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As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter’s artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant. Anna’s gynecologist boyfriend, Kevin, considers the time just not right to have children, so Anna moves to a 100-year-old house in Bareneed, an abandoned cove in Newfoundland, where she takes comfort in renovating the interior of her new home and working on a series of paintings detailing roses. Paralleling Anna’s own journey is a minutely detailed, day-by-day development of the embryo.

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Evans is the privileged and naive only child of prominent New Englanders, part of a group of Planters who settled in Nova Scotia following the deportation of the Acadian people. As a teenager, she is leading a carefree life in the Annapolis Valley, tending to her cows on the family farm, daydreaming by the brook, and resisting her mother's attempts to refine her manners and marry her off. She thinks nothing will ever change.

In a support group for bereaved parents, Shayla, Lyle, Linee, and Jed each fight their personal demons in the search for life after the death of one's child. Set in the vast and remote landscape of Whitehorse, Yukon, playwright Celia McBride plunges into these characters' painful struggle to find a voice for their grief.

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade. With everything in place, the town hopes the parade can sweeten the hearts of potential investors who are considering Big Oak for a new amusement park, which could bring tourists and an end to the town's financial distress. So who else should ride in the show but Ned Durango, beloved idol and star cowboy. Well, to some at least. Norm Foster and Leslie Arden deliver a comedic yet touching musical of big dreams and new beginnings.

Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal blogger in early recovery from alcoholism; and Sara, an 11-year-old girl with a flock of elite show poultry. When Prudence is felled by a thyroid condition, things on the farm begin to fall apart, resulting in valiant and sometimes ill-advised attempts to restore domestic bliss.

The horses that graze on the verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best.

Astrid Bjorklund believes God might use her medical training on a faraway mission field. But when an emergency calls her home, she's confronted with a measles outbreak on a nearby Indian reservation.

A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback. An inspiring memoir from Florence Corrigan, who spent her childhood in bough shelters and makeshift camps, looking after her younger siblings, while her parents eked out a living; prospecting, fencing and dogging in the hard north-west. Education, shoes and fresh fruit and vegetables were ‘fancy'things the family couldn't afford. Opportunities to carve out a life beyond basic survival were scant, but this didn't stop Flo.

Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice - to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their stone-age weapons against guns. When George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor's Mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader - George's nemesis and a man capable of great brutality, a man who will never let Eloise or their son leave him alive...