Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she finds the color line impossible to pass and returns to lead her Chinese people in rebellion.
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degre...
Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father....
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is v...
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. A...
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of h...
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-wor...
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he pr...
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisher...
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows u...
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation ...
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate dra...