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Aaron, a middle-aged man ripped apart by the death of his wife Dorothy, is gradually restored by her unexpected appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market--helping him to live in the moment and to find some peace.

Pak Jun Do, the son of a father who runs a work camp for orphans in North Korea, rises to a powerful rank and becomes a professional kidnapper who eventually rivals Kim Jong II. But in order to save the woman he loves, an actress named Sun Moon, he will give up everything.

A fictional account of the relationship between famed pilot Charles Lindberg and his wife, Anne.

Natalia, a young doctor on a medical mission to an orphanage in the Balkans, ponders the mystery of her beloved grandfather's recent death. She finds the answers she seeks in the story of an abused deaf-mute woman in the village of his childhood who formed a bond with a tiger that escaped from the zoo following the German bombardment in 1941.

After her mother's death, teen Emily Benedict returns to her mother's hometown in North Carolina to move in with the grandfather she never knew and learn about her mother's secret past. Julia Winterson, the neighbor, befriends Emily. Julia has her own secrets that are somehow tied into all the cakes she keeps baking. In this mysterious town, the two women find friendship, mystery, and romance for each of them under a magical southern moon.

After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.

Contains eleven short fiction stories by E.L. Doctorow that have never appeared before in book form, and includes a selection of his classic stories.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, owner of a glass studio, hires only unmarried female artisans, and Clara Driscoll, who he employs as manager, remains unmarried after the death of her husband and the disappearance of another suitor, and continues to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps at the studio.

Sunny, a thirty-eight-year-old American, establishes a coffee shop in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan, which becomes a safe haven and comfort to the men and women patrons who meet there, including Halajan, who works alongside Sunny and harbors a secret relationship from her ultra-traditional son, and Yazmina, a young woman who was kidnapped from a remote village, impregnated, and left on a the city street.