A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.

Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing bro...

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries ...

Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to res...

The life of Kayamkulam Kochunni, a famed highwayman who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor du...

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and th...

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themsel...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifac...

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for ...

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

Have you ever sat by the phone wondering why he said he would call, but didn't, or you can't figure ...

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite...
Warner lives in a cramped townhouse with his wife, Claire, and their two children. While buying a ho...

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brot...

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he me...

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...