Kathleen Karr

Libby Dodge, the youngest inmate at Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts in the early 1900s, gains insights into her past and future after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance."

In the 1840s, Dr. Asa B. Cornwall, a phrenologist, and his fourteen-year-old assistant, Matthew Morrissey, travel from Paris to Northern Africa to seek the missing skull of Alexander the Great.

A first-person narrative from a camel's viewpoint about being sent from Egypt to serve in the United States Camel Corps, and life on the Mojave Desert before and during the Civil War.