The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most recalcitrant puritans, was a vilified genius, considered a threat, accused of being a sexist, of consciously pursuing the destruction of every civic principle; but he was also someone venerated as a saint, as a sex guru; and today as one of the most important characters of the twentieth century.
To escape her abusive spouse, Sarah fakes her own death and flees. Seems like a good plan, right? Sadly, it doesn't take her estranged husband long to get wise and hunt her down. This game between them will turn deadly and it looks like only one will survive.
Paige’s mom wants her to follow in her footsteps – she owns a big conglomerate company but Paige just wants to be a writer. When Joan makes it clear she wants to sell Atlas Publishing because of their lack of clients and subsequent income, Paige sees it as an opportunity to give it one last go, except this time she’ll write under a pseudonym, so no one – not even Atlas Publishing’s last hope Daniel – will know that it’s her family who poses the threat in the first place.
Type A personality, Sophie outgrows her job at a small mediation company, and secures a job at the famous Lower Manhattan mediation and wellness firm, Floating Lotus. Always up for a challenge, Sophie dives headfirst into her role as Associate Mediator. She finds herself at loggerheads with the companies chief Life Coach and lothario, Jason Sharpe who is the son of the firm’s President. Jason’s a loveable rouge, who charms his way into people’s hearts. The two are forced to work together.
When competing candy company representatives, accidently mix their candies the night before the competition, a new and even better tasting winning candy is created. The owners of the company find out but only one rep gets fired. When the owners try unsuccessfully to recreate the winning candy, they quickly find they have to rehire the old employee to help recreate the winning candy.
When single mom Alice finds herself up for partner at her firm, there's just one obstacle - the annual partners 'family' retreat. Alice hires her sister's manny, Jacob, to help look after her 9-year-old daughter while they're away.
Lauren supported her husband Peter get his career going. This means her dream of opening an art gallery has been put on the back burner. Soon, she becomes so resentful that it tears their marriage apart.
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy.
When an after party goes wrong, new friends Sadie and Jessica must hide a dead body. Jessica has a dirty secret to hold over Sadie. The police piece together clues that lead to Sadie, putting people in Sadie's life in danger.
Romance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to reconnect, Taylor and Zach explore new and past relationships through an app that boasts old-fashioned human connection by way of the classified ad. Zach is given a chance to heal old wounds while Taylor matches with a woman that changes the way she's always thought about love.
High school classmates, who once dubbed themselves the “cursed class,” reconnect at Christmas for their 15-year reunion. Over the course of their time reconnecting, the classmates challenge each other to remember who they were, who they are, and who they want to be.
After a messy divorce, Alex Wilson isn't interested in the advances of her colleague, Michael. But when Michael's interest takes a morbid turn and someone ends up dead, Alex becomes trapped in a supernatural struggle to save her son from a scorned (and deceased) suitor.
Days before Valentine's day and their wedding, Cindy Hunter, editor-in-chief of a tabloid and Damon Tuckland, a successful therapist encounter a strange plant that magically puts Cindy's mind in Damon's body and vice versa. Now the couple really finds out how the other half lives. In a series of comic mishaps at work, with relatives and at home, Cindy and Damon must become better people and figure out a way to reverse the "awkward" situation before their wedding or face a lifetime as each other. It's the ultimate body-swapping comedy with a heart that gives a brand-new meaning to the term "The Opposite Sex".
At age 82, Mitch Albom's former rabbi Albert Lewis wants the famous Detroit sportswriter to give his eulogy when the time comes. Albom makes a visit to his former home town in New Jersey, where Rabbi Lewis has served a congregation for about 50 years. Albom doesn't feel worthy, especially since he is no longer a practicing Jew and, in fact, he has married a Christian (who apparently isn't active either). Nevertheless, Rabbi Lewis says he is the one to do the job, and over the next eight years, Albom makes several visits back home and even attends some Sabbath services, where the good rabbi is determined to continue working and inspiring his flock even as his health declines.
Follows Tara Thompson whose presenting career starts to stall, and agrees to go on a TV show to marry her 'perfect match', Joe, a man she's never met. But she secretly tries to track him down to clarify that the marriage is just for show.
A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?