In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africa's rural Free States, were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail. In the end, the state withdrew the charges, but the accused women's lives, already complicated, became...

The incredible untold story of pop icon Madonna's struggling pre-fame years in New York City with her musician boyfriend, Dan Gilroy, and their first band Breakfast Club.

In October 2023, Madonna kicked off The Celebration Tour, a 78-date concert series celebrating four decades of her time as a musical, sartorial and social force. Since she burst on the scene in the early ’80s singing radio-friendly dance tracks like “Everybody” and “Lucky Star” while showing off instantly iconic pieces (including midriff-baring tops, rubber bracelets and lace gloves) in her videos, Madonna has set trends, influencing

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Yitzakh and Naomi, brother and sister, escaped the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. The two Jews were drawn to what their father repeatedly called their homeland, Palestine. As they stepped upon the shore of their new home, two strong but different forces ensnared them. Naomi fell in love with a quiet Arab introduced as Anwar. Yitzakh felt the land absorb him and consume his soul. A longed-for peace seduced the two but soon vanished as World War II engulfed...

A horrifying encounter drags soon-to-be-married Maria Landro into the shocking world of religious corruption and an unrelenting village code of honor that threatens to rob her of everything she holds dear. Shunned by the very people who should have embraced her, she withdraws into the confines of Bella Terra, her family's farm, and remains there for several years... until she is forced to leave to ensure the formal education of her son. In a desperate...

This murder mystery is set in the Parisian cathedral. Fifty thousand believers and photo-hungry tourists jam into Notre Dame Cathedral on August 15 to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. The next morning, a stunningly beautiful young woman clothed all in white kneels at prayer in a cathedral side chapel. But when an American tourist accidentally bumps against her, her body collapses. She has been murdered. The autopsy reveals disturbing details....

The strange book of Enoch, the potion of Circe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare all herald the return of an ancient evil, and Father Sam Stone, an Anglican priest and recovering alcoholic, finds himself called in to investigate a supposed case of reincarnation, but finds himself confronting an evil being from the depths of time. He must turn private detective in order to save a young girls sanity and discover the nature of the supernatural threat.

"Billy Boyle, US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy. It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue...

"There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif . . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth... Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace--a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario...