A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love...
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman...
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of...
At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a f...
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising...
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mys...
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends...
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months...
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother...
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that...
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the no...
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
A bride-to-be is invited to her own fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details about th...