Based on the classic 1983 movie, humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up on the Prairies in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas.

In this delightful comedy/drama, a modern-day playwright and feminist mysteriously enters the world of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in an effort to right the wrongs suffered by the character Ophelia.

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie was an international celebrity, and luminous watch dials were the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.