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In 1843, as Scotland's church splits and landlords clear the land, a poor minister takes a job removing the last inhabitant of a remote island north of Shetland, but an accident leaves him in the care of Ivar, the man he came to evict, though they share no language.
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John of John
In the late 1990s, John-Calum, a twenty-two-year-old art school graduate, comes home to the family croft on the Isle of Harris when his father, a weaver and a deacon in a strict Presbyterian church, summons him with news that his grandmother is dying, though she seems in no hurry to go.
Silas Marner
A solitary weaver in rural England loses his gold, adopts a foundling child, and discovers that human connection is worth more than anything he hoarded.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In a remote county of nineteenth-century China, seven-year-old Lily is matched with Snow Flower as a laotong, an 'old same' for life, and the two girls write to each other in nu shu, a secret women's script, on a silk fan as foot-binding, marriage and upheaval shape their lives.
Embers
Two old friends meet after 41 years to confront betrayal, love, and a night that ended everything.
Kokoro
A student in Meiji-era Tokyo befriends a withdrawn older man he calls Sensei, whose long final letter reveals the betrayal that hollowed out his life.
The Dearly Beloved
In 1963 two young ministers, Charles and James, are called to share the pulpit of the Third Presbyterian Church in Greenwich Village, and their wives, Lily, who has no faith, and Nan, a minister's daughter, have to find a way to live alongside each other.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker with a scarred face and a rigid routine begins to come out of herself after she and a scruffy IT guy help an old man who collapses in the street.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield, a poor country girl in Victorian Wessex, is sent to claim kinship with a rich family and is wronged by its son, and the world goes on punishing her for it.
Knulp
Three episodes in the life of Knulp, a charming vagabond who drifts from town to town in the German countryside, welcome everywhere and settled nowhere.
The Summer Book
A six-year-old girl and her elderly grandmother spend a summer exploring a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, in vignettes about grief and companionship.
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Esme, a motherless girl, grows up under the sorting table of the Scriptorium in Oxford, where her father and other lexicographers are compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, and starts to keep the words they throw away.