A physician, Michael, who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets. Each year, three brothers visit their grandfather, Ben, for the summer. He is highly skilled in ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques.

A boy Caroline discovers an incredible and gruesome world of monsters under his bed. Orphaned at 9, prodigious introvert MIchael Joyner discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But, child stardom comes at a price. Ben and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be.

Caroline, a prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. Ben, a young boy, befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel.

A young Caroline in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.  The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member (Ben) kills a member of the other. Michael, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West) disappeared.

As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Michael, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace. When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Caroline to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. A Duke's son, Benjamin, leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

An urban mystery unfurls as one man Michael pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America. The CIA's most dangerous former operative  Ben is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past. Dr. Tyler, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Mischievous grandma Ben lands in jail, where she meets a variety of mixed-up characters. A group of vigilantes sets out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers. 

The story of Atlanta robbery boy and crack dealer, Ben, who stole a camera from some college kids in a dope deal and made a documentary about his life. A chronicle of Michael's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history. A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of Tyler is found in the trunk of a submerged car.