americans

A collection of articles written over the course of the author's junior year of high school as an exchange student in France, describing her experiences in a foreign culture and providing a look at the country through the eyes of a young American.

Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be, until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of, and Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived, intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past.

Chronicles the adventures of King Peggy, Peggielene Bartels, a Washington, D.C. secretary who suddenly found that she was king of a town of seven thousand in Ghana, and once there found many challenges to be faced and difficulties to be overcome.

Bich Nguyen chronicles her difficult coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she struggled to fit in as one of the few Vietnamese girls in her school, where she tried to adapt to the traditional American ideal of "normal.".

Former CIA agent Kate Moore moves with her family to Luxembourg to try and become the wife and mother she has never been, but when a new American couple arrives, everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems.

Journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at a bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, and his writing style and life are radically changed in ways that carry Quinn through the next ten years as he witnesses violence, revolutions, and the darkest facets of human nature.

In the days before Christmas, a mute ten-year-old sells his exquisite paper lanterns on the streets of Manila, where he rescues an American tourist from a brutal attack and believes he sees an angel fall from the sky, leading to a series of events that show the boy and his mother the true meaning of Christmas.

Military intelligence officers George Sueno and Ernie Bascom are called upon to investigate the origins of Seoul, Korea's, red light district in an effort to learn the identity of a long dead American soldier who is supposedly haunting a local fortune-teller, and in the process they discover links to a series of gangland killings, as well as the case of a missing girl.