Seven brothers, each with a unique supernatural gift, must unite their powers to outwit a tyrannical emperor and save their village in this illustrated retelling of a Chinese legend.
In the shadow of World War I, two French sisters discover a blinded soldier and, through the shared secret of a silver donkey, are drawn into a world of ancient fables and quiet heroism as they conspire to guide him home.
A Jewish teenager with forged papers risks everything as a courier in Nazi-occupied Poland, smuggling hope and lives between ghettos, then joins the desperate Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Confined to widowhood at twelve, a spoiled Indian girl discovers the quiet power of education and Gandhi's satyagraha, realizing it might just liberate both her country and herself from the shackles of tradition.
Disguised as a prissy ballerina in revolutionary Paris, street-smart Cat Royal uncovers treason and the power of the people as she navigates a web of intrigue, secret reporting, and baffling suitors, all while narrowly escaping the gallows.
From railroad camps to laundry rooms, Kingston’s epic saga unfurls the paper sons' dreams and trials, tracing three generations of Chinese men battling exclusion and forging identity within the mythical yet brutal landscape of America.
During Mao's re-education movement, a high-school girl with a 'capitalist' mother and a geology student with a 'rightist' past fall in love under a hawthorn tree, their romance ending tragically.
Anouilh's 'Becket' explores the souls of men caught between earthly power and divine conviction during the Norman conquest, from a king's prayer to a saint's sacrifice.
In the desolate Dust Bowl, an 11-year-old orphan and a charming con man, who may or may not be her father, embark on a hilarious and heartwarming journey through the Deep South, leaving a trail of mischief and self-discovery.
In a lush, dual-timeline tale, a 16th-century dancing plague in Strasbourg entwines with a modern girl cursed by enchanted red shoes, as both women fight to break free from a haunting historical betrayal and a magic that demands they dance until they die.
Trapped in an Alpine prison during WWII, a disgraced socialite's final, desperate confessions scrawled on the walls expose a chilling web of aristocratic scandal and political corruption that only his frozen corpse can now reveal.
In the shadow of West Virginia's coal-rich mountains, a battle for dignity erupts as 10,000 armed miners face U.S. Army planes and poison gas, their fight for justice told through the intertwined lives of a fiery mayor, a hardened union man, a courageous nurse, and a grieving immigrant mother.
In the racially charged atmosphere of 1957 Little Rock, Sylvia, a young Black girl, must decide if she has the courage to be one of the first students to integrate Central High, facing the prejudice that threatens her community.
In 1826 London, a young anatomist's ambition to study cadavers pulls him into a corrupt world of body snatchers and murder, where the line between life and death blurs with every stolen corpse.
Exiled to the desolate shores of Newfoundland, the Andrews family grapples with a brutal new world, meticulously chronicled in the secret journal of young Lavinia, who unflinchingly records the truths and deceptions of her fellow settlers.
Eleven-year-old Sallie and her sister Maude flee their cruel guardians, beginning an unexpected journey through the Wild West where Sallie learns about adventure and sisterhood as Maude becomes a 'wanted woman' in their unfolding reality.
In a Venice full of sin, a rich aristocrat enters a world of lust, betrayal, and murder, led by her dark desires and a seductive Moorish servant, all while Satan watches.
In 1980s Malaysia, a wealthy Indian family's carefully built life falls apart after a servant is sent away, a grandmother dies, and a daughter leaves, forcing six-year-old Aasha to face the hidden truths that connect and betray them all.
Thomas Mann's retelling of the biblical Joseph story explores divine favor, family betrayal, and the enduring power of human love across ancient Egypt and Canaan.
In 1957 Kenya, three blood sisters from different backgrounds find their childhood vow tested by the Mau Mau rebellion, the birth of independent Kenya, and the conflicting paths of love, ambition, and survival that pull them from London's swinging sixties to the fight for their ancestral farm.
