A young boy and an escaped slave float down the Mississippi River and have many adventures along the way.

Narrates the hatred of petty officer Claggart for Billy, a handsome Spanish sailor.  Billy strikes and kills Claggart, and is condemned by Captain Vere even though the latter senses Billy’s spiritual innocence.

An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio in the early 1940s prays for her eyes to turn blue so she will be beautiful (contains mature material).

Depicts a Native American's struggle to re-enter his tribal world after returning from the war-torn South Pacific.

A Civil War soldier and a lonely woman embark on parallel journeys of danger and discovery.

Classic play about the witch hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, illuminating the destructive power of fears and suspicion in a community.

A monumental novel which covers the passionate lives of two turbulent families.

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

The story of one black teenager's twelve month tour of duty in Vietnam.  Includes realistic language.

After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family.  Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother’s schemes and reality by

The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by laboring as Dust Bowl migrants.

A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

     A play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925.  Called the trial of the century, the main focus is on the two lawyers, Bryan and Darrow, as they argued over the teaching of evolution

Through a mother's eyes, we witness the progress of her family through the generations against a backdrop of America undergoing its own myriad post-war transformations. Contains mature material.

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair.  He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.

 My father bleeds history -- And here my troubles began. Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago’s South Side, a young African-American man finds release only in acts of violence.

An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

Translation of: Persepolis. Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African-American family living on Chicago’s Southside in the 1950s.

During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both

This stream-of-consciousness tale of the Compson family of Jefferson is also a tale of the South.

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

Mitch Albom, Schwartz's one-time student, chronicles his last days with his dying mentor, a sociologist who courageously studied his own degeneration from Lou Gehrig's disease.

A novel of the pre-Civil War South indicting slavery and exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society.