Follow the Stars Home. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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Follow the Stars Home
Luanne Rice, 2000
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Dick Lowry, 2001

Dianne Parker meets and marries the charming and attractive Mark McCune without being aware of his brother David, a soft-spoken pediatrician, who is quietly watching them both. Up to the birth of Julia, their daughter, a child with genetic defects, their marriage appeared to be without flaw. Dianne is left to deal with the difficulties of being a single mother after Mark leaves because he cannot bear the thought of a less-than-perfect child.


The Amazing Spider-Man. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1963 comic book
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, 1963
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Marc Webb, 2012

A young Peter Parker discovers that his father Richard Parker’s study has been burglarized. At home, Peter finds his father’s papers, and learns his father worked with fellow scientist Dr. Curt Connors at Oscorp in the field of cross-species genetics.


The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1963 comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, 1963
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Marc Webb, 2014

Oscorp scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Peter’s childhood friend, Harry Osborn, returns to Manhattan to see his terminally-ill father, Norman, CEO of Oscorp.


The Secret Lives of Dentists. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1987 book, The Age of Grief
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The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley, 1987
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Alan Rudolph, 2002

Married dentists David and Dana Hurst, parents to three children, find their relationship strained when David suspects Dana of infidelity. Coping with the emotional turmoil, David starts engaging in imagined conversations with a discontented patient. The family’s stress escalates as they all fall ill with the flu.


Manhattan Nocturne. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Manhattan Nocturne
Colin Harrison, 1996
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Brian DeCubellis, 2016

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail.


Jurassic World: Dominion. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Jurassic World Dominion: The Junior Novelization
David Lewman, 2022
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Colin Trevorrow, 2022

The film is set four years after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which genetically engineered dinosaurs were auctioned to companies around the world while others were released on the U.S. mainland. The story takes place around the world and depicts humans dealing with invasive dinosaur species.


Jurassic World: Dominion. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1990 book, Jurassic Park
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, 1990
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Colin Trevorrow, 2022

The film is set four years after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which genetically engineered dinosaurs were auctioned to companies around the world while others were released on the U.S. mainland. The story takes place around the world and depicts humans dealing with invasive dinosaur species.


The Innocent. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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The Innocent
Ian McEwan, 1990
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John Schlesinger, 1993

A young engineer is sent to post World War II Berlin to help the Americans, in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman, who will take him on the dark side of evil. The film centres around the joint CIA/MI6 real-life Operation Gold: building a tunnel under the Russian sector of Berlin.


The Pilot's Wife. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1998 book
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The Pilot's Wife
Anita Shreve, 1998
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Robert Markowitz, 2002

Following the shocking discovery of a tragic mid-air explosion aboard Flight 274—piloted by her husband—Kathryn Lyons’ picture-perfect life abruptly comes crashing down. When the black box is found and alarming allegations about her spouse possibly being to blame for the crash are revealed, the tension increases. Could her husband have been a terrorist in disguise? Was everything she had done with him a lie?


Loverboy. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Loverboy
Victoria Redel, 2001
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Kevin Bacon, 2005

The story of a mother who has a troubled past and becomes overly obsessed with her son, Paul. She homeschooled Paul and controlled every aspect of his life to the point where he has never experienced any independence. As Paul grows older, he starts to question his mother’s behavior and secrets from her past begin to come to light.