Remember This. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2021 book, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
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Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
Clark Young, 2021
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Derek Goldman, Jeff Hutchens, 2022

Following the harrowing aftermath of the Blitzkrieg, Jan Karski pledges loyalty to the Polish Underground and embarks on a perilous mission to deliver firsthand accounts of war-ravaged Poland to the Western world, including the Oval Office. Evading capture from the Gestapo, he bears witness to the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and confronts the unimaginable cruelty of a death camp.


Temple Grandin. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 1986 book, Emergence: Labeled Autistic
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Emergence: Labeled Autistic
Temple Grandin, Margaret M. Scariano, 1986
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Mick Jackson, 2010

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling. The film focuses on Grandin’s life as a gifted but socially isolated student who has been expelled from numerous high schools for fighting. The film also highlights the discrimination and harassment Grandin endured on the feedlots as a female graduate student in a male-dominated, working-class industry.


Temple Grandin. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 1995 book, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin, 1995
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Mick Jackson, 2010

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling. The film focuses on Grandin’s life as a gifted but socially isolated student who has been expelled from numerous high schools for fighting. The film also highlights the discrimination and harassment Grandin endured on the feedlots as a female graduate student in a male-dominated, working-class industry.


L.A. Confidential. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy, 1990
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Curtis Hanson, 1997

In early 1950s Los Angeles, LAPD Sergeant Edmund Ed Exley is determined to live up to the reputation of his father, famed detective Preston Exley, who was killed by an unknown assailant whom Exley nicknamed Rollo Tomasi.


The Bourne Ultimatum. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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The Bourne Ultimatum
Robert Ludlum, 1990
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Paul Greengrass, 2007

Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne eludes Moscow police while wounded through a train station and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone. Meanwhile, in Turin, journalist Simon Ross of The Guardian meets an informant to learn about Bourne and Operation Blackbriar, the program succeeding Treadstone.


Nightmare Alley. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1946 book
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Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham, 1946
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Guillermo del Toro, 2021

Bradley Cooper is Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, an ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with Dr. Lilith Ritter, a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is. Remake of the 1947 film.


McMafia. Poster of the 2018 TV series and cover of the 2008 book
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McMafia
Misha Glenny, 2008
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Hossein Amini, James Watkins, 2018-

Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family’s past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.


Nomadland. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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Nomadland
Jessica Bruder, 2017
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Chloé Zhao, 2020

In 2011, Fern loses her job after the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shuts down; she worked there for years along with her husband who recently died. She takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center through the winter. A friend and co-worker named Linda invites Fern to visit a desert winter gathering in Arizona organized by Bob Wells, which provides a support system and community for fellow nomads.


Dolores Claiborne. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King, 1992
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Taylor Hackford, 1995

In 1995, Dolores Claiborne works as a domestic servant on Little Tall Island in Maine. Dolores has a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer, Vera Donovan, in her mansion. Vera falls down the staircase and Dolores ransacks the kitchen. She is caught by a mailman, who sees her standing over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her.


Day One. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the 1985 book, Day One: Before Hiroshima and After
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Day One: Before Hiroshima and After
Peter Wyden, 1985
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Joseph Sargent, 1989

The decision to employ the atomic bomb to conclude World War II was a highly contentious occurrence in human history. This acclaimed miniseries, which won an Emmy in 1989, vividly depicts the conflicts through outstanding performances by a talented cast.


Lincoln. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2005 book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2005
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Steven Spielberg, 2012

In January 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln expects the Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war and that the proposed Thirteenth Amendment will be defeated by the returning slave states.


Eight Men Out. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1963 book
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Eight Men Out
Eliot Asinof, 1963
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John Sayles, 1988

In 1919, the Chicago White Sox are considered among the greatest baseball teams ever assembled; however, the team’s stingy owner, Charles Comiskey, gives little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.