> Reform Judaism Magazine (Summer 2009) recommends Emuna Elon’s If You Awaken Love as a Significant Jewish Book for Discussion, calling it a “beautifully crafted love story [that] reflects all the inner tensions of Israeli society…”

> Read an interview in The Forward with Marcelo Birmajer, Argentinian author of Three Musketeers, who The New York Times has called "the Woody Allen of the Pampas."

> Congratulations to author Darryl Wimberley for receiving an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine for the audio version of Pepperfish Keys. The audiobook is narrated by Dion Graham, who has appeared on The Wire, Law and Order and many other TV shows and movies. According to AudioFile, the audio version of Wimberley’s mystery “is nothing short of dazzling.”

> Darryl Wimberley's The King of Colored Town is the first recipient of the prestigious new Willie Morris Prize for the best novel set in the South. Darryl was flown from his Texas home to New York City for the award ceremony in October.

> The multi award winning feature film, Wristcutters: A Love Story was inspired
by one of ours! The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God is "hilarious" - Elle.
The DVD is now available at all major stores. Read the short stories first, then see the movie.

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*Enduring* by Donald Harington Forty years ago, Donald Harington created the little town of Stay More, hidden away in the hills of the Ozarks. He populated it with generations of families in search of open space, green pastures, freedom from convention, sweet air and water, or, simply, a world where time and history didn't matter. In Enduring, Harington continues the themes of the Stay More series and reveals, for the first time, the mysteries of Latha Bourne, the heroine and demigoddess of Lightning Bug, The Choiring of the Trees and other Harington classics, who is set apart from her fellow Stay Morons, as Harington affectionately calls them, by her beauty, wit, and intense, unfulfilled sexuality.	Pub date: September 2009 More Info...
With by Donald Harington With is the sensual, suspenseful and irresistible tale of Robin Kerr, a young girl abducted from her family and brought to a remote Ozark mountaintop, where she is left to fend for herself. Over the course of a decade, Robin grows up without human relationship, but with the company of animals and an "inhabit," the half-living ghost of a young boy. In this magical novel in the Stay More series, Harington gives us one of the most original survival, coming-of-age, and love stories ever told.	PB Pub date: September 2009 More Info...
God's Gym by Leon deWinter December 22, 2000 is a day of dramatic confluence in the life of Joop Koopman, a Dutchman living in California. It is the day he celebrates his daughter Miriam's seventeenth birthday, meets his old friend Philip, with whom he has been out of touch for eighteen years, and crosses paths with Erroll Washington, aka Godzilla, the owner of God's Gym, a Venice health club. Philip has sought out Joop for reasons that are more than personal, and Joop, in turn, has no choice but to let himself be carried along by political developments that he has previously tried to avoid, but that now inescapably control his life.	Pub date: October 2009 More Info...
Dead Man's Share by Yasmina Khadra Superintendent Brahim Llob is bored. Nothing seems to need his attention in an unusually quiet Algiers. Then suddenly peace is shattered in ways Llob could never have imagined. His subordinate, Lieutenant Lino, falls for an entirely unsuitable woman, and is devastated when she returns to a previous lover, the wealthy and influential Haj Thobane. Thobane survives an attempted murder that kills his chauffeur and Lino's gun is found at the scene. With Lino in prison, it is up to Llob to face down the corrupt echelons of the Algerian government to find the truth about what happened the night of the murder. The search will take the world-weary Llob down avenues even he has never encountered and will force him to delve into his beloved country's brutal past.	Pub date: October 2009 More Info...
The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros It is 1891 in New Orleans, and young Typhus Morningstar cycles under the light of the half-moon to fulfill his calling, rebirthing aborted fetuses in the fecund waters of the Mississippi River. He cannot know that nearby, events are unfolding that will change his life forever—events that were set in motion by a Vodou curse gone wrong, forty years before he was born...	Pub date: February 2009 More Info...
Maggid, Issue 3. Jewish Bodies: Flesh Made Words Maggid showcases the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world. This third edition is built around the theme Jewish Bodies: The Flesh Made Words, which illustrates the variety of ways in which Jewish writers imagine and represent the body. Features the work of both emerging and established writers: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Rodger Kamenetz, Etgar Keret, Daniel Mendelsohn, Alicia Ostriker, Steve Stern and Eleanor Wilner. Also includes new translations of S.Y. Agnon and Hanoch Levin.	Pub date: November 2009 More Info...
*Modern Hebrew Literature, Issue 5. Israel at 60: Retrospective and Renewal* For more than twenty years, Modern Hebrew Literature has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's dynamic literary scene. Each issue features translated excerpts of novels, short stories, articles, interviews, poetry and book reviews recently published in Hebrew. The theme of this fifth edition published by The Toby Press is Israel at Sixty: Retrospective and Renewal.	Pub date: November 2009 More Info...