At an Ohio resort where Southern slaveholders openly summer with their enslaved mistresses, four women navigate the brutal complexities of love, friendship, and the perilous whispers of freedom as the Civil War looms.
Amidst the carnage of a Civil War battlefield-turned-hospital, a defiant Southern matriarch finds an unexpected cause and a shared path to healing with a battle-weary soldier she refuses to let die.
From the whispering prairies to the crystal-capped Rockies, Sacajawea, a Shoshoni chief's daughter, navigates the raw, bursting fabric of a new land as the lone woman on Lewis and Clark's trek, forever yearning for a passion beyond the next mountain.
A sick boy finds a magical Italian notebook, transporting him to 16th-century Venice. There, he navigates carnival dangers, duchesses, assassins, and a new romance, discovering his destiny as a time-traveling 'stravagante.'
Ten-year-old Mia navigates the hidden world of a motel front desk, secretly sheltering immigrants and dreaming of becoming a writer, all while battling a tyrannical owner and her parents' expectations.
A brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg and a sharp tongue clashes with an equally quick-witted lady, only to find their dislike sparks an undeniable passion.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
In Nazi Germany, a young domestic risks everything to reunite with the Jewish man she loves, facing the horrors of war and human cruelty with an unyielding spirit.
Two families' paths diverge from 17th-century New France, one building a timber empire, the other struggling to survive, as their intertwined stories reveal humanity's destructive relationship with the forest across three centuries and continents.
Amidst the British occupation of early 20th-century Cairo, the iron-fisted patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad navigates his family through tradition, rebellion, and the city's hidden nightlife, all while his wife and children yearn for freedom beyond their palace walls.
In a sharp transatlantic satire, Dickens examines the Chuzzlewit family's selfishness, following one Martin's journey from moral decay to redemption and another's descent into greed, blackmail, and crime, all while introducing the memorable Mrs. Gamp.
On 17th-century Exmoor, farmer's son John Ridd risks everything to save Lorna from her outlaw family and his rival, Carver Doone. Their love story unfolds against a background of old feuds and new passion.
Through the eyes of Grant, Lee, and Chamberlain, 'The Last Full Measure' shows the brutal, culminating two years of the Civil War, from the Wilderness to Appomattox, as the Confederacy's last breaths are drawn against the Union's relentless advance.
In a grimy 18th-century London, a spirited schoolgirl named Mary Saunders rejects a life of servitude, clawing her way through a perilous journey to seize a liberty society denies her, even if it means becoming the very 'slammerkin' they despise.
