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Between 1819 and 1969, the United States government sent hundreds of thousands of Native American children to cruel Indian boarding schools that it had funded in an effort to eliminate Indigenous people and culture. Of the 408 federal Indian boarding schools across 37 states that operated in our country for over 150 years, New Mexico had at least 43 of these schools, which was the third most in the country just behind Oklahoma with 76, and Arizona, who had 47 schools. Little Star…

Top three reasons why I shouldn't eff around and find out with my older brother's best friend. 1. He's eight years older than me. 2. My family would never approve. 3. He's hiding something. So we become roommates. And I become his greatest temptation. I play his game of cat and mouse until we collapse between the sheets with a promise to tell no one.

In Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf invites you into a luminous summer afternoon at beautiful botanical gardens, where petals, sunlight, and passing conversations blend into a delicate mosaic of human experience. As couples stroll, voices drift, and thoughts wander, Virginia Woolf captures fleeting moments of memory, love, regret, and quiet revelation.

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering—a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of misery in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart. Will Sarah's strong will and determination be enough for her to survive when everything she loves is taken from her?

After Jacob Friedman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, dies at the age of ninety-eight, his daughter, Ellen Singer, finds a stack of love letters he wrote in 1947 to a Mennonite farm girl named Anna. With the help of two good friends, Ellen matches her father’s letters to Anna’s corresponding diary entries and recon-structs their unlikely romance. Love, Faith, and the Dented Bullet is the story of two emotionally damaged people from two different worlds. Jacob is a Polish Jew who has managed to live through the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the death camp Treblinka.

47 Great Russian Novels

In Legends, Lore, & Longings, a curated treasury of short fiction, classic American authors spin tales that blur the line between myth and memory, past and present.

“Open any of his novels—from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, and even then with the book closed, you remain dizzy and panting as you try to regain your...

Chris Tse uses this story–and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later–to reflect on the experiences of Chinese migrants of the period, their wishes and hopes, their estrangement and alienation, their ghostly reverberation through a white-majority culture.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookBub, and more! From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of the...

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile , Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt. In Searching the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything. Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class and state violence told through the story of two mysterious twins.

A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

A Concept of Right Now explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.

Ready for the World: Driver’s Education drops you into the summer of 1986, where fifteen-year-old Brandon Delacruz is gearing up for two milestones: new school and a brand-new driver’s permit. Raised in a close-knit Filipino-American family, Brandon thinks he’s prepared for anything—until high school roars to life with tougher teachers, stricter parents, and a whirlwind of emotions he never saw coming.

“Mohammed Hanif is a brave, gifted writer.” —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. When a major Pakistani political figure is...

A haunting, gothic love triangle set in postwar Moscow and an Arctic gulag, where forbidden passion and betrayal shape destinies and echo across decades. House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two...

“Narrator Katharine Chin elevates this contemporary coming-of-age story featuring four Asian American friends...A resonant listening experience rich with biting social commentary.” — Kirkus From the acclaimed author of Number One Chinese Restaurant comes an affecting novel about an...

In a country rapidly modernizing after independence, Animesh Chitol bends his caste title into a quirky surname, moves his family to the brand-new township of Bhombalpur Railway Workshop, and throws in his lot with an optimism-filled future. Then tragedy strikes. Into the empty space left by his wife's passing grows Chitol's only daughter, the middle child, Charu. As India moves from steam to diesel locomotives, through a great strike and state repression, Charu flees to Bombay, alarmed by her narrow prospects. There she quests for the means to live on her own terms.