"A brilliantly executed, vividly told story that forcibly illustrates the adage, "A pack of cards is the Devil's prayer book.""
"Al" Spencer, a gambler who is not averse to cheating, who occupies an apartment with his wife and daughter, abandons his family after attacking and robbing a card player a confederate had brought to his place. In the same building lives Nancy Springer, a shoplifter whose thieving husband is in prison awaiting trial.
Arthur Hoops
Albert Sprague alias Al Spencer
Alma Hanlon
His wife
Frank Belcher
John Springer
Ruby Hoffman
Nancy - His Wife
Caryl S. Fleming
Fred Block
Tom Coventry
Tom Sprague
"Al" Spencer, a gambler who is not averse to cheating, who occupies an apartment with his wife and daughter, abandons his family after attacking and robbing a card player a confederate had brought to his place. In the same building lives Nancy Springer, a shoplifter whose thieving husband is in prison awaiting trial.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
พ่อวัยหนุ่มได้กลับบ้านหลังจากติดคุก เขามีความกระตือรือร้นที่จะดูแลลูกชายและผันตัวมาเป็นนักเขียน แต่อาชญากรรม ความยากจน และระบบที่บกพร่องเป็นอุปสรรคต่อแผนของเขา
อดีตนักโทษหญิงได้กลับคืนสู่สังคมที่ไม่มีวันให้อภัยเธอ จึงตัดสินใจออกตามหาน้องสาวที่เคยจำใจทิ้งไว้เบื้องหลัง
ชายหนุ่มที่มีอนาคตสดใสประสบอุบัติเหตุที่ใกล้ถึงแก่ชีวิตและสร้างชีวิตใหม่ด้วยความช่วยเหลือจากเพื่อนสัตว์ที่ไม่น่าจะเป็นไปได้
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.