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In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.

The four women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other--and the castle of their dreams--through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February...

"When Katy's family moves to West Virginia she expects to be bored . . . until she meets her hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. But Daemon is infuriating and arrogant. When a stranger attacks Katy and Daemon literally...

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing...