A thoughtful, accessible interpretation of the biblical story that treats one man’s catastrophic losses as a challenge to simplistic theodicies, rejecting the idea that suffering is divine punishment and instead emphasizing the limits of human understanding and the mystery of God; it follows his endurance and debates with well-meaning but wrongheaded friends, records his anguished protest before God, and draws practical lessons about preserving integrity, accepting uncertainty, and meeting suffering with compassion, solidarity, and moral courage rather than neat answers.

A rollicking medieval adventure that follows a man raised among brigands who rises to become a feared outlaw leader, then becomes entangled in high-stakes political intrigue, shifting loyalties, romance, and revenge as feudal conflicts and struggles for power in 13th-century England threaten to destroy him and those he loves.

A respectable bank clerk is arrested one morning without being told the charges and becomes trapped in an opaque, nightmarish legal system where baffling officials, evasive lawyers, and labyrinthine procedures turn his attempts at defense into a humiliating, futile scramble; as he navigates increasingly surreal hearings and encounters, uncertainty and a pervasive sense of guilt engulf him, and the inscrutable machinery of authority grinds toward a final, inevitable sentence.

A grittily realistic retelling of the Robin Hood legend narrated by the wandering minstrel Alan-a-Dale, following a skilled archer’s journey from village life to the brutality of the Crusades and back to England as the head of a band of outlaws. The story blends bloody combat, political intrigue and rough camaraderie as the group challenges Norman corruption and the scheming of Prince John, grounding familiar mythic figures in harsh social and historical detail. Themes of loyalty, justice and the making of a folk hero run throughout as personal survival and moral choice collide on the medieval road.

In Leningrad in 1968, Alexander Karpenko is, from an early age, clearly destined to lead his countrymen. After his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother flee and must choose at the docks between a container ship to America or to Great Britain. A coin toss decides his future. Spanning two continents and thirty years, the story follows his triumphs and defeats as an immigrant who ultimately faces the past he left behind in Russia.

A New York editor Maris Matherly-Reed receives a partial manuscript from an anonymous writer traced to a Georgia island and travels to meet him. She meets Parker Evans, a wheelchair-bound man who hides his past, and coaxes from him a tale about a boat trip that leaves only one person returning. Troubled by her attraction to Parker and doubts about her marriage, Maris returns home when new chapters suggest the tale is real and pursues a truth tied to a crime and vengeful man.

After actress Natalie Raines is found dying from a gunshot, police suspect her agent and soon to be ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. Two years later a criminal says Aldrich tried to hire him to kill Natalie, and assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace takes the case. She gives a seemingly well meaning neighbor a key to care for her dog, unaware of his violent past. The trial draws headlines and eerie sentiments haunt Emily after the jury decides Aldrich's fate, putting her transplanted heart and life at risk.

When three children discover a shallow grave in 1984, a California community is shaken. The victim is a young woman with her eyes and lips sealed, the third in two years, and the FBI identifies a serial killer called the See-No-Evil killer. Agent Tony Mendez focuses on Dr. Peter Crane, a respected volunteer and father of one of the children. Tommy's teacher, Anne Navarre, is asked to probe tangled connections between two families and a revelation of evil so deep no one may survive.

Marissa Fordham is dead. Her daughter is found at the crime scene, injured but alive. Sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez and child advocate Anne Leone begin to peel back layers of Marissa’s life, and the shocking truth they uncover puts them directly in the sights of a killer desperate to protect a stunning secret. Marissa Fordham never existed.

Four years after her sixteen-year-old daughter disappeared, Lauren Lawton is the only one still chasing the ghosts of their Santa Barbara life. She believes she knows who took her daughter but has no evidence. Her husband killed himself and the suspect still stalks the family. They move to Oak Knoll, but the suspect turns up there as Leah nears sixteen. Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and his team begin to close in on an increasingly disturbing case that poses a stunning question.

En el texto, un ateniense acusado de corromper a la juventud y de impiedad se defiende ante el tribunal mediante un discurso en el que explica su método de cuestionamiento, desmonta las acusaciones formales y populares, reivindica la búsqueda de la verdad y la obediencia a una voz interior que lo guía, y argumenta que su vida dedicada a examinar a los demás beneficia a la ciudad; frente a la posibilidad de la muerte mantiene la calma, rechaza el temor infundado y propone alternativas más nobles que la sumisión al error, aceptando finalmente la sentencia con tranquilidad moral y dejando una reflexión sobre la naturaleza de la justicia y el deber cívico.

Elizabeth Lange arrives at a spa in Pebble Beach, California, still grieving her sister Leila, who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse. Dashing millionaire Ted Winters stands accused of murder, but Elizabeth doubts his guilt and sets out to uncover the truth. Along the windswept cliffs of the Monterey coast and among luxurious bungalows, uneasiness stalks her as glimpses of Leila's life and of Elizabeth herself begin to surface. An ominous threat from an unexpected source builds around her.