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In the spring of 1985, fourteen-year-old Tony Venturi is old enough to feel the world shifting beneath his feet, but not yet old enough to know what to do about it. Born into an Italian-American family that left New Jersey for South Georgia, Tony has spent the last several years living between worlds . . . between North and South, between old-world tradition and small-town America, and between the person he always was and the one he is slowly becoming. In middle school, he ha

In the winter of 1932, Shanghai stood on a knife’s edge, and its glittering riverfront masked a city about to be thrust into a conflict that would decide the fate of one of Asia’s great cultural and commercial centers. Robert, a young American newly arrived to assist his father at Standard Oil Co., wanders the streets where foreign businessmen and Chinese laborers breathe the same thin air while living worlds apart. Through unexpected friendships, Robert is drawn into

Sheltered by his overbearing grandmother and tortured by the untimely death of his parents, an introverted and naïve young man, Milos Warao, abandons the safety of his community to aid an aged and crippled Dwarf wishing to return home. Unbeknownst to Milos, the journey he will undertake will thrust him into the center of an age-old conflict between a xenophobic race of Dwarves bent on vengeance for past wrongs and the free peoples of Ellinar who now inhabit the lands to which