Native Son Welding Readers learn to be aware

Readers learn to be aware of what's going on in their own minds and bodies

Bob Schieffer

Roosevelt: A Political Life takes a fresh look at the many compelling questions that have attracted all his biographers: how did a man who came from so privileged a background become the greatest presidential champion of the country's needy

Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg

Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father

Native Son Welding Readers learn to be awareReckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause celebre in an ever narrowing endgame. First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of