Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Jewish Interests Poetry

Signs of Love by Lesléa Newman

Lesléa Newman | Signs of Love | Originally published in two volumes which have gone out of print, this exciting collection explores deeply personal, yet profoundly universal issues s

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Jewish Interests

Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | ‘The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of

Posted in Award Winner History

Boots Of Leather, Slippers Of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis | Boots Of Leather, Slippers Of Gold | ‘Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawi

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Burning Ground by Pearl Luke

Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio

Posted in Award Winner Romance

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan | The Price of Salt | The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork.  Highsmith has given us the enthralling

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Movie/Media Tie-In

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | When Quoyle’s two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

The Mesh by Lucie Marchal

Lucie Marchal | The Mesh | ”I hated her when I first saw her. She was so passive, so voluptuous, so unlike me. Then something changed me. Alone with her I was filled with a joy

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Miss Peabody’s Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s Inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Award Winner Pulp

Wasteland by Jo Sinclair

Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h