In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.

In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former slave who calls himself Cicero. But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.

In 1985, film school graduate Will Allen joined a loving, spiritual community, called the Buddha Field, in West Hollywood, which centered on the mysterious leader they called Michel. Allen became quickly immersed and with his camera in hand began to document life inside the group.

Ted hopes that farm-sitting for Cousin Ginny will be a chance for rest and relaxation, but when George accidentally lets all her farm animals out, Ted is talked into going on a 'round up' with George and wannabe-cowboy Emmett.

A French woman finds liberation in the dusty highways, wide open spaces, and smoky barrooms of the great American West. Romy, a Parisian who, while on vacation in California, breaks things off once and for all with her boorish husband in a dramatic final fight. Now a free woman in a strange land, Romy embarks on a life-changing trip through the desert, crossing paths with strangers who impact her life in various ways.