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Thanks so much for all of your help in selecting more authors. I had a mix of authors and books and descriptions; for more detailed descriptions of some books I went to Amazon.com. Hope this helps anyone else who is looking to do something similar! (The underlining didn't paste from word - titles are before parentheses - some authors have no specific titles) Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart (African culture - unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism) Allende, Isabel House of Spirits (magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph) Amis, Martin Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me Ultima (Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past) Atwood, Margaret Handmaid’s Tale (In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?) Cary, Lorene Black Ice (An African-American woman remembers her adolescence at the formerly all-white, all-male St. Paul's School in New Hampshire) Courtnay, Bryce Power of One (in this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II) Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (lyrical saga of three generations of Native American women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets) Drabble, Margaret Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate (romantic, poignant tale, touched with bittersweet moments of magic and sensuality. It is a lively and funny tale of family life in urn-of-the-century Mexico Greene, Graham Gutterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars (Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder) Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God (Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s) Joyce, James Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior (Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry) Krakauer, Jon Into the Wild (nonfiction - on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness) Lessing, Doris Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is (A 17-year-old pregnant woman hides out at night in a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma until her baby is born) The Honk and Holler Opening Soon (the story of a down-and-out café owner, Caney, who opens his restaurant after returning from Vietnam in a wheelchair) Lively, Penelope Lowry, Lois The Giver (chilling, tightly controlled future society where all controversy, pain, and choice have been expunge, each childhood year has its privileges and responsibilities, and family members are selected for compatibility) Morrison, Toni Beloved (In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave) Murdoch, Iris Naylor, Gloria Mama Day (the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces) Nordan, Lewis Wolf Whistle (Based on the Emmett Till murder in the Mississippi Delta, it's a lyrical and beautiful story of prejudice, love and hate) Power, Susan Grass Dancer (Set on a North Dakota reservation, The Grass Dancer creates a living mythology, spinning folk motifs into the fabric of reality, revealing how the actions of our ancestors can affect our contemporary lives) Rushdie, Salman Sidhwa, Bapsi Cracking India (about the partition of India, through the supposed eyes of a nine-year old Pakistani girl -the author, I assume. A beautifully written tale of horrific happenings, it educates the modern American about that important event in modern history) Staples, Suzanne Fisher Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind (Set against the backdrop of desert life in present-day Pakistan, this book offers a passionate and deeply personal portrait of a young girl's struggle for identity in a culture that forbids even token expressions of independence by women) Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife (A Chinese immigrant convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's secrets) Watson, Larry Montana 1948 (The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family) Waugh, Evelyn West, Stanley Gordon Until They Bring the Streetcars Back (in post-war 1949 Saint Paul, a harmless prank, a chance conversation and Cal Gant stumbles onto the naked face of cruelty, incest and murder) J’aime L. Foust, Librarian Queensbury High School 409 Aviation Rd. 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