When her wages at the spinning mill are cut, Briar Rose buys a spindle from a peddler hoping it will help her earn more money to take care of her siblings.

An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.

Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.

"In her trademark spare, elegant prose, Ágota Kristóf explores the haunting world of exile and love. Tobias, the illegitimate son of a whore and the local schoolmaster, flees the pressures and judgments of his village to the soothing anonymity of life in the city and a job at a factory. But his carefully constructed world is shattered when Caroline, his childhood love, appears with her husband and young child. First translated into English in 1997,...

"For the attorneys at Cobb and Cobb, the pursuit of justice is about more than legal expertise; it's a family matter. David Cobb is not a typical lawyer--he's more interested in dispensing God's wisdom than pertinent legal advice. High-stakes litigation is way outside his comfort zone. For many years Zeke Caldwell has been concocting home remedies made from natural ingredients found in the coastal marshes near Wilmington, North Carolina. One of his...