Ami Ayalon with Anthony David An urgent call for Israel to change direction, from an unexpected source: the highly decorated former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet.In this...

Miriam Chaikin As news of German victories on the battlefields and Nazi atrocities against the Jews comes over the radio, Mollie faces important decisions as she and her Brooklyn friends...

Author: Donna Leon “By far the best” in the New York Times–bestselling, Macallan Silver Dagger–winning series featuring Venetian detective Commissario Brunetti (Evening Standard).In this vivid and atmospheric mystery, Commissario Brunetti...

Betty G Birney After the holidays, Humphrey is shocked by a big surprise in Room 26-a new class pet! Humphrey tries to be welcoming, but Og the frog doesn't respond...

Pat O'Connor "Friendships Between Women" reviews the issues and themes which indicate the importance and also the limitations of such relationships. Drawing on a range of intellectual traditions - including...

Yo Man Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one-child policy.Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about...

Emma Donoghue Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young...

Translated and Edited by John Jolliffe This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This...

Stephen KingThere is a terrifying secret shrouded in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret which, for the past twenty years, has drawn the troopers,...

Ze'ev Orzech In a collection of 110 easy-to-read mini-essays, Professor Ze’ev Orzech offers a glimpse into the rich depths of Jewish religion, history, culture and traditions. Do you know… why...

Daniel C DennettWhat is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers.This is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant...

Akiva Bruck Emerging from the eighteenth-century remote villages of the Ukraine and Poland, the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his students have recently experienced an unprecedented revival within...