The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...

Founded by descendants of free slaves as intent on isolating themselves from the outside world as it once was on rejecting them, is the patriarchal community of Ruby. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their murderous rage.

When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.

His prospects improved by job opportunities at an Oklahoma plant where the world's largest bomber is being constructed, a disabled man earns the first comfortable income of his life and befriends a group of women who have had to leave their families behind to work at the plant.

A pregnant girl abandoned by her boyfriend hides in a Wal-Mart store, gives birth and becomes a celebrity as the mother of the Wal-Mart Baby. Help flows from everywhere as people jump on the publicity bandwagon, then the baby is kidnapped.

When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Returning home to Tishomingo, Oklahoma, to prove that she doesn't care what anyone thinks of her anymore, famous singer Angel Conrad comes face-to-face with the man who broke her heart--and who now wants her back.

"Six years ago, one fight ended it all... And now Tracey Walker has bittersweet memories and a secret that she keeps close to her heart. A fresh start in a new town is just what she and her five-year-old son need to move on from the past. But when she discovers her old flame lives a few doors down from her, she's confronted with the urge to tell him everything." -- Amazon.