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On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling in upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants, tenacious men and women drawn together by their memories of the world they left behind. When their community is faced with an existential threat, these strangers rise up together in hopes of creating a permanent home.

The South Carolina backcountry is no place for a young girl to grow up in the 1760s, but sixteen-year-old Emily Stewart wouldn't have it any other way. She loves the settlement of Ninety Six where her father Breck Stewart runs a tavern with his family, including Emily's embittered older brother, Donnan. But there's much to fear, too. Gangs of murderers, thieves, and robbers terrorize the country with impunity. Breck Stewart is finally forced to take a stand, forming a vigilante group called the Cane Creek Regulators.

On the wagon road toward the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill-crazy gang of cutthroats. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide, only to find his parents butchered, his sisters missing, and one last killer waiting for his return. Forced to fight for his life, Tim embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless frontier, hoping to save his sisters and salvage their dream, but first, he must figure out how to survive.

A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.

A disgraced Confederate soldier and two impressionable youths come up with a plan to organize a militia and give the Yankees a taste of militia warfare.

With a unique take on their charms and foibles, Carrère follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding. An expansive meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the quest to find a place within it through this sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world.

With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.

Young Irish immigrant Thomas McNulty joins the US Army in the 1850s and with friend John Cole fights in the Indian wars and the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find their days vivid and alive, amidst the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl.

Cheated of his inheritance and burdened by the legacy of his Fae blood, Garrett MacLachlan believes he is doomed to be an outcast forever--until he meets Annelise of Kinfairlie, a gentle maiden with the power to turn his curse to gift. Can Garrett reclaim his stolen legacy with Annelise by his side? If Annelise defies her family to pursue true love, will that be enough to heal Garrett? And even if they triumph over mortal foes, will the Fae demand a price neither of them can pay?

In the early 1900s, a young woman escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a domestic servant and finds the world opening to her through her connection with the scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.