Celebrates the unique spirit of the blue-eyed girl or boy.

A gripping short story from the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her. A beautiful young girl was walking down the street―when suddenly… Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Because girls are disappearing. A fellow student, Beatrice Oliver, is missing. A homeless woman called Mona-No-Name is missing. Both taken off the street. Both gone without a trace. Julia is determined to find out the reasons behind their disappearances. And she doesn't want to be next…

A child's eyes truly tell wonders, revealing personality, thoughts and feelings of the heart. Beautiful Blue Eyes, a sweet story with engaging illustrations, celebrates the unique spirit of the blue-eyed boy or girl. I watched, and I waited as your eyes chose their hue, deciding in time on their beautiful blue. Blue as a butterfly wing or the sparkly sea. Blue as the birdy singing in her tree.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

A folk music icon discusses the height of her career in the 60s, her alcoholism, her love affair with Stephen Stills and her friendships with Joan Baez, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and others. By the author of Voices.

Named for his father who worked on the Great Lakes ore boats, little Oliver Grin Jr. had a loving early childhood. Even though his father's job kept him away from home months at a time, Oliver's mother doted on her blond blue-eyed son. She even sang songs to him about his "beautiful blue eyes." But when Oliver was five, his brown-eyed brother Ronnie was born. And everything changed.Two more children followed and his once adoring mother now criticized everything Oliver did. His first happy early years now turned into a miserable childhood where Oliver felt rejected because he was different than his siblings. He didn't want to work the ore boats. He wanted to become something greater.And so he did. At age 47 he had a brilliant, loving wife, three successful children, a thriving surgical practice, his own plane and a top-tier racing boat named Collaboration. Then one day someone called his office with a message that turned his life upside down. And that call would finally answer the "why" his mother had pushed him away when his brother Ronnie was born.