Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by graduating from Harvard. But when mother becomes manic-depressive and repeatedly dumps her medication, Alex each time lands in foster care. At age 16, he gets legal emancipation and vows to take charge of their lives himself

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a ...

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and th...

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, th...

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North P...

Leigh runs the website "Bad Date Chronicles," which allows people to anonymously post horrible date ...

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...

Single mom Jenna Thompson only five weeks to deliver her next teen novel to her publisher. So, this ...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

After ten years of dating, Chloe’s boyfriend Eric still hasn’t matured. Hoping to give him the push ...

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argent...

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual de...

The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last ye...

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless g...

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

In the last days of their tumultuous relationship Julian and Lara are confronted with a life changin...