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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY FIRST CHAPTER AWARD (2026)For a woman, holding power in a man’s world is dangerous; holding fast to her faith in an intolerant one can be deadly. England, 1185. Nicola de la Haye, constable of Lincoln Castle, commands her fortress with hard-won authority. Determined to protect her family from a kingdom fracturing around her, she discovers the hardest battle is the one inside her own walls.

'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo THEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR NAMES When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to...

"Gabra Zackman gloriously performs this charming dual-timeline audiobook." —AudioFile on The Matchmaker's Gift This program features an author's note read by the author. It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called...

AFTER WAR, LOVE FIGHTS ONSadie and Leon: He came home from war but can’t leave it behind. She’s found a war on her doorstep. Can love survive when you’re fighting different battles?Karla and Rafi: Her late husband’s brother. Her sister Sadie’s cause. Her very own reckoning.Simka and...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT WORDS HE WRITES COULD BE HIS LAST . . . Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. But when the Nazis take over, everything changes. With their Jewish families' now under threat, the writers...

In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won't like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother's...

Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom with “all of the warm, queer, Jewish holiday vibes you...

Twenty-year-old Michel Bonnet lives on the edge of the law, finding work where he can breaking in horses on the outskirts of Paris. But when the Nazis invade, Michel takes refuge as a stowaway on a rickety train bound for the rural South of France. It’s a journey that will change his life forever. The train is property of Le Cirque Neumann - a travelling circus owned by the troubled and irritable showman Werner Neumann. Neumann offers Michel a job caring for the company’s horses - a lucky break, but with an unusual condition attached.

A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter.

In Nazi Germany, Helga Haswell is at a crossroads. She’s become pregnant by a married SS officer, who has since abandoned her. Left alone with the thought of raising a fatherless child, she has nowhere to turn - until the Lebensborn steps in. They will take Helga’s child when it’s born and raise it as their own. Helga will now be free to live her life. But when Helga has second thoughts, it’s already too late.

Bari Lynn has a secret. So, she, a young Jewish-American girl, decides to tour Israel with her best friend and the members of their synagogue in search of answers. Meanwhile, beneath the surface in Israel, trouble is stirring with a group of radical Islamists. The case falls into the hands of Elan, a powerful passionate Mossad agent, trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. He believes nothing can break him, but in order to achieve their goals, the terrorists will go to any means to bring Elan to his knees.

For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing’s missing: the chance to spend more time getting to know her eight-year-old granddaughter, Macallan. When Jodi’s restauranteur daughter asks her to watch Macallan in the Berkshires while she takes care of some business out of town, Jodi can’t say yes fast enough. Neither Jodi’s podiatric patients nor her just-fired, suddenly retired husband can keep her away. But when Jodi arrives, she discovers she’s not the only grandma at Lisa’s house. 

Uma das pioneiras da prática da medicina que integra a saúde do corpo e da alma, Rachel Naomi Remen conta histórias luminosas de seus pacientes–e seus processos de cura–e de seu avô, um rabino estudioso da Cabala que lhe ensinou a ver a beleza e os mistérios da vida. Tendo tratado de pacientes terminais e vítimas de doenças crônicas por mais de quarenta anos, suas experiências ampliam a nossa humanidade e nos mostram um caminho para viver com sabedoria, força e integridade.

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land “A...

Elan understands what it means to be an Israeli. He’s sacrificed the woman he loved, his marriage, and his life for Israel. When Israel went to war and Elan was summoned in the middle of the night, he did not hesitate to defend his country, even though he knew he might pay a terrible price. Elan is not a perfect man by any means. He can be cruel. He can be stubborn and self-righteous. But he is brave, and he loves more deeply than he will ever admit. This is his story.

Zofia Weiss, a Jewish woman with a painful past, stands at the dock, holding the hand of a little girl. She is about to board The SS Exodus, bound for Palestine with only her life, a dream, and a terrifying secret. As her eyes scan the crowds of people, she sees a familiar face. Her heart pounds and beads of sweat form on her forehead...The Nazis have surrendered. Zofia survived the Holocaust, but she lives in constant fear. The one person who knows her dark secret is a sadistic SS officer with the power to destroy the life she’s working so hard to rebuild.

After Jacob Friedman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, dies at the age of ninety-eight, his daughter, Ellen Singer, finds a stack of love letters he wrote in 1947 to a Mennonite farm girl named Anna. With the help of two good friends, Ellen matches her father’s letters to Anna’s corresponding diary entries and recon-structs their unlikely romance. Love, Faith, and the Dented Bullet is the story of two emotionally damaged people from two different worlds. Jacob is a Polish Jew who has managed to live through the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the death camp Treblinka.

Issa Chambers is the executive assistant for the richest black man in Jackson, Mississippi. She's a hard worker, but she's given up on finding a faithful, Yah-fearing man. Dominik Yates is a member of the hated Abrahamic Elites, looking for a place to call home. When fate brings them together at the Feast of Tabernacles, things are electric between them. But with Issa's fear of the Abrahamic Elites and Dom's desire to keep his head down and avoid women, the odds seem stacked against their chances.

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the emigration in-between.