Fourteen-year-old John Grimes, the son of a revivalist preacher in Harlem, struggles to reconcile his desires and goals with the expectations of his African-American family and community, while his parents Gabriel and Elizabeth, deal with the sins and sorrows of the past.
In a future society where most of the women are infertile, Kate is a fertile woman forced to bear a child for a high-ranking military official and his wife.
Examines the landscapes, history, culture, ecosystems, economies, and other aspects of the geography of North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa.
A rare killer virus from the jungles of Africa has taken hold in a small California town. There is no cure for this quick and deadly disease, and some people believe that the only way to stop it is to destroy the town--and everyone in it.
Jeremiah Johnson, heads to the Rocky Mountains in the mid-1800s in search of solitude, but after nearly dying in his first winter, he is taken in by an elderly trapper who teaches him the skills he needs to survive.