Helene stands on a German railway platform in 1945, knowing that after surviving the horror and deprivation of the war years she cannot bear to raise her seven-year-old son who demands too much love and expectation from her - and so she abandons him there and never returns. How did she come to this? From the rural childhood that was ended by the first world war, to the marriage and family that was destroyed in the second world war, Helene's story...

"An epic tale of murder, treachery, bravery, and love In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only one suitor she is interested in: Mathis, a childhood friend...

Sold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant, Safia, also called Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon king.

Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth Shepherd unexpectedly travels through time to the eighteenth century, and she must find out why her mother lied about her date of birth to hide her ability, research her history, and work with Gideon, another time traveler.

"The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could her life have been different? Then she wins the lottery-and suddenly...

It's the night before the feast in the village of Furstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman - he's dead. And Mrs. Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells - the only problem is that the bells have gone. A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr. Schramm is discovering more reasons to quit...

The author describes the unconventional lives of her grandparents, from surviving the Holocaust and fleeing Budapest during the uprising of 1956 to their complex personalities and long-buried family secrets that may have led them to take their own lives together.

The Adderhead, whose immortal power is bound within Meggie's father's book, orders his henchmen to attack the villages, and when Mo's fictitious double, Bluejay, provides protection with a band of outlaws, the Adderhead kidnaps the kingdom's children and holds them ransom in his silver mines while demanding Mo's surrender. Inkdeath in Spanish

Collects two love stories, including "Storm Warning," where Autumn tries to help Lucas clear his name of murder, a situation complicated by their mutual attraction.