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Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Keo and Sunny meet in Honolulu just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and their developing love affair is ended when America enters into World War II.

The Native American author looks back upon his short time with Awee, the eleven-year-old boy with AIDS he took into his home on the Navajo reservation and cared for until his death.

After seven years of living in the United States, Priya Rao has run out of excuses for not returning to her native India, so she returns home, knowing that her parents will be disappointed in the choices she has made.

Susannah and her family move to the Sierras in Mexico, and while they are there, their lives are forever changed by the Mundo people who live there.

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.

Juno McKay retraces the path of a best friend's research on a stain-glassed window at an upstate New York college, uncovering tangled connections among the prestigious college and her own family history.

Chronicles the life of King Henry VIII, discussing why his was considered one of the most magnificent, and dangerous, courts in Renaissance Europe.

Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, has a steady job, friends, and a passion for fencing, but when he comes under attack for refusing a controversial treatment for his disorder, his quiet life is turned upside-down and he fears the life he has grown accustomed to will be gone forever.