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The ninety men, women, and children of the Donner Party are heading into one of one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in American history. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy-- they cannot seem to escape tragedy... or the feeling that someone-- something?-- is stalking them. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if the evil that has unfolded around them...

Tall One, a young girl living on the African plain, discovers a beautiful blue stone which holds the key to her destiny as well as the destiny of generations to come.

When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with Merry Jellicoe as roommates in 1958, she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Feron, who has narrowly escaped from a dark past, instantly takes to Merry and her composed personality. Surrounded by the traditions and four-story Doric columns of Lovegood, the girls--and their friendship--begin to thrive. But underneath their fierce friendship...

Moving from Alaskan prehistory, to Russian exploration, to acquisition by the United States, to statehood, this richly detailed historical novel chronicles the high points of Alaska's history through the lives of fictional and historical characters.

A militant group of Polish farmers wish to present grievances and demands to Szymon Bukowski, the Communist Minister of Agriculture, and this introduces the reader to a 700-year sweep of Polish history.

"At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet's slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for - Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other's world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb's Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it...

As Gideon faces an unexpected romance with Emma Knepp, Gideon's sister, Rachel, and the "outsider" Jeremiah Gant add to the drama with their own dilemma and its repercussions for the entire community of Riverhaven.

Beauty From Ashes is the long-awaited concluding volume in Georgia's Trilogy. Again the author leads us through her South-by an aching South that will soon be torn by pain and pride, riven by fierce principles and divided loyalties, but guided by women of uncommon passion.

Leana sank into a curtsy, thinking to put their relationship on the proper footing. "I will make myself useful in the kitchen, dear cousin." Jamie placed his hand under her chin, slowly lifting her face until they were poised a heandbreadth apart. "Cousin?" he said, his voice rough with emotion. "Nae, lass. It can never be that way with us." Haunted by a shameful past and wrestling with an uncertain future, Jamie McKie vows to return to his ancestral...

An archaeological excavation of Tell Makor launches a journey into the history and culture of the Jews that includes the early Hebrews, the impact of Christianity, the Spanish Inquisition, and the modern Middle East conflict.