Jack Reacher is on the run as a fugitive after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. He must uncover a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. Along the way, he teams up with Major Susan Turner and together they fight against corrupt officials and assassins who are determined to stop them. With the truth at stake, Reacher must use his unique skills to survive and bring down the real culprits behind the conspiracy.
During World War II, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out over Nazi-occupied France. They must use their cunning and disguises to evade capture and find a way back to Britain.
In 1970s London, a disabled woman gets caught up in a crime involving an art expert, a thief, and an auction house. Along the way, she also finds romance. The story explores themes of disability, art, and love.
A story of Mike, just out of prison, and his buddies throwing a Christmas party under the most obscure circumstances is filled with juicy dialogue and plot twists that will definitely make your jaw drop – and have you chuckle for days after.
In 'The Kid from Borneo', a group of children find themselves in a series of hilarious situations when they mistake a towering circus performer for a wild tribesman from Borneo. Chaos ensues as they try to outwit the mistaken identity and deal with fast-paced comedic situations.
A young clerk is delegated to sort out the affairs of a certain property. It is an old castle belonging to the city with a garden, in which nobody is really interested, but the tenants of the property do not pay rent and taxes, do not work and do not send their children to school. Correcting this state of affairs will prove difficult, because it is a family of aristocratic spirits who have so far dealt with scares and witchcraft, but do not know the material concerns of ordinary mortals and cannot imagine such a revolution in their lives.
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
Al wants to elope with his girlfriend, but her dog Pete disrupts the plan.
Ned Elliott, a young clerk, is engaged to be married. His salary is not large enough to support a wife and he asks his employer for a "raise," which is refused. The same thing occurs several times, and with each refusal Ned postpones his marriage. In despair he concocts a scheme to make his employer give him the coveted "raise." He takes a bright young maid who works at his boarding house into his confidence. Knowing that Mr. Hadley, his employer, is a flirt, and that Mrs. Hadley is extremely jealous, Ned plans to have Mary, the maid, come to Hadley's office and declare herself his (Hadley's) wife. Ned arranges it so that Mrs. Hadley arrives on the scene at the same time. A series of most laughable incidents follow Mary's entrance in Hadley's office, ending with Ned getting his "raise." But the raise is such that, well, it would spoil the splendid finish of the story to tell it.
Luísa is forbidden to go out on the street by her mother after being harassed. At home, imagination is the limit.
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