When a spoiled rich boy (Freddie Bartholomew) falls off an ocean liner, he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman (Spencer Tracy). Forced to live with the simple fisher folk for a while, the boy learns about life. Spencer Tracy won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in this classic family drama. ...

Zara & her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people becomes weaker. It's made him vulnerable. & now there's a new king in town. A turf war is imminent. ...

Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He & three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the crest of a hill. ...

Simon (Stanislav Merhar) lives in an expensive Paris apartment with his grandmother, his maid, & his girlfriend Ariane (Sylvie Testud). Fastidious & obsessive, he becomes convinced that Ariane is having an affair with her friend Andrée (Olivia Bonamy) & questions her about it insistently. But, despite his encouraging her to visit Andrée, Ariane soon feels that Simon's obsessive nature is turning her into his prisoner. ...

Features a critical set of essays that advances the argument of centrality of gender to nationalism by locating it in the context of the ethnic or communal policisation of a society that predisposes it towards violence; & finally in the juxtaposition of nationalism & freedom itself. ...