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In a small, rural black community, a respected minister and civil rights leader comes face to face with the sins of his youth.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes."

A frustrated teacher in a southern town, who's education is being underutilized finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity he redeems himself.

A comprehensive anthology of more than three hundred poems, organized chronologically in order of their publication, features works from "Fires," "Where the Water Comes Together With Other Water," and "A New Path to the Waterfall."

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years....