New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira’s devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation. These characters form the heart of this wry, often poignant novel narrated through a series of vignettes. They are joined by a colorful cast of characters who frequent the literary café—long-married couples, young lovers, an eccentric poet, and a traumatized veteran—all finding refuge and occasionally wisdom among their motley urban community. Closely based on Ehrlich’s own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a café that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Café Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love.

Manfred Herbst, a middle-aged professor at the Hebrew University, is bored. He is bored with his studies, with the petty squabbles of his academic colleagues, and with his endlessly understanding wife, Henrietta. He spends his days - and often his nights - prowling the streets and alleys of Jerusalem searching for Shira, the beguiling nurse he met at a hospital years ago. Against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem - a world on the brink of war - Herbst wages his own war against the encroachment of age as he plunges deeper into fantasies sparked by the free-spirited Shira. Shira, the last novel of Hebrew writer and 1966 Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon, was unfinished at the time of his death in 1970. Agnon wrote two very different endings for this novel, both of which are included here, along with an afterword by Robert Alter.

The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and contestation. The authors in the symposium discuss a wide range of topics, with a focus on politics and culture, offering readers provocative views on the city over the last 120 years. Essays by historians and cultural scholars in the volume engage with such issues as visions of the city among Jews and non-Jews and musical and literary imaginings of the city, while other scholars bring original interpretations of the city's political evolution in the past century that will both surprise and intrigue readers. The extensive book review section illustrates the consistent interest in modern Jewish history and culture.

"Accidents follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life."--BOOK JACKET.

In the game of love, bind what is yours. Rules. They exist for a reason. Geek and former model Shira has seen what happens when she strays from them. She has three she never breaks: 1. Don’t hook up with guildmates. 2. Don’t date in person. And most of all… 3. Don’t believe someone can look past the cyborg freak you’ve become. Only, she’s broken one of her simple rules not with just one person, but two—her virtual reality PvP partners… who also happen to be a couple. Worse yet, they convinced her to meet them and their wonderful daughter at the biggest VR gaming convention in the US, forcing her to face her fears. Rules. Who needs them? Not Jasper or Zach. They only complicate life. So when the two decide they want to add their close friend and casual VR PvP partner, Shira, to their life as their player three, they run into a problem: her rules. She claims they protect her. They’ve seen her come out of her shell since breaking Rule One. Now they’re determined to do whatever it takes to break the last two rules. The more time she spends with them, the more at risk she is for breaking rules two and three. And Shira isn’t sure she can protect herself from the inevitable fallout once she does. They’ve summoned her, and now, they’ll bind her. --- BINDING THEIR ELEMENTALIST is part two of a duet and does not stand alone, starting off immediately where part one, SUMMONING THEIR ELEMENTALIST left off. This is a MMF Ménage romance. There are sexual encounters in the duet parts containing MM, MF, MFM and MMF situations. Author's Note: Binding Their Elementalist tackles the topic of acknowledging and overcoming trauma. Reader discretion is advised. LOOKING FOR GROUP Spellbinding His Ranger (#1) Protecting His Priestess (#2) Summoning Their Elementalist (#3, duet part 1) Binding Their Elementalist (#4, duet part 2)

When Hayato's grandmother passed, he planned to sell her rundown café by the shore—not realizing that it was being run by five young women who call themselves her family?! Their desperation to keep the café open convinces Hayato to give it a shot...but even their best intentions might not be enough to make it work! And can he even work with these five unruly women? No matter what, he's got his work cut out for him! A fun new romcom by the author of Fuuka and Suzuka!

Carly never meant to become a stalker. She just wanted to find out who Brian started dating after he dumped her. But a little harmless online research turns into a quick glance, and that turns into an afternoon of watching. Soon Carly is putting all of her energy into following Brian’s new girlfriend—all of the sadness she feels about her mom’s recent breakup, all of the anger she feels over being pushed aside by her dad while he prepares for his new wife’s new baby. When Carly’s stalking is discovered in the worst possible way by the worst possible person, she is forced to acknowledge her problem and the underlying issues that led to it. Watch a Video