In a war-torn West African nation, a school-aged boy named Agu is forced to trade his innocent childhood for the brutal realities of a child soldier, grappling with the loss of family and selfhood under the dangerous tutelage of a guerilla commander.
In 1930s Seattle, an African-American aviator and a white scholar become pawns in a cosmic game between Love and Death, where their forbidden romance might finally break Death's winning streak.
In a grim carpet factory where childhoods are stolen, a courageous boy named Iqbal ignites a spark of rebellion among enslaved children, daring them to dream of freedom and fight for a life beyond their master's loom.
In 1970s Louisiana, a shotgun blast on a sugarcane plantation starts a tense standoff as a group of elderly black men conspire to protect one of their own from a white farmer's racially charged murder.
In 1964 Mississippi, eleven-year-old Glory navigates the difficult parts of friendship, family, and a town dealing with racial segregation as the local pool becomes a center for change.
Nam Le's "The Boat" explores displacement and human connection through a range of voices and personal stories, from a Colombian hitman to a Vietnamese refugee.
In a valley where ancient heroics are honored but modern violence is forbidden, young Halli Sveinsson struggles with echoes of legendary bloodlust and the draw of forbidden adventure.
In postwar Manhattan, a chance meeting between an independent young woman and a disillusioned war journalist sparks a passionate love affair. Their relationship faces the escalating paranoia of the McCarthy era, forcing them to confront divided loyalties and make impossible moral choices.
In 1810, the Poldark family's hope for Ross's return is overshadowed when Jeremy's sea rescue of Stephen Carrington ignites forbidden love and resentment, changing Clowance and Jeremy's lives forever.
In a grand English country house, a young woman in 1809 and modern academics unravel mysteries of mathematics, poetry, and passion, showing how chaos and order affect two centuries.
In the fading light of the American West, a young man watches the captivating, yet ultimately tragic, unraveling of a charismatic woman whose decline mirrors the very frontier she embodies.
A Tibetan immigrant named Shiva is drawn into a war-torn ancient India, where he must confront ancient evils, uncover devastating secrets, and embrace his destiny as the god Mahadev.
In the chaotic Lower East Side of 1920s Manhattan, Sara Smolinsky, an Orthodox rabbi's daughter, makes her own way to independence against the rigid traditions of her upbringing.
With war at hand and the Great Ga'Hoole Tree threatened by the Pure Ones, Soren must go undercover at St. Aegolius Academy to find a secret that can save his home and bring peace to the owl world.
In the quiet of post-war suburbia, two young boys turn their ordinary neighborhood into a spy game, only to uncover a darker, adult secret hidden beneath their innocent play.
In wartime London, a man haunted by a mercy killing wins a cake at a fête, only to find himself plunged into a conspiracy of Nazi spies and betraying forces.
The unexpected arrival of a famously curmudgeonly lecturer, confined to a small-town home by a broken hip, unleashes six weeks of uproarious chaos and transforms the lives of his bewildered hosts.
A young writer's idolization of a literary master unravels into a mystery when he meets a beautiful, enigmatic woman in the secluded Lonoff home, sparking his imagination to weave a dramatic, secret history.
Thirteen-year-old bard-in-training Jack plunges into a treacherous 790 AD Britain, battling unruly monks, ancient gods, and a menagerie of mythical creatures to rescue his sister from the Lady of the Lake, all while grappling with his own burgeoning, earthquake-inducing magic.
In the shadow of his executed Communist parents, Daniel pieces together their passionate lives and tragic deaths, grappling with a nation's ideals fractured by Cold War paranoia and his own inheritance of purpose and pain.
