20th century

In the wake of the 1947 Partition of India, twin Hindu boys search for their mother in a crowded train station, a young girl flees the father who would poison her to protect her from infidels, and a Muslim doctor finds new roles as a healer.

In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.

Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and concerns of the Irish-Catholic Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast from Ireland's 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.

Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.

A tale based on the life of novelist Pearl S. Buck follows her as she grows up in late-nineteenth-century China; befriends Willow, a Chinese peasant girl; and with Willow shares life's joys and sorrows, despite the Communist revolution.

In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles, " eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

A commentary on the life and works of journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe, author of "The Right Stuff, " discussing his use of irony, his themes, and his pranks, and considering the influences on Wolfe's writing, as well as his impact on other writers.

The story of a woman of royal birth, Jaya Singh, who must assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the premature death of her husband. She soon finds herself in the center of a political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake. Jaya is forced to realize her future as a leader of the Indian people.

Biography of Chinese escader Deng Xiaoping discussing his life and political career as well as how China was reformed in his lifetime.

Features the work of seven Soviet and seven American writers.