Can You Ever Forgive Me?. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2008 book, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Lee Israel, 2008
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Marielle Heller, 2018

In 1991, following the critical and commercial failure of her biography of Estée Lauder, author Lee Israel struggles with financial troubles, writer’s block, and alcoholism. Lee meets with her literary agent, Marjorie, who sharply rejects her plan for the Brice book and explains that Lee, with her difficult personality, is responsible for her own career slump.


Antz. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Antz
Ellen Weiss, 1998
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Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson, 1998

Z is an anxious worker ant who chafes at conformity, and the fact that everyone, even his psychiatrist, reminds him he is insignificant. While at the colony’s bar one night, Z falls in love with Princess Bala, when she visits the bar to escape her suffocating royal life. The ant colony declares war on an encroaching termite colony, and soldiers are sent to engage the invaders.


I Don't Know How She Does It. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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I Don't Know How She Does It
Allison Pearson, 2001
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Douglas McGrath, 2011

Kate Reddy devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo fully intends to avoid.