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At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity and family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith.

Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres. C'est là, entre les murs gris de l'abbaye, que trouva refuge, au quinzième siècle, un peintre hanté par le souvenir de celle qu'il aimait. C'est là, entre ciel et mer, que le retrouvera cinq cents ans plus tard une romancière qui cherche toujours le pays des livres. Ils se rencontreront sur les pages d'un calepin oublié sous la pluie.

"Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat. Racing to meet her deadline, she heads to Las Vegas, where she'll capture images of men who may die the next day--and where she'll confront an abuser from her past to force a reckoning. Accompanied by her husband, a celebrated novelist, and her best friend, a former CIA spook, Vivienne heads out into the Nevada desert in search of adrenaline, vengeance and the perfect shot.

Leila is the daughter of an early pioneer family in Western Australia where the onset of the war cruelly interrupts her passionate romance. After 40 years the romance is rekindled.

For the Steeds, the years between 1836 and 1838 are a time of separation and reunion, committment and apostasy, heartache and hope. Nathan Steed joins Parley P. Pratt on a challenging mission to Upper Canada. Jessica, Joshua's ex-wife, feels compelled to seek a safe haven with the Church in Far West, Missouri; meanwhile, Joshua, restless, ambitious, and haunted by his past -- journeys to Savannah, Georgia. Tensions between Melissa and her nonmember husband, Carl, forces her to make a difficult decision.

Thy Gold to Refine covers one of the stormiest and trying, yet inspiring periods of Church history. The Steeds are reunited in Far West, Missouri, all the while animosity towards the Mormons is growing unchecked. Violence erupts and Governor Boggs issues an extermination order for the Mormons leading to the spilling of innocent blood at the Haun's Mill massacre. Far West falls, Joseph Smith is jailed, and the Mormon Saints are forced from Missouri. Even Joshua Steed takes up arms, but will he fight for or against the Mormons?

Pillar of Light — the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory — begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland. There they meet a young man named Joseph Smith and are thrown into the maelstrom of conflict and controversy that swirls around him. Did he really see the Father and the Son in a pillar of light? Has he truly been visited by angelic messengers? What is all this talk about gold plates and new scripture? In short, is he a prophet and seer or a monumental fraud?

Despite ongoing trials, they feel that God has granted them this season of relief, hope and joy.

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie.

British couple Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, vacationing on a Nigerian beach in a last-ditch effort to save their faltering marriage, come across Little Bee and her sister, Nigerian refugees fleeing from machete-wielding soldiers intent on clearing the beach. The horrific confrontation that follows changes the lives of everyone involved in unimaginable ways. Two years later, Little Bee appears in London on the day of Andrew's funeral and reconnects with Sarah.