Julie Harris

Marie Corelli was a best-selling author whose 30 books were published from 1886 until a year after her death in 1924. Many of these works are still available today.From an abandoned, illegitimate newborn to Queen Victoria's favorite author, this is the story of Minnie Mackay's transformation into Marie Corelli.A lonely child, a lonely woman.Beyond Laughter is a fictional account of Corelli's private life, based on what little fact is known.

Compassion doesn't feature as a reality in Ruth's life. Compassion is always something that other people have in their hearts and so to Ruth it remains one of life's unsolved mysteries. 'Just one act of kindness can alter your life', her hapless brother once said. But his words meant nothing to Ruth, for when one lives within a fortress of one's own creation, there can be no conqueror. Once she was happy. Once she even loved somebody and his name...

In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying.In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man's life. His story is one of despair...

Sometimes glimpsing the future can be deadly. US Navy SEAL Kelly Nolan, who commands a small special ops unit, is assigned duty to protect a Presidential candidate during a visit to England. So what has a woman from half the world away seen that makes them seek her out? Rebecca Miller is an especially gifted psychic. Two years ago she 'read' a US Senator's wife and although Elizabeth Glover's fears about her husband's death were real, Rebecca reassured...

"A love story that won't disappoint." Australia, 1867 With baby in arms, Anna follows her husband into their new beginning-a hot, dusty gold mining camp called Bitter Creek. Always dreaming of the hat shop she will have one day, Anna finds new friends in this no-man's land: a Chinese girl, an old American prospector whose son, Sam, often visits. There's a spark, but she is married and Sam's a wanted man with just cause to hate the district's sergeant. When...

West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...

Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore...

Gerrie and Arthur Mason discover that their daughter, Maxie, is a drug-addict. Guessing their son Artie is responsible, they turn him out. Maxie flees, into the arms of her drug addict partner, but her parents find them and forcibly bring her home. A bad trip now leads the young girl to hospital. Her parents hear with amazement that her dealer is an exemplary student, Sandy, their respectable neighbors' son...

Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).