Harvest book

Presents critical commentary on ten well-known English-language poems, focusing on the meaning and structure of the works, rather than their historical context.

An autobiography in which author Mary McCarthy recalls her early idyllic childhood, the death of her parents, and the following years with relatives who tried with varying degrees of success to provide Mary with a Catholic upbringing.

Civil War widow Cynthia May wins a job as a human computer at Washington's Naval Observatory where she becomes involved with handsome antic astronomer Hugh Allison, a man who is pursuing his ambition to project an image through time and space.

Story of Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, whose determination to build a better life led them to take advantage of new civil rights laws in 1965 and send their children to an all-white school in Sunflower County, Mississippi and whose family suffered threats, deprivation and torture as a result.

Smokejumper Murray Taylor recounts more than twenty years' experience of jumping by parachute to fight fires in Alaska and the American West.

Carson Fielding, a loner known for his horse-training skills reluctantly agrees to work for Magnus Yarborough, a greedy landowner who suspects Carson of having an affair with his wife and plots to take revenge on the young man.

An account of the defeat of the Incan empire by the Spanish. Describes postconquest Peru and the integration of the Incas into the Spanish society.

An interpretive and factual discussion of the beliefs, ideals, and practices which make up the historic Jewish faith.

A coming of age story about Arjun Chelvaratnam, who struggles with his homosexuality, entering into an affair with a schoolmate and breaking not only sexual taboos, but also social structures that separate the Tamil and Sinhalese.

A series of stories by Italian author Italo Calvino in which explorer Marco Polo diverts the aging Kublai Kahn from thoughts about the impending demise of his empire by describing the many amazing cities he has seen on his travels--diverse places that are, in the end, all the same.