fiction / literary

"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--Provided by publisher.

A veterinarian's family in rural New England suffers after his eldest son falls into a coma as a result of a hunting accident, but while he tries to maintain stability and searches for the man responsible for his son's condition, an unexpected visitor arrives and makes a request that will test the veterinarian's patience and resolve and, ultimately, will have profound consequences.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Siblings James, Jackson, and Ida grow close to fill a void in their single-parent families, as they mature their emotions for each other become more complex, Jackson's somnabulance develops into violent outbursts, and James is hospitalized.

Henry VIII, finally married to Anne Boleyn, is no longer interested, as she has yet to bare a son, and Henry turns to Thomas Crown for help yet again.

Sira Quiroga decides to follow her lover to Morocco bound for an exotic life only to be abandoned there just as World War II is starting, alone and penniless she does the one thing she knows how to do and becomes a coutuier and returns to Madrid where she designs clothes for Nazi officers' wives and she becomes entangled in a world of espionage and political conspiracy.

A collection of eight short stories by American writer Nathan Englander.

Three brothers learn about the bonds of family while being raised by parents with a volatile relationship and in a house full of chaos and heartbreak.