After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer....

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British indus...

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children...

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the mi...

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a...

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as th...

A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemi...
A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in m...

A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre...

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...