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When a young Korean girl known as Regret leaves her homeland for a better life in Hawaii, as a "picture bride," she expects to find prosperity and a chance at education.

Brennert tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s.

After discovering that her husband has lost all of their money and left her broke, Bonnie Duke Cullman is abandoning her comfortable life in Atlanta to teach at a community college in rural Alabama

Eight years ao, the three teenaged McKenna sisters, Kate, Ashley, and Caroline, became famous by winning an arduous, around-the-world sailboat race.

In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again.

Claire O'Rourke is a young writer visiting per parents in her small hometown.

Nina and her brother Andrew share a strong bond: during childhood, they helped each other survive the cruelty of their physician father.

The strkingly beautiful and daringly bold Siena McMahon wants to be a movie star like her legendary grandfather. Her bigshot producer father, however, wants her to be a doctor.

Successful New York City psychotherapist Eric Lavender feels confident that he's a confirmed bachelor. Then he meets sexy divorce attorney Colleen O'Brien Golden.

All residents of the City have recently died, and they will remain in the City only as long as someone still living on Earth remembers them.

When a putrid odor fills the city during a heat wave, massive repairs to London's sewer system are called for.

A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS.

Minister Francine Amen dismissed a young woman's claim of sexual abuse by her pastor.

Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles.

Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet.