Pines and Plains Libraries

For the past 40 years, Felix Bush has been a hermit, living alone on the outskirts of town. He's the stuff of legend--a frightening eccentric whose secluded home is where little boys test their courage by throwing rocks through the dangerous man's windows. When he hears an old friend has died, he makes a rare visit to town to meet with undertaker Frank Quinn to explain how he wants to "get low." He plans his burial plot, his stone, his farewell sendoff,...

Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.

A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.

A heartbroken husband has been abandoned by his wife with two boys to raise. His sympathetic colleague cares for her ailing father. A pregnant high school girl is thrown out of her house with nowhere to go. A couple of bachelors set in their ways face a life-altering challenge. Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven. With courage and tenacity, they redefine their lives, ease each...

Quiet and reserved, Amelie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the meantime.

Set over 24 hours in London, it is a stripped-back thriller about a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation.

Emily is a beautiful and brilliant loner obsessed with her only child. Her desperation will drive her to commit shocking and perilous acts, pushing her closer to the edge of sanity.

Fannie Fairchild is old and quite rude with the people in her life, and is having trouble trying to hire someone to keep flowers on her grave when she is gone. Young Louise comes along to care for Fannie in her old age. Will Fannie accept love from Louise, or continue the lonely life she's lived all these years?

Carter is a shy auto mechanic who has become locked a daily routine. Darla is an attractive waitress, hiding a deep personal wound. In a place where secrets live in the shadows, these two mismatched loners will have to reach out to each other and confront the only truth that matters.

After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.