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Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.

In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's.

Eliza, an orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chili, follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush that began in 1849.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

During London's social season, Nicola Sparks falls in love with a viscount, but one of his enemies tries to undermine her opinion of his character.

Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as he.

Young British pilot Stephen Dearborn, training in Canada during World War II, meets fourteen-year-old Ellen Logan when her younger brother gets into some trouble at the local airfield, and the two young people fall in love while facing difficult responsibilities brought about by the conflict.

The classic tale of a young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

In the time of the Russian Revolution, Kira is torn between two men who love her, one a Communist, the other an aristocrat.

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.

Heiress Marian Fitzwater, wed at the age of five and widowed at seventeen without having seen her husband in years, turns to Robin Hood for help in discovering who the queen has selected as her new bridegroom and when the choice is not to her liking, she runs off with the handsome prince of thieves and begins life as an outlaw.

Just before the American Civil War, Belle Palmer escapes from slavery in the South to freedom in the North, where she meets and falls in love with Daniel Best.