The allegorical novel "The Alchemy of The Beast" follows as a once-busy woman redefines her sense of what’s ordinary. An unexpected trip to Central America is healing for a young entrepreneur in Alyssa Noelle Coelho’s allegorical... Read More

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