Glengarry Glen Ross. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1983 book
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Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet, 1983
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James Foley, 1992

The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who are supplied with leads — the names and phone numbers of prospects — and use deceitful and dubious tactics to make sales. Blake unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse on the salesmen and announces that only the top two will be allowed access to the more promising Glengarry leads.


The Hunt for Red October. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1984 book
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The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy, 1984
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John McTiernan, 1990

In November 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is given command of Red October, a new Typhoon-class nuclear missile submarine with a stealth caterpillar drive, rendering it undetectable to passive sonar. Once at sea, Ramius secretly kills political officer Ivan Putin and relays false orders that they are to conduct missile drills off America’s east coast.


The Aviator. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1993 book, Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
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Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
Charles Higham, 1993
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Martin Scorsese, 2004

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.


Still Alice. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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Still Alice
Lisa Genova, 2007
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Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, 2014

Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, celebrates her 50th birthday with her physician husband John and their three adult children. She hides sleeping pills in her room, and records a video message instructing her future self to commit suicide by overdosing on the pills when she can no longer answer the questions.


My Sister's Keeper. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 2004 book
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My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult, 2004
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Nick Cassavetes, 2009

Kate Fitzgerald has acute promyelocytic leukemia. As neither her parents, firefighter Brian and lawyer Sara, nor older brother Jesse are a genetic match, Dr. Chance, Kate’s oncologist, suggests designer in vitro fertilization. Anna is born as a savior sister.


Rise of the Guardians. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2010 book, The Guardians of Childhood
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The Guardians of Childhood
William Joyce, 2010
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Peter Ramsey, 2012

Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. North explains to Jack that every Guardian has a center, something they are the Guardian of, but a call for help from Tooth’s fairies ends the conversation.


Rise of the Guardians. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Rise of the Guardians
Stacia Deutsch, 2012
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Peter Ramsey, 2012

Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. North explains to Jack that every Guardian has a center, something they are the Guardian of, but a call for help from Tooth’s fairies ends the conversation.


Concussion. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2015 book
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Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas, 2015
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Peter Landesman, 2015

Dr. Bennet Omalu pioneered the identification of chronic brain damage as a contributing factor in the deaths of certain National Football League players. The narrative traces Dr. Omalu’s David-vs.-Goliath odyssey, illuminating his role as a forensic neuropathologist who first uncovered football-related brain trauma in a professional player. His relentless battle was not only about revealing the truth behind this devastating condition but also about humanizing the toll taken on athletes in high-impact sports.


Motherless Brooklyn. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem, 1999
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Edward Norton, 2019

In 1950s New York City, Lionel Essrog works at a detective agency alongside Gilbert Coney, Danny Fantl, and Tony Vermonte. Their boss, Frank Minna, rescued them as children from an abusive orphanage. Nicknamed ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ by Frank, Lionel has Tourette syndrome, often alienating him from people, but his strong verbal and photographic memory make him a good detective.


A Streetcar Named Desire. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1947 book
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams, 1947
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Glenn Jordan, 1995

Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn’t like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together.


Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
J.E. Bright, 2008
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Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, 2008

Years later, following their adventure in Madagascar, the zoo animals—Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, and chimpanzees Mason and Phil—prepare to return to New York aboard a battered airplane piloted by the penguins, accompanied by the lemurs King Julien, Maurice, and Mort.


The Boss Baby. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2010 book
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The Boss Baby
Marla Frazee, 2010
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Tom McGrath, 2017

A man named Tim Templeton tells a story about his imaginative seven-year-old self and his parents, Ted and Janice. Seeing an opportunity to get rid of him, Tim decides to use a cassette tape to record a conversation between Boss Baby and other toddlers who are at Tim’s house for a meeting, under the guise of a play date in the eyes of the parents.