Sugar Mountain is a mysterious and special place, with many secrets to uncover. The group of people who live on Sugar Mountain are one of those secrets few have discovered. Rare and unique, these people live in a happy and harmonious community, where togetherness is a way of life. Until someone new arrives . . .

“A Gumdrop Tale” tells the story of a utopian society who live atop a peculiar mountain. The people listen to each other, help each other, and work together to live in peace and harmony. Until an unusual stranger arrives sowing seeds of negativity and doubt, and one by one the people of Sugar Mountain turn against each other. As their utopia crumbles, heavy rain falls. With their home now in danger the people must find a way to save Sugar Mountain, and their dream of a happy, peaceful society. Written for Readers aged 7 years and above, “A Gumdrop Tale” encourages learning, conversation, and sparks imagination with themes such as unity, awareness, acceptance, and resolving conflict. The secret of this book is the deeper you read, the more meaning you will uncover.

Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

“A masterful work of historical fiction. . . . [A] Latino Grapes of Wrath.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Marisel Vera emerges as a major new voice in contemporary fiction with this “capacious” (The New Yorker) novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. Up in the mountainous region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their coffee farm from the creditors. When the great San Ciriaco hurricane of 1899 brings devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured along with thousands of other puertorriquenos to the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Depicting the roots of Puerto Rican alienation and exodus, which resonates especially today, The Taste of Sugar is “a gorgeous feat of storytelling” (Tayari Jones).