Lyons Regional Library

Winner of the Edgar Award: Rabbi Small investigates a murder in which he's the prime subject   David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. Although he'd rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming-that is, until the day a nanny's body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple's parking lot. When the young woman's purse is...

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross,...

Rabbi Small once again helps Police Chief Hugh Lannigan solve a crime when a local college professor infamous for his ambition is involved in a drunk-driving accident that looks like a murder.

Rabbi David Small helps Chief of Police Lanigan track down a murderer.

"Rabbi David Small has had it with the constant bickering of congregational life, so when offered the chance to teach a course in Jewish studies at Windemere Christian College, he grabs it. He should have quit while he was ahead. His encounter with Windemere makes a temple board meeting look mild in comparison. 'Rabbi,' according to the tradition, means 'teacher'--but there's nothing traditional about the way Rabbi Small, trained in Talmudic scholarship...

"When Faigel can't find her latke recipe her husband asks the rabbi, whose advice leads them to make way too many latkes, in this Hanukkah story about the foolish people of Chelm."--Provided by publisher.

"A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history. When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them. Their courtship unwittingly shadowed by murder and...

Soshanna struggles to overcome personal demons while working to repair family estrangements, while English professor Leah faces the pain of abandonment, and athlete Rachel watches her carefully constructed world fall apart.

Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they'll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human--just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together...

Church secretary Cindy Preston stumbles across a dead body in the sanctuary while preparing for Easter servIce. Her friend, Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman, from the Jewish temple next door, helps her search for the truth.