Category: Blog
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Crossing Swords wins IPPY women’s issues award
The Silver metal for Women’s Issues in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards goes to Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Peyser Safronoff (This One Thing). The IP Book Awards a.k.a “IPPY” winners are judged for “content, originality, design, and production quality, with emphasis on innovation and social…
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St. Louis Central Library adds Crossing Swords to Special Collections
The downtown St. Louis Central Library, the primary location of one of the top urban library systems in the United States, has recently added to its collection Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff. The book is now included in the searchable on-line St.…
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Safronoff to visit New Orleans book club Feb 27
Cindy Safronoff will be a guest at a New Orleans book club on Saturday, February 27. The Time For Thinkers book club has invited the author of Crossing Swords to discuss this recently published book with them at their regular monthly meeting. Safronoff, who currently resides in St. Louis, will join them through Skype video conference over the…
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The fall that led to the rise of Mary Baker Eddy
Sesquicentennial of a monumental event in Lynn, MA At the corner of Oxford and Market streets in Lynn, Massachusetts, a monument commemorates an event that happened at that very spot 150 years ago. On the evening of February 1, 1866, Mary Baker Eddy took such a bad fall on the ice that it knocked her unconscious from…
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Crossing Swords wins award for best Christian books
2016 Illumination Book Awards Cindy Safronoff’s historical biography has been judged one of the best Christian books of the year. Results for the 2016 Illumination Book Awards contest have been announced, and in the category of “Christian Thought” judges gave a bronze award (3rd place) to Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for…
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Crossing Swords “has broad-spectrum appeal,” says Reader Views book review
“To say that Safronoff has done her homework is an understatement,” writes Kristine Hall of Reader Views in the latest book review of Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage (This One Thing, 2015) by Cindy Peyser Safronoff. “The book is extremely well researched and documented.”…
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A full house at University Book Store reading event for Crossing Swords
About forty people attended Cindy Safronoff’s reading and signing event at University Book Store on Sunday afternoon, January 17, for Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. In addition to people from the University of Washington and residents from the University District neighborhood of Seattle, people…
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New England Book Festival 2015 regional literature award winner
The New England Book Festival has announced awards for their 2015 book contest, in which a panel of industry experts judge books for general excellence, the author’s passion for telling a good story, and the potential to reach a wider audience. With a total of 17 categories for the contest, plus one grand prize winner, the judges gave awards in 3…