Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, a generation for whom a devastating history has grown distant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel’s protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna—someone whose professional life puts him in daily contact with the traumas of others but who has found it difficult to address his own family background, especially his memories of his fath...

**WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDA USA TODAY BESTSELLER"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison**Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Wat...

As Passover approaches, Rabbi Small contends with infighting, backstabbing, and an actual murder in this New York Times bestseller.Edgar Award–Winning AuthorAs Rabbi David Small's five-year contract winds down at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, some members of the congregation are plotting to remove him; others are whispering about starting a new temple of their own across the...

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives.As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark Builder,” he shares with her the story of his f...

A spellbinding historical novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and is drawn into their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot and The Lost LetterOn June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor, and she never came home to them again. Brilliantly melding fact and fiction, Jillian Cantor r...

A New York Times Notable BookA Booklist Editors' ChoiceA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearWhat would it really mean to live forever?Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual ba...

A captivating novel told in story form, of great appeal to fans of such books as A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Olive Kitteridge, and Kitchens of the Great Midwest.Author is very active and connected in the Washington D.C.-area book and academic community, as well as in many Jewish organizations; the book is set in the D.C. suburb of BethesdaThe author has a very active network of fans of her debut novel, Washing the DeadT...

A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshellThe only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that suits Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn just fine. Never particularly passionate about his religious calling, Rabbi Goldkorn spends his days officiating funerals and burying the dead in the local cemetery. His life is simple by design—until one day his daughter's scandalous rebellion threatens to send...

What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen—and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia?Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania—and a city the rest of the world...

The Girl Who Was Born That Way is the story of the Berk family, not exactly an ordinary Jewish family, trying to bury its Holocaust past while starting over in post-war USA. The novel centers on the dynamics between the family’s four daughters, the two oldest girls who grew up in the Lodz Ghetto and he two youngest who came of age in an idyllic American suburb. The story is told from the perspective of the youngest child in the family, whose sisterly love and compassion drive the novel’s a...

Daniel Fisher doesn't know he's one of the Hidden Thirty Six, magical humans who keep the Earth and the myriad Shards alive. But Ashmedai, King of Demons, knows. On Daniel's wedding day, Ashmedai abducts Daniel and ferries him down to the hell Shard of Gehinnom, a shattered world where humans and demons dwell in misery. There they meet Rana, a mason girl who can build things far greater than cities. And Marul Menacha, a mysterious old witch who survived a trip to the Heavenly Orchard and r...

Caroline Adderson's Ellen in Pieces, forthcoming this fall, is whispered to be the best Canadian book of the year. The title story ("Ellen-Celine Celine-Ellen") won the Gold National Magazine Award in Canada in 2013. If Ellen in Pieces makes as many shortlists as we expect it might, Caroline Adderson will have considerable CDN media buzz going into spring 2015.A reprint title that's never been published before in the States, and can therefore be treated as a first...