A lonely World War I era farm boy defies his parents, and becomes a professor with dreams that never happen.

Scout comes of age, and so do her prejudices.

Acerbic humor from the 1970s and 1980s by the author of Social Studies and Metropolitan Life.

A gaggle of literati moves to 1920s Paris.

A story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation.

A posthumously discovered mystery by the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Difficulties and desolation on the prairie.

An intelligent, popular high school student falls in with a gaggle of bad kids, drugs, and the occult.

An abandoned boy wanders through dangerous World War II Europe–and survives.

Arnost Lustig’s, A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA; just before a young girl is gassed by the Nazis, she gets her...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, THE SCARLET LETTER; the daring Hester Prynne has an affair, births a daughter, and manages their lives, despite...

Jean Craighead George’s, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN; Sam Gribley is an unhappy city boy who runs away to the...