conflict of generations

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's drama of star-crossed lovers side-by-side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Presents an argument for the accomplishments and greatness of Generation X, discussing pop culture figures such as Kurt Cobain, Richard Linklater, and Stephen Colbert, as well as key cultural moments and business trends.

Sayre Lynch returns to her hometown for the funeral of her brother, Danny, who supposedly committed suicide, and finds herself embroiled in a mystery surrounding her tyrannical father who owns the town's only industry, her older brother, a corrupt lawyer, and the deputy sheriff who has his doubts about Danny's suicide.

Nineteen-year-old Will McGruder leaves his Amish community and pregnant girlfriend behind in 1943, setting the stage for decades of estrangement from his family which has a negative effect on his own life, as well as the lives of his wife and children.

A novel left unfinished by Richard Wright at the time of his death in 1960, telling the story of Ruddy Turner, an African-American police chief in a Chicago suburb, who struggles to know what to do when he begins to suspect his college-age son Tommy is a murderer.

The story of an Italian-American family spanning three generations, beginning in the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. The tragic death of a daughter, one of eight-year-old twins, will define the lives of everyone in this extended family and change them as surely as their Bronx neighborhood is changing.

In this story of two worlds colliding, those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, Tyler Johnson, raised in a hippie commune, is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.