Twelve romantic summer stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors, edited by Stephanie Perkins Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy....
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Author: Perkins, StephanieSummary: -
Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems...
Genre: Social science, Essays -
Author: Warren, Tiffany L.Summary:
Scarred by poverty and life with a crackhead mother, Onika Lewis had a rough start. Still, thanks to her sharp mind, and hard work, she graduated with honors from a prestigious college. But her...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in...
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Author: Entel, RebeccaSummary:Driven by curiosity about her small Carribean island, Myrna secretly excavates the ruins of a former slave plantation. Her investigation into the past will take a deeply personal turn in the...
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Author: Solomon, RiversSummary:Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death...
Genre: Apocalyptic fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Williams, TiaSummary:
Intelligent and gorgeous, Billie Burke is a workaholic who hasn't paused since she set her sights on the top editor position at a premier beauty magazine. So far, her ambition has effectively...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina...
Genre: Domestic fiction