"A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic"--Container.

This summer growing up is optional. Leigh is almost 30 and living a seemingly perfect life in New York. But when her career and love life both come crashing down, she flees to her suburban hometown and regresses right back into teenage behavior. She moves in with her parents, hangs around with friends who never left town, and reclaims her high school job as a condo-complex lifeguard. But as Leigh enjoys shirking off adult life and responsibilities...

Shows the conflicts between three generations of the Thayers. The crotchety old professor and his wife spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's son, while the daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.

Presents the three-generation saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son. From the beginnings of his father's journey from Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion of the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live the American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished for Paco Sanchez and his family.

The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and...

With hardworking mice living belowground, fearful of the aboveground-dwelling bears, and unlikely friendship develops between a songwriting bear, Ernest, and a dreamer of a young mouse named Celestine.

A visit from her grandchildren and the discovery of a half-American relative cause an elderly woman to relive her memories of the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki.

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

Young Amanda discovers that an elderly couple, John and Bridget have an enchanted and mysterious relationship with the sea.

A senior citizen and a young African American, both from opposite ends of life, are forced to spend their summer together, and find they have much to share.