On September 15, 2008, Julie Wasserman’s life collapsed. In the morning, she lost her job at Lehman Brothers. That afternoon, she lost her twin brother, Jack, in a car crash. A year and a half later, she returns home to Pittsburgh to start a new job and live up to a pledge to visit her brother’s grave every day. With six weeks to wait before the start of the new job, she steps out of character and purchases a plane ticket to Thailand, the one place her brother dreamed of visiting. She arrives in … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Jerusalem Stone by Susan Sofayov
A Time for Vengeance by Nathaniel Wyckoff
Simon Mendez has an anger problem, and he’s about to unleash his fury on the Spanish Inquisition. The Mendez family is on top of the world. An upper-class family in 17th century Spain, they live a secret life – outwardly Catholic by all accounts, but desperately worried that, someday, someone will discover the Jewish traditions that they practice behind closed doors. Everything comes crashing down when the Inquisition arrests Simon's father. Incensed, Simon must retaliate with everything he’s … [Read more...] about A Time for Vengeance by Nathaniel Wyckoff
The Genesis of Revelation: Secrets of the Bible Revealed and a Case for Reformation by Aerik Vondenburg
The Genesis of Revelation exposes the secrets of the Bible. The ground-breaking findings reveal that almost everything that is known about the Bible, God, and Jesus, has been based upon an astonishing misunderstanding. According to Jesus, the primary underlying message of his teachings was "hidden" from those who were not ready to know the truth (Mark 4:22; Luke 19:42). This special knowledge is related to what is referred to in the Old Testament as the "secret things" of the Lord (Deuteronomy … [Read more...] about The Genesis of Revelation: Secrets of the Bible Revealed and a Case for Reformation by Aerik Vondenburg
Interview with Author – Tyler Rebik
About Tyler Rebik: I started writing when I was eight years old. I first self-published when I was fifteen and haven't stopped since. I was born in Texarkana, TX; graduated from Haworth High School in Haworth, OK; and graduated from Great Commission Bible College with a Bachelor of Theology. I have published 12 short novels, 5 poetry collections, a collection of short stories and I wrote the introduction to a compilation of prayers by Rabbi Rocky Grossman. What inspires you to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Tyler Rebik
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Montreal, 1951. Rebecca Wiseman, 18 years old, from a Catholic-Jewish family, lives with her parents in Outremont. At a local dance, she briefly meets a handsome young man, but has little hope of seeing him again. When Sol Gottesman tracks her down and asks her on a date, her joy mingles with disbelief when she learns he is the son of a wealthy Westmount businessman. Echo from Mount Royal begins as a coming-of-age story, fulfilling the romantic dreams of a young woman. When Sol takes her in a … [Read more...] about Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Interview with Author – Mel Goldberg
About Mel Goldberg: After earning an advanced degree in literature, I taught literature and writing in California, Illinois, Arizona. I was fortunate to be selected as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher to teach for one year at Stanground College in Cambridgeshire, England. I studied Irish poetry at Cambridge in evenings and weekends. I quite my teaching position and moved to Sedona, Arizona, for its unlit streets, brilliant night skies, and high desert living and to complete writing my first novel. … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mel Goldberg
Interview with Author – Dave Riese
About Dave Riese: Born in 1946, I grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, graduating from Arlington High School in 1964. I attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, majoring in English literature. During my junior year, I studied English Literature at Oxford University and travelled in Europe. After graduating in 1968, I enlisted in the Air Force one step ahead of my draft board's invitation to join the army and travel to Vietnam. I married Susan, my high school girlfriend, during leave … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Dave Riese
Alouette’s Song by Andrew Jonathan Fine
The book is a young-adult/new-adult action-adventure featuring teen romance occurring within a science fiction setting. Meet Dotty and Rick. Dotty is a professional violinist with a GED. Rick is a college sophomore, having graduated high school early to pursue interests that steer him away from an abusive home. While not a typical love-at-first-sight scenario they do get thrown together in a spectacular manner. Dotty gets mugged in a subway and falls onto the tracks of a train due … [Read more...] about Alouette’s Song by Andrew Jonathan Fine
“Out of the Shoebox”: An Autobiographic Mystery by Yaron Reshef
Out of the Shoebox is a fascinating journal that reads like a detective story, comes across as an imaginative quest into the past, yet is the true personal story of the writer, Yaron Reshef. An unexpected phone call hurls Reshef into an intensive two-year journey, during which he has to solve a mystery that took shape in the 1930s and gradually unfolded in the present. A mysterious lot, a forgotten bank account, a people long gone – along with their memory which were obliterated during the … [Read more...] about “Out of the Shoebox”: An Autobiographic Mystery by Yaron Reshef
Jo Joe by Sally Wiener Grotta
As a child, Judith Ormand was the only Black — and the only Jew — in a small insular Pennsylvania mountain village where she was raised by her white Christian grandparents. Now, she must reluctantly break her vow to never return to the town she learned to hate. During her one week visit, she buries and mourns her beloved grandmother, is forced to deal with the white boy who cruelly broke her heart, and is menaced by an old enemy. But with her traumatic discovery of a long buried secret, Judith … [Read more...] about Jo Joe by Sally Wiener Grotta
