Justine is a young woman with a fierce intelligence but an equally strong appetite for self-destruction. She finds herself suffocated within a world that makes little sense and where alcohol is the only escape from her view of a hopeless future. When she meets Rachel, the possibility of happiness, love and a future starts to emerge. But her pain goes deep and as the demons within her begin to surface, she wonders if she can allow herself to hope.
While trying to save up for nursing school, Ana takes a remote post as a personal care worker for a wealthy woman with early onset dementia. But as she grows close to her new client, Joan, Ana becomes concerned that Joan's spoiled daughter, Carla, is trying to murder her to get her hands on her inheritance. Ana strikes up a romance with Joan's other adult child, Jason, who assures her Carla doesn't mean any harm, but Ana comes to realize he's deceiving her as well. Can Ana protect Joan, or will she get caught in the crossfire?
Tatyana Minenko saves orphaned polar bear cubs from death in the clutches of their older brothers, and from severe Chukchi frosts and hunger. But what’s next for these cubs? Zoo life or return to the wild? How much effort does it take to save one polar bear cub from death? And why is it even harder to leave an orphan bear free? The people of the north value their freedom above all else. That’s how they want to see the owner of this land – the polar bear.
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity. It is a story full of noise and fury, rich in extraordinary characters, including the famous Susanna, who had the courage to create this refuge that came to be known as Casa Susanna.
The story of the growing up of 11-year-old Dzhabai, who sells mountain onions on the highway, who finds his mother with his idol, a truck driver, and goes to China for Viagra for his father that he becomes a strong man.
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
Maggie is struggling to keep her life together after the death of her mother when her addict brother shows up, forcing her to make sense of a reality that may not be what it seems.
Fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother’s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. He has a summer to make amends before his grandmother returns from a vacation in Suriname.
Crazy Maltese Joe is forced to road trip across California with his estranged brother Charlie, a gassy dog, and a precious family heirloom to bust their dying sister out of the hospital on time for her planned escape.
Successful, happily-married Devin, stumbles upon "damsel in distress", Skyler, on his way to work one day. When Devin decides to stop and help her, he ends up getting more than he bargained for. He realizes much too late that she has him wrapped in her deceitful web of temptation. Devin must now fight to save himself from Skylar's ruthless grasp, before she destroys his entire life.
A man haunted by people who bullied him in high school, finds out that now, 40 years later, they are all international terrorists. As fate would have it, he is a CIA operative who has just been assigned to take them all down.
After her daughter's death, divorced Miyabi works as a call girl. One day, she meets a weird customer who wants to take a picture of her spine. Then, at another assignation, her feet. She soon realises that every time she allows her body to be photographed, her daughter's spirit gets closer. Soon only her eyes remain to be captured, leading to the collapse of society in this bold, visionary and unique fantasy.
In one of the United States busiest cities, crime is always right around the corner; but at Virtual Software Solutions, crime takes a whole other form. Joe Wilson, Virtual Software Solutions' lead virtual software engineer works hard and takes his job very seriously. So serious that when murders appear to be linked to the internal database he maintains, he stops at nothing without care to his reputation and credibility to find the killer and stop him.
A struggling author plagiarizes his deceased father's undiscovered last novel, unleashing the demons of his dad's past that he must overcome or be haunted by for the rest of his life.
After training as a junior perfumer in Paris, American Rosalie fails to secure a job in France, leaving her no option but to return home to the small town she was brought up in with her sister. With a small inheritance from her late grandmother, she decides to try to rent a store to sell her own perfume. The only space available is shared with the local furniture store, owned by the previously geeky kid from school, Jason, who has now blossomed into a handsome man.
Charly, a wealthy business woman, must decide whom she can trust when she falls for a sexy bodyguard who might be involved in a plot to assassinate her. Charly relies on seduction to get to the truth when her life is threatened more than once by a mysterious killer. Who could it be? What's their agenda? Will Charly find out before it's too late?