Moon Over Manifest is a novel by Clare Vanderpool telling two intertwined stories in the town of Manifest, Kansas. The first story features Alibine Tuckers who meets with Miss Sadie, a Hungarian fortune-teller who tells her the story of Jinx, the protagonist of the second story. Alibine begins a detective hunt to unmask a spy, causing the narrative to overlap with the story of Jinx's arrival in Manifest in 1917 and his attempts to integrate with the community. Both narratives focus on themes of belonging and community.
The Ox-Bow Incident is a Western which takes place 1885 and centers on Art Croft and Gil Carter, two cowboys. Art and Gil become a part of a band of men tracking down cattle thieves, along with Tetley, a former Confederate soldier, Tetley's son Gerald, and others. The novel takes a tragic turn when the group hangs three men found with cattle, only to find out later that the men had committed no crimes. Gerald and other members of the party are haunted by their refusal to listen to the men's claims of innocence.
Don Quixote is a novel that recounts the adventures of Alonso Quijano, also known as Don Quixote, a Spanish nobleman obsessed with the idea of chivalry. Word of Don Quixote and Sancho's adventures from the first volume have spread around Spain, and many of Don Quixote's peers take advantage of his reputation to send him off on ridiculous quests. After suffering much hardship and humiliation, Don Quixote returns home and regains his sanity, swearing off the chivalric lifestyle for good.
Don Quixote is a novel that recounts the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a Spanish nobleman obsessed with the idea of chivalry. He takes the name Don Quixote and sets out as a knight, taking on the farmer Sancho Panza as his squire. In the first volume of this classic, Don Quixote's imagination causes him to view ordinary circumstances as scenes from chivalric novels, resulting in many amusing incidents, like Quixote attacking windmills that he believes to be giants. Eventually, he gives up on his quest and returns home.