"It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and-a-half history -- and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn't solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want...

"After her best friend, Agnes, goes into a coma as a result of a game of Truth or Dare, rising senior Hannah's secrets begin to escape while she is locked in a psychiatric hospital."-- Hannah knows she didn't need to be institutionalized: Agnes went into a coma as a result of a game of Truth or Dare, but it was an accident. As soon as the doctors and judge figure out that she isn't a danger to herself or others, Hannah can go home to start her senior...

"Reich is the author of the novels "One Hundred Philistine Foreskins," "My Holocaust," "The Jewish War," "Master of the Return," and "Mara." Her stories have appeared in the "Atlantic," "Harper's," "AGNI," "Ploughshares," and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award, as well as other prizes."-- "'Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original...

"Solomon Gold is a Russian immigrant in New York. He is a gifted and hardworking shoemaker. He and his wife keep to the old ways in everyday life and in their religion. They are proud of their heritage. As the story begins, their son Sidney is 14. He already knows that he doesn't want to make shoes his whole life. He is an excellent student, and his father is proud of him, but Sol wants Sidney and Emma, his daughter, to follow the old ways."--Publisher...

Yakove Eisen is a rebel in the Jewish-American community of Brooklyn. He refuses to follow in his father's footsteps and become an Orthodox rabbi, instead he wants to study secular philosophy. Next, he falls in love with a woman who wants to be a rabbi, an occupation forbidden to Orthodox Jewish women.