Newly liberated by her mother's sudden marriage and subsequent move to France, Zoe's freedom is cut short by the unexpected death of her stepfather and the mysteries surrounding his life, her mother's sudden illness, and her own struggle to come to terms with an uncertain future. 30,000 first printing.

When his long-estranged daughter dies in a car accident in Canada, an aging Bengali man finds his life transformed by the arrival of his seven-year-old granddaughter in India. Reader's Guide available.

While living in Calgary and feeling homesick, Kamini recalls her childhood in India and her relationship with her mother, Saroja.

Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution

A quixotic first novel encompasses two parallel love stories, traveling through fires, carnivals, dust storms, New Mexico motels, atomic test sights, and desert towns strung together by highways. IP.

Filling in the "missing years" of Sydney Carton in the Dickins novel A Tale of Two Cities, this book follows the troubled, love-stricken man to France, where he takes part in the revolution.

A love story set in a small Georgia town filled with eccentric residents follows the romance between a generous, large-hearted woman and a ghost from one hundred years ago. By the author of Ugly Ways.

Western feminists have in the past singled out the veiling of women as a potent symbol of women’s oppression under Islam. Daphne Grace explores the far more complex and contested role of veiling over the last 120 years. Looking at the ways in which the veil is used in literature, and its representations in writing from the East and the West, she shows how veiling has come to stand for both oppression and resistance. Grace asks why, at the start of the new millennium, veiling seems more popular than ever – and explores what veiling means for the women themselves.Chapters are arranged geographically and chronologically, beginning with the 'imperial gaze' of Victorian England, moving to the Arab Islamic world of the Middle East and the Maghreb and finally to India, in the process exploring the nationalist, religious, political and cultural meanings of the veil in its many manifestations, then and now.

In his endeavor to teach his human, Rae, about the power of love over fear, wolfhound Dante simultaneously impacts the lives of Rae's housekeeper, her therapist, two veterinarians, anxiety-ridden actor Howard, fellow dog Rose, and Stanley the cat. By the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness. 25,000 first printing.

In the sequel to Revenge Is Best Served Cold, Morgan Nelson and Dakota Cantrell return continue to take Manhattan's financial world by storm, but an unexpected pregnancy, a possibly unfaithful husband, and secret between friends could turn their lives upside down. Original.

Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much lauded Harlem Renaissance. Of One Blood first appeared in serial form in Colored American Magazine in the November and December 1902 and the January 1903 issues of the publication, during the four-year period that Hopkins served as its editor. Hopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn't care less about being black and appreciating African history, but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archeological trip. His motive is to raid the country of lost treasures -- which he does find in the ancient land. However, he discovers much more than he bargained for: the painful truth about blood, race, and the half of his history that was never told. Hopkins wrote the novel intending, in her own words, to "raise the stigma of degradation from [the Black] race." The title, Of One Blood, refers to the biological kinship of all human beings.