North Dallas Forty. Poster of the 1979 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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North Dallas Forty
Peter Gent, 1973
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Ted Kotcheff, 1979

Wide receiver Phil Elliott plays for a late 1970s professional football team based in Dallas, Texas, named the North Dallas Bulls. Elliott and popular quarterback Seth Maxwell are outstanding players, but they also characterize the drug-, sex-, and alcohol-fueled party atmosphere of that era. A satire of American professional football.


Heartbreak Ridge. Poster of the 1986 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Heartbreak Ridge
Joseph C. Stinson, 1986
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Clint Eastwood, 1986

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is nearing mandatory retirement from the Marine Corps. Highway repeatedly clashes with Powers and Staff Sergeant Webster, the 1st Platoon platoon sergeant over his unorthodox training methods (such as firing an AK-47 over his men’s heads to familiarize them with the weapon’s distinctive sound).


I'll Be Seeing You. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Higgins Clark, 1993
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Will Dixon, 2004

Patricia Collins is called to the morgue one evening to help identify a deceased. She discovers, to her astonishment, that the person on the gurney is a duplicate of herself! She must persuade the insurance company that her missing father, Dr. Burton Collins, is dead while trying to solve this mystery. They contend that he faked his own death to commit financial fraud in the absence of a body. Patricia investigates her father’s affairs in-depth in an effort to clear his name and learns that he was keeping a sinister secret.