Three Chinese youngsters, Steel Hope, his bookmate Mountain Pine, and Firecracker, a gravekeeper's daughter, vow to remain true to each other and their country, a promise that becomes impossible to keep as war, upheaval, and personal tragedies intrude.

Before the advent of bronze, a community of stoneworkers survive by their skills as craftsmen. But the winds of change begin to blow in the outside world.

Tells of a writers lifelong journey towards an understanding of inherited traits and a complicated historical past.

A thirteen-year-old cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore from a British shipwreck onto the Queensland coast, and is taken in by Australian aborigines in the mid-1840s.

Indepent, spirited Imogen Waterstone, an expert on ancient Zamar, invites the infamous Earl of Colchester Matthais Marshall, legendary explorer of Zamar to help her lay the perfect trap. Certain that her enemy will risk everything to acquire the treasure map she claims to have inherited, Imogen faces danger from her foe, and from her own emotions as she is drawn to the dark, seductive earl.

In the mid-19th century, an Irish family survives the wracking journey and settles on scruffy farmland in the Canadian north woods. One day Mary disappears, leaving behind seven-year-old Liam and an infant daughter, Eileen.

An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.