When teenagers are supposed to be having fun, young Kyle Manning lives with a problem that seeks to take over his waking hours. His Friend Sally is a girl who is attracted to Kyle but is at a loss to know why he doesn’t seem to notice her.Fed up...
In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way—he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an...
"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master." — Alvaro Mutis
Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her...
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naïve teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. But in the waning days of the Nazi empire, with food scarce and fears of sedition mounting, even the private yearnings of teenage...