1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future, until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands […]

Summer 1991. Sixteen-year-old Maia lives a peaceful life with her loving parents, surrounded by the stunning rural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. But when Maia’s mother is diagnosed with cancer, their family is plunged into turmoil, a period Maia dubs The Summer of Hell. Twelve months later, Maia and her father still don’t speak of […]

Love and adventure don’t mix, or so thinks Eleanor Morgan, a teacher of poetry in 1918 Oklahoma. And she’s heard the call to adventure all her life: through books, through histories and fairy stories, entering their worlds and their fancies. This kind of imaginative escape has given her life some of its most bright and […]

A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk […]

In a city under attack, everyone must play their part. London, 1940 – When East-Ender, Frankie, joins the ambulance crew at Station Seventy-Five, she finally has a chance to follow her dreams, while still caring for those she loves at home. Can she find her inner strength when faced with the shocking reality of a […]

In the heart of Bensonhurst, an Italian American family struggles to survive one explosive day, the nation’s Bicentennial. The Agnello family wakes Bicentennial morning to the sound of fireworks. Outside their apartment, block party preparations are already underway. Paulie, husband and father, has been out on strike with his union and is desperate to make […]

A barracks full of beautiful boys. A girl in disguise, living among them. It’s the 14th century, and the longbow is king. But in the northern European principality of Ardennes, archery isn’t just the nation’s defense. It’s the national obsession. Meet the Journeys: 12 young Journeyman archers, the best in the country2 years of public […]