Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the mo...

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

Have you ever sat by the phone wondering why he said he would call, but didn't, or you can't figure ...

The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected ch...

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in ...

Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the...

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that the...

The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered ...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on ...

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab ...

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

Three Plebs join the army in peace-time, hoping to win respect, romance and military discounts at se...

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together...

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...

A wife reveals to her younger husband that she is having an affair.

A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - ...