Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends Ninny Threadgood, an eighty-year-old woman who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s.
A rare killer virus from the jungles of Africa has taken hold in a small California town. There is no cure for this quick and deadly disease, and some people believe that the only way to stop it is to destroy the town--and everyone in it.
Jeremiah Johnson, heads to the Rocky Mountains in the mid-1800s in search of solitude, but after nearly dying in his first winter, he is taken in by an elderly trapper who teaches him the skills he needs to survive.
