What’s New in Historical Fiction Panel (VIDEO)
I talk with Kyra Davis Lurie, Marie Bostwick, and C.W. Towarnicki about our upcoming books at: https://youtu.be/ndBXbAbrM28?si=EywU8ZQnjXu_k5j0
Jewish Women’s Archive (VIDEO)
I talk interracial romance, the roles of women through history, and make a confession I’ve never made before. Watch it at: https://youtu.be/w8gW4RDGZSY?si=7YaC-GqdSbAosv5w
Author Interview – Alina Adams
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: If I’m stuck on an elevator with Scarlett O’Hara from “Gone With the Wind” I would first explain
How Being ‘Of the Book’ Saved My Relationship with My Son
I wasn’t proud. I was furious. I am not a person who gets furious. My husband jokes that I’m the sort of person who “gets handed crap and makes crap pancakes, instead.” I h
The Nesting Dolls Book Review
Generational trauma is not an excuse to blame your parents for your sh*t. However, there is something to be said for unhealed emotional wounds that are subconsciously passed down
Post-Soviet Children’s Authors Panel (VIDEO)
Post-Soviet Children’s and YA authors Anne Blankman, Leah Cypess, Anna Olswanger, and Eugene Yelchin talk with Alina Adams about their writing inspiration, their sense of res
Jewish Genre Reading Challenge
While the overall focus of the Jewish Genre Reading Challenge is to support and encourage people in reading Jewish genre fiction, we also have our “This & That” reading cha
Meet Alina Adams
Alina, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career? My p
Go On Pretending: From Stalin’s Doctors Plot to Soviet Central Television
Josef Stalin’s Doctors Plot found him proclaiming that a secret cabal of medical professionals was conspiring to murder leading government and party officials. It began with the
The Mistake (Jewish Book Council Review)
Is placing a child with a foot in each of two worlds, two cultures, two religions a mistake? That’s the question author Mara Schiffren sets out to answer in her his�