Literature / Novels

A Novel For Adults Only “I think it would have been harder for me if we’d have pushed off the wedding.” Michal is coping with a challenge now, true. But pushing off a wedding two weeks before it’s scheduled to an unknown date is...

Antarctica.Endless silence.Shattered by a massive explosion. An existential threat looms over the frozen glaciers, snowy plains, and icy deserts of the seventh continent. Someone, without conscience, is using the remote spaces of the most unspoiled place in the world to conduct illegal experiments with...

A Novel It was only an add-on destination, after a family chasunah in Boro Park. A short detour to Buenos Aires for a business meeting, to discuss production methods for her line of best-selling knitted handbags. Riki, Avi, and their children should have been...

A coded letter from Russia. A brother in danger. A secret powerful enough to shake two governments. When Yaakov Halpert receives a strange message from his brother in Kiev, he understands at once that something is terribly wrong. Leaving New York behind, he travels...

A Novel "Are you giving me any choices here? Or are my only options living with a rasha in my house or in my house or living in your house with you?" Esther Shapiro, barely 90 years young, is perfectly capable of living on...

A Novel “Just tell me once, and answer me honestly,” Snir demanded, fixing his friend with a penetrating stare. “Doesn’t your conscience bother you about betraying your homeland?” Ronen looked away for a long moment, his gaze drifting out through the window overlooking the...

A Novel “Maybe just as we cultivated independence in Shimi, we cultivated dependence in Mindy?”– Zehava“Sometimes I ask myself if anyone besides me is still sad that Yechezkel is gone.”– Yocheved“Can I really say I checked everything the way I would have checked it...

A Novel The door opens suddenly.A stooped woman comes out of the office, sorrow written all over her face, her eyes fixed on the floor.“Ima?!” I nearly faint. “What are you doing here?”All the madrichot turn toward us, wide-eyed.What did Mrs. Einstadter say to Ima? My heart...

A Novel “Collect the brachos for us, Ima,” Sari said, still watching me anxiously. “Bring them home from the chassunah in a napkin, and afterward we’ll open them together.” Esti has two married sons and four single daughters. Mali. Sari. Basya. Dassi. Each one...

A Novel Gili’s shoulders are a complex matter; the whole world rests on them. She has a shiny AI pillow that listens to her with great empathy. The pillow is a secret, of course. That’s what happens when you’re testing a rival company’s product....

A Novel Dripping wet, I hurried forward. “You must bring me back, sir…Captain.” “Hoist the colors!” the captain bellowed, not taking his eyes off me. “Aye!” One of the crew members answered the command, and I watched as a black flag reared its head,...

A Novel The French royal palace, Paris, 1240: In an immense marble hall, the soul of the Jewish nation is on trial.A Portuguese bay, 1492: Under the cover of darkness, a lone sailor swims through the frigid waters of the sea.The Frankfurt Ghetto, 1794: Living in grinding...

The Chanukah Boutique is approaching, and Atara Gross is doubly excited. Besides for running the Four Chocolatiers’ booth with her friends, selling chocolate, she will also be running her own booth, selling her jewelry creations. But…can she do both? As Atara soon discovers, preparing...

A Novel Leebie Herzog loves her job at Akeres, where she knows she is making a difference in countless new mothers’ lives. So why are things so complicated when it comes to her own nearest and dearest? Amram Herzog has opinions. About everything. From...

There is no scholar or talmid chacham in Klal Yisrael who has not heard of the Gaon HaKadosh, Harav Menachem Ziemba zt”l, who wore the crown of Chassidic lamdanus in the generation preceding the Holocaust. A leader in Klal Yisrael, he was revered by...

A Novel “What do you want from me?” It’s hard to bend over with a broken arm. It’s hard to pick up things that someone has taken out of my bag. It’s hard to be suspected of theft. It’s hard to deny it without...

A Novel I stood in the doorway of the bunkhouse, one hand on each suitcase handle, listening to the babble of voices inside, terrified to look. Please be normal, please be normal, please be normal. Normal? a voice chided in my ear. Normal, like…who?...

& Other Stories A picture from a camera was pretty undeniable proof.Shuey suddenly realized his camera could come in handy: He could be a one-man law enforcement agency... and what a good mussar lesson it would be for his annoying sisters! Grab a bag...

A Novel “You told her.” It’s not an accusation or even angry. Her tone is just flat, defeated. I stare at Michal, begging my eyes not to fill with tears, but apparently, my body has my brain on mute. “I’m sorry,” I whisper, very...

Another outstanding collection of stories told as only Rav Kalman could! When Rav Kalman Krohn told a story, he had everybody spellbound. As his thousands of avid listeners can attest, this tremendous tzaddik and talmid chacham had the rare ability to weave true stories...