"In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up"--

"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--

"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....

Una historia enmarcada a finales del siglo XX donde el pa̕s y los protagonistas pierden la inocencia por igual. En un condominio ubicado al sur del Distrito Federal, viven Carlos y Luc̕a. Desde el principio han compartido risas, juegos y secretos --incluso el hecho de que sus padres se dediquen a la pol̕tica--. El ąo de su decimocuarto cumpleąos la amistad da un giro y una noche acuerdan verse en una casa deshabitada para dar un paso m̀s serio...

"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking... Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor's child should be) has been frightened of the water ever since she lost her father at sea. But with no one else to care for her, she's sent to foster with the Martins-a large...

June 1945. Even as the people of France celebrate the end of World War II, they are overwhelmed by the recovery work which lies ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church, school, and hospital has been destroyed. Disparate factions, from Communists to Resistance fighters to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis, must somehow unite and rebuild their devastated country. Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge, he served...

"1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetu�e has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. But that's not all—he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite…an...

"Tenochtitlan, 30 de junio de 1520. Antes de abandonar la ciudad, Corťs ordena reunir las riquezas saquedas de Moctezuma. Esa noche, a la hora en que el cielo es m̀s oscuro, ochocientos soldados espąoles mueren emboscados por los guerreros mexicanos en la calzada de Tacuba. Ochenta ąos despǔs, tras una tromba que dur̤ varios d̕as e inund̤ la ahora capital de la Nueva Espąa, una miniatura de oro aparece en la ribera dellago y el hallazgo desata...

Es 1936, una guerra civil desgarra Espąa y el mundo est̀ al borde del caos... Lucy, una joven maestra de 21 ąos, se siente feliz con su vida en Hertfordshire, sobre todo porque vive al lado de Tom y Jamie, dos hermanos muy diferentes por los que siente un gran carįo. Pero todo cambia cuando Tom, el m̀s joven e idealista, decide viajar a Espąa para unirse a la causa republicana y luchar en la sangrienta guerra civil que se est̀ desarrollando....

"Alemania, 1939. Al inicio de la guerra y tras la muerte de su madre, Hanna Rombauer es enviada a vivir con sus t̕os. Inmersa en una vida de lujo que nunca esper̤, pronto es comprometida con un oficial de las SS; sin embargo, la independencia y tenacidad que su madre amorosamente le inculc̤ son inapropiadas para la futura esposa de un oficial en ascenso. Sin consultarle, Hanna es enviada a una elegante villa en las afueras de Berl̕n, donde deber̀...