historical fiction

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.

Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar America's racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.

In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the "Endeavor" which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.