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Fifteen-year-old Munna lives with his Ma and sisters in a small town in India. Because the family is poor, he is sold to a Sheikh's camel farm in a Gulf country.

Chanda is a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Harare, Zimbabwe, who suffers from unexplained memory lapses, which become even more worrisome when she starts seeing her totem animal, a zebra, in all

What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories?

This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe.

Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again.

Sixty-two-year-old English professor Hugh Norman is getting ready to retire and just going through the motions. He's detached, irreverent, and quite pleased with himself.

It is 1971.

First published in 1926, Madge Macbeth's Shackles is a controversial novel that examines the power dynamics of early Canadian feminism.

A poignant, multi-voiced novel about life in the inner city.

The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut novel by a powerful new voice.

A breathtaking literary debut, Love Letters of the Angels of Death begins as a young couple discover the remains of his mother in her mobile home.

The poet Li Po has journeyed across the world and perhaps across centuries.

R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire.

Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time.

Hoping to keep his parents together by fulfilling an old dream of his father's, seventeen-year-old Del starts a band in which all the members have Asperger's syndrome.