This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself...

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

"Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation...

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Laurens father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water...

When a tree falls on Woodland Valley's library, Bear and his friends pull together to help. Other neighbors like Jeremiah Tortoise and Jack the Firedog volunteer along the way and everyone learns how special it is to be a part of a community.

As different as day and night: It's a day of opposites at the Big Blue House, and Bear and his friends are discovering all the colorful fun that opposites bring. Bats are people too: By befriending a little bat named Benny, the gang discovers many ways that being different can be good. The yard sale: When Doc Hogg lets everyone at the Big Blue House know that he's trying to help the muskrats' charity, they all work together to organize a money-raising...

After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Rydell. When the doctor steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, he wreaks havoc with Dave's life and Dave must decide whether or not to take a stand.

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.