Chandra Prasad

Sixteen-year-old Saskia Brown, an outsider at her new school, discovers that she can use liquid mercury to visit boys in daguerreotypes in her dreams, and soon classmates are doing the same, with terrible consequences.

Mercury Boys

Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.

A Novel

Damselfly

A volume of short fictional works about the meaning and significance of what it means to be multiracial in today's America includes tales about Peter Ho Davies's confused minotaur, Ruth Ozeki's young biracial detectives, and Wayde Compton's college junkie. Original.

An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

Mixed

Facing the prospect of a previously arranged marriage, Adele Pietra assumes her late brother's identity and gender and takes his place at Yale University, where she confronts her class, ethnicity, and growing feelings for a classmate.

On Borrowed Wings

Lor Cole, a young man from Connecticut, dreams of leaving behind his provincial past and making a name for himself as a high-wire walker. When he joins the Bringlebright Circus, a small traveling troupe, he thinks he's on his way. But before reaching the top, he must reckon with the other performers who join him in the center ring spotlight: Cirella Flannery, a beautiful and startlingly devious fire-eater; Ranju, Bringlebright's secretive animal trainer; and Mr. Barnacle, the ringmaster, a charlatan who will stop at nothing to keep the struggling show in business. These characters, along with Stalwart, Ranju's watchful protege, create a colorful ensemble that illuminates the twin sides of the circus: one rapturously razzle-dazzle, and the other rough-and-tumble.

Death of a Circus

"Breathe the Sky" is a fresh and provocative portrait of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart, whose courage and charisma have dazzled millions.

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