historical fiction

In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.

In 1921, Perveen Mistry is one of the first female lawyers in India. Working at her father's law firm, she finds herself investigating a strange case when three widows of a wealthy mill owner sign over their inheritance to a charity. Suspecting the woman are being taken advantage of, Perveen sets out to uncover the truth. What she finds leads to murder which makes her even more determined to protect the widows.

Eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman, a Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother, Abek, and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.

In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.

In 1957, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson arrives in Madrid to connect with his mother's homeland through his photography. When he meets a young woman named Ana, he sees the harsh impact of the Spanish Civil War that still affects her family. Daniel faces difficult decisions as dangerous secrets from the past emerge, revealing a dark side of Spain hidden from tourists.

Told through alternating voices of Alice in present day and Alice's grandmother Alina in Nazi-occupied Poland, the story tells of Alina's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II and years later her granddaughter Alice's journey to uncover the secrets of Alice's past that still affect their family in the present.

Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, sixteen-year-old Stephie Steiner and her sister, eleven-year-old Nellie, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents, striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.

Eliza Sommers, left alone and pregnant in Chile when her lover Joaquin runs off to California during the Gold Rush, decides to follow him only to become entranced with her new life of freedom and independence.

L?zaro, a Salamanca town crier, relates the story of his struggle out of poverty, beginning with his widowed mother who apprenticed him to a cunning, blind beggar, and leading to his efforts at outwitting a variety of disreputable masters before getting married to the mistress of a local churchman. Contains audio CD.

At the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of children were airlifted out and taken to America as refugees. Hang and her three-year-old brother Linh were to be two of those children, but Hang was deemed too old and denied a spot on the helicopter while Linh was taken to family in Texas. Now eighteen, Hang travels to Texas to find her brother, but is devastated to learn that he does not remember her or Vietnam, and has no interest in either. Along with an aspiring cowboy named LeeRoy, Hang gets a job at a ranch and tries to reconnect with her brother with LeeRoy's help.