Henry Warren was already a wealthy man and money was his sole interest. Then he found a woman with faith in the future and a town that needed to win back its self-respect.
Jeanette Purkis spent her early life reacting violently against her feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about her 'difference' from other people. She was unaware until well into adulthood that everything she found difficult, including her lack of success in forming relationships, could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome.
The Chronicles of Amber is a popular fantasy series by Roger Zelazny. The main series consists of two story arcs, each five novels in length. In the Amber stories, Amber is the only true world; all others, including our Earth, are but "shadows" of the tension between it and Chaos. A second world, the Courts of Chaos, is situated in Shadow at the very edge of Chaos itself.
Huck Finn had always lived wild. He had no home, and his only relative was a drunken, illiterate father who could go away for weeks at a stretch. One day Huck and his friend, Tom Sawyer, in exploring a cave, found $12,000 in gold that robbers had hidden.