An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur….

With nuclear war looming, a military expert in underwater acoustics strives to prove things aren’t as they seem—or sound—using only his ears.

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with…