Bookshelf Archives

Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Books

Tori’s Guide to Holiday Book-Giving – Cookbooks, Novels, History, Biographies and More! The holidays are upon us! This year I’m trying not to overdo the wholeRead More

The Forbidden Orchid + A Q&A with the Author

The Forbidden Orchid, Sharon Biggs Waller’s second novel, was released on March 8th and I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy. As manyRead More

Da Vinci’s Tiger

Some of you may not not know this, but before I started this blog I was working on a novel for teens… in fact, IRead More

The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals

If a mermaid has scales, is it kosher? Does a chupacabra chew its cud? How exactly do you cook a Mongolian Death Worm? Authors AnnRead More

Kosher Nation

The dietary laws found in the Torah have influenced the way Jews eat since Biblical times. These laws, known as kashrut, are the Biblical mandatesRead More