Henry Carter Hull

An out-of-work actor makes himself up as a woman in order to land a role in a popular soap opera.

High school teacher Howard Brackett is outed by former student during the Oscars and does his frantic best to assert his manliness.

Albert Nobbs, posing as a man to work in a nineteenth-century Dublin hotel and live independently, struggles to escape her lie.

Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II.

A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.

A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her "astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads" ( The Washington Post ) is showcased like never before....

Mothers and fathers participating in everyday activities show their love for their children in very similar ways.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama's return home after work.

"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I's court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928. Orlando's journey is also an internal one-he is an impulsive poet who learns patience...