San Antonio College Library

Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories.

An older washerwoman falls in love with and marries a much younger Arab immigrant who works as a mechanic. First rejected by their neighbors and coworkers, they later seem to be accepted, but their relationship is tested by social pressures and illness.

"I would like people to say I restored possibility in American life." This was President Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One, in a private interview at the end of Haynes Johnson's journey through an America torn by divisions and apprehensive of the future. For his first book since the prophetic best-selling Sleepwalking Through History, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist interviewed grassroots Americans from New England to the Sunbelt, from the heartland...

China has made an amazing economic, social and political transformation, but it continues to struggle with an enormous population, stressed environment, and unequal distribution of wealth and opportunity.

"Many of the stories in this volume are based on Pramoedya's own childhood and depict children struggling to make sense of adult motives and behavior. A boy bursts into uncontrollable tears when his father, who always tucks him in bed, doesn't come home one night and his mother cannot offer him a reasonable explanation. An eight-year-old girl, who is soon to be married off by her parents for money, brags to her playmate about the pretty clothes and...

Ruhiya, a Palestinian girl, gives the morning call to prayer as her father lies on his deathbed, even though it is forbidden under Islamic law for a woman to do this. This novel glimpses into the minds of the five narrators: Ruhiya herself; Yehya, her childhood love and a would-be terrorist; his father, Farhan; Maya, a foreign journalist; and Asrar, the little girl who was the only eyewitness to Ruhiya's deed.