Southern novelist and activist Lillian Smith (1897-1966) considered One Hour her best work of fiction. The novel, originally published in 1959 and long out of print, brilliantly depicts the destructive effects of mass hysteria on the people of a small southern town. The protagonist is an Episcopal minister who chronicles a series of tragic events set in motion when his closest friend, a gifted scientist, is unjustly accused of molesting a young girl. The novel's tensions culminate in an eruption of violence and hate that destroys the community. In a new introduction, Rose Gladney places One Hour in its historical context and highlights its enduring meaning for today's readers.

Desperate to escape the despair, hopelessness, and hardship of the migrant-workers' existence, Estrella, a young Mexican-American migrant worker, fights back against a system that will do almost anything to keep her down. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

The muteness of an Aleut woman intrigues a scientist in Alaska, and her disappearance calls up desperation within him. An incendiary tale set against the landscape of the Great North, this novel merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.

Eine erfolgreiche, einsame und verschlossene Konzertpianistin, die sich nur durch die Musik auszudrücken vermag, erinnert sich: als die deutschen Besatzer den Juden de Leon abführen, bleiben ihr von ihrem Klavierstundenglück nur die Notenbücher.

Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.

Kleine Alltagsgeschichten aus einem abgelegenen Dorf im Süden von Irland, wo die Autorin als Posthalterin und Besitzerin eines Dorfladens eine wichtige Persönlichkeit darstellt.

Desperate for marriage and motherhood but impossibly in love with the wrong man, real-estate agent Patty Hansen comes up with an ingenious, if offbeat, solution to accomplishing her goals. By the author of Talk Before Sleep. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.