Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by bl...

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a s...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The Genera...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if sl...

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...