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Foreign Soil
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
In Foreign Soil’s opening story, “David,” a young Sudanese woman is walking her new bike down the streets of Melbourne on her way to pick up her child, Nile, from daycare. She crosses paths with an...
Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
French immigrant J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur writes a series of letters in the fictional persona of James, a Pennsylvania farmer during the Revolutionary War period. James addresses his letter...
Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
One morning, the Ilmorog police detain the teacher Munira for questioning about the murder-by-arson of businessmen Chui, Mzigo, and Kimeria. They also arrest the crippled Abdulla and the political ...
Foreign Soil
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
In Foreign Soil’s opening story, “David,” a young Sudanese woman is walking her new bike down the streets of Melbourne on her way to pick up her child, Nile, from daycare. She crosses paths with an...
Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
French immigrant J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur writes a series of letters in the fictional persona of James, a Pennsylvania farmer during the Revolutionary War period. James addresses his letter...
Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
One morning, the Ilmorog police detain the teacher Munira for questioning about the murder-by-arson of businessmen Chui, Mzigo, and Kimeria. They also arrest the crippled Abdulla and the political ...
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A group of neighborhood boys from a wealthy suburb of Detroit narrate the story of the five Lisbon sisters and how, within the course of a single year, they all take their own lives. Cecilia Lisbon...
Foreign Soil
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
In Foreign Soil’s opening story, “David,” a young Sudanese woman is walking her new bike down the streets of Melbourne on her way to pick up her child, Nile, from daycare. She crosses paths with an...
Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
French immigrant J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur writes a series of letters in the fictional persona of James, a Pennsylvania farmer during the Revolutionary War period. James addresses his letter...
Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
One morning, the Ilmorog police detain the teacher Munira for questioning about the murder-by-arson of businessmen Chui, Mzigo, and Kimeria. They also arrest the crippled Abdulla and the political ...
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A group of neighborhood boys from a wealthy suburb of Detroit narrate the story of the five Lisbon sisters and how, within the course of a single year, they all take their own lives. Cecilia Lisbon...
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
Undine Spragg lives with her parents, Mr. Spragg and Mrs. Spragg, at a hotel in New York City called the Stentorian. It has a view of Fifth Avenue, but it isn’t quite part of that fashionable area....
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
In the Causeway Projects, an impoverished section of late-1960s Brooklyn, Sportcoat, an elderly deacon, shoots Deems Clemens, a young man and vicious drug dealer. Seemingly, the act is unprovoked, ...
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A group of neighborhood boys from a wealthy suburb of Detroit narrate the story of the five Lisbon sisters and how, within the course of a single year, they all take their own lives. Cecilia Lisbon...
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
Undine Spragg lives with her parents, Mr. Spragg and Mrs. Spragg, at a hotel in New York City called the Stentorian. It has a view of Fifth Avenue, but it isn’t quite part of that fashionable area....
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
In the Causeway Projects, an impoverished section of late-1960s Brooklyn, Sportcoat, an elderly deacon, shoots Deems Clemens, a young man and vicious drug dealer. Seemingly, the act is unprovoked, ...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
by Tim Winton
The Boy Behind the Curtain is a collection of essays that presents a collage of author Tim Winton’s life. It presents a particular focus on Winton’s childhood, his connection to the Australian land...
Arc of Justice
by Kevin Boyle
On the morning of September 8, 1925, Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife, Gladys, move into their new house on Garland Avenue in a working-class Detroit neighborhood. They are the first Black family to m...
Runaway
by Alice Munro
Carla is at her mobile home in rural Canada when she sees a car pass outside and realizes that it’s Sylvia Jamieson, an older neighbor who is returning from a vacation in Greece. Sylvia’s husband L...
Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
The narrator of the story introduces Joseph Andrews, who is the brother of a famously virtuous woman named Pamela. Joseph is a capable, handsome boy who ends up tending animals for Sir Thomas Booby...
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah opens on planet Wallach IX where the Guild—comprised of Edric, Scytale, Princess Irulan and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam—discusses their plans to dethrone Paul and put the Be...
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Sam Pickles awakens one morning on the small island where he works, and he feels the “Shifty Shadow” lurking. This is how he refers to strange sensations that he’ll occasionally feel when some sort...
It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
Lily has recently moved to Boston after finishing her master’s degree in business. At this point in her life, Lily is caught somewhere between the past and the future. The opening scene finds her o...
Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech
Jack is in Miss Stretchberry’s class this school year, and he’s indignant: he not only doesn’t want to write poetry, but he can’t. Also, the poems that Miss Stretchberry reads to the class, like th...
In Custody
by Anita Desai
In Anita Desai’s novel In Custody, the timid Hindi teacher Deven Sharma gets the opportunity of a lifetime when his brash childhood friend Murad hires him to interview his idol, the famous, elderly...
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
Undine Spragg lives with her parents, Mr. Spragg and Mrs. Spragg, at a hotel in New York City called the Stentorian. It has a view of Fifth Avenue, but it isn’t quite part of that fashionable area....
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
In the Causeway Projects, an impoverished section of late-1960s Brooklyn, Sportcoat, an elderly deacon, shoots Deems Clemens, a young man and vicious drug dealer. Seemingly, the act is unprovoked, ...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
by Tim Winton
The Boy Behind the Curtain is a collection of essays that presents a collage of author Tim Winton’s life. It presents a particular focus on Winton’s childhood, his connection to the Australian land...
Arc of Justice
by Kevin Boyle
On the morning of September 8, 1925, Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife, Gladys, move into their new house on Garland Avenue in a working-class Detroit neighborhood. They are the first Black family to m...
Runaway
by Alice Munro
Carla is at her mobile home in rural Canada when she sees a car pass outside and realizes that it’s Sylvia Jamieson, an older neighbor who is returning from a vacation in Greece. Sylvia’s husband L...
Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
The narrator of the story introduces Joseph Andrews, who is the brother of a famously virtuous woman named Pamela. Joseph is a capable, handsome boy who ends up tending animals for Sir Thomas Booby...
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah opens on planet Wallach IX where the Guild—comprised of Edric, Scytale, Princess Irulan and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam—discusses their plans to dethrone Paul and put the Be...
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Sam Pickles awakens one morning on the small island where he works, and he feels the “Shifty Shadow” lurking. This is how he refers to strange sensations that he’ll occasionally feel when some sort...
It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
Lily has recently moved to Boston after finishing her master’s degree in business. At this point in her life, Lily is caught somewhere between the past and the future. The opening scene finds her o...
Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech
Jack is in Miss Stretchberry’s class this school year, and he’s indignant: he not only doesn’t want to write poetry, but he can’t. Also, the poems that Miss Stretchberry reads to the class, like th...
In Custody
by Anita Desai
In Anita Desai’s novel In Custody, the timid Hindi teacher Deven Sharma gets the opportunity of a lifetime when his brash childhood friend Murad hires him to interview his idol, the famous, elderly...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
by Tim Winton
The Boy Behind the Curtain is a collection of essays that presents a collage of author Tim Winton’s life. It presents a particular focus on Winton’s childhood, his connection to the Australian land...
Arc of Justice
by Kevin Boyle
On the morning of September 8, 1925, Dr. Ossian Sweet and his wife, Gladys, move into their new house on Garland Avenue in a working-class Detroit neighborhood. They are the first Black family to m...
Runaway
by Alice Munro
Carla is at her mobile home in rural Canada when she sees a car pass outside and realizes that it’s Sylvia Jamieson, an older neighbor who is returning from a vacation in Greece. Sylvia’s husband L...
Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
The narrator of the story introduces Joseph Andrews, who is the brother of a famously virtuous woman named Pamela. Joseph is a capable, handsome boy who ends up tending animals for Sir Thomas Booby...
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah opens on planet Wallach IX where the Guild—comprised of Edric, Scytale, Princess Irulan and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam—discusses their plans to dethrone Paul and put the Be...
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Sam Pickles awakens one morning on the small island where he works, and he feels the “Shifty Shadow” lurking. This is how he refers to strange sensations that he’ll occasionally feel when some sort...
It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
Lily has recently moved to Boston after finishing her master’s degree in business. At this point in her life, Lily is caught somewhere between the past and the future. The opening scene finds her o...
Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech
Jack is in Miss Stretchberry’s class this school year, and he’s indignant: he not only doesn’t want to write poetry, but he can’t. Also, the poems that Miss Stretchberry reads to the class, like th...
In Custody
by Anita Desai
In Anita Desai’s novel In Custody, the timid Hindi teacher Deven Sharma gets the opportunity of a lifetime when his brash childhood friend Murad hires him to interview his idol, the famous, elderly...
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