Hamilton. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2015 book, Hamilton: The Revolution
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Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2015
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Thomas Kail, 2020

Divided in two acts, the musical depicts the life and career of Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. The first act covers Hamilton’s arrival in New York City in 1776, his work in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolution, and his courtship and marriage to Eliza Schuyler.


Hamilton. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, 2004
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Thomas Kail, 2020

Divided in two acts, the musical depicts the life and career of Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. The first act covers Hamilton’s arrival in New York City in 1776, his work in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolution, and his courtship and marriage to Eliza Schuyler.


Altered Carbon. Poster of the 2018 TV series and cover of the 2002 book
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Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan, 2002
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Laeta Kalogridis, 2018-2020

The series takes place over 360 years in the future , with most episodes the first season set in the year 2384, in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the first season, set 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds.


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2010 book
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, 2010
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George C. Wolfe, 2017

The story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, the film chronicles her search, aided by journalist Rebecca Skloot, to learn about the mother she never knew and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks’ cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever.


The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs, 1973
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Eli Roth, 2018

In 1955, after his parents are killed in a car crash, ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt moves to live with his Uncle Jonathan to New Zebedee, Michigan. The house’s previous owners were a sinister warlock named Isaac Izard, an orphaned former friend and fellow warlock of Jonathan and who fought at WWII, and his equally wicked wife Selena, who had hidden a clock within the walls of the house before they died.