Algonquin
Is This Tomorrow
Single mother Ava Lark is doing everything she can to raise her son alone. In the 1950s in Waltham, Massachusetts,…
The Third Son
Saburo and his family live in Japanese-occupied Taoyuan (Taiwan) in the 1930s. Her father has learned to adapt to the…
The Receptionist
During the Fifties, Janet Groth came from the Midwest to the “Big City” of New York straight out of college.…
The Beach at Galle Road
Technically, The Beach at Galle Road is a collection of short stories, but they can’t be read independently of each…
The Aleppo Codex
A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is…
Heading Out to Wonderful
In Robert Goolrick’s second novel, Charlie Beale arrives at Brownsburg, Virginia in 1948. Beale is carrying two suitcases; one is…
The Coldest Night
It’s an old story – boy falls in love with the wrong girl and runs off to escape the longing.…
The Frozen Rabbi
Starting with the humorous title, this literary, quasi-historical novel comes with its own background “chuckle track” – you won’t be…
Lion of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
This collection of brief accounts of ten “legends” of 18th and early 19th century America is a fine introduction to…
What You See in the Dark
Editors' choice
The scene opens on a diner in Bakersfield, California. A young couple – he, the popular boy in town, she,…
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