The Help. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2009 book
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett, 2009
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Tate Taylor, 2011

In 1963, Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid in Jackson, Mississippi. Aibileen’s best friend and fellow maid Minny Jackson works for Mrs. Walters, whose daughter Hilly Holbrook leads the women’s socialite group and is president of the city’s Junior League chapter.


Zootopia. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Zootopia: Junior Novelization
Suzanne Francis, 2016
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Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush, 2016

In a world of anthropomorphic mammals, rabbit Judy Hopps from rural Bunnyburrow fulfills her childhood dream of becoming a police officer in urban Zootopia. Bogo reprimands her, but an otter, Mrs. Otterton, enters Bogo’s office pleading for someone to find her husband Emmitt, one of fourteen animals who are missing.


Red Band Society. Poster of the 2014 TV series and cover of the 2008 book, The Yellow World
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The Yellow World
Albert Espinosa, 2008
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Margaret Nagle, 2014-2015

A coming-of-age dramedy about a group of rule-bending friends and the adults who mentor them through the ups and downs of adolescence in Los Angeles’ Ocean Park Hospital. The teenagers will learn how to deal with their illnesses, the experiences that they have, and the people that they meet.


Hidden Figures. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2016 book
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016
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Theodore Melfi, 2016

In 1961, Katherine Johnson works as a human computer in the West Area Computers division of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, alongside aspiring engineer Mary Jackson and their unofficial acting-supervisor Dorothy Vaughan. Encouraged by her team leader Karl Zielinski, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Mary applies for an official NASA engineer position.


Onward. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Onward: The Junior Novelization
Suzanne Francis, 2020
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Dan Scanlon, 2020

In a world inhabited by mythic creatures, magic was commonplace several millennia ago, though difficult to master. On Ian’s sixteenth birthday, Laurel gives her sons a gift from Wilden: a magical staff, a rare Phoenix gem, and a letter describing a visitation spell that can resurrect their father for a single day.


The Shape of Water. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus, 2018
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Guillermo del Toro, 2017

Elisa Esposito, who was found abandoned as an infant with wounds on her neck by the side of a river, is mute and communicates through sign language. She lives a very routine life, even masturbating at the same time every day which she times with an egg timer. The facility receives a mysterious creature captured from a South American river by Colonel Richard Strickland, who is in charge of the project, to study it.


Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2001 book, On Her Own Ground
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On Her Own Ground
A'Lelia Perry Bundles, 2001
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Kasi Lemmons, DeMane Davis, 2020

Self Made is a fictionalized depiction of “the untold story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C. J. Walker and how she overcame the hostilities of turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, and tumultuous marriages to become America’s first Black, self-made female millionaire.”


Snowpiercer. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1982 comic book
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Snowpiercer
Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette, Virginie Selavy, 1982
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Bong Joon Ho, 2013

After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford.


Truth Be Told. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 2017 book, Are You Sleeping
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Are You Sleeping
Kathleen Barber, 2017
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Nichelle D. Tramble, 2019-

True crime podcaster Poppy Parnell is called to investigate the case of convicted killer Warren Cave, a man she painted as the murderer of the father of identical twins. Soon, Parnell must decide where the lines between guilt and innocence lie when Cave claims that he was framed for the crime.


Spirited. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1843 book, A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
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Sean Anders, John Morris, 2022

Every year on Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Past chooses a dark soul to be converted by the intervention of three spirits. He chose the incorrect Scrooge for this season, though. Clint Briggs flips the script on his spectral host, forcing Present to reevaluate his own history, present, and future.


The Shack. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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The Shack
William Paul Young, 2007
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Stuart Hazeldine, 2017

After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa.


The Divergent Series: Insurgent. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Insurgent
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Insurgent
Veronica Roth, 2012
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Robert Schwentke, 2015

Five days after the assault on the Abnegation faction by the Erudite leader Jeanine and her mind-controlled Dauntless soldiers, Jeanine has declared martial law and that the Divergents and those allied with them are the enemy. Among the Abnegation wreckage, the Dauntless leaders Max and Eric recover a box with all five faction symbols on its sides. Jeanine presumes that it contains data from the city’s founders and the means to end the Divergence problem.