Gnossos, a college-age hipster in the 1960s, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape encountering mescaline, women, demonology, hunting, truth, smuggling, falsehood, gluttony, prayer, science fetishes, and occasional art.
After more than ten years without closure, thirty-year-old Kate Hollis gets the chance to take revenge on her superstar high school sweetheart for abandoning her, putting personal details about their relationship in his hit songs, and stealing music from his old bandmates--but finds herself falling in love with him again.
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-eight, Hannah Gavener learns about love, the lies one tells oneself, growing up, and taking risks as she struggles through two relationships and an unrequited love for her friend Henry for which she moves halfway across the country.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the nineteenth-century novel "Great Expectations, " and its author Charles Dickens.
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
An abridged version of the tale of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, who is informed one day he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
Fourteen-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in Canada, embarks on a dangerous rescue mission when his mother and two younger sisters are taken hostage during an attack by the British on their unprotected village in 1759.
Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
In a small Missouri town during the 1920s, Clem is torn between family responsibility and the life he wishes to lead when he must begin working in the lead mine on his thirteenth birthday to help pay for his sister's medical care.
In an isolated town that closely resembles the West Bank, thirteen-year-old Joshua discovers that his world may not be as it seems; that his people may be aggressors rather than victims; and that he must stand up to his stepfather and forge his own sense of right and wrong.
