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In a future, humans launch a project called Ship to carry Earth DNA into space to find a new planet on which to settle. During its flight, a group of newly grown teenagers born without traditional parents are provided a simulated Earth environment, Hollow, to test their ability to survive. As some of the kids splinter off, tensions grow between the groups and major revelations ensue as fighting erupts.
A 35-year-old man’s life unravels when he begins a relationship with the 18-year-old daughter of a former high school classmate.
Young men and women struggle to master the cutting-edge techniques, grueling hours, furious creativity, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at a celebrated restaurant. The small army of stagiaires—apprentice chefs—labor at the precise, exhausting work of executing the chef's astonishing vision.
The story centers on Seymour Herson, a boy who is regularly picked on at his private school.
The world’s most secure prison for young offenders is buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit and sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world.
Described as a grounded superhero story in the vein of Chronicle meets Highlander.
At night, academics and other white collar types in Europe are urban explorers and infiltrate skyscrapers still under construction, metro stations no longer in use, abandoned bomb shelters, and other off-limit sites. Their actions have made them wanted by the authorities.
A single woman travels along an iconic California beach.
Set in 1930, the ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life suddenly turns exhilarating--and dangerous--for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld.
In the early 1960s, Helen Gurley writes the blockbuster book "Sex and the Single Girl" and then takes the top job at floundering magazine Cosmo. She remakes the magazine and turns it into a cultural powerhouse.
The story of an ordinary family coming to grips with extraordinary pain.
A successful businesswoman is inexplicably drawn to a doctor, unwittingly mirroring a doomed romance from a century ago.
A man learns how to stay alive and protect his loved ones by traveling through the U.S. and acquiring the tools to survive a major catastrophe as well as by taking a class called "Urban Escape and Evasion."
Huguette Clark is the youngest daughter of W.A. Clark, who was born in a log cabin but becomes a powerful mining and banking magnate after discovering copper in Montana following the Civil War. He rises to such wealth and prominence that he helps to found Las Vegas. Huguette is born in Paris and lives a very interesting life. She grows up in the largest house in New York City — a mansion of 121 rooms for a family of four. She owns paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls and beautifully crafted dollhouses. Huguette lives out the last two decades of her life in the Beth Israel Hospital, dishing out $400,000 per year to live there but is never in the VIP section. She is a generous woman who appreciates art and the simple acts of giving. Huguette is often taken advantage of because of her kindness. She dies in 2011 at 104, leaving behind an over $310 million fortune.
Colombian senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is held hostage by terrorists (FARC) for over six years in the South American jungle.