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Dame Daphne Sheldrick, the leading animal conservationist in Kenya, devotes her life to preventing elephant extinction by endeavoring to save baby elephants left orphaned by war, poaching and culling.

Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.

Lisa Stern, a lawyer, takes on the insurance giant Generali for stiffing Holocaust survivors. The results is a $5.2 billion fund which German companies establish to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors.

Katy Swartz moves with her mother to small-town West Virginia, resigning herself to thick accents and a boring life. She is hopeful after meeting her neighbors who are a shot of life, and the brother and sister tandem becomes even more interesting when it turns out they are aliens. When she falls for the brother and he touches her, it marks her as a homing device for an army of extraterrestrial bad guys.

Having lost the love of his life, a 75-year old man agrees to trade his old carcass for a younger, genetically-enhanced body so that he can join a military coalition sent to protect human colonies in outer space. Injured in battle, he's rescued by a woman who appears to be a younger version of his wife, and while she doesn't recognize him, he decides to abandon his unit and risk everything to be with her.

Centers on a 32-year-old English teacher who tutors a 16-year-old boy at his family's Maldives summer home. En route to join his family, their seaplane crash-lands, stranding the two on an uninhabited island where they develop a strong relationship that's tested years later when they're rescued.

A man wins his girlfriend’s heart by trading up from a red paper clip in hopes of getting a house for them to live in. Through a series of trades, he gets the home and the happy ending.

The story centers on a civilian who wins the chance to join a space shuttle flight, only to find himself alone and adrift in space when the rest of the crew dies.

A 17-year-old and 91-year-old discover the parallels in their lives as outsiders, exposing a secret which has haunted the older woman her entire life.

Set in New England and London, a pair of feuding families find their lives, race and sexual politics increasingly intertwined.

Modern version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" centering on London's organized crime underworld.

A man finds himself employed by two very different bosses, one of whom is a notorious gangster.

A single mom has two kids: one being bullied and the other a math whiz. When the latter is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity on the other side of the country, the mom procures the help of her obnoxious tech millionaire employer and everyone, including the dog, sets out on a road trip that changes their lives.

A multi-narrative romance that tells a universal story through various forms of love letters.

A first-time mother is so plagued by unexplained phenomena that she doubts her own sanity. When she returns to her Tennessee home, she fixates on the legend of the Bell Witch and becomes convinced the evil spirit is intent on harming her son.

A young legal clerk, on the defense team of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, determines to expose the truth and leads to a bigger conspiracy that nearly destroys the clerk.

Oliver Sipple, a former Marine and Vietnam veteran, saves the life of President Gerald Ford when he deflects the weapon of the would be assassin. But he finds himself in the crosshairs of a media firestorm when news of his sexual orientation leaks to the press. Sipple dies in 1989 at age 47 after being treated for schizophrenia, alcoholism and several other health problems.