In the South American republic of Costaguana, the longshoreman Nostromo, tasked with moving a fortune in silver during a civil war, eventually gives in to the corruption he first resisted, leading to his tragic end.
Uprooted to New Mexico after her father's murder, a young girl struggles with grief, finding comfort and a path to healing through an enigmatic boy she meets in the canyons.
Stricken by plague and abandoned in medieval London, young Robin finds an unexpected path to heroism when a friar's kindness leads him to a besieged castle on the Welsh border, where his crippled body holds the key to its salvation.
A bored boy discovers his cabbage-soup-loving grandma is secretly a notorious jewel thief who needs his help to pull off the biggest heist of her life: stealing the Crown Jewels.
A seemingly ordinary teen discovers she's a faery princess thrust into a deadly war between mythical courts, fighting to save loved ones and melt the icy heart of a dangerous prince.
In 17th-century Holland, a tulip grower, wrongly imprisoned during political unrest, finds comfort and a chance to grow the black tulip with his jailer's daughter, as he deals with jealousy and obsession.
Abandoned by her cryptic parents with an unknown aunt, a young girl unravels a mystery involving multiple identities, a missing 'Elizabeth,' and a town that sees a ghost in her face, forcing her to confront the truth of her own existence.
At an IRS office in Peoria, a new trainee named David Foster Wallace discovers how people find meaning in work and life, even as the system tries to erase their humanity.
On the eve of their final Olympics, two lifelong rival cyclists must confront their intertwined past and the ultimate sacrifice when a devastating diagnosis forces them to choose between gold and the life of someone they love.
In a steampunk WWI, a deposed Austro-Hungarian prince on the run in a walking war machine meets a cross-dressing British airman piloting a living airship, forming an alliance that will redefine the global conflict.
From untamed youth to enlightened master, follow Miyamoto Musashi's perilous path through 17th-century Japan, where every duel and every choice shapes his legend as the greatest swordsman under heaven.
As the desert's new Dragon Prince, Rohan, a dragon protector in a land of dragon slayers, must forge peace and save his fire-breathing allies, while his Sunrunner bride, Sioned, battles treacherous magic and political plots to prevent a war that threatens to consume their world.
On a hot St. Valentine's Day in 1900, three schoolgirls and their governess disappear during an outing to Hanging Rock, unsettling an Australian finishing school and the colonial community.
In the Shadowhunter city, Clary must defy laws, navigate family secrets, and unite factions to save her mother and stop Valentine from destroying their world, as her love for Jace grows amidst the chaos.
Follow a Scottish bookseller through a year of diary entries as he runs his sprawling second-hand shop, dealing with eccentric staff, bizarre customers, and the never-ending search for literary gems.
Confined by his phobias and his Santa Monica apartment, Daniel Pecan Cambridge navigates a world of imagined dangers and real-life absurdities, from falsely implicating himself in a murder to attempting to jog with his friend Brian.
A brutal rape in a secluded yeshiva forces a cynical detective and a devout woman to confront faith and crime, uncovering truths that threaten their connection.
During the 1918 flu pandemic and Ireland's fight for independence, a nurse, a rebel doctor, and a volunteer form a bond in a Dublin maternity ward, bringing hope and new life amid death and revolution.
