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Desperate Characters
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and …
Borrowed Finery
Born in the 1920s to bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother and cared for by a poor minister, her parents began to …
Censored Books
New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a …
The Slave Dancer
In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship. Thirteen-year-old …
Slave Dancer
Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie …
Village by the Sea
Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award:A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma’s uncle is …
Servant's Tale
"e;A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."e;—Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son …
Servant's Tale
Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the …
The God of Nightmares
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a …
Widow's Children
"e;Chekhovian. . . . Every line of Fox's story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising."e;—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times On the eve of their …
Place Apart
National Book Award Winner: A grieving teenager wonders if she’ll ever understand anything—especially the big things—in life. Time passed, and all the minutes hurt . . . After …
Western Coast
America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift …