Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.

In pre-WWI Brooklyn, young Francie struggles to keep her idealism alive in the face of grinding poverty, her father's alcoholism, and the comedies and tragedies of ordinary life.

The star of the television show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" discusses her life from an abuse-marked childhood to a tumultuous marriage, in a story that counsels survivors about how to overcome insecurity and escape abusive situations.

A joint biography of Charlotte, Emily, Branwell, and Anne Bronte, exploring how the siblings sparked creativity in each other and how their lives were woven into their novels.

Imagine learning about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen. This is a real-life story of Owen as told by his dad, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turning them into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood. His mom, dad and brother communicated with Owen in Disney dialogue and song until they all emerged together,...

Benny & Joon: A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton. An offbeat romantic comedy. Edward Scissorhands (Anniversary edition): A fairy tale about an inventor's greatest creation, a man with scissors for hands, who's taken in by a strange family in Suburbia and gives his new neighbors a lesson in what it truly means to be human. From hell: Inspector...