Friends since the age of thirteen, Jonathan and Bobby live troubled lives that eventually take them to New York, where they meet the romantically troubled Clare, and the three embark on a new life together.

In 1849, on the remote French island of Saint-Pierre off the coast of Newfoundland, an illiterate fisherman commits a drunken, senseless murder and is sentenced to the guillotine. But since the island has no guillotine, the governor must send for one--a process that will take years. Meanwhile, the fisherman is imprisoned in the island fortress; the wife of the garrison commander takes pity on the condemned man, and sets out to rehabilitate him.

Instantly smitten after a chance meeting with a beautiful Turkish girl passing through Hamburg, Daniel, a shy student teacher, undertakes the first spontaneous act of his life -- he hits the road to Istanbul searching for her.

A nineteenth century French aristocrat travels through St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum and comes face to face with various people from Russian and European history.

Black sheep April Bures endeavors to make Thanksgiving dinner for her conservative family, inviting them to her tiny New York City apartment in order to spend some time with her dying mother.

A jet jockey, a science nerd, the U.S. president, and other diverse survivors of a massive attack on earth join forces to defeat the aliens before they can achieve total victory.

In 1964, four young women are banished to the Magdalene Sisterhood convent for sexual behavior, where they are abused and overworked doing laundry.

An adventuresome archaeologist sets out to find the famous Ankara Stone and thus save hundreds of children who've been enslaved by a mysterious Indian cult.

An Israeli businessman is recruited by the secret service and assumes a new identity which allows him access to Syrian governmental secrets.

Princess Yuki escapes the clutches of an enemy clan. She hides in a secret mountain fortress with her loyal retainers, her faithful military commandant, and her clan's precious gold. They try to escape but on their way it's one chase, swordfight, and hairbreath escape after another.