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In 1883, young Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have become successful physicians but have never recovered from the losses they suffered as children.

A teenage girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory by day and struggles through night school to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. But he hadn't counted on the discovery of a corpse.

Meet Dahlia Moss. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change.

When Daniel Garrett's world falls apart, he returns to Eternity Springs hoping for some of the town's fabled healing.

In 1890s South Dakota, Amy and Joshua escape from their mean aunt Vootch.

In Ben Bova's New Earth, it was revealed to Jordan Kell that a deadly wave of radiation is headed toward Earth.

Commissario Ricciardi is investigating the death of one of the many street urchins who live in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. His sixth sense is no help to him this time.

In 1885 young Rose Edwards, widowed and penniless but fiercely independent, begins an odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood.

After sixteen-year-old Makayla is suddenly forced to live with a grandfather she barely remembers, she has trouble adjusting to her new home.

When a devastating winter kills John Henry Cole's livestock, he's forced to move on, but not in the direction he expected.

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.

Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station.

Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of Draco's most valuable natural resource.

These powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation as it searches for human connection.