A ballet dancer reflects on her family. The daughter of immigrant parents, her father was a taciturn Chinese-Panamanian, while her mother was a voluble German filled with nostalgia. The tale includes a romance between the ballet dancer and a Russian immigrant.

Having reluctantly parted with their treasured Christmas ornaments, members of a German immigrant family awake on Christmas morning to find miraculous replacements spun by spiders.

Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont.

Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.

In 1902, ten-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans.

"With her brothers away fighting the Great War overseas, Livy Campbell desperately wants to help her family. Her chance comes when she meets a handsome stranger who lands her a job as a teacher in a place far from her parents' farm. But the war casts a long shadow over the German-American town that Livy now calls home--and the darkness will test everything she thought she knew about family and love...More than anything, Friedrick Wagner wants to be...