Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by ...

This new edition corrects errors in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades.

Cycle of interrelated stories that sympathetically view lonely and frustrated individuals in a midwestern town.

Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman.

Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest work. Unabridged. 11 CDs.

The love between a brother and sister proves a strong bond against adversity.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.

In a deeply moving collection of interrelated stories, this 1919 American classic illuminates the loneliness and frustrations -- spiritual, emotional and artistic -- of life in a small town.

Ohio, he argues, lies at the intersection of the stories of James Rhodes and Toni Morrison, Charles Ruthenberg and Lucy Webb Hayes, Carl Stokes and Alice Cary, Sherwood Anderson and Pete Rose.