Mario Van Peebles' story of ex-slave Jesse Lee who was conscripted into the Spanish American War in 1892 & who, along with his squadron of black conscripts, was ordered by Colonel Graham (Billy Zane) to ambush a supply column that happens to be laden with gold. However, Lee & his men realise that once they have stolen the gold Graham plans to kill them
- so they decide to keep the booty. But Graham catches up with them in New Orleans. The 'posse' flee to Lee's hometown, Freemanville, but even here the men cannot escape trouble as local strife rises to a head, & Graham is hot on their trail.
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The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country, & some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan realized, his fellow lawman Floyd Aragon had no intention of actually capturing the badmen. ...

Rayne couldn't wait to get away from everything: her mum, her boyfriend, the estate. But the solitude of Morton's Keep isn't all she thought it would be. It's eerie & more than a little creepy. When she meets St John, Rayne forgets her worries; he's like no one she's ever met. So why is everyone warning her away from him? ...

A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color violet. This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. ...

A novel that tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals & poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit & tragedy, & their quest becomes a battle against time. ...

When laid back American scholar Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) discovers a collection of love letters between two prominent Victorian poets, he recognises that he's on to a big literary find. Enlisting the help of sceptical British academic Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), the two embark on a journey to uncover the truth surrounding the poets' forbidden love. ...

Marc (Sam Neill) returns to his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) in Berlin after a long absence, only for her to inform him that she has taken a lover, Heinrick (Heinz Bennent). Anna has also allowed their home to fall into complete disarray, & Marc eventually makes a terrible discovery: his wife is in fact under the influence of a non-human creature which revels in chaos. ...