Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and s...
An NYU student visits a Mennonite friend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a fellow Mennonite is kill...
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the...
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn...
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...
Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, M...
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting ...