political fiction

This "is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man."--inside front cover.

A series of crises cause the United States to hold a Second Constitutional Convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to take into account the different world that exists.

An annotated edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1856 novel, which tells the story of Nina Gordon, a slave plantation mistress, and Dred, a black revolutionary who traverses North Carolina and Virginia recruiting fugitive slaves to join his community in the Dismal Swamp.

Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before Waterloo and stuggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.

The friendships formed between Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding, all English newcomers to India, and Indian physician Dr. Aziz, are subjected to a brutal test when Adela falsely accuses Aziz of sexually assaulting her.

Pilot Craig Dayton stages a daring escape when he lands in Athens to find Greek officials waiting to arrest his passenger, former U.S. president John Harris, on an Interpol warrant, but once back in the air, Dayton realizes a treaty signed by almost every nation in the world leaves them with no safe place to land.

Contains George Orwell's novels "Animal Farm" and "1984".