The Ruby Bird is a beautiful brooch made of rubies and emeralds. Hundreds of years ago, the Maharajah of India presented it to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, when he married his third wife. She placed it in a jeweled box and never wore it. When...

A Hundred Fires in Cuba by John Thorndike is the fictional story of Clare Miller, an American photographer married to a wealthy Cuban business tycoon in Havana, a man she'd settled for after a whirlwind affair with the prominent and revered revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos left...

The Vase with the Many Coloured Marbles is the intriguing title chosen by Jacob Singer for his book on the equally intriguing story of a young Coloured girl in South Africa who crosses the racial barriers in place at that time and passes herself off...

Swimming Upstream is a literary fiction novel written by Jacob Anderson-Minshall. Flint immediately wished he could go back in time and not overhear the conversation his dad was having with the bland-looking, middle-aged man who had rung the doorbell of their Marin County home. Prior...

Gypsy Lane: A Love Drama by Vernard Dorsey is a beautifully written and engaging romance with a lot of drama. Ashima comes from a typical traditional Islamic background, characterized by sexism and stringent rules. She is intelligent and a graduate from the Wharton School of...

What would you do if you discovered someone had put $10,000 in your bank account? For Nathan Perelman, this was not good luck, but a mystery that he had to solve. Against his wife Marta’s wishes, he asks the bank and police to help him...

If you guessed from the title, The Rabbi Wore Bell-bottoms, that this “novel memoir”, as it’s been categorized by author Art Novak, is going to be a fun read, you are right. It’s fun, yes, but it’s also uniquely serious, and as such will have...

A mesmerizing story with a strong sense of conflict and an international setting in Egypt between 2001 and 2002, On the Brink of the Nile by Mahi Wasfy plunges the reader into an Islamic world where one woman struggles to empower students and parents, standing...

The Decades is a romantic novella for young and new adults written by Sylvie. The story is based on her own life as a young girl growing up in Bangladesh. Sylvie is happily married with a husband who adores her and treats her like a...

Not by the Book: The Pencil Pro is a cultural/mystery fiction novel written by Roni Rosenthal. Adam, Kenny and Drew had been friends since they were in grammar school together. And while they each pursued their own interests during their college years, the three friends...