Mama Nadi, the owner of a brothel set in Congo, is a mother figure who keeps watch over her business, serving men from both sides of the conflict, and employing women, "ruined" by rape or torture, who are forced to work as prostitutes.

After witnessing her mother's untimely death as a child and her brother's violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.

"Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday."--Container.

Lily produces a wedding reality show, but her success-driven world is flipped when her ex, Scott, is cast as groom-to-be. Lily must revisit her past if she's to find her own happily ever after.

"Sarah Obeng, a doctoral student at Columbia, is weeks away from following her married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving the Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah simultaneously navigates her plans to relocate and the return of her estranged father, all while...

Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.

Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.