The unknown and serendipity get the last word in the tragicomic novel "Crossing Lake Pontchartrain", about a writer’s midlife crisis. In Arthur Byrd’s heartfelt novel "Crossing Lake Pontchartrain", a man pursues artistic liberation... Read More

Galya Gerstman’s novel "Daughters of Jerusalem" follows three generations of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. In 1900 in Serbia, Lili and her husband, Joseph, struggle to have a child; Lili lost seventeen babies soon... Read More

Animals band together to return to their flooded home in the allegorical novel "The Perilous Journey of Gavin the Great". A flood is coming, in which an entire forest’s worth of animals will be swept away, in Don Gutteridge’s... Read More

In the lesson-filled children’s novel TIP’s Magical Journey, a boy meets an interesting variety of people who expand his perception of the world. In Barbara Mishkin’s novel TIP’s Magical Journey, an eight-and-a-half-year-old boy... Read More

A grieving antiquarian chases after a Kabbalistic manuscript in Jamieson Findlay’s absorbing mystery novel "Pilgrims of the Upper World". Zarandok, a secretive Jewish man, asks Tavish, a bookseller in Geneva, to revive his Aramaic... Read More

"The Underwater Panthers" is an imaginative novel that is directed by the strange adventures of dedicated allies. In Charles Porter’s novel "The Underwater Panthers", the fourth volume in the Shallcross series, a voice-hearer, his... Read More

An insightful therapist is a vehicle for provocative ethical and psychological conversations in the allegorical novel "Dialogues with the Wise Woman". In Richard Todd Devens’s spiritual novel "Dialogues with the Wise Woman", a gambling... Read More

A novel about healing, "Peaceful Waters" follows as a woman seeks the personal power of accepting a great loss. In Anne Hutcheson’s novel "Peaceful Waters", a woman deals with the unexpected loss of her boyfriend. Donovan committed... Read More