Learning disabilities make school painful for Annabelle, thirteen, but a summer of swimming with the high school team is fantastic until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.

Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.

When a blizzard leaves a family housebound one Hanukkah, they share what little food they have with some starving animals who later return the favor.

In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.

In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on...

A working-class man takes a terrible fall off the roof of his house, sending his life into a tailspin.

After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.

"The Last of the Mohicans," penned by the literary maestro James Fenimore Cooper, is a tour de force that beckons readers into the heart of the untamed American wilderness. Published in 1826, this timeless novel unfolds against the backdrop of the French and Indian War, a tumultuous period that serves as the canvas for Cooper's masterpiece. In the vast expanse of the North American frontier, where verdant forests echo with the whispers of ancient...

José Carlos, un joven estudiante, halla en la figura de Sheccid el motivo para superar sus propias limitaciones y afirmar su madurez. En torno a estos dos personajes se suceden acontecimientos que nos permiten asomarnos al idealismo, al afán de perfección, pero también a los dramas y torturas interiores del mundo adolescente. Sheccid es una niña-mujer llena de misterios, un personaje fascinante cuya belleza destructora esconde un terrible secreto;...

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens and the five children of the Novak family the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and...