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Until his son was kidnapped and murdered, George Gates was a globe-trotting travel writer. Now he writes boring articles by day and broods at night.

Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.

Twelve-year-old Seth, the son of a game warden, tries to save an orphaned moose calf from poachers.

The shooting of a man at a historic government peace accord prompts negotiator Maggie Costello to investigate a series of deaths at West Bank Jewish settlements and Palestinian refugee camps.

Presents a horrifying and compelling glimpse into the mind of a psychotic genius.

A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.

After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a res

Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark

Actress, producer, and acclaimed writer Annabelle Gurwitch--once fired from a play by Woody Allen--can find humor in any situation.

Presents a Vietnam war story that probes the long-term effects of combat on two veterans.

October Brown, an African-American teacher at a private school in Kansas, becomes pregnant by the father of a student and returns home to Ohio, where she and her sister were raised by their aunts a

At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet.

Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.