Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...

This is not the India -- or the man -- that Sophie fell in love with ten years ago ... Sophie never meant to come back to India, yet when her new, diplomat husband is posted to New Delhi and she steps once again onto the country's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. As her ill-fated marriage begins to unravel, it sets in motion a devastating chain of events that will bring Sophie face to face with a past she's tried so desperately...

This novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.

In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. After losing touch, they meet several times by accident. Seemingly...

This story was previously published in Color Theory 1 as "Coming to Sapphire Creek"​Deanna Chase works hard. As a single mom, she takes her responsibilities seriously...except that one night she escaped reality in the strong arms of a stranger. Sebastian Dunn is out of the Army and ready to settle down into a quiet life in a small town. But he has one more mission to run. To find out if the sparks he felt all those years ago were just a one-time...

Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school -- which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely -- he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave...

"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they decide to help the new animal shelter with their own talents, Mae raises money to buy cat food with a lemonade stand and April writes a letter to the newspaper to encourage adoption"--

"Kirwan's excellent debut brings charm, complexity, and plenty of heat…This mature, steamy romance will have readers swooning." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Noué Kirwan's exquisitely-written debut left me breathless."-Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author of The Dating Playbook "Long Past Summer is powerful."-Naima Simone, USA Today bestselling author It's hard to move on from a broken heart-and harder to move on from a broken...

"Dean and Dre, the seventeen-year-old sons of the Republican and Democratic candidates for president of the United States, fall in love on the sidelines of their parents' presidential campaigns"-- When Dean Arnault's mother decided to run for president as the Republican nominee, Dean doesn't want to be part of the public spectacle that is the race for the White House. Then he meets Dre Rosario-- the son of the Democratic nominee. As their meet-ups...

After experiencing body shaming, teenage breakups, and friendship fall-outs, Tala, a young adult fascinated by the world of TV series and social media glamour, decides to leave her old life behind. She wants to try and find her happiness anywhere but in her hometown. Soon, Tala meets the attractive and mysterious Henry Jones who makes her an offer she could not possibly refuse… Will her free-spirit be fulfilled in the new world she walks into –...