"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...

"A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Marr Murray and J. H. Wisdom, is a timeless classic of Russian literature that delves into the complexities of human nature, love, and the pursuit of meaning in a world marked by moral ambiguity and existential angst. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Caucasus Mountains, the novel follows the life of Pechorin, a young Russian officer whose enigmatic personality and reckless behavior...

"Prose and poetry by 33 writers, arranged in chronological groups from 19th century to present. Interesting introduction by editors explores long history of contact and cultural ties between Florida and Cuba. Selection includes well-known figures (Martí, Cabrera, Padilla) alongside less famous ones. Some texts originally written in English. Literary quality of texts is uneven, but volume is useful for the classroom"--Handbook of Latin American Studies,...

"When a family tragedy goes viral, a young girl grapples with how to control her public persona just as she's coming to terms with her private self"-- Provided by publisher.

"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...

The collection includes excerpts, chronologically arranged, from novels which make up the Legend of Duluoz. Kerouac appears as a child in Doctor Sax, as a teenager in Maggie Cassidy, as a young man in On the Road, as a road-wary traveler in Tristessa, as a committed seeker of truth in the Dharma Bums, and as a man at the end of the road in Satori in Paris.

A collection of essays and poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson that helped define the American transcendentalist movement.

Ten-year-old Takeru arrives at his family's home village carrying memories of unspeakable acts against his mother and brother. He befriends Mitsuko, his new caretaker, and Saki, his spunky neighbor, while he comes to terms with his trauma.

A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.