Left motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle has been put under enormous pressure to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. When he fights back, he's singled out for punishment, assigned to an after-school work detail under the supervision of a reserved groundskeeper, Abel. Much to his surprise, Seth discovers that Abel may be the only one who truly understands...

The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.

Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore, embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.

A priest is appointed to investigate miracles attributed to a woman in New York. The probe leads Father Frank Shore to the woman's daughter, abandoned when the mother entered a convent, and the two have an affair.

Eleven-year-old Cyril is living in a group home and refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach his father, either by the phone or on his bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, a stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on with his life.

Walter has had a hard life for a 13-year old. His no good floozy of a mother tends to get together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops Walter off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. In their youth, they would disappear for quite a while. The two are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the...

Tarzan goes to India: Summoned to India by a dying maharajah, Tarzan attempts to remove an elephant herd from a valley to be flooded upon completion of a modern dam. Tarzan's three challenges: The spiritual leader of an Asian country is dying. The leader's evil brother is plotting to prevent the youthful heir from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect him and he must face three tests of skill, wisdom, and strength. Tarzan...

The perfect furlough: A scheming corporal with a personnel file that reads like a stag movie rigs a raffle and wins a trip to Paris with a beautiful movie star. The great impostor: The incredible but true story tells of how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian Navy, while outrunning the FBI, the police, a priest, and...

To Edna Gladney, founder of the Texas Children's home and Aid Society, every abandoned child deserves the miracle of a loving home. Edna's devotion echoes today as she declares, "There are no illegitimate babies-- only illegitimate parents."