Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready...
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The Garden of Letters by Alyson Richman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Portofino, Italy, 1943. A young woman steps off a boat in a scenic coastal village. Although she knows how to disappear in a crowd, Elodie is too...
With Heart in Mind: Mussar Teachings to Transform Your Life by Alan Morinis
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Mussar draws from the vast storehouse of Jewish wisdom, law, revelation, and text and brings it right home in a way that is completely practical. Judaism teaches...
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub
The book at Amazon and on Kindle A cruel schoolboy prank leaves the only Catholic boy in an elite Jewish school in Porto Alegre terribly injured. Years later, one of his classmates revisits that...
Your Face in Mine by Jess Row
The book at Amazon and on Kindle One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn’t recognize calls out to him. To...
The Gourmet Jewish Cookbook: More than 200 Recipes from Around the World by Denise Phillips
The book at Amazon and on Kindle From modern spins on classics, like Schnitzel Noodle Stir Fry and Matza Granola, to make-ahead meals, like Passover Beef Lasagna, to sophisticated dishes, like Veal Chops with...
The Newcomers by Lily Poritz Miller
The book at Amazon and on Kindle This short novel tells the poignant story of Sara Hoffman, a recently widowed mother who brings her family from Cape Town, South Africa to live in a...
The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season by Marcia Falk
The book at Amazon and on Kindle The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement –...
Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the...
Bar Mitzvah: A History by Rabbi Michael Hilton
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. How did bar mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core component of Judaism? How did it capture the imagination of even...
