Literature / Novels

A Novel People often come to appreciate things only after they lose them. When seventeen-year-old Eileen is consigned to a life of wandering, she learns for the first time what a home is. The law forbids her to go back home. Her mother, an...

A NovelPart 2 of the bestselling I Lift My Eyes "Wait — I don't even know your name." "Layee. I mean, Leah." "Layee." Shira rolls the name off her tongue. "What a beautiful name."  "I'm not sure why I said yes." "Then why did you?" "I didn't want to...

Nachman." Someone tears through the fog of my dream, trying to break its spell. "It's Shabbos morning," the voice says. Thedream moves further away, and the voice becomes clearer, closer. "And Simchas Torah. There's davening and aliyos." I wanted to pull the covers back...

A Novel The taxi driver stopped the car abruptly. Dovid looked out the window. They were surrounded by a field of grass. What’s going on here? This driver has been acting odd from the start. And this route is strange too. “Why are we stopping?”...

A Novel “Perhaps you know whose child this is?” They address me with European politeness.And I’m sorely tempted to tell them, “I’m so sorry, I don’t.” There’s no Nobel Prize for motherhood—what a pity. Imagine a stage with a dark blue velvet carpet and heavy...

A Novel Doron understood what was going to happen. They would put him in the squad car, take him to prison, and from there, it was a short path to a trial. But that wasn’t part of his plan. He didn’t have time for...

A Novel I sink onto the bed, fully dressed, and kick off my shoes.Bubby blows me a kiss and retreats.Welcome home. The words echo in the empty space around me.My last coherent thought, before sleep grabs me, is that home has never felt so...

A Novel “Estee, what are you doing?!” “What do you mean? I’m going to go back to Lakewood with my mother so I can see Dr. Farber.” The IV bag was just about finished, and she felt much stronger.  Yonah’s lip curled; she’d never...

A Novel What would you do if this year was your last?(Or at least you thought it was.) It’s a question that torments Dini Saks. Faced with the looming specter of her “imminent” death, she hits upon a plan to do some good in...

Three police vehicles pulled up outside the house, and police officers jumped out. There was a knock on the door. It was a knock meant to awaken terror. Hashem is in charge, R’ Sholom Mordechai reminded himself. Leah answered the door. “We’re here for...

A Novel Reuven and Racheli of the bestseller No One’s Child, capture our hearts again. As the insecure Racheli tiptoes through life and prays she won’t have a tic in public, her husband Reuven has finally discovered his true identity. He has a last...

A Novel Mimi struggles with everything. She’s shy about her height — or lack thereof. She gets awful grades even though she studies a lot. And her greatest dream, of landing a lead role in the school play, is just that: a dream. The...

A Novel Ephraim, I wanted to ask my husband, but didn’t. Why is life so mixed up? Why are you such a good father, but sometimes act like an enthusiastic teenager? How is it that you know how to give such devoted love, yet...

A Novel Here’s your punishment — with interest. You kept it a secret. Now it will be revealed throughout the city, skipping from one house to the next… In Part 1 of Wind Chimes, we caught up with Chelly Solomon and her now-grown triplets. ...

A shot is fired in a game of paintball. A player drops dead.What begins as innocent fun at an Italian amusement park spirals into a deadly mystery when the “accidental” bullet proves anything but. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear: every one of the...

Henny Schorr and her friends, Miri, Baila, and Atara, have a problem. With FriendBeads charm bracelets being all the rage among girls their age, they’d love to buy a few each, but the bracelets are expensive, and Henny and her friends can’t afford more...

“STOP!” shouted Irvin, who was first in line. The entire team froze. “The building is booby-trapped!” Irvin pointed at the banister. It took a moment for the officers to process this information. And then even Harold, from a distance, could see the explosive bricks...

”Abba, my leg hurts…” A benign statement, but one that marks the first rumblings of an earthquake about to shake the life of the Milstein family.  Bentzy Milstein’s long road to recovery overlaps with the rapid onset of dementia in his grandfather, Dr. Nosson Milstein, a...

A Novel “Uncle Michoel! If you don’t open up for me this minute, and I mean this minute, I’ll suspect that you were abducted, and an imposter is answering me in your place. And then I’m calling the police immediately!” No response. But after...

Your guide to becoming an Eishes Chayil It is not for nothing that  Eishes Chayil is sung in Jewish homes on Friday nights.  There is a connection between Eishes Chayil and Shabbos Kodesh. There are those who think that after the mother has worked...