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Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to...

Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee...

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union...

A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though,...

A young couple's marriage is on the brink of collapse when the wife discovers her husband's secret struggle with arousal. As they seek therapy, a...

The story of a family, told through their hands.

A mother's perception of reality is altered forever when her son decides to leave the family home.

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange,...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.