NNELS Upgrade

Life stories of two Métis sisters who suffer the breakdown of family relations and the injustices of the social services system. Culleton has made April Raintree the spokesperson for the Métis.

Brewer's story features a 500-year-old Ghosthead Oak, whose stately presence has borne witness to the rise and fall of generations, to the hopes and dreams of untold lives, and to the births and de

Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, "Soul Mountain" is a novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.

Twenty years after her bipolar brother's penchant for chasing tornadoes leads to deadly consequences, Karena Jorge finds out that he has escaped from a psychiatric ward, prompting her to join a ban

In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer.

Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.

Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.