Russell, Mary Doria

"On October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared-- this is the story of the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved."--Provided by publisher.

Dr. John Henry Holliday, having become a professional gambler after moving from Atlanta to the Texas frontier, agrees to travel to Dodge City, Kansas, with Hungarian prostitute M?ria Katarina Harony, where he opens a dental office, meets part-time policeman Wyatt Earp, and becomes involved in the investigation into the murder of a boy named Johnnie Sanders.

In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.

Father Emilio Sandoz, the only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, has barely had time to recover before the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing another mission to Alpha Centauri.

Linguist Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who leads a twenty-first century scientific mission to an extraterrestrial culture, is involved in a tragic misunderstanding with the alien civilization that leaves him physically and spiritually maimed.

Schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin sets off on the trip of a lifetime, touring Egypt and the Holy Land in 1921, and finds herself pulled into the drama surrounding the Cairo Peace Conference, where she witnesses history being made as the fate of that Arab world is decided.

Linguist Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who leads a twenty-first century scientific mission to an extraterrestrial culture, is involved in a tragic misunderstanding with the alien civilization that leaves him physically and spiritually maimed.