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Fifteen-year-old Rick Hansen is confident, outgoing, and the star of his high-school basketball team.

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s.

When Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobiev, two Jewish biochemists, are recruited by Josef Stalin to embalm Lenin after his death, both men are pushed to their limits in preserving the former Soviet

Heartwarming and humorous, Kindness sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as they navigate the small and large events in their world.

When Philip meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress, he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense attraction to her.