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When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded in the teeming, thieving London of 1810.

In 1885 young Rose Edwards, widowed and penniless but fiercely independent, begins an odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood. But the old ways are disappearing, and Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population as she pushes back against the invading aristocracy.

In 1883, young Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have become successful physicians but have never recovered from the losses they suffered as children. So when Anna encounters a child in need, she must decide whether or not she's willing to let go of the past and let love into her life.

Inara Erickson discovers a relic of the past in her family's estate, and with it, a shameful secret that could destroy her family. She faces a terrible choice: bring dishonor to her family, or dishonor the memory of Mei Lien, lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese from Seattle.

Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward, he encounters many famous and colorful figures on his journey.

Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations. When her ex-fiancé courts one of her relatives, she can't bear the thought of him seeing what's become of her--or how much she still wants him.

A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power.

In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. Wounded, Jean returns from the front to discover a world where no one wants to know of the horrors--but he will tell them.

This epic historical novel tells the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Lenin all play their roles in creating and destroying the land and its people.

Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.