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A woman estranged from her son takes in a sick child after a family party.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
A boy shelters an injured wanderer while his Louisiana family faces losing the money for his schooling.
A shopkeeper spends his earnings on his sister's hopes of becoming an opera singer.
A wet and hungry prankster turns up at a lonely doctor's door during a storm.
Pélagie saves for decades to rebuild the plantation house lost in the war, while her sister lives beside its ruins.
Babette may visit her cousins when the figs ripen, and she watches the trees each day.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
A traveler with a broken buggy is mistaken for a soldier who never came home for Christmas.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
A banished young Sienese entrusts his sister to the rival who toppled their family.
An orphaned heiress's secret promise entangles her with two brothers divided by inheritance.
A feared Albanian bandit carries a child across the mountains, leaving a family to chase a terrifying rumor.
A despised prince secretly marries the peasant woman who restores his faith in the world.
A grieving traveler follows an unexplained beacon to an abandoned Welsh tower.
A poor steward's daughter marries the lord who saved her from a burning home.
Two young pilgrims seek shelter with a Swiss baron haunted by the daughter he drove away.
Two devoted sisters face the terrible cost of loving an outlaw.
When Bertie says he wants a house full of children, a stop at a girls’ school puts the idea to a test.
Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to impress a Cabinet minister just as her son decides to punish the man for catching him smoking.
Bertie has one job: get his troublesome cousins onto a ship. Both fall for the same woman and refuse to leave.
Across peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
Impoverished in Tang-dynasty Loyang, Tu Tzuchun is offered a second fortune by an enigmatic old man—but begins to want something different.
A retired spaceman dying at home waits to hear one final launch while his family struggles with what his life in space meant to them.
