Cambridge Springs Public Library

The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.

In September 1940, the events of World War II bring together British pigeon-keeper Susan Shepard, American pilot Ollie Evans, and a pigeon named Duchess on a very special mission.

Presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.

All-American astronaut Colonel Law Kincaid, determined to find the sender of blackmail threats based on unfounded paternity charges, falls in love with the charming and beautiful Marnie Hibbs during his search.

A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas teenage days in northern slums

Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love...

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far. From...

"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...

Growing up desolate under the eye of a resentful great-aunt on an Iowa farm, Marie-Ange Hawkins dreams of returning to the French chateau where she lived before she was orphaned, but when she finally does so, she learns a devastating truth.