Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...

30 days, the intelligent and innovative TV show that dares you to take a walk in someone else's shoes. Explore some of America's most pressing social issues by following the lives of ordinary people who agree to live well-outside their comfort zones for 30 days: Spurlock and his fiancée try to make ends meet by working minimum-wage jobs, a devout Christian immerses himself in Islamic culture, a homophobic young man goes to live and work in San Francisco's...

Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, despite his declining physical fitness and a shattered knee. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach...

At this moment, there are more than 6 billion people on the planet! It’s hard to picture so many people at one time-but what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people? In this village: 22 People speak a Chinese dialect, 20 earn less than a dollar a day, 17 cannot read or write, 60 are always hungry, 24 have televisions in their home. If the World Were a Village tells us who we are, where we live, how fast we are growing, what...

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Nora, a shy fourteen-year-old with a troubled mother and boy-crazy older sister, must face the many tribulations of adolescence on her own. During one memorable but blistering hot summer, she gets her period for the first time, falls in love with another girl, has her heart broken, and, inevitably, learns to stand up for herself. Shot with a deep understanding of teenage desires, COCOON is a "seductive and well-acted"(The Guardian) sun-soaked tale...

"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a...