Phillips: 403 books

An elderly widower finds a dog on his walk in the woods. The two become companions as the man cares for the dog and the dog watches the man.

Two guys volunteer to cook hamburgers at the company picnic. They have opposite temperaments. Can they survive a picnic without grilling each other?

Thomas and Karen were winter house sitters at 12,000 feet in the Montana mountains. Spring arrived, but not in the normal fashion. They found a stranger in the barn who was too sick to explain himself. Thomas heads down the mountain to find a deserted ranch and town except for one man dragging himself across a street.

Two bored engineering students from Mississippi take a year from college to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. They never make it. A chance meeting with a former student and a tall, slim Saudi man changes their plans.

Tony felt for the homeless people he saw outside the window of his Washington D.C. office. He wanted to help feed them and figured that would be easy. It wasn't as easy as he thought.

An old Soviet satellite is found in a pasture in Louisiana. No one knows why. This is only the beginning.

Doug was standing in the rain waiting for his wife to pick him up. She was late, very late, and he was soaked. Just wait until she arrived. Doug would let her know how he felt. At least, that is what he thought.

Jacob sits stunned in the woods next to his house. A schoolteacher turned guerrilla warfare recruiter explains to him that he just shot dead ten soldiers of an invading army. Jacob is now a hero, but he has also become something else, something he despises - a killer.

A stranger walks into a two-man tech company and offers them a million-dollar app - no charge. He talks about "interested persons." Is his offer too good to be true?

Karl's wife has a few things for him to do on a Saturday. However, every time he tries to start a job, he faces a garage that is out of control.

People on the streets are acting crazy. Several observers and analysts at a think tank are tasked with discovering why and finding a solution. Can they do so before they too are infected with this craziness?

A man finds an old book in an antique store. Someone filled the pages with writing in the margins. It is some type of diary from the second world war, but the pages are linked cryptically. Can the man and a friend decipher the secret of the old book?

Nelson stumbles into a tiny restaurant somewhere in Alabama. The place is a treasure trove of chats with interesting people. Nelson goes out of his way two months later to revisit the place, but things have changed.

Chris Thomas takes his grandson William hunting for the first time. What William doesn't know is that it is also the first time for the grandfather.