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Set in the 19th, Sarah Grimke is gifted with a 10-year-old slave girl, Hetty, for her 11th birthday. Sarah attempts to reject the gift, she ultimately cannot nor can she free Hetty or even protect her. Sarah and Hetty's lives remain intertwined as they grow up into women.
Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
Set in the New Mexico Territory in the 1850s, an Army officer and an Indian scout are sent by the U.S. President to lead a special ops team to assassinate the head of the Navajo nation.
Married in 1846, William and Ellen Craft flee slavery in 1848 when Ellen, the daughter of her slave master who because of her light complexion could pass, disguises herself as a man and poses as William's white slave owner.
In the wake of World War II, a young U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps officer, Jack Hunter, uncovers a dangerous Nazi conspiracy for a Fourth Reich. Artur Axmann is a Hitler confidante and the Nazi national leader of Hitler Youth. After conscripting kids to fight in the waning days of WWII, he is among those in the bunker when Hitler kills himself. After nearly being killed along with two others who escape the bunker, Axmann hunkers down with his plot. Hunter tracks down the men behind the conspiracy and alters the course of history forever. Axmann is eventually arrested when an Army counterintelligence operation sniffs out his plot to rekindle the Reich.
Adolph Hilter survives WWII and flees to Argentina and Paraguay, where he lives until his death in the 1970s.
Story details are under wraps. Said to be different than other Arabian Nights-related projects.
Set during WWII, 16-year-old Lina, her mother, and her younger brother are deported to a forced-labor camp in Siberia, where conditions are all too painfully similar to those of Nazi concentration camps. Lina's great hope is that somehow her father, who has already been arrested by the Soviet secret police, might find and rescue them. A gifted artist, she begins secretly creating pictures that can--she hopes--be surreptitiously sent to him in his own prison camp.
After slaying Goliath, David eventually becomes the King of Israel.
Rasputin, a Russian mystic, becomes an adviser to the Russian Imperial family the Romanovs. Embraced by Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra as a healer for their only son, who secretly suffers from hemophilia, Rasputin's influence with the family in all matters grows to the point that rivals try several times to kill him, finally succeeding in 1916.
Set in 1840s Europe, an art thief is on the run from an investigator determined to bring him to justice.
Longtime friends and political collaborators Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft become bitter opponents, culminating in the 1912 Presidential election in which both are defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson with Taft running as the Republican incumbent and Roosevelt campaigning as head of the Bull Moose party.
Set in 1918 during the final weeks in the lives of Russia's last tsar and tsarina, Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov, and their children, are imprisoned in Siberia, in a building known as the House of Special Purpose. There, the family is confined with a small staff of attendants, including Leonka, the kitchen boy.
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the motion picture camera as well the long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," the prolific inventor eventually holds more than 1,000 U.S. patents and introduces electricity to millions of Americans.
Said to be a period musical. Plot details are being kept tightly under wraps.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin attempts to exterminate the criminal underworld and fill the gulags with bandits and thugs of every stripe. Rather than weed them out, this effort unites them and creates a hierarchy that continues to this day, with soldiers wearing their rank in the form of tattoos bestowed by leaders from prison. One man, a leader of the Vor V Zakone, rises to become the very person his brethren swore never to serve: the Tsar himself.
Set during the final months of the Civil War, a 15-year-old boy attempts to prove his uncle's innocence and save him from a traitor’s fate. The teen and his best friend travel through the rugged Appalachian Mountains where they encounter nefarious characters and deadly circumstances to discover why the war is being fought and why it must to come to a rapid end.
A native of Portuguese Mozambique, Yasuke is taken captive and brought to 16th-century Japan as a slave to Jesuit missionaries. The first black man to set foot on Japanese soil, Yasuke’s arrival arouses the interest of Oda Nobunaga, a ruthless warlord seeking to unite the fractured country under his banner. Yasuke earns Nobunaga's friendship, respect — and ultimately, the honor, swords and title of samurai.