At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...

"Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there's a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop--they were never meant to see the light of day. When...

Learn a variety of colors through things associated with Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of love, loss and hope comes to life in an all-new original musical featuring Colin Baker. When the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways. This inspirational new adaptation is brimming with holiday warmth and music.

The entire nation is glued to the television as people follow the dangerous efforts to rescue Ursula Maki, a two-year-old, part-Chinese, part-Finnish child who has fallen down an abandoned mineshaft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in a novel that chronicles a chain of ancestors, across two thousand years, whose lives culminate in one little girl.

Portrays the brutal effects of the poverty and loneliness of slum life.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior―such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce―no one, least...