18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free…

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of…

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who’s been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not…

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious…

A mismatched couple’s marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy’s…

Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O’Malley’s worldly…

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a…

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny’s husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track…