Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
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Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly...
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three y...
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...
The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one...
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses so...
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi...
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shu...
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from t...
When a close encounter with an eighty-foot spruce steals Merry Manning's dreams of Olympic gold, the...
A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celeb...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
Shaw Landon has loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-tempered rebel...
Bihter, who is desperate for love, sees Adnan, a wealthy and respected older guy, as a way out of th...
Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping lands...
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...