Introduction Harrison Opuku is standing in the street watching the police block off a body, the body of one of his classmates—who seems to have been murdered for his dinner. The police have no leads, so Harri and his best friend Dean launch into action. Armed with camouflage binoculars and detective techniques absorbed from television, [...]
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The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
Introduction Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a “softheaded goose” by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise [...]
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
About the Book “Thoughtful and evocative … Slouka writes perceptively about the ambiguities of human behavior—both within the ordinary circumstances of marriage and in the extreme conditions of war.”—Eva Hoffman, New York Times Book Review “A vibrantly told love story.”—Washington Post Book World “Rich with intelligence and poetic detail, The Visible World demonstrates why [...]
Story-Wallah by Shyam Selvadurai
About Story-Wallah Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. In this book, some of the world’s best fiction writers hawk their wares from different parts of the South Asian diaspora — Sri Lanka, India, the United States, Great Britain, Guyana, Malaysia, Trinidad, and Fiji [...]
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
About The Namesake Major National Bestseller Best Book of the Year: New York Times, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, San Jose Mercury News New York Magazine Book of the Year “Dazzling . . . An intimate, closely observed family portrait. — New York Times “Lahiri handles issues of assimilation and belonging with her trademark [...]
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
About the book: “I know of no novel that makes the remote folk of the western prairies more real . . . and I know of none that makes them seem better worth knowing.” — H. L. Mencken, 1919 An enduring literary masterpiece first published in 1918 by Houghton Mifflin, this eloquent novel is an [...]
Jiménez, Francisco — Reaching Out
“Too many children in the U.S. have never seen their lives in print, nor have they ever been told their story is extraordinary, nor that they themselves are courageous. I thank Francisco Jiménez for honoring all brave children who grow up poor in America.” — Sandra Cisneros From the acclaimed author Francisco Jiménez comes a [...]
