Christopher Tietjens is torn between his unfaithful wife and his young suffragette mistress. When he leaves to fight in World War I he knows that the battlefield can only mirror what is going on at home. When he returns he must make a choice between the two women that will forever change his life.
Antonio is six when Ultima comes to New Mexico to stay with his family. It is Ultima who introduces him to herbs and magic and a spirituality outside the strict bonds of Catholicism. Ultima brought him into the world and it is she that will nurture the birth of his soul.
Lena Duchannes has a secret and a curse that have haunted her family for generations. Ethan Wate is haunted by his dreams of a girl he has never met. When the two of them are drawn together and they discover their connection their tiny Southern town that never has surprises just might have at least one.
R is a zombie. He shuffles around doing the zombie thing: grunting, hungering after flesh, and...dreaming? That is what sets R apart. He still has thoughts and dreams. While devouring a teenage boy's brain, he experiences the boy's memories and makes an unexpected choice to form a friendship with the boy's girlfriend, Julie. R's decision to protect Julie changes R's world and may be the key to saving the world.
Ernst Hess, missing and presumed dead, regains consciousness to find himself stuck in a hospital bed on a strange ward in a foreign country. He must do what he needs to do to get his life back and to finish the job he has been doing for decades. Harry believes he has already stopped Hess. When he finds out that the war criminal has somehow survived, Harry must kill Hess again --- even if it means putting his life and the lives of those that matter to him on the line.
Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town that has been rocked by decades of painful transition. With a revolving cast of characters, these stories explore how our roots --- the families and places in which we are raised --- shape the people we eventually become.
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August's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "The Shards" on FX and FX on Hulu and "Anna Pigeon" on USA Network; the season premieres of Prime Video's "Reacher," Apple TV's "Dark Matter," and Netflix's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"; the films The Whisper Man, The Dog Stars and Tony; the series finale of "Lucky" on Apple TV; the season finale of HBO's "House of the Dragon"; the continuation of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" on AMC and "Silo" on Apple TV; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Project Hail Mary and The Get Out.