Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight...

Dublin widow Paula begins her fifth month of sobriety as she raises her two children who are still at home, struggles to make ends meet, attends parent-teacher conferences, and develops a taste for rock music.

Phèdre nó Delaunay escapes from captivity in the hopes of returning to her people to deliver a warning of impending invasion, not realizing she alone holds the power to determine the future of her world.

When Native American Rachel Winnapee takes a job at the March summer home on Lake Michigan, she soon learns her place amidst the upper-class, until a war-wounded Woody, the family heir, returns home and falls in love with her.

Her name is Materena Mahi and she's the best listener in Tahiti. Matarena starts her new job as a professional cleaner at the same time she becomes the mother of her beautiful baby girl. Leilani is a challenge almost from the start, posing questions ("Why doesn't it snow in Tahiti?") that seem to Matarena not worth wondering about. What matters to Matarena is passing along her own special wisdom: "Always keep a breafruit tree in your back yard, that...

"One day in the City of Lights. One night in search of lost time. Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city's most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they've lost. Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer's notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she...