Kirjahaku

After an injury robs pairs skaters Marcea Schmidt and Mark Lindstrom of a "chance at the big time," they dissolve their dozen-year partnership and go separate ways. Years later, they long to renew their friendship. Because they discover no trace of each other, they must rely on chance to bring them together.

While touring Europe, Miles Nelson watches Simone Albescu, a young Romanian figure skater at the Innsbruck Olympics. The two "tumbleweeds" meet again in America. Through a bizarre series of events, the American and the Romanian expatriate experience an unexpected and incongruous relationship.

While touring Europe, Miles Nelson watches Simone Albescu, a young Romanian figure skater at the Innsbruck Olympics. The two "tumbleweeds" meet again in America. Through a bizarre series of events, the American and the Romanian expatriate experience an unexpected and incongruous relationship.

Charles flees from a restrictive religious community, learns auto mechanics and drifts across the nation. Caroline learns a trade under the thumb of a demanding stage mother and travels the world. After a chance meeting, they forge a relationship. With a romance rooted in trust, they become vagabonds searching for a more satisfying life.

Charles flees from a restrictive religious community, learns auto mechanics and drifts across the nation. Caroline learns a trade under the thumb of a demanding stage mother and travels the world. After a chance meeting, they forge a relationship. With a romance rooted in trust, they become vagabonds searching for a more satisfying life.

To celebrate her wedding anniversary, a retired matinee idol insists on wearing a fortune in jewels. An insurance man is dispatched to assess security arrangements. He and his shady man Friday discover the remote retirement community, a magazine reporter, the former screen heartthrob, and her servants are not, exactly, as advertised. Neither are the jewels.

In the early days of German reunification, Sam Grant, a freelance journalist, discovers a small eastern river city, Frankfurt. He settles there. He meets Julia, a French Jewess searching for ancestral roots. They produce a child, but Sam cannot leave his adopted city to live Julia's nomadic life.Approached by a former sports phenom, Sam is enlisted to aid and abet a young singer who was victimized by a press-fabricated scandal. His efforts to play Good Samaritan are complicated by the reappearance of Julia and their son. In exchange for another child, Julia pledges to settle down in Frankfurt - for a while.

Beginning with childhood games and antics, David Byxby's retrospectives includes his thirty-year career as a pilot, family man and curmudgeon. His memories include sketches of the people with whom he shares adventures: a British archeologist, a Danish military pilot, a Swiss adventurer (whom he marries), a Romanian eccentric of dubious antecedents, and a German run-away lost and bewildered in the Western Pacific. "Byx" raises a daughter and maintains a long-distance relationship with his wife and son. Haunted by missteps and failures, he suffers through a compilation of regrets.