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Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable.

Set during World War II, two cousins face family secrets and community violence aimed at a refugee from Nazi Germany, raising questions about mob mentality, creativity and survival.

Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound.

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, her f

When Lilliet Berne is finally offered an original role at the Paris Opera, she realizes with alarm that it's based on a hidden piece of her past.

In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock.

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century.

First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks.

Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South.

Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father.

This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century.

Ireland, 1912. Young Maggie Murphy sets sail on Titanic, though her sweetheart stays behind.

Annie and her new neighbor must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen--and somehow already did.

Lady Constance Read is independent, beautiful, and in need of a husband. The last man on earth she wants is the rogue who broke her heart, but she needs a warrior--and Saint is the perfect man.