Growing up in Paris and Combray, the narrator recalls a maternal good-night kiss as well as his early love for Gilberte which later gives rise to his love for Odette and the newly rich Verdurins.
Recounts the true story of Captain Salvador Alvarenga's fourteen month survival saga after his boat was lost at sea in a terrible storm. From the constant shark attacks and the death of his companion four months into his ordeal to his rescue by natives on a remote island in the Pacific, details one man's battle to survive under unthinkable circumstances.
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
Presents the classic story by nineteenth-century English author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell that reflects of lives of a group of spinsters and widows as they struggle to maintain their middle-class standards within an ever-changing society.
In a fishing village that is becoming poorer by the day, Jim rescues a dolphin stranded on the beach, which turns out to be good news for the dolphin and the village.
When Halid, a young Muslim war hero, returns home from the Bosnia War, he wants nothing more than to reconnect with the friends of his youth, but he soon realizes that the war, and the government, has torn his former life away from him.
