The Boys from Brazil. Poster of the 1978 movie and cover of the 1976 book
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The Boys from Brazil
Ira Levin, 1976
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Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978

Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. Ezra Lieberman, an aging Nazi hunter, will discover a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.


It Takes Two. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1949 book, Lottie and Lisa
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Lottie and Lisa
Erich Kästner, 1949
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Andy Tennant, 1995

Amanda Lemmon is a 9-year-old orphan, and she is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family known to collect kids. While at summer camp, Amanda meets an identical girl named Alyssa Callaway, who has come home from boarding school, only to find that her wealthy father, Roger, the camp’s owner, is about to marry Clarice Kensington, an overbearing self-centered gold-digging socialite.


The Poseidon Adventure. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1969 book
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The Poseidon Adventure
Paul Gallico, 1969
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John Putch, 2005

The SS Poseidon, a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town to Sydney succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year’s eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.