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Growing up in a small town, Claire yearns for adventure in the 1960s.

Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather.

Spring 1662. In the wake of Fouquet's defeat, Henriette of England is keeping her promise to the Sun King and helping him build the enchanted Palace of Versailles.

Jack Nevin is an assistant to the Enchantress, a well-known stage magician in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Europe.

When a dying stranger carrying great wealth comes to the settlement of Ratharryn, the ensuing rivalry between brothers leads to the creation of the great temple on the green hill, where the gods wi

Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace, a.k.a "Momma Grace," will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love.

Myra is a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies.

Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families.

Racial tensions are at their peak in Los Angeles after the beating of Rodney King and the shooting of Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner.

Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The B

In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emilie works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a

A young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.

With her two best friends, Margaret Beck decides to start knitting socks for the boys at the front.

It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home.

After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving his beloved mother behind.