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Title details for All Other Nights by Dara Horn - Available

All Other Nights

A Novel

by Dara Horn
William Dufris
Audiobook
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How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover in 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.


After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when his commanders send him on another mission—this time not to murder a spy but to marry one.


A compelling novel rich with romance and the history of America (North and South), this is a book only Dara Horn could have written. Full of insight and surprise, layered with meaning, it is a brilliant parable of the moral divide that still haunts us: between those who value family first and those who are dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.

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  • Release date

    May 4, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400192120
      • File size: 450734 KB
      • Duration: 15:39:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Without any need for sound effects or other audio enhancements, William Dufris's narration of this Civil War novel skillfully re-creates the era. He adeptly renders both Northern and Southern accents. With only the inflections of his voice, Dufris makes real the cacophony of battle, the sounds of a slave auction, and the refined tones of a Southern drawing room. Historic figures like Judah Benjamin are authentically, if unsympathetically, presented. Author Dara Horn artfully depicts the milieu--the story takes place mostly in New Orleans and Richmond, Virginia--and mayhem of war-torn America. Espionage, murder, even marriage under false pretenses highlight this fast-paced audiobook. A.D.M. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 2, 2009
      A Civil War spy page-turner meets an exploration of race and religion in 19th-century America in Horn's enthralling latest. Jacob Rappaport, the 19-year-old scion of a wealthy Jewish import-export family, flees home and enlists in the Union army to avoid an arranged marriage. When his superiors discover his unique connections, he is sent on espionage missions that reveal an American Jewish population divided by the Mason-Dixon line, but united by business, religious and family ties. After being sent to assassinate his uncle in New Orleans on Passover, Jacob's next assignment proves even more daunting: marry the feisty Confederate spy Eugenia Levy. What starts out as a dangerous game for both Jacob and Eugenia ends up being a genuine romance, fraught with the potential for peril, betrayal, tragedy and redemption. Horn propels the love story at a thriller's pace; the mix of love and loyalty played out in a divided America is sublime.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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