Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.

Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack

Nineteen-year-old Mary Boulton struggles to survive alone in the wild after fleeing west from the law and hiding fr

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious ly

Thirteen year old Jason finds an old postcard at his recently deceased grandmother's house that leads

When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, the enchantress Morgan asks Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, to use their tree house to travel to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, in the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo) in old Japan in the 1600s to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and polit

This saga of Texas history spans four and a half centuries, beginning in the early 1500s and ending in the present.

Describes the lives and struggles of humans and animals in Alaskan prehistory and then leaps into the eighteenth century where the historical high points are vividly portrayed.

A militant group of Polish farmers wish to present grievances and demands to Szymon Bukowski, the Communist Minister of Agriculture, and this introduces the reader to a 700-year sweep of Polish history.