"A troubled young orphan boy in Maine is taken in by a family and befriended by a lobsterman who shows him the ways of the world"--Container.

"Philip Marlowe is retained to recover a rare and valuable coin that turns out to be a medium of exchange for blackmail information and the key to the murderer of a cameraman."--Container.

A university chemistry instructor accidentally discovers a compound that causes baseballs to curve. He uses this knowledge to become a pitching phenomenon.

Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a banal one on a farm.

As part of his research for a book on suburban life, the self-described genius Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a babysitter for three hard-to-handle children.

A wealthy but disturbed woman of the 1920s marries her psychiatrist. As she becomes stronger, he becomes weaker and totally dependent on her emotionally and financially.

Three beautiful American women come to Madrid and fall in love.

After going to Europe to have a sex change operation, Myron Breckinridge is transformed into Myra, who claims to be Myron's widow.