Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popula...

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads o...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

After his father leaves home for another woman, 16-year-old Martial has to move with his mother, Sab...

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

In the Valley of the Moon, follows a young man working as a hitman for the Italian mob in 1977. He t...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

Kai Wodar is the son of a German-Yugoslav couple in Vienna. His father works as Milan coach in profe...

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid...

Because he can't accompany his father, a German army officer, on his next deployment in Somalia, 15-...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old frie...

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumb...

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.