historical fiction

As a child in early twentieth century America, Vivian Daly is sent to the Midwest toward an uncertain future. Decades later, Vivian has a life of her own on the East Coast, and when teenager Molly Ayer arrives to help her clean out her attic in order to fulfill her community service requirement, the two locate mementos and keepsakes from Vivian's past that reveal the two are not so different.

May, a Chinese woman who suffered from the ritual of foot binding, develops a close relationship with her husband's Jewish niece.

aIn 1889, when Amelia van den Broek leaves her brother's strict home for the freedom of a social season with cousins in Baltimore, she is surprised by her strong attraction to an unsuitable man, but more so by the dark visions she has each evening which have some believing that she is the cause, not merely the seer, of harm.

As locusts descend upon the prairie farms of Minnesota during the summer of 1876, fourteen-year-old Asa Senger and his family fear they are about to lose everything. Even though the Dakota Indians have been exiled from the state, an elderly Indian appears and Asa's father, the sheriff, jails him in order to gain a bounty payment. Asa feels sorry for him and sets the old Indian free but must live with the guilt. Meanwhile, a mysterious aunt who has been confined to an asylum arrives at Asa's home, bringing with her secrets about his family's history.

Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never been in a synagogue or practiced religion, but to everyone around him he is a Jew. Longing to prove his worth, he starts taking boxing lessons from champion boxer and German national hero Max Schmeling. As a skilled cartoonist, he's never before had an interest in boxing, but as Max's apprentice, Karl finds both his boxing skills and art flourishing. When Nazi violence against the Jews heightens, he must balance his dream of becoming a great boxer with his obligation to protect his family.

In the early twentieth century, five sisters travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

Even though she is engaged, fashion designer Lucia Sartori falls in love with a good-looking stranger who promises her a life of luxury, and she almost destroys her Italian family ties.

In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.

A collection of short graphic stories featuring Blanche, a piano professor in early twentieth-century Manhattan who embarks on grand adventures across the country and throughout Europe.

In the medieval village of Penryth, seventeen-year-old Selwyn sets out to find the real killer of Farold, a young man he has been wrongfully convicted of murdering, with Farold himself as his only companion, brought back to life in the form of a bat by a cave-dwelling witch.