A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.

Mixed-race childhood friends reunite in middle class adulthood and become increasingly involved in each other�s lives and insecurities. While Irene identifies as African-American and is married to a Black doctor, Clare �passes� as white and has married a prejudiced, wealthy white man.

Sophia, a single girl in the city with a demanding boss, and a single mother of two in the Midwest, decided to switch places for Christmas in an effort to get away from their problems for a little while.

follows two upper-middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration displacement and ennui in contemporary Australia.

Alex is a high school student who always feels like he is overshadowed by his little brother Stevie; he can�t get the girl of his dreams; he and his two best friends, Abby and James, are outsiders at school; and he is constantly benched on his football team. Then Stevie receives a lucky coin from a...

Story of a 1920s stunt flyer and the son he takes on the road with him.

In the early 20th century, a woman named Medford runs away from her unsatisfying marriage to a rich man and the memories of their dead son to work as a speech teacher at a rural school for deaf and blind children. While the school�s Matron, Malvina Dodd, questions her approach, eventually breaks...

Five years later from where we left our characters, again tackling sisterhood and friendship, this time with the inclusion of a new romantic arc.

In 1972 Santa Cruz, Calif., police fear multiple serial killers are operating at the same time, as human remains wash upon the shores of the seaside community; victims include children, students, pedestrians and hitchhikers. The story and reality of Edmund Kemper, the �Co-Ed Killer� who appears to...

On September 13, 1971 the State of New York shot and killed 39 of its own citizens, injured hundreds more, and tortured the survivors. The plan to retake D Yard led to one of the bloodiest days in American history, and set the stage for the worst aspects of modern policing. Radical lawyer Elizabeth...

Shanghai�s complex association with Jewish immigrants, focusing on its welcoming of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II.