Claire Shipley, a photojournalist, tries to keep herself detatched from her most recent assignment, reporting on the new "miracle drug" penicillin, but ends up putting herself in the middle of everything when a murder occurs and she searches for the killer.

In 1764, Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson, trying to avoid debtors, relocates to Boston, where he takes Fanny Easton, the disgraced daughter of a leading citizen, as his apprentice and together, with the help of runaway slave Dr. Ignatius Alexander, the investigate the murder of an abolitionist.

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."

Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester arrives in San Francisco with her family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly-male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy in order to sell Eastern newspapers and participate in the biggest stories of the day.

The "Ibis," embarks on a journey from Calcutta with a diverse crew of sailors ; which includes a bankrupt raja, a widowed tribeswoman, a Mulatto American freedman, and a French orphan ; to the poppy fields in Ganges, to China's nineteenth century Opium War.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's...

Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II.

Nineteenth-century fossil hunter Mary Anning and spinster Elizabeth Philpot form a friendship based on their interest in science, and, when Mary's work is put into question by individuals who believe it goes against their religious beliefs and men in her field try to take credit for it, Elizabeth's loyalty to Mary becomes invaluable to her.

A fictionalized account of the early years of American history, chronicling the lives and influences of the wives of the nation's Founding Fathers.

During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.