"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his...

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life-- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.

"When she wishes her baby brother Owen away to the Lord of the Wood, shame-filled Leah makes a deal with the devilish Lord to bring Owen back, a bargain that unearths her town’s secrets, making her question everything she’s been taught to fear"--

"The collapse of a schoolhouse puts pressure on Amish families and their long-held educational values. Ella Hilty anticipates marrying Gideon Wittner and becoming a mother to his children. In a whirling clash of values, Ella seeks the solid ground that seems to have slipped away. Margaret Simpson, an English schoolteacher, wonders if she is losing her last chance at love. As the local authorities draw lines in the sand, Margaret puts romance at risk...

"Biznesmen Nartov mechtayet o vechnoy zhizni - avatar, yego tochnaya kopiya, pochti gotov. Vnezapnaya smert' narushila eti plany. I kakovo zhe bylo udivleniye yego sekretarshi i lyubovnitsy, kogda boss pozvonil yey po skaypu{u2026} s togo sveta. Zamenit li avatar zhivogo cheloveka? I kto ubivayet vsekh, prichastnykh k ±proyektu bessmertiya»?"--Title page verso.

Those on the side of progressing humanity through advanced technology have finally triumphed over their oppressors.The unholy war between the small but mighty island realm of Charis and the radical, luddite Church of God's Awaiting has finally come to an end. However, even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, many secrets of Safehold's past still remain unearthed. With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the...

"Solarism is a religion that acknowledges there is a balance of light and dark in the Universe. But while Solarists believe it is possible to achieve a state of Pure Light by exposing themselves to the rays of the sun (or tanning beds on cloudy days), the Forces of Dark conspire against them and send hooded Shadow Men to eliminate the Light. Subsequently, Solarists must kill these Shadow Men. It's the only way. When a thief infiltrates the sacred...

When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

"It's been centuries since The Orisha--gods who once ruled over humanity and maintained peace--mysteriously disappeared from Ife. In their absence, military groups rose to fill the power vacuum and maintain order. One such group has come to be known as The Sarai. Masks of The Orisha is the story of three young adults; Gado, Ambu, and Towa, whose lives are drastically changed upon joining The Sarai--forcing them to question to what extent will they...

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.