BOOKS 2026 #Pardes Publishing

A captivating coming-of-age novel, written through the eyes of a girl who becomes a young woman, between courage and fear, between attempts at initiation and resistance. Through it, we learn the story of one Mizrahi Israeli family, who dreamed beyond the horizon of the periphery.

A gripping journey novel that moves between utopia and reality, between the political and the romantic, between the human and the alien. Alexei Tolstoy – a member of a famous noble family, a prolific writer and a central figure in 20th-century Russian literature – is considered the pioneer of Soviet science fiction.

For sixty days, playwright Roy Yosef spent in the reserves at the "Shora" camp somewhere in the center of the country. Sixty days during which he engaged in one of the most complex tasks known to the human mind – identifying the victims of the massacre. For too long hours, Roy and the soldiers recruited for the mission searched for an identification mark that would facilitate identification and allow burial.

Despite, and perhaps because of, the immense wealth of his work, no comprehensive monograph has been written on Kaniuk to date. In a diligent exploration of his personal archive, which includes manuscripts, letters, and documents, Prof. Adiya Mendelson Maoz reveals the delicate weave between Kaniuk's life and his literary world.

Yaki is a veteran biology teacher on a sabbatical, spending part of his academic training in a writing workshop. His wife Noa, a nurse by profession, is busy traveling south, to a rehabilitation village in the Negev, and trying to direct the fate of the boy Gal – who remained there as a result of the upheavals in the life of his father Ido, her husband’s son from a previous marriage – so that she can win him over.

Ari, 40, is at a fateful crossroads in his life: his relationship with his partner, Uri, is falling apart, he has reached complete exhaustion at work, and Oliver, his cat, suffers from frequent choking attacks. Ari's complex situation requires him to grapple with the past and internalized homophobia.

For almost thirty years, Dr. Ruth Kanai has served as the village doctor – the family doctor of the Emek Ela settlements in the Judean Lowlands. As the village doctor, she treats families from infancy to old age, and knows her patients in health and illness. Inspired by her patients, Kanai tells stories that expand the mind and heart.