Short Stories
A Castle in England
For several months in early 2016, researcher and author Jamie Rhodes lived in Scotney Castle in Kent, South-East England. There…
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
What’s nu? Irish Jews. Who knew? Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan chronicles the history of Jews in Ireland through…
Pearl Harbor and More: Stories of WWII—December 1941
When Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941, military personnel and civilians react and overreact. Murder is committed in…
The World to Come: Stories
Editors' choice
When it comes to literary style, Jim Shepard breaks all the rules, yet this collection of short stories leaves the…
Magical Celtic Tales
Editors' choice
I’ve always loved folk tales, especially ones from our Celtic past. Una Leavy’s nine tales come from Brittany, Cornwall, the…
Heirlooms: Stories
This volume is a treasure box of interconnected short stories tracking a saga of a Jewish family’s survival, starting in…
An Unrestored Woman and Other Stories
This was the first time I have encountered stories relating to the period of the Partition between India and Pakistan…
Reader, I Married Him
As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Charlotte Brontë knows, “Reader, I married him,” is the climactic sentence of…
They Were Like Family to Me
Editors' choice
A compelling blend of folktales, magical realism, Nazi barbarity, and family history, They Were Like Family to Me offers a series…
1066 Turned Upside Down
Editors' choice
This volume is a collection of short stories by nine well-known authors, all concerned with the same theme – the…
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