illegitimacy

Corie, the illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, looks forward to her summers at Castle Auburn, her father's family estate, but as she gets older, she realizes she is being groomed for a political marriage, and becomes aware of the injustice of the enslavement of the magical Aliora people, and decides to risk all to follow her heart.

A memoir in which Alina Fern?ndez, illegitimate daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, discusses her early relationship with her father, her disillusionment with his regime, and her decision to seek refuge in the United States.

Charles Dickens's 1853 novel tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.