Sam Gribley, a boy who ran away from his crowded New York City home to live alone in the Catskill Mountains in a hollow tree, becomes famous after newspapers write about the “wild boy.” At the end of his second year, his whole family arrives to live with him, and his father plans to build a house, ending Sam’s solitary life in the wild.

The boy’s father, a Black sharecropper jailed for stealing a ham to feed his family, comes home years later crippled from a mining accident in a prison camp.

Miyax, a thirteen-year-old Inupiat girl who survived alone on the Alaskan tundra by learning to live with a wolf pack, discovers that her long-lost father, Kapugen, is alive.

Juror Nicholas Easter and his partner Marlee, who secretly manipulated their way onto the jury in a lawsuit against a tobacco company, steer the jury to a huge verdict against Big Tobacco.

Rudy Baylor, a newly licensed lawyer, wins a $50 million verdict against the insurance company Great Benefit for denying a dying young man, Donny Ray Black, the leukemia treatment that might have saved him.

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who learned from a suicidal Mafia lawyer where the body of a murdered US senator is buried, leads his lawyer Reggie Love to the body in New Orleans.

Olive Kitteridge, a blunt retired maths teacher in Crosby, Maine, is widowed after her gentle husband Henry has a stroke and dies, and she remains estranged from her son Christopher.

The golden-eyed alien Children born in the English village of Midwich, who can control people’s minds, begin killing anyone who threatens them.

Writer Thad Beaumont faces George Stark, the violent pen name he “killed off” who has come to life and is murdering people connected to the mock burial.

Hedda Gabler, trapped in a dull marriage to the scholar George Tesman, burns the manuscript of her former lover Eilert Løvborg and urges him to die “beautifully” with one of her father’s pistols.