The Boy in the Woods. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2022 book
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The Boy in the Woods
Maxwell Smart, 2022
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Rebecca Snow, 2023

This is the extraordinary real-life tale of a young Jewish boy concealed in the woodlands of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, where he was both in hiding and pursued.


North & South. Poster of the 2004 TV series and cover of the 1855 book, North and South
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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855
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Brian Percival, 2004

Margaret Hale and her parents Maria and Richard live in the idyllic town in Helstone in Hampshire. At the wedding of her cousin, Edith, Margaret is approached by Edith’s new brother-in-law, Henry Lennox. Lennox visits Helstone a while later and proposes marriage to Margaret; she refuses him. Later, the family is forced to move to the industrial town of Milton, in the north of England.


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
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Peter Jackson, 2012

Approaching his 111th birthday, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins begins writing down the full story of his adventure 60 years earlier for the benefit of his nephew Frodo. Long before Bilbo’s involvement, the Dwarf king Thrór brought an era of prosperity for his kin under the Lonely Mountain until the arrival of the dragon Smaug.


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
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Peter Jackson, 2013

Thorin and his company are being pursued by Azog and his Orc party following the events of the previous film. Thorin confronts the Elvenking about his neglect of the Dwarves of Erebor following Smaug’s attack 60 years earlier and is consequently imprisoned with the other Dwarves. Bilbo, having avoided capture, arranges an escape using empty wine barrels that are sent downstream.


The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
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Peter Jackson, 2014

Bilbo and the Dwarves watch from the Lonely Mountain as the dragon Smaug sets Laketown ablaze. Bard becomes the new leader of the people of Laketown, with the Master’s conniving servant, Alfrid, acting as Bard’s reluctant servant, as they seek refuge in the ruins of Dale, while Legolas travels to investigate Mount Gundabad with Tauriel.


The Stranger. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2015 book
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The Stranger
Harlan Coben, 2015
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Harlan Coben, 2020

A rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious passenger enters her car. Her terrifying, heart-stopping ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates LA in a chilling game of cat and mouse.


Captain America: The First Avenger. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1941 comic book, Captain America
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Captain America
Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, 1941
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Joe Johnston, 2011

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who’s transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler’s ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.


Captain America: The First Avenger. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Captain America: The First Avenger: Junior Novel
Elizabeth Rudnick, 2011
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Joe Johnston, 2011

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who’s transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler’s ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.


Stay Close. Poster of the 2021 TV series and cover of the 2012 book
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Stay Close
Harlan Coben, 2012
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Lindy Heymann, Daniel O'Hara, 2021

The lives of a photojournalist, a soccer mom and a homicide detective are disturbed by a terrible event from the past. Megan, a working mother of three; Ray, the once promising documentary photographer, now stuck in a dead-end job pandering to celebrity obsessed rich kids, and Broome, a detective who’s unable to let go of a missing person’s cold case.


Fool Me Once. Poster of the 2024 TV series and cover of the 2016 book
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Fool Me Once
Harlan Coben, 2016
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David Moore, Nimer Rashed, 2024-

A family is rattled by two murders. Maya Stern is unsettled when she watches security camera footage of her house and witnesses her murdered husband Joe appearing as an intruder. Simultaneously, her nephew and niece, Abby and Daniel, are on a quest to uncover the truth about their mother’s murder, discerning potential connections between the two cases.


Brain on Fire. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan, 2012
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Gerard Barrett, 2016

21-year-old Susannah Cahalan is a writer for The New York Post who lives with her new boyfriend Stephen. Susannah becomes suddenly ill, initially showing symptoms of a common flu like a cough and fatigue, but later begins presenting strange behaviour while in a trance state, such as hearing people say things they haven’t said and hypersensitivity to loud noises.


The Man from Rome. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Seville Communion
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The Seville Communion
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1995
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Sergio Dow, 2022

Agent of the Vatican’s intelligence agency Father Lorenzo Quart is sent to Seville, Spain, to look into a number of eerie murders that have occurred in a dilapidated church that is in danger of being demolished. He runs with a number of odd and dishonest people along the road, including an aristocratic divorcee, an old enemy in the guise of an Archbishop, and a henchman working for a gang of real estate developers.