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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.

American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.

Novel written in 1912, tells the story of Anna Leath and George Darrow, two high society Americans in France whose renewed relationship is shaken by his casual sexual affair with Sophy Viner, an appealing woman of the lower classes who happens to be loved by Anna's stepson.

Facing the most heartbreaking case of her career, Temperance Brennan investigates shallow graves where fading clues begin to emerge of a brutal crime that was committed more than two decades ago.

When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.

Classic novella about a captivating young American, Daisy Miller, whose behavior causes conflicting feelings in the mind of would-be suitor, Winterbourne.

Nineteenth-century mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the inhabitants. Includes explanatory notes, overview of themes, a chronology of Mark Twain's life and work, critical excerpts, and discussion questions.

Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.

Inspired by a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane, Parveen Shams travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to help with his charitable foundation. But when she sees that his book is littered with lies, Parveen must decide where her loyalties lie--with the soldiers or the villagers.