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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.

Focused on Onassis's antipathic relationship with Robert Kennedy. As attorney general, Bobby had investigated Aristotle Onassis’s sketchy international business practices and banned him from trading with the U.S. Their rivalry over control of and access to Jackie culminated in Onassis’s alleged financing of the assassination of the presidential hopeful.

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.

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.

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.

Set in modern day, an orphan boy moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a gang. Hardship, murders and secrets waiting to be revealed follow the boy.

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.

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.

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

Against the backdrop of the Cold War in 1959, Mary, an English rose married to a diplomat, begins an affair with a Chicago journalist.

Two thousand years in the future, 16-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin lives on the colonized moon and meets a girl from Earth who is drawn to him because of his the ability to see the future.

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

The "Rocky"-like story of Manuel Benitez, who rose from poverty to become Spain's most popular bullfighter.

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

Elliot Castro, a working-class teenager in Scotland, figures out how to use the credit card system to his advantage.

Drafted by the Dodgers and touted as a potential star, Glenn Burke gets off to a flying start when he becomes the only rookie to start in the 1977 World Series. While his adversity is nothing compared to what Jackie Robinson faced when he broke baseball's color barrier, Burke’s decision to come out of the closet hastens his demise. He is surprisingly traded to Oakland in 1978, but gets injured and retires in his second season there. Burke is diagnosed with AIDS in 1994 and dies a year later at age 42.

A group of unemployed software engineers plan a bank robbery that gets them in trouble with mobsters from Boston and Russia.