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.
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 ...
A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white col...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live...
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...
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...
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...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
From elementary school to adulthood, Ernest has struggled all his life to fit in but finds solace in...
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not sin...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...