Selections from Solzhenitsyn's novel cycle "Krasnoe koleso" (The Red Wheel) dealing with Stolypin, the reign of Nicholas II, and Lenin. Includes chapters from each of the novels in the cycle.

"World War II is over, but the Honeycutt family is still feeling its devastating effects. Especially Daddy, who can't forget what he saw on the battlefield and sometimes can't cope with everyday life. Fourteen-year-old Ellie Honeycutt finds escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college. Her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook. Once inseparable, the two sisters find themselves growing apart...

"Dred Scott's daughter learns what it means to pay the price of freedom... Eleven-year-old Eliza Scott has a lot to live for. She and her family will soon be free. She is learning to read and write at a secret school. And she has a new friend she can share her dreams with. But when Eliza is confronted by vicious slave catchers, the spread of cholera, and a devastating fire, she is forced to come to terms with what it really takes to be on her own....

"During the clash between Union and Confederacy, quiet Tennessean Pearl MacFarlane is compelled to nurse both Rebel and Yankee wounded who seek refuge at her family's farm. She is determined to remain unmoved by the Yankee cause--until she faces the silent struggle of Union soldier Joshua Wheeler, a recent amputee. The MacFarlane family fits no stereotype Joshua believed in; still he is desperate to regain his footing--as a soldier, as a man, as a...

"Josef und Maria Moosbrugger leben mit ihren Kindern am Rand eines Bergdorfes. Sie sind die Abseitigen, die Armen, die Bagage. Es ist die Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs und Josef wird zur Armee eingezogen. Die Zeit, in der Maria und die Kinder allein zurückbleiben und abhängig werden vom Schutz des Bürgermeisters. Die Zeit, in der Georg aus Hannover in die Gegend kommt, der nicht nur hochdeutsch spricht und wunderschön ist, sondern eines Tages auch...

Beguiled by the figure of German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who disrupted the assumptions of quantum mechanics with his notorious Uncertainty Principle, earning him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932, a young, disenchanted philosopher attempts to right his own intellectual and emotional course and take the measure of the evil at work in the contemporary world. In this critically acclaimed novel, Jerome Ferrari takes stock of European culture's failings...

"París, 1899. Emma Lacasse ha estado separada de su hermana mayor durante casi veinte años, ya que Caroline se casó con un estadounidense rico y se fue de Francia. Así que cuando Emma recibe la petición de Caroline de encontrarse con ella, esto la intriga. Caroline invita a Emma a visitarla en Nueva York con una condición: debe ayudar a su sobrina Isadora a prepararse para su debut en sociedad. Caroline vive una vida de excesos y opulencias...

"The grandson of Michael O'Sullivan takes his own rocky road to perdition, from a prison camp in Laos to the wilds of 1970s Hollywood. Unaware of his heritage, Michael Satariano, Jr., is drawn into espionage and assassination as he attempts to avenge the deaths of his father, brother and sister. Will the love of a decent woman--the niece of a key target--change him or destroy him?"--P. [4] of cover.

In 1809 Lieutenant Sharpe and his riflemen are in Portugal, preparing for Napoleon's next strike. The much smaller English force will probably pull out before it gets slaughtered -- but not Sharpe. His orders are clear. He must find the missing daughter of an English wine shipper. Suddenly, the punishing French assault is launched. Now Sharpe and his men are trapped behind enemy lines, and they have only just begun their mission.

"She's desperate to keep her secret hidden, but he's a determined Marquis. As the son of a duke, Maxwell Oliver Weld, Marquis of Daventry, is allowed access to the finest of London's ballrooms, political figures, and best physicians. Yet, his wealth and contacts won't heal his friend, Charlie, dying from from consumption. Seeking a miracle, Max persuades Charlie to sail to the island of Nevis and bathe in the Artesian hotel's famous healing springs....