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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

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Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong; but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother Christopher discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail...

The acclaimed author of such New York Times bestsellers as Here on Earth and Turtle Moon presents a " sexually charged..almost hynotic" novel (Publishers Weekly) about men, women, romance, and real life. When Teresa was a little girl, she went to sleep with dreams in her head--dreams of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. The men her mother told her about were a special breed, and someday, Teresa vowed, she would find...

"Fern and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family, for as long as she can remember, and her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem . . . until they came of age. An intimate encounter following a high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences, and the forces of fate, arrogance, and class prejudice gather to crush their warm relationship. Still, the real threat...

This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....

Josef Fritzl, 73 yr. old Austrian retired engineer, and his wife, Rosemarie, and their family, seemed to be living a normal life.One daughter, Elisabeth, had mysteriously disappeared but only Josef knew the truth about her disappearance. Three of Elisabeth's children showed up at their door and they raised them as their own. For 27 years, Josef had imprisoned Elisabeth in his man-made dungeon, where she gave birth to 7 of his children. In 2008,...

In 1949 St. Paul, Minnesota Cal Grant, despite the shelter of his idyllic life, his rollicking friends, and the mesmerizing girl he loves, stumbles onto an unthinkable lair of violence, terror and murder.