Maggie Tulliver, an outcast after her scandalous boat trip with her cousin’s fiancé Stephen Guest, rows through a great flood to rescue her estranged brother Tom from the family mill.

Dorothea Brooke, whose late husband Edward Casaubon left a cruel will cutting her off if she married his young cousin Will Ladislaw, gives up her fortune and marries Will anyway.

Mary Poppins, the magical nanny who arrived on the east wind at the Banks family’s house on Cherry Tree Lane, leaves just as suddenly when the wind changes to the west.

George Kranky brews a crazy “medicine” from everything in the house to deal with his horrible grandmother, which makes her grow through the roof.

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Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is acquitted of murdering his colleague and former lover Carolyn Polhemus when the case collapses.

Rita, a Liverpool hairdresser who enrolled in an Open University literature course, passes her exam and gains the confidence to choose her own life.

Isherwood “Ish” Williams, one of the few survivors of a plague that wiped out most of humanity, spends his life trying to preserve knowledge and civilization in a small community near Berkeley.

David Webb, the former assassin Jason Bourne, is forced back into action when U.S.

Richard Hannay, on the run for a murder he did not commit, figures out that “the thirty-nine steps” refers to a staircase down to the sea at a house in Kent, where German spies plan to escape with British naval secrets.