Five naive English children, thrown on their own in a French inn, find themselves surrounded by mysterious and violent activities.

Five nuns confront nature—physical and human—in a remote Himalayan convent in the bestselling novel that inspired the new FX miniseries.
 
Under the guidance of Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, five European Sisters of the Servants of Mary leave their monastery in Darjeeling, India, and make their way to remote Mopu in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. There, in...

Lise crosses the bridge from a consort to the brothel owner in Paris to that of the life of the French Dominican Sisters of Bethanie.

The Coromandel coast of southern India seems the ideal place for Mary and Blaise's honeymoon, but before long Mary begins to feel detached from her new husband and powerfully attracted to Krishnan, a local politician now in mortal danger.

In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta's poor, loves to watch these beautiful animals in action. Now, a new Thoroughbred, Dark Invader, has been shipped from England, rejected after a losing season, in which he didn't live up to his owner's expectations. A beautiful creature with rippling muscles and satin skin,...

The story of how two London slum children made a garden from a packet of cornflower seeds and how it changed the lives of rich and poor. "In Catford Street, London, there was not so much as a blade of grass, nothing that was not man-made; the poor streets of a big city hide earth and earth's power of growth under bricks, mortar, asphalt, and paving stones ... The story of how two of the Street children made a garden in these unpromising surroundings....

Poems about 25 animals, large and small, who consider their state of being in the present world.

"The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view." --