During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise, saves innocents from the guillotine while a French agent tries to find out who he is.
In the brutal winter of WWII's Eastern Front, a Lithuanian nurse, a Prussian soldier with stolen art, and a pregnant Polish girl meet on the overcrowded Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship sailing into the icy Baltic. Their hope for freedom clashes with an unimaginable maritime tragedy.
A rare-book conservator uncovers centuries of human drama, sacrifice, and artistic wonder hidden within an ancient illuminated manuscript, tracing its journey through inquisitions, wars, and the people who risked everything to preserve its beauty and secrets.
In Jim Crow-era Florida, two black boys forge a desperate friendship within a brutal reform school, their clashing ideals and cynicism leading to a decision that will ripple through their lives for decades.
Fifteen realistic tales by James Joyce examine the stagnant lives of early 20th-century Dubliners, showing their spiritual and emotional traps through moments of sudden, often unsettling, insight.
In a spectral Georgetown cemetery, a grief-stricken Abraham Lincoln visits the bardo where his deceased son, Willie, is caught in a hilarious and terrifying purgatory with a chorus of chattering ghosts, all grappling with the messy, unfinished business of life and death.
A misplaced magical case in 1920s New York unleashes a menagerie of wondrous and dangerous creatures, forcing a shy magizoologist to confront dark forces threatening both the wizarding and non-magical worlds.
A forgotten Yiddish novel intertwines the lives of a lonely Polish émigré still yearning for his lost love and a tenacious teenage girl determined to cure her mother's solitude by finding its elusive author.
A mother's fading memories unlock a hidden past of ancestral curses, forbidden love, and shocking betrayals in a remote Chinese village, forever altering her daughter's understanding of their tumultuous bond.
Through Jim Burden's nostalgic eyes, witness the strong spirit and struggles of Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda as she navigates love, loss, and the Nebraska prairie.
Armed with a new power and accompanied by a pyrokinetic girl and a peculiar dog, Jacob Portman plunges into the grimy depths of Victorian London's Devil's Acre to rescue his friends and decide the fate of all peculiardom.
In a snow-laden medieval Russia, a young woman who sees ancient spirits must defy her devout stepmother and a rising demonic evil to protect her family and village from a winter demon.
In the ballrooms and battlefields of Napoleonic England, two women—one a social climber and the other an idealist—live in a society where ambition and virtue clash.
An anonymous assassin, known as the Jackal, plans to kill France's President Charles de Gaulle, while intelligence agencies try to find him and stop the assassination.
During the American Revolution, Jamie and Claire Fraser navigate war and family, trying to change history and protect loved ones, while their daughter in the future uncovers parts of their past that threaten her own life.
An orphaned boy with a knack for legendary feats and an aversion to standing still runs into a racially divided town, inadvertently weaving himself into its fabric and challenging its deep-seated prejudices.
In 1920s Alaska, a childless homesteader couple's despair changes with the sudden arrival of a wild, mysterious girl, born from snow and myth, who redefines their ideas of family, nature, and the line between reality and fairy tale.
In 1920s Barcelona, a struggling author accepts a mysterious offer to write a transcendent book, only to find himself entangled in a gothic labyrinth of obsession, murder, and supernatural secrets hidden within an abandoned mansion.
In the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush, a sheltered Chilean orphan searches for a lost love, finding her own independence among prospectors and prostitutes.
In 17th-century Amsterdam, a young bride's miniature dollhouse becomes a prophetic mirror of her opulent yet secretive new life, revealing the dangerous truths hidden within her wealthy merchant husband's household.
Banished for 'lunacy,' socialite May Dodd volunteers for a secret 1875 government program, journeying with 999 other white women into the heart of the American West to marry Cheyenne warriors and chronicle a clash of cultures that will forever change her.
In an abandoned Italian villa at the close of WWII, four damaged people gather around a burned English patient, whose fragmented memories of love, betrayal, and desert exploration reveal their own scarred pasts.
In a quiet French village, a mysterious chocolatier arrives during Lent, sparking a quiet revolution with her sweets and her ability to help villagers embrace their hidden desires.
