A freak storm catapults a young girl through time to an ancient world where she must navigate a society of spear-wielding warriors and the threat of human sacrifice to find her way home before the temporal portal seals forever.
Sebastian Junger examines the reality of combat, showing the strong bonds formed between soldiers facing daily danger in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
A relentless TV anchorwoman, chasing the truth behind a wealthy family's 'accidental' deaths, uncovers a global conspiracy of assassinations and secret auctions, where friends become foes and no one can be trusted, all while unseen forces manipulate her world and endanger her loved ones.
At Seabrook College, the death of fourteen-year-old Skippy uncovers a funny and sad story of teenage problems, secret love, and the cruel acts of students and adults.
After her daughter's suicide, a Japanese woman in England remembers a summer in post-bomb Nagasaki, where a mysterious friendship and unspoken grief confuse truth and regret.
In a world of misplaced affections, dropped edibles, and upper-class foolishness, only Jeeves's calm and cunning can rescue Bertie Wooster and his friends from their self-made problems.
Two siblings are whisked by a magic tree house into a medieval castle, where they must navigate a feast of peacocks and boys in skirts as unexpected, and unwelcome, guests.
A graduate student and marathon runner is pulled into international espionage, torture, and murder after his brother's visit, forcing him to uncover a diamond conspiracy and answer the chilling question: 'Is it safe?'
Under Stalin, composer Dmitri Shostakovich walks a dangerous line between artistic honesty and survival, his music a quiet protest against Soviet rule.
In 1980s New York City, an angel tells a gay man with AIDS that he is a prophet, making him confront his mortality, his identity, and a nation's spiritual crisis.
In a world of Victorian constraints, a scrupulous clergyman and a rebellious heiress, both compulsive gamblers, risk everything on a glass church and an undeclared love that defies societal odds.
A well-meaning but impulsive senior with ADHD uncovers the dark secrets of his long-lost foster brother, Julian. Helping him could unravel both their lives.
A malevolent century-old ghost, rising from a fiery past, manipulates a lonely stepsister into a deadly friendship, drawing her ever closer to a watery grave while her stepsiblings race against time to unravel the spectral trap.
In the face of celestial and earthly collapse, broken souls find fractured grace and the courage to rebuild amidst the rubble of the AIDS epidemic and Reagan eras.
Nancy Drew's quick thinking and courage are tested when a deserted bungalow hides more than just secrets, endangering her life as she uncovers a friend's problem.
A spunky teen chef ignites a small Wisconsin town, stirring up hope and a mayoral campaign with her aunt against a corrupt incumbent, proving that even a diner can be the heart of a revolution.
Through fragmented notebooks, a writer dissects her fractured psyche and the disillusionment of post-war communism, striving to unify her identity amidst personal betrayals and societal shifts.
A jaded hitman botches a job to save his target, then falls into a darkly comedic global conspiracy, battling eccentric billionaires and alluring femme fatales to stop an international bloodbath.
Navajo men like Ned Begay, once forced to abandon their native tongue in harsh boarding schools, become invaluable US Marines, using their forbidden language as a secret weapon in World War II battles.
When a history teacher's experiment to demonstrate the appeal of fascism becomes a school-wide movement, two students must expose the danger of unquestioning conformity before it consumes them.
John Stuart Mill's book on utilitarianism, with his parliamentary defense of capital punishment, applies the 'greatest good for the greatest number' idea to difficult societal problems.
In the suffocating grip of a 1970s mill town, a mother's carefully constructed life unravels into a maelstrom of rage and long-buried secrets when her teenage daughter's burgeoning sexuality mirrors her own repressed past.
