hoffman&#8217;s newest book, <em>The Dovekeepers<\/em>, is a mesmerizing story based on the 1st century battle at Masada between Jewish zealots and the Romans who were determined to eliminate them.\u00a0\u00a0According to 1st century historian\u00a0Josephus, over 900 Jews, expelled from Jerusalem,\u00a0sacrificed everything to reach\u00a0what they hoped would be\u00a0a safe haven in\u00a0a Judean desert fortress. The\u00a0 story unfolds\u00a0in\u00a0the voices of four incredible women, each with different backgrounds and talents but dedicated to the survival of their faith and families. The tragic and iconic final battle of the small outpost against the vast might of the Roman military, and the survival of two women and five children, is both horrifying and uplifting.\u00a0 This is a book that you won&#8217;t want to put down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Hoffman&#8217;s newest book, The Dovekeepers, is a mesmerizing story based on the 1st century battle at Masada between Jewish zealots and the Romans who were determined to eliminate them.\u00a0\u00a0According to 1st century historian\u00a0Josephus, over 900 Jews, expelled from Jerusalem,\u00a0sacrificed everything to reach\u00a0what they hoped would be\u00a0a safe haven in\u00a0a Judean desert fortress. The\u00a0 story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}