The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when they discover that...
Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Da...
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a he...
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a Syrian-born painting contractor assisting in the rescue effort finds ...
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become ...
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal rese...
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Mo...
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...
Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake expl...
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...
Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to ha...
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran...
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club t...
A band of soldiers tasked with staying behind during the Battle of Dunkirk to rescue a scientist wit...
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos...
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...