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- A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
- The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.
- In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
- In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.
- The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.
- A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
- An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.
- A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800's suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?
- During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
- A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
- A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.
- Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
- A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
- In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Amanda was raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern belle, but her mother was a black slave named Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda must face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
- A footman seduces a count's daughter.
- A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
- True story from the 19th century about an English actress who marries a US plantation owner. Appalled by slavery, she dedicates her life to oppose it and her husband and help her husband's slaves in any way possible, including escaping.
- Thomas Linthorne is a farmer, who, with his bride, Kate, settles a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866. Linthorne is a dynamic and driven man who eventually becomes a pillar of the close-knit community. But there are trials and tribulations that eventually plague his dreams of the perfect life he has tried to create for his family. Over the span of fifty years, the Linthorne family will weather more than their share of hardship that affects each of them in dramatic ways. The Linthorne saga, set against the daily rituals and chores of life on the land, reveals the determination, strength and indomitable spirit of the families who settled America.
- Jack tells two people, privately, on a blind date that each of them is hard of hearing and wacky hijinks ensue.
- A lonely young girl is sent to live with her cold-hearted aunt in the middle of nowhere, where she discovers some family secrets are better left buried - literally.
- The history of British fashion from the late-1890s to 1960.
- After Cora is found sleeping rough, Babe leads a protest to secure her housing from the council, which succeeds with Tamwar's aid. Claudette wants nothing to do with Vincent. Stacey fears a stalker. Linda tells Mick she can't marry him.