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"In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.

In a well-to-do Trinidadian family, a father and his daughter struggle to find their true identities, both as individuals and as members of a tightly structured, traditional household.

Finn Gunnersen and his best friend, Loki, are mad about planes. Finn wants to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a pilot.

Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learn

Life has been tough for Ray since her father died in a logging accident. Kids at school make fun of her, and she thinks her mother is too busy to need her.

Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband

Although the littlest student in his class, thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast when he tries to get help for his cla