Author: Kurt Vonnegut In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking...

Doron MamanIT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT. When we least expect it, we are in the presence of royalty - Kings and Queens who contribute their wisdom and insight, inspiring...

Stephenie Meyer When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give...

Liz MurrayIn the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually...

Riva Pomerantz Living on the fringe, was this the life he really wanted? Avrumie Faber, his parents, "tzaddik and ben Torah," is about to erupt in anger and defiance. Will...

Author: James Fallows Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly,...

Rabbi Uri ZoharThe teenage years are often the most difficult – for parents and adolescents alike. Parents, hoping to transmit Torah traditions, may find themselves at a loss when dealing...

Aidan Chambers In Breaktime, Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series...

Mieko KawakamiOn a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing...

Author: Tim Winton When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the parents -...

Edwidge Danticat   At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates "Breathe" by Joyce Carol Oates is a powerful exploration of the human spirit's resilience in the face of tragedy. This gripping novel delves deep into the...