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Seventeen-year-old Sophia has seven days left in Tokyo before she moves back to the United States, and she plans to do all her favorite things with her best friend. Then Jamie, the boy who broke her heart, arrives back in Japan and ruins everything. But when things start to spiral out of control around her, she finds herself drawn back to Jamie. Sophia and Jamie would like a second chance, but they are running out of time.

Five weeks after arriving in Buenos Aires as part of a foreign exchange program, Lily Hayes is arrested for murdering her roommate. As those around her grapple with this turn of events and either seek her innocence or her conviction, Lily's true face begins to come to light and raises questions about who she really is.

Believing Alexander to be dead, eighteen-year-old and pregnant Tatiana escapes Leningrad to America but soon comes to believe that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive so she goes to Germany to find him. Alexander, in the Soviet Union, is forced to lead troops through Europe where he is imprisoned. Alexander tries desperately to stay alive long enough to escape and find Tatiana.

"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--Provided by publisher.

High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.

After a nineteenth-century man suffers a head injury, he find himself in sixth-century England and begins to modernize King Arthur's kingdom with a school system, telephone lines, and the printing press.

Working as a correspondent for an American newspaper in the Middle East for several years after 9/11, Kit learns the stories of people from all walks of life and marries an Iraqi diplomat before the Paris terrorist attacks force her to question her beliefs.

"An American boy travels with his family to London for his mother to find his father, but it turns out his father was involved with something nefarious...and now so is he"--Provided by publisher.

When Samantha is given a second chance at love at the age of 40, she moves to southwestern France, thinking she's prepared for her new role in life as an instant American wife and stepmom. It turns out, though, that making a French family takes more than just good intentions and a quick lesson in croissant-baking. Even while suffering from culture shock and struggling to parent her 10-year-old stepson and 13-year-old stepdaughter in a culture drastically different from her own, Samantha is determined to adapt to her adopted homeland--because when love and and a new life is on the line, giving up isn't an option.

"Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures"--Jacket flap.