A self-reliant family in New York City finds their relationships altered when a wealthy and grateful stranger enters their life.

In eighteenth-century Russia, as elsewhere in Europe, bread was a dietary staple—truly grain was the staff of economic, social, and political life. Early on T

Hanna and Tadeusz meet and fall in love during the war in Poland, then are separated when their homeland is plunged into chaos. Hanna and her mother hide in a s