Explains why habits exist and how they can be changed.

"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...

A Swiss family with four boys becomes shipwrecked on a deserted island where they spend ten years imaginatively altering their "New Switzerland" into a home.

Before we know it, fierce winds destory our commitment, wisdom, and happiness as we struggle to stay afloat. Join Ed Young as he launches this four-part series on suvival techniques for the gale force winds of life.

The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married, and that the groom will remain a secret until...

Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...

Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnapped.

When the newly opened art center is broken into, and an elderly woman dies in a suspicious fire, the town of Pickax is suddenly anthing but peaceful. And now Jim Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum have some seroius sleuthing to do.

A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.