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In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist. This story follows the boy across two continents as we witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss.

Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted. But the arrival of Benjamin Blaine awakens a sense of independence within Whitney, changing her entire world.

A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia. Their lives intertwine when Liza, in possession of a book of conjures for protection, hatches an escape plan.

In spring of 1858 Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father's estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief.

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change--Paris in 1878--The Painted Girls is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society."

Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham, however, is no Venice, so when she gets word of a position back home, Caterina jumps at the opportunity. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a once-famous, now largely forgotten baroque composer, have been discovered.

In the year 1348, Tomas, a disgraced knight, comes upon a girl orphaned by the Black Plague who tells him that the disease is only part of a greater cataclysm--that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven.

This historical novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power as she transforms from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed the future of Spain.

Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas has an unusual skill: the ability to throw a ball as hard as the greatest pitchers. Based on a true story, Diamond Ruby chronicles the extraordinary life of a girl who rises from utter poverty to startling renown.

A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way. Then, as he experiences the cost of combat, he begins to see the terrible results of his ambition.