"Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad. In their absence, Mary is sent to stay under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite Manor that she meets two young boys--a servant named Dickon and her cousin Colin, who lives locked away in the manor due to a disability that leaves him bound in a wheelchair. The trio discover a secret garden hidden in the manor grounds and work...

Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1910-1919. Includes information about William Howard Taft; the political comeback of Teddy Roosevelt; the "Bull Moose" party; enactment of child labor laws; the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand that started World War I; the sinking of the Lusitania in which 1198 died; the submarine battles of World War I; U.S. participation...

Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...

Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.

A sixteen-year-old, raised by her father in the wilds of Finland to be the perfect assassin, is dispatched on a mission across Europe and learns more about her existence as she is tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent.

Dr. Blackgaard shows he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Evil Dr. Regis Blackgaard is desperate to gain ownership of a building not far from Whit's End. To get it, he and his henchmen will resort to corruption and blackmail. Why is that building so important to him? Meanwhile, Connie longs to make things right with Whit. Can she convince him she has learned her lesson and deserves to be trusted again? Then Blackgaard and his pawns go even...