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The black dove

2008
Cowpokes Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto, down and out in San Francisco in the summer of 1893, decide to become professional detectives and set out to investigate the death of their friend Dr. Chan, landing them in hot water with crooked police, Barbary Coast hoodlums, and Chinatown tongs, all of whom are looking for the elusive "Black Dove.".

Shadow of his hand

a story based on the life of holocaust survivor Anita Dittman
2004
The daughter of a German and a Jew, Anita's dreams of becoming a famous ballerina are crushed by increasing Nazi persecution, but she is sustained, even while in a Nazi work camp, by her strong Christian faith and the conviction that she will one day be reunited with her mother and sister.

Annie Moore

first in line for America
1999
On January 1, 1892, the day of her fifteenth-birthday, Irish Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant of any nationality to set foot on American soil at the Immigrant Landing Station on Ellis Island.

The true Prince

2002
Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members of Queen Elizabeth's court.

The 1960s

rebels
2001
Inspired after meeting John F. Kennedy at a 1960 campaign fundraiser hosted by the Aldrich family, Chuck defies authority at his Pennsylvania boarding school, Sojie takes part in lunch counter sit-ins in Georgia, and Dick finally connects with his father in Hollywood.

Through the wormhole

2001
Friends Michael and Kate are enlisted by the mysterious CyberTimeSurfing Institute to travel back to 1778 to ensure Michael's ancestor, an African-American Continental cavalryman, survives the war, and to warn newly arrived General Lafayette of a kidnapping plot.

The hunt is on

1998
Space travelers from Planetoid Roma have returned to Earth in 1775 to recover one of their diplomats that was lost in an earlier mission, but first, they must convince the diplomat, Thomas Jefferson, to leave his new home.

The prince and the pauper

1991
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Mystery in the frozen lands

2003
Presents the fictional journal of fourteen-year-old Peter Griffin in which he describes his adventures as a member of an expedition to the frozen lands of the Arctic sea in search of clues to what happened to Sir John Franklin, an explorer who set out twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest passage.

Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker

a novel
2013
Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.

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