In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil s...
Fernanda likes to play football with the boys. But for this tomboyish, the apogee of his intimacy wi...
This short story is a prequel to our favorite friendship unit, Apple. Follow her in her adventure fr...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from t...
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abus...
A young mother works at a memory-recreation facility. When a client pushes her to break the rules, s...
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thou...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...
After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. Th...
When Mostafa arrives to Ukraine, he witnesses the kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist. Eventually he...
Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now...
In a temper, Meg, a cynical, overworked TV executive, rants about how the movies she produces lie, m...