Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program

Published in 1975, Looking for Mr. Goodbar became an overnight best-seller. The world it described was a shockingly familiar one to a generation whose sexual lifestyles had been revolutionized during the 60s. Today it survives as a riveting story of a young woman whose pursuit of lasting intimacy leads her into a dangerous world of promiscuity.

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...

Mom and Dad are about to have a new baby and their young daughter has all sorts of questions.

Now married, Jo Bhaer (nee March) couldn't be happier. Jo, along with her husband Professor Friedrich Bhaer, operates the Plumfield Estate School. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans, which is attended, by 12 adopted boy as well as Jo's own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally struggle to maintain good manners.

After Kenyon squanders the money he has saved for his grandmother's birthday present, he searches for another special gift.

In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russos. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...

Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.