Six months after returning from the future, Elena and her fellow survivors undertake a rescue mission to find a team of missing time-travelers, but not only do they arrive in a drastically altered future, there are deadly consequences to the trip.

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn̈es, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised -- the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves -- until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic...

"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...

"The four bears have reached the mountains where Toklo spent his cubhood--but they soon discover that the home Toklo has returned to is nothing like the one he remembered"--

At the edge of the Endless Ice, the four bears Ujurak, Toklo, Lusa, and Kallik reach Star Island, where a large group of bears is in trouble but believes Lusa is destined to help bring back the favor of the spirits.

When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grow up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.

"The four bears are determined to reach Great Bear Lake before the longest day gathering, but when Lusa is separated from the others, she faces difficult questions about her future"--

"Esta novela da cuenta de la impactante historia de Aniceto Mora, el Regalado. Hijo de un padre sin escrupulos en el seno de una familia desolada por la miseria y el resentimiento, Aniceto es abandonado a su suerte: su infancia trascurre entre la pobreza y el desden de los adultos. A cada vuelta de pagina, asistimos al vertiginoso despenamiento de un personaje cuyo destino esta marcado por la fatalidad" -- Back cover.

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica -- and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

"Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Yakone trek onward toward the Melting Sea, the site of Kallik's traumatic cubhood -- and prepare to be separated for the first time since their journey began"--