Author: Medea Benjami
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: story, elvia, alvarado, heart, speaks, gringo, honduran, woman, don
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1989-07-19
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 006097205X
ISBN-13: 9780060972059

"Elvia Alvarado tells the story of her life and the life of the people of Honduras. Read it and understand the struggle against tyranny of the poor. Read it and act."--Alice Walker

Author: Joanne Harri
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, coastliners
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060958014
ISBN-13: 9780060958015

After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris’s Coastliners focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, and Five Quarters of the Orange. Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations. Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of L

Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: hope, years, children, resurrections, ordinary
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060956453
ISBN-13: 9780060956455

Stepping back from his 30-year attack on the inequalities of education, Jonathan Kozol allows the children to speak for themselves in Ordinary Resurrections. These are the schoolchildren of South Bronx’s most dismal neighborhood, Mott Haven, where social struggles with poverty and imprisoned fathers rate just under AIDS and asthma as the greatest threats to young lives. Yet, Kozol marvels, despair and bitterness don’t come to mind when you meet 10-year-olds like Ariel, who "skips through life" and displays a healing tenderness to others at the church afterschool program that has be

Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, skirt, torn
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0061567108
ISBN-13: 9780061567100

At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love’s Baby Soft can’t hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.

Author: Noah Andre Trudeau
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: courage, testing, gettysburg
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0060931868
ISBN-13: 9780060931865

America’s Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and courage. From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E. Lee launched his high-risk campaign into the North, to the Confederates’ last daring and ultimately-doomed act, forever known as Pickett’s Charge, the battle of Gettysburg gave the Union army a victory that turned back the boldest and perhaps greatest chance for a Southern nation.No

Author: David S. Reynold
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: american, history, jackson, america, giant, waking
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060826576
ISBN-13: 9780060826574

America experienced unprecedented growth and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. It was an age when Andrew Jackson redefined the presidency and James K. Polk expanded the nation’s territory. Bancroft Prize-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. He brings to life the reformers, abolitionists, and temperance advocates who struggled to correct America’s worst social ills, and he reveals the shocking phenomena that

Author: William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: new, roosevelt, franklin
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061836966
ISBN-13: 9780061836961

When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR’s New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States�and explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformation�for our time and for all time.