"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...

Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire.

When four young Sudanese refugees arrive in Kansas, they meet an employment agency counselor who has the ability to change their lives.

When a massive ice shelf collapses trapping the penguin community, Mumble and Erik enlist friends in an attempt to rescue them.

In a secret government laboratory, a mute custodian befriends an amphibian human-like creature.

After writing a brief which holds the solution to the murders of two Supreme Court justices, a young law student is soon running for her life.

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident kills one of their crew and leaves them adrift in space.

Follows Jacqueline Kennedy while she was the First Lady of the United States, and following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

A master thief is approached by a beautiful young insurance investigator about pulling off the perfect heist.

"An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation."--Provided by the publisher.