Novels

“Shhhhhh,” soothed Yocheved. “Tell me what’s going on. Why are you crying? You don’t feel like the perfect balebuste? Your brownies flopped or something? I really hope you’re not bawling your eyes out over, like, the quiche falling in, or whatever…”

Miri shook her head miserably. “Aryeh is never home.”

Newlyweds Aryeh and Miri Kleinerman should really be the perfect couple; they both come from prominent families and seem destined for a blissful life together. True, they’re polar opposites — Aryeh’s the life of the party and Miri’s quiet and timid, but both have high hopes for their future. Yet Aryeh’s mysterious behavior puts Miri on edge. Why is he constantly distracted and hardly home? Doesn’t he care about their marriage?

This gripping novel explores the depth and breadth of our most significant relationships, opening a rare window on the vivid, true-to-life realities of heartbreak, conflicting loyalties, and intergenerational patterns that beg to be addressed.

In Take Two, bestselling author Riva Pomerantz tells a compelling story about complex people and the amorphous lines that crisscross their shared lives, creating chaos, confusion, and chasms. Can Aryeh and Miri unite to rewrite the parameters of their marriage, and can they gather the courage to “take two” and give each other a second chance? Learn More

Eyal Gilboa has been in "the business” for a long, long time. Over the years, he has been forced to make decisions and take actions that some may have found morally questionable. But Eyal has always drawn his own lines and behaved in the most ethical way possible for each situation.

Until his best friend, Eli, is captured by a Syrian arch-terrorist with whom Eyal has a traumatic past. Eyal’s monsters awaken, devouring the shield he’s erected around his heart, and sending him plummeting into an emotional maelstrom that threatens to drown him.

Eyal’s friends and family worry that he has started to cross his own moral boundaries. In his attempt to rescue his friend, he gets caught in a labyrinth of intrigue that includes the Mafia, organ trafficking, and cutting deals with murderers.

Eyal insists he knows what he’s doing, that his first loyalty, besides to G-d, is to his men and their safe return.

It’s a fine line. Has Eyal lost his way?

The gripping conclusion to In Cold Blood. Learn More

For Yiskah Pehrlshtayn, growing up in the sacred town of Kozhnitz, becoming friends with the Rebbe’s daughter, and picking strawberries with her mother fill the days of her childhood. But life isn’t all strolls in the forests and ribbons in her braids. The poverty and anti-Semitism in Poland are oppressive, giving rise to bold ideologies that promise to alleviate the suffering of the community.

The young people of Kozhnitz get caught up with the passion to change the world. But Yiskah yearns to be a Bais Yaakov teacher. Will she be able to resist the lure of the times and hold on to her dream?

Renowned author Rebbetzin Sarah Feldbrand has created a fascinating novel that reads like a memoir. Dive into Yiskah’s stormy world, where Torah and Chassidus wars with Socialism and Zionism, as she holds on tight to the enduring weapons of prayer, courage, and faith in Hashem that carry our nation through perilous times. Learn More

A country divided: Tensions in the United States reach fever pitch, as the issue of slavery threatens to split the country -- and ultimately leads to the horrors of the Civil War.

A family divided: The Pasternak and Weinberg families have been torn apart, by a Cherokee tribe, by scoundrels, and even by well-meaning non-Jews. Will Toiby and Tully ever meet their family again? Can Dov Ber and his sister Yehudis ever share memories?

Popular novelist Rochel Istrin has done it again! From California to Missouri to the swamplands of Louisiana – in plantations and wagon trains and even on the bloody Civil War battlefield – the historical background is fascinating, the characters are beautifully drawn, and the action is non-stop! Learn More

Rellie Sachs, orphaned of both parents as a young teen, is sharp and cynical. She’s built a wall around her heart to prove to the world that she can manage on her own. But can she really? It takes two global disasters, the Great War and the flu pandemic, to get both Nate and Rellie to face their pain and answer some life-altering questions.

In this fascinating historical novel, talented author Brocha Miller takes her readers on a riveting journey through the early 1900s from the Model T Fords on the streets of Detroit to the army tanks in the trenches of France. Tune in to the courage of two confused young people as they learn to make peace with themselves and those around them. Learn More

Kayla's talking too loud and too fast. "I was in another educational institution until now, but my parents felt I should switch.
"There's a long, awkward silence.
"What's your name?" Breindy Silber asks finally.
"Kayla. Kayla Weiss." Kayla cranes her neck, casts around the room for a moment, and her eyes light on Mimi, frozen in the doorway. "Mimi's my sister."

When Mimi's atypical sister Kayla joins her class at the beginning of eleventh grade, Mimi is determined that no one guess the connection between the two of them. Kayla, on the other hand, is set on making friends in her new environment - and Mimi and her circle seem to be perfect candidates.

With her tight-knit group of friends entangled in conflict, and academic expectations increasing as seminary applications near, Mimi has enough on her plate - without needing to protect her sister from the class queen or help her find her place in a social scene all-too-complex for Kayla to navigate.

All Mimi ever wanted was to fit in. To be normal.
But what is normal, anyway?
Does it really matter?
And - how much will Mimi give up in order to achieve it? Learn More

Soon after, Shamayim arranged for Reb Meir to move to Canada, in order to help some holy neshamos who needed him there. Beth Leo remained where it was, thriving and growing into a big, beautiful shul.

Now it's fifty years later, and Reb Meir has traveled back to his beloved Beth Leo. He is finally ready to fulfill the promise he made to his father so many years earlier.

Standing before the congregants, who he feels are like his children, Reb Meir begins waving his cane. What follows are some mindboggling events, which produce unbelievable blessings for the crowd, one after another. Then Reb Meir retells the story of the horrific Chevron massacre, from which his father just narrowly escaped. But it's when the old rav is done, and he leaves the shul, that the earthshaking action - in actuality, a climactic battle - begins...

Written by beloved author Meir Uri Gottesman, Chevron is not just a novel. It transports the reader to many fascinating events in our history: Yehoshua stopping the sun, Shaul Hamelech finding a wife; Chizkiyahu Hamelech falling ill, and King Menasheh being dragged in chains.

Read...and be intrigued. Read...and be informed. Read...and be transformed. Learn More