Queen of the South. Poster of the 2016 TV series and cover of the 2002 book, The Queen of the South
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The Queen of the South
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 2002
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M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller, 2016-

Teresa Mendoza is forced to flee to America and seek asylum after her drug-dealing boyfriend is brutally murdered in Mexico. In order to take down the boss of the same drug trafficking organization that has her on the run, she partners up with an unusual character from her past there. She acquires the necessary skills along the way and cleverly positions herself to take over as cartel boss.


The Horror of Dolores Roach. Poster of the 2023 TV series and cover of the 2016 book, Empanada Loca
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Empanada Loca
Aaron Mark, 2016
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Aaron Mark, 2023-

Following an unjust incarceration lasting 16 years, Dolores Roach comes back to a transformed Washington Heights, now gentrified. There, she reconnects with an old companion, Luis, who welcomes her to stay and operate as a masseuse in the basement beneath his empanada shop. As the prospect of her recently acquired stability becomes endangered, the moniker ‘Magic Hands’ Dolores resorts to astonishing measures to ensure her survival.


All Together Now. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2010 book, Sorta Like a Rock Star
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Sorta Like a Rock Star
Matthew Quick, 2010
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Brett Haley, 2020

An optimistic high schooler with musical aspirations must learn to accept help from her friends to overcome her personal hardships and fulfill her dreams.


Family Pictures. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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Family Pictures
Jane Green, 2013
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Manu Boyer, 2019

Sylvie and Maggie are two strangers who don’t know each other, living on different coasts, leading parallel lives with partners who frequently travel for work and daughters on the verge of leaving home. However, when their daughters become friends during a college visit, they soon uncover a startling secret that could ruin both of their families.


In the Electric Mist. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1993 book, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
James Lee Burke, 1993
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Bertrand Tavernier, 2009

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.


Dragons: The Nine Realms. Poster of the 2021 TV series and cover of the 2003 book, How to Train Your Dragon
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How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell, 2003
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Henry Gilroy, 2021-

Set 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon, dragons are now just a legend to the modern world. When a geological anomaly opens an immense, miles-deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, scientists from all over the world gather at a new research facility to study the mysterious phenomenon. Soon a group of misfit kids, brought to the site by their parents, uncover the truth about dragons and where they’ve been hiding.