Roberta Silman - Astronomers

Astronomers

This children's book concentrates on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.

Selected Works

Short Stories

In this second compelling collection of stories Roberta Silman explores the intricacies of love, the infinite surprises that exist within families, and the yearning for guidance that can result in great leaps of the imagination on the part of her passionate and resilient characters.

Blood Relations

Direct, compelling, painfully honest, these moving stories dig deep beneath the surface of family life.

Novels

Summer Lightning

In this sweeping, multi-generational novel Roberta Silman explores the meaning of Alexander Herzen’s observation: “Art, and the summer lightning of individual happiness: these are the only real goods we have.”

Secrets and Shadows

...penetrating psychological novel that plumbs the depths of how an individual’s guilty secrets can undermine his inner life and his marriage.

Boundaries

Tender, affecting novel that explores the pain of loss, and, in its wake, the arduous task of building anew, Boundaries reveals Roberta Silman's rich, absorbing perception of the priorities, the limitless reaches, and the insistence, of love.

The Dream Dredger

A complex tale of joy, loss, and madness which ends in mysterious drowning.

Beginning the World Again: A Novel of Los Alamos

A novel about the women whose husbands went to Los Alamos to make the atomic bomb.

Children’s Books

Somebody Else's Child

A children's book about adoption.

Astronomers

The book concentrates on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. It also deals briefly with contemporary physicists and astronomers.

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