Jack was a respected emerald dealer before venturing to Africa, where he lost everything and had to start afresh. His hopes are on his friend Itzhak, who is an emerald dealer in Brazil. Itzhak had immigrated to Brazil from Vienna in the thirties after things...

Eat and Get Gas by J.A. Wright is a coming-of-age story. Evan Hanson is 13 and feels like she never knows what’s going on. Her father is often absent, and when her brother is drafted, her mother, totally anti-war, takes him to Canada – she...

When asked his name, the frightened young boy who has just shot his mama replies: “Earl, honey.” The officer sniggers, except the response isn’t funny. Nor is Earl being sassy. He is simply slow after being brain-damaged by his abusive father years before. It’s episodes...

Emilie by Ingrid Ramsdale takes us back to sixteenth-century France and a time of great change in French society as the predominantly Roman Catholic religion is being challenged by the rise of a new way of worshipping; the teachings of John Calvin and his Protestant...

The question of whether the horrors of the Holocaust are over for the next generation is a pressing and haunting theme in Ruth Rotkowitz’s Escaping the Whale. Set in 1980, Brooklyn, this is the story of 28-year-old Marcia Gold, a high school guidance counselor who...

Samantha Henthorn has covered a lot of ground in the third book of the Curmudgeon Avenue series, Edna and Genevieve Escape From Curmudgeon Avenue. Edna, who did not appear a lot in the second book, has made an impressive comeback in the third part of...

Everywhere She’s Not is a novel penned by author N. John Shore Jr. which focuses on self-destructive behavior, failed relationships and human nature. In this powerfully compelling introspective look at life, we meet our central hero (or anti-hero), David. Though brilliant in some ways, his...

In Evasion: Do No Harm by Susan Jean Ricci, Remi Roundwater lives a comfortable life as the spouse of physician Dr. Marshall Wagner. However, her marriage is not quite what she had hoped for, as her husband is becoming more evasive when it comes to...

Everything's Not Bigger is a contemporary fiction novel written by Britt Skrabanek. Jaye Davis had what seemed to be a dream existence. She worked for Lyman’s, an elite Dallas department store, where the ultra-wealthy went to be pampered and tempted by the latest styles and...

Reading a novel like Escape From Vietnam: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard Cohen is so much more than enjoying an intricate, riveting plot and engaging with realistic and touching characters. It’s an opportunity for enlightenment, not just about the horrors experienced...