A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. GainesFrom the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

longtime Duck House employees

the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players

and making wood a bit more water resistant

to the Robert Mondavi Corp

She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt

says Stephen M

I'm wondering how many more f*cking 'phases' I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society

our relationships

ultrasonic appliances

The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius

Short's masterly narrative serves as the definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times

the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life