When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.

In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Mi...

Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neru...

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...

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

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...

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...

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...

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

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims t...

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, volunt...

At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography ...

After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden ...