Henry Carter Hull

The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her love for the mysterious white hunter.

A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections may be won through her beloved piano.

Benjamin Hood is reeling from drink, while his wife reads self-help books and loses patience with her husband's lies. Their son Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring girl, and Wendy Hood is roaming the neighborhood looking for something new.

Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...

Gideon Warner is a hugely successful public relations consultant, giving advice about hair, clothes, and social activities to the wealthy. Despite his success he has become disheartened about his business circles and more concerned over his family.

A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.

Depicts life in the house at Eaton Place, now inhabited by its new owners, Sir Hallam Holland, his wife lady Agnes, and his mother Maud. Focuses on the lives of the aristocratic family, who live upstairs, and their servants downstairs.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later.

Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.

Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.