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

As the partition of India nears in 1947 bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help with his dream of studying at Oxford.

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

An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.

"Trying to escape the Great Depression, Julie's father buys the Alderton Sentinel, a small-town newspaper in flood-prone Alderton, Pennsylvania, and moves his family there.

Seventeen-year-old Ava Hall continues to learn more about herself and her heritage through her work in a New York City settlement house as well as through her social obligations with the Blythewood girls.

In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

"Tess Aubreyson is being haunted by prophetic dreams of death and grief.

"The day war is declared, Mary North goes to the War Office, signs up-- and is assigned to be a teacher to a class evacuated to the countryside.

On a rigid path, set by his family, to become valedictorian, attend Harvard Law School, have a stunning political career like his father, and date the right girl, Henry Tudor feels trapped until he meets the wild, brash Anne Boleyn, and they embark on a dangerous romance.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

"Living a life of luxury in seventeenth-century France, Lady Marguerite falls for a commoner and follows him to New France, embarking on a tumultuous journey across the ocean"--OCLC.

In 1725 London, seventeen-year-old orphan Arista lives in fear of her abusive master, but she leads a double life as Lady A, a blackmailer who trades in the secrets of High Society and has to pass herself off as a boy to move safely through London's criminal underworld.

""Swan Lake" meets "Robin Hood" when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region's most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester"--Provided by publisher.

"Living a life of luxury in seventeenth-century France, Lady Marguerite falls for a commoner and follows him to New France, embarking on a tumultuous journey across the ocean"--OCLC.