Called the sex slave, and the girl in the box case, this is the story behind Colleen Stans terrifying, seven-year-long ... more ›
Details the lives of two sisters--Marcella, who lost everything when she gambled on the wrong man and is now poor and raising ... more ›
IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY is set on a remote farm in South Africa. The protagonist is a bitter and intelligent woman who is ... more ›
Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen , an admittedly autobiographical portrait of growing up Jewish in America, focuses on the ... more ›
HOWARDS END is a vivid portrait of life in Edwardian England, centered on an old country house in Hertfordshire, the object of ... more ›
There is a "first" for everything and there's nothing quite like those unforgettable firsts . . . particularly ... more ›
Orwells 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell ... more ›
Dostoyevsky had a gambling problem which threatened, from time to time, to eat up the considerable sums of money he made from ... more ›
In THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Kate Croy, a penniless young Englishwoman, tries to arrange a marriage between her fiance Merton ... more ›
On her way home from school one day, Noriko is unexpectedly plunged into a strange and extraordinary fantasy world. Her ... more ›
