A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in ...
In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a youn...
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, al...
Arman is torn between two women, a woman who came from a decent family or the one who kept it a secr...
A Mexican fisherman, whose son has died because he could not afford necessary medical care out of hi...
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young s...
In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Ko...
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and he...
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks...
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Bi...
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an importa...
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could bel...
A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought b...
The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided b...
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron...
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated,...