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'Nick Davis first saw Daniela Simonici in the American Bar of the Athenee Palace Hotel in Bucharest in June of 1940. He couldn't take his eyes off her.

In 1986, champion cross-country skier Janine Shepherd was training for the Winter Olympics when she was hit by a truck and suffered life-threatening injuries.

In a typical English country lane, ten households form a peaceful, if mundane little community.

1950s Edinburgh is the setting for this murder mystery. Young reporter Rosa's friend and former colleague, Patricia, returns from London to marry her fiance but tragedy soon strikes.

Seattle, 1960's. Joe Sutter, the engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the Boeing 747, tells the story of the world's first jumbo jet.

In this humorous story, the court magician thinks a quest will cure Prince Roger's unkinglike tendency to laugh constantly.

Disgraced journalist turned true-crime writer Frank Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty after a snowstorm and car accident strands them i

Fred Shedd and his parents accompany their dog, Duz, to Hollywood, where his new career as a movie star is almost ended before it begins when Duz is kidnapped.

Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York.

Both young adults and adults will find appeal in this Oregon Trail novel. Lovisa and the rest of the extended King family join a wagon train in 1845.

In 1940, Varian Fry, with only three thousand dollars and a list of names, went on a secret mission to Marseilles, to help those who had fled Nazi Germany and were now trapped in southern France.

Each story reflects the impact of historical events on the day-to-day lives of children. Stories are linked by the travels of a wooden toy horse who is passed from child to child. Grades 3-6.

Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.

Eighth-grader Mia has been keeping a secret---even from her best friend, Jenna--ever since third grade, when she realized that not everyone sees a color for each name, number, and sound.

Lonely Viviette Constanine awaits the return of her husband from a hunting expedition to Africa.