Sam spends a typical day having breakfast with his family, learning and having fun at school, playing with his friend Max, and heading for bed with his dog, Lucky.

The renowned Israeli author "once again captures the culture of modern-day Israel with provocative deadpan humor" in a novel of wealth, war, and family (Publishers Weekly).

Mandy Gruber, matriarch of a wealthy Israeli family, is beholden to her mother's legacy and the pajama factory she started from nothing. While Mandy's husband Irad, a self-proclaimed genius, is off in America researching new innovations in flak jackets,...

Declan O'Malley came to the coast of British Columbia because it was as far away from Ireland as he could possibly go. Haunted by memories of his family's death at the hands of the Black and Tans, Declan is unable to escape his grief. He immerses himself in a new life, seeking to produce a more perfect translation of Homer's Odyssey while at the same time becoming closer to the family on whose property he is living. But Declan cannot free himself...

Atuonuo lives with her widowed mother Visuenuo in Kija, an ancient village of the Angamis. Their lives are hard, regulated by the seasons and by the ceaseless annual labours of hoeing and digging, planting and harvesting. But, it is also a life of peace, lived in a well-knit community of wise elders and caring - though sometimes overbearing - neighbours and relatives. This peace is shattered, when Kevi, a young hunter, lithe and possessed of an animal...

"He didn't look like he had any bad intentions, but then again, neither did most of the adults I'd come across in my life... and look what happened." Estelle is an introverted 16-year-old girl leading a less-than-stellar, but ultimately quiet home life in New York City. Her stepfather might hate her and her once adoring mother might (strangely) not be as attentive anymore, but at least she'll always have her younger sister and best friend, Hazel......

The Garies and Their Friends (1857) is a novel by Frank J. Webb. Published at the height of the abolitionist movement, Webb's novel was only the second in history by an African American writer. Although it is his only novel, The Garies and Their Friends is a testament to Webb's skills as a writer and political thinker, a man who explored themes of racial passing and Northern racism decades before such topics were common in African American literature....

This book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realizes that her boyfriend was no longer willing to wait and has fallen for someone else... and her own niece, no less. Struggling with all the commitments that come with...

Crammed with humor, sorrow, folly, bravery and the richness of the everyday, Tulchinsky's fictional treatment of the Lapinsky family and its remarkable fortunes through the pivotal moment of the 1933 Toronto race riot, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and its attendant social tensions, World War II, and the post-war era brings to life the character of an entire community.

Married in Nigeria, moved to Nebraska, Ifi and Job believed they would be able to keep up the appearance to relatives and friends back home that their marriage was not based on a lie: that Job was a respected doctor in America and Ifi would become his nurse.

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion...