Based on the true story of the sinking of the "Titanic", this is the story of young Barry O'Neill, who is one of the ship's passengers. Traveling by himself from Ireland to meet his parents in New York, Barry is worried about the Flynn brothers, who have threatened to throw him overboard Little does he know that he'll soon have a lot more than just the Flynns to worry about.

A man, Will Rabjohns, is mauled by a polar bear while photographing wildlife on the Canadian terrain. He falls into a dream-filled coma and remembers his childhood, marked by the death of his brother and his memorable conversations with an eerie couple that lived nearby. When he awakens, Will resolves to reunite with the pair, and seek answers to his questions about the connection between the Aids epidemic and the slaughter of wildlife.

Eleven-year-old Philippa (Pip) Mackenzie helps heal her mother's broken heart when her friendship with painter Matt Bowles brings new love into her widowed mom's life. However, Matt's relationship with Pip's mother, Ophélie, is complicated by the bitterness he still harbors over his divorce and Ophélie's discovery of a dark secret about her deceased husband.

This investigative report into one of the worst military disasters of the Vietnam War tells of the 1967 fire on the deck of the aircraft carrier the USS Forrestal. Freeman looks into the ship, its aircraft, the men--some of whom were inexperienced--and the accidents that caused fuel, bombs, and planes to ignite into an inferno that killed or wounded about 300 sailors.

Ian Bedloe is a 17-year-old who comes from a lower-middle-class background in Baltimore. He believes he caused the suicide of his brother Dan because of a conversation they had shortly before Dan's death. Dan's wife also dies soon after her husband, and Ian, feeling intense guilt, atones by caring for their three orphaned children. On the advice of a local minister, he quits college, becomes a carpenter, maintains his celibacy, and works his way toward expiation. His reward for such service is long in coming, and arrives in a wholly unexpected form.