Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the...
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer...
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to ...
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Syd...
An officer and a woman meet and fall in love during a boat journey but they aren't sure what to do a...
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an ...
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfield...
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...
The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunki...
Dr. Watson, who served in the English armed forces and was in the Afghan war, retires and returns to...
An independent country girl, Paisley, takes on the task of upholding her adored grandfather's ranch....
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of cur...
Irene, a former member of the terrorist gang ETA recently released from prison in Catalonia, recalls...
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came ver...