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In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair betw

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' is a beautifully written first novel that addresses the meaning of life - and life after death.

A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann Holmes, is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent.

In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together when tragedy strikes.

This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven.

Connie Farrell, a New York restaurant critic, is sitting in a first class seat on her way to Venice for the second honeymoon of a lifetime.

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical

Lily Quinn is a 24-year-old university student, broke, and looking for love in all the wrong places.

A young aboriginal woman travels across Western Australia following the rabbit-proof fence to reach her people.

By the early l940s, when Ukranian-born Irene Nemirovsky began working on what would become Suite Francaise the first two parts of a planned five-part novel she was already a highly successful write

A general anthropology for the university level.

From Social Analysis issue 42(2) JULY 1998

Textbook for critical thinking across academic study areas. Contents: What is critical thinking? -- The elements of reasoning -- What is critical thinking withing a field or discipline?