A Persian diplomat in the 5th century B.C. meets Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, and Pericles, searching for truth and understanding the nature of creation.
A son returns to war-scarred Beirut to be with his dying hakawati grandfather. The deathbed vigil becomes a time for recounting ancient Middle Eastern myths and personal histories, weaving together tales of love, war, and endurance across millennia.
In 1903 San Francisco, a young Chinese immigrant boy helps his father, a laundryman, build and fly an airplane, defying poverty, prejudice, and community skepticism.
After Alderaan's destruction, Luke, Leia, and Han navigate Rebel politics, Mara Jade hunts Imperial traitors, and a stormtrooper's mutiny shapes the galaxy's fate.
A celebrated author's quest to understand evil leads him to a shocking secret from Hitler's inner circle, forcing him to confront the moral weight of untold history.
A wronged horse-dealer, failed by a corrupt 16th-century legal system, wages a bloody war for justice, blurring the lines between vigilante hero and dangerous enemy of the state.
The last Neanderthals live in a changing world of strange sounds and violent newcomers, unknowingly facing the start of a new, terrifying age that will end their existence.
Three boys shipwrecked on a tropical island discover that paradise holds deadly secrets, from cannibal feasts to pirate raids, testing their ingenuity and courage against the South Pacific's wild beauty.
After her lover's execution, a woman fights to immortalize him and expose a political conspiracy, showing his fight for freedom against a tyrannical government.
When his girlfriend is abducted in a series of planned kidnappings, Jonathon Payne races to New Orleans, uncovering a violent historical secret rooted in a Southern plantation that fuels a quest for revenge.
Willie Chandran flees the empty religious life of his Indian home for the promises of London and the colonial world of Africa, only to discover that being true to oneself is an elusive, often broken, promise.
A college student records her family's oral history in the Appalachian mountains, uncovering generations of dark secrets, forbidden loves, and strong spirits.
Exiled to a mysterious island after a plague diagnosis, Ani uncovers a plot deadlier than the disease, forcing her to expose the truth before she becomes another victim of the governor's game.
In Malgudi, a disillusioned English teacher's comfortable home life is shattered by tragedy, forcing him to find his life's purpose and make a life-altering decision.
On the desolate Essex marshes, a reclusive hunchback and a young girl form a strong bond while caring for a wounded snow goose, creating a story of love, healing, and quiet friendships.
In the early 1900s Kentucky mountains, a young Cherokee woman's forbidden love for a white man ignites family secrets, racial prejudice, and violent obsession, forcing her to confront forgiveness amidst a community that refuses to accept her.
A French prince, shipwrecked on a quest for Avalon, becomes entangled with a Cornish maiden and a queen's beauty amidst Anglo-Saxon and Viking clashes in the New World.
Chancey, Sayward Luckett Wheeler's youngest son, grows up in the Ohio wilderness as it transforms into an industrial town, dealing with progress, tradition, and his mother's legacy before the Civil War.
In 1960s Inner Mongolia, a Beijing intellectual's spiritual search among nomadic Mongols and their sacred wolves violently clashes with modern Han Chinese expansion, threatening both ancient culture and the wild spirit of the steppes.
As time runs out, Lia must find the keys to a prophecy and convince her estranged sister, Alice, to help, all while navigating a dangerous love triangle and the devastating secrets that threaten to tear their world apart.
A young girl's hero worship for her military father crumbles as her brother's photographs from Vietnam expose the grim realities of war, forcing her to confront the limits of even a hero's power.
Orphaned Peggy Grahame uncovers a centuries-old romance, espionage, and Revolutionary War intrigue through the ghostly visits of her ancestors at her eccentric uncle's estate.
Orphaned by war, Molly Petree leaves a ruined North Carolina plantation for a half-century journey of love, betrayal, and a murder trial, only to be drawn back to the same ruins that shaped her.
