bronx (new york, n.y.)

Mary Childers discusses how her mother's many failed relationships and her childhood spent in poverty influenced the choices she has made and her goals in life.

A memoir of an orphaned young girl, raised by her two unmarried uncles, that explores the mystery of family and the secret enchantments of childhood.

Set in an Irish American neighborhood at the end of World War II, Billy Lynch's friends and family have gathered to mourn him and reflect on the mysteries of love, fate and the terrible result of lies told to spare a friend pain.

A woman who grew up in the blighted Bronx during the 1960s offers a memoir of poverty, abuse, and the welfare system, describing a world of urban decay, rampant crime, race riots, white flight, alcohol and drugs, and her own difficult struggle to achieve self-sufficiency.

Tells the story of Milton Daub's adventure in the terrible storm, known ever after as the Blizzard of '88.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, sharing a deep bond that has helped them survive the loss of their parents and the country's political upheaval, but when they both fall for the same woman, their bond is broken and the two go their separate ways, until a medical crisis reunites them.

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.