Inside Peyton Place
The Life of Grace Metalious
The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town
The Pursuit of a Dream
The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation
Mule Trader
Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
A mule trader’s tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence
Beetlecreek
A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town’s black quarter
Me
A Book of Remembrance
A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy
For Us, the Living
A widow’s love story of her life with Medgar Evers, the NAACP civil rights leader murdered by a midnight assassin
Dark Princess
The remarkably complex romance in which Du Bois confronted the twentieth century world that had closed itself to people of color
Apostles of Light
A spellbinding novel named as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973