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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world wi...

Its the July long weekend, and Ellen Brodie, with matchmaking on her mind, has invited an attractive distant cousin from out west for a visit. She...

by Sharon Garlough Brown Sensible Shoes in this third book of the series, continuing on from the events of Two Steps Forward. Having been challenge...

A little girl dreams that she's all alone at sea in a tiny boat. It's dark, and the sea is scary. Then she sees the gentle moon, the first sign of...

A favorite pastime for many, fishing can provide rare moments for reflecting on what is important and meaningful in life. In The Catch William Van...

American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with Minaret, a delicate tale of a privileged young African M...

by Margaret Laurence One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrica...

by Omar El Akkad A unique and eerily convincing masterwork, American War takes a scalpel to American politics, precisely dissecting it to see what ...

In 1866 Colorado, Ethan Kincaid agrees to a marriage of convenience with the same casual disregard he gives every decision. Audra Gilliland, young...

In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of ...

A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his st...

Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the ...

by Lorraine Hansberry Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living ...

by Michael Ondaatje From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives ...

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene,The Things They Carried...

In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of Main Street brought him his fi...

This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and ...

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old...

An eighteen-year-old girl without money or connections ventures forth from her small town in search of a better life in Theodore Dreiser's revolut...

San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare’s School for ...

Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Se...

by Madeleine Thien Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes ...

by David Foster Wallace In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Ill...