Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling), 2001
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David Yates, 2016

In 1926, British wizard and magizoologist Newton Newt Scamander arrives in New York City. Attempting to recapture a Niffler that escaped from his suitcase of magical creatures, Newt meets No-Maj Jacob Kowalski, an aspiring baker, and they unwittingly swap suitcases.


Steve Jobs. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, 2011
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Danny Boyle, 2015

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K’s voice demo fails less than an hour before its unveiling at Flint Center. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demands engineer Andy Hertzfeld to fix it, threatening to publicly implicate him in the presentation’s credits if he does not. Jobs bonds with Lisa over her MacPaint art and agrees to provide more money and a house.


Inherent Vice. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2009 book
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Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon, 2009
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Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014

In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the beach house of her ex-boyfriend, Larry Doc Sportello, a private investigator and hippie in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles County. She tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. Mickey Wolfmann, a wealthy real estate developer, and asks him to help prevent Mickey’s wife and her lover from abducting Mickey and committing him to an insane asylum.


Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2018 book, Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
J.K. Rowling, 2018
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David Yates, 2018

In 1927, the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) transfers the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald to Europe to stand trial, but Grindelwald escapes. Three months later in London, Newt Scamander visits the Ministry of Magic to appeal his international travel ban, and runs into Leta Lestrange, his Hogwarts classmate and the fiancée of his Auror brother Theseus.


Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2018 book, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
J.K. Rowling, 2018
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David Yates, 2022

Set in the 1930s, the story leads up to the Wizarding World’s involvement in World War II and will explore the magical communities in Bhutan, Germany and China in addition to previously established locations including Brazil, the United States and United Kingdom. With Gellert Grindelwald’s power rapidly growing, Albus Dumbledore entrusts Newt Scamander and his friends on a mission that will lead to a clash with Grindelwald’s army.


The End We Start From. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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The End We Start From
Megan Hunter, 2017
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Mahalia Belo, 2023

In the midst of an environmental catastrophe that submerges London in floodwaters, a woman, accompanied by her newborn, embarks on a journey to find their way back home. Amid the chaos of the disaster, a young family becomes divided, and the challenges they face are brought to the forefront.


Alien: Covenant. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Alien: Covenant
Alan Dean Foster, 2017
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Ridley Scott, 2017

Business magnate Peter Weyland speaks with his newly activated android, who chooses the name David after observing Michelangelo’s statue. David comments on his own unlimited lifespan as compared to Weyland’s, which unsettles Weyland. While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a transmission of a human voice from a nearby planet, which appears eminently more habitable than Origae-6.


Being Flynn. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Nick Flynn, 2004
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Paul Weitz, 2012

Nick Flynn is an aspiring writer who works at a homeless shelter where his estranged father Jonathan is a client. Jonathan, an alcoholic ex-con and self-proclaimed master storyteller, left Nick’s mother Jody years earlier to raise Nick on her own. She eventually committed suicide, for which Nick feels responsible. Jonathan gets into fights with the other clients, and Nick is tempted to throw him out.


The World to Come. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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The World to Come
Jim Shepard, 2017
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Mona Fastvold, 2020

In this powerful 19th century romance set in the American Northeast, Abigail, a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie find themselves irrevocably drawn to each other. A grieving Abigail tends to her withdrawn husband Dyer as free spirit Tallie bristles at the jealous control of her husband Finney. Together, their intimacy begins to fill a void in each other’s lives they never knew existed.


Asphalt City. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2008 book, Black Flies
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Black Flies
Shannon Burke, 2008
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Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, 2023

Ollie Cross drives an ambulance on the streets of New York alongside Rutkovsky, a seasoned veteran who is one of the city’s finest medics, as he prepares for his ambition to attend medical school.