Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uni...
A group of poor immigrant high school boys in Granite, Illinois defy all odds and go on to win the 1...
David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a ...
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...
The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
Petra's seemingly perfect life unravels when her husband has an affair. Meanwhile, young Petra embar...
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West Afr...
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, wh...
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive te...
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to...
A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some in...
Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, a couple in rural Michigan, build a peaceful, pot-friendly utopia call...
A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is bei...
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become ...