Tom Hanks

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that the legendary Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
“Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Dutch House
A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after...

After a plane crash that kills the crew, a FedEx system engineer finds himself stranded on a desert island.

A washed-up ballplayer becomes coach to one of the All-American Girls Baseball league teams in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the enthusiasm of the sport.

Rival book dealers unwittingly fall anonymously head over heels in love via the Internet.

The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

When a new toy called Forky joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.

On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant with supernatural powers that brings a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.

Two-time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks in “one of his best performances” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) stars as Michael Sullivan, a father fighting to keep his only son from traveling the ROAD TO PERDITION. Directed by Oscar® winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty), this towering motion picture achievement has been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. Also starring Academy Award® winner Paul Newman and Oscar® nominee Jude law, ROAD...

Follows the events surrounding the 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers by newspaper publisher Kay Graham and her editor Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post, revealing that the U.S. government knew for years the Vietnam War was unwinnable.

True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.