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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident -- which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster -- a 60-year-old human rights scholar -- hits the car of Evelyn Ortega -- a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala -- in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen...

Una conmovedora historia sobre las segundas oportunidades y el poder del amor. Ginny Carter fue una periodista famosa, una mujer realizada y la orgullosa madre de un niño de tres años. Hoy es la única superviviente de un accidente que le destrozó la vida y viaja a los lugares más peligrosos del planeta para ayudar a las víctimas de la guerra. El día que conoce a Blue Williams, un chico de trece años que vive en la calle, todo vuelve a cobrar...

Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid is being brutally abused by her employer. Tensions are high. Just miles away in Iraq, Saddam Hussein is threatening a second invasion of this tiny desert kingdom, which he destroyed six years before,...

Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.