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"In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.

In a well-to-do Trinidadian family, a father and his daughter struggle to find their true identities, both as individuals and as members of a tightly structured, traditional household.

Finn Gunnersen and his best friend, Loki, are mad about planes. Finn wants to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a pilot.

Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.

How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye? Sacramento, California, 1870.

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language.