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Meggy Swann, a girl who walks with the aid of two sticks, arrives in Elizabethan London, along with her goose Louise, to stay with her father who really does not want her, and while he pursues his dream of transforming base metal into gold, Meggy undergoes a transformation herself.

A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army.

Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, defy Heavenly law and marry--leading to a confrontation with the Se?ptima Orden, rogue angels bent on keeping Beth and Xavier apart, destroying Gabriel and Ivy, and darkening angelic power in the heavens.

In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.

Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.