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An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.

Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho. Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved-which included three small children waiting with him at the station. I will not marry a stranger who no longer loves me, but I have agreed...

The familiar characters of Hawthorne's dark tale of pride and guilt in colonial New England are given new and added immediacy in the 24 wood engravings by master illustrator Barry Moser.

"Una emocionante novela que nos traslada al siglo XX de la mano de Florentina, abuela del autor y emigrante gallega en Buenos Aires, a la vez que nos presenta dos mundos distintos: Espa�na y Argentina.�El viaje de mi abuela desde Galicia hasta Buenos Aires fue much�isimo m�as largo que mis veinte horas de �omnibus; sin embargo, ese tiempo no la prepar�o para admitir la realidad del nuevo lugar. En el tiempo en que la conoc�i, todo se...

"En una caja de seguridad abandonada en un banco de Nueva York aparecen un fajo de cartas manuscritas, fotografías, pasaportes caducados y veintidós joyas de un valor incalculable. Jane Willoughby, empleada judicial, recibe el encargo de encontrar a los posibles herederos, y Phillip Lawton, experto de la casa de subasta Christie's, el de tasar las piezas. Atraída por el hallazgo, Jane averigua el nombre de la enigmática mujer que aparece en las...

"From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the...

"A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor Paddy Riley, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who is purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman's body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it's the missing society girl. Then Molly's...

Publisher description: Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the fascinating story of Lalu Nathoy, later known as Polly Bemis. Born in China in the mid 1800's, Lalu was raised in a peasant village ravaged by poverty and drought. At an early age she was snatched from her family by bandits, shipped to America as a slave, and auctioned off to a Chinese saloon keeper in an Idaho mining camp. There, having gained her freedom through a poker game, her indomitable...

It?s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she?s proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway?s brightest stars and Fifth Avenue?s richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she?s going to work more than one case at a time, then she?s going to need some help....