Good Behavior. Poster of the 2016 TV series and cover of the 2013 book
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Good Behavior
Blake Crouch, 2013
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Blake Crouch, Chad Hodge, 2016-2017

Letty Raines—a thief, con artist, and drug user—is released from prison on good behavior, and is intent on regaining custody of her 10-year-old son Jacob. Her mother, Estelle, has custody and, because of Letty’s incarceration, has a restraining order of protection that restricts contact. Letty infrequently sees her parole officer, Christian, who is exasperated by her attitude and lack of progress.


Defending Jacob. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2012 book
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Defending Jacob
William Landay, 2012
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Mark Bomback, 2020

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.


The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 2005 book, Irena Sendler: Mother of the Children of the Holocaust
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Irena Sendler: Mother of the Children of the Holocaust
Anna Mieszkowska, 2005
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John Kent Harrison, 2009

Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish resistance during World War II, is the subject of this story. She was captured by the Nazis for her heroic efforts to rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto by smuggling them to safety.


Anatomy of a Scandal. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2018 book
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Anatomy of a Scandal
Sarah Vaughan, 2018
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S.J. Clarkson, 2022-

A six-part psychological thriller set in the shadowy parliamentary offices of Westminster. At its heart are James and Sophie Whitehouse, a government minister and his doting wife whose lives are upended when the former is accused of rape. The pair are thrust into the spotlight, but Sophie is convinced of her husband’s innocence and determined to protect her family. Meanwhile, Kate Woodcroft, the barrister poised to prosecute the case, is equally certain of his guilt and hellbent on making him pay for his alleged crimes.


Restless. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2006 book
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Restless
William Boyd, 2006
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Edward Hall, 2012

A young woman makes a startling discovery that her mother served as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.


Anna Karenina. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1877 book
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, 1877
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Joe Wright, 2012

In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed Dolly, banishes her unfaithful husband Prince Stephan Stiva Oblonsky. Stiva’s sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei Karenin, and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive her husband.


The Sense of an Ending. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, 2011
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Ritesh Batra, 2017

Tony Webster, a retired and divorced man, leads a quiet and lonely life. One day he discovers that Veronica’s mother, her college sweetheart, left him in her will a diary kept by her best friend, who dated Veronica after Tony. In order to recover the diary, now in the hands of an elderly and very mysterious Verónica, Tony will be forced to delve into his past, remember the failed moments of his former friendships and relationships, and recreate feelings that he thought were forgotten.