You Don't Know Jack. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2011 book, Between the Dying and the Dead
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Between the Dying and the Dead
Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, 2011
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Barry Levinson, 2010

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian astonished the world as he took the end-of-life debate head-on with his ‘Mercitron’ and performed his first assisted suicide. “The movie follows Kevorkian as he builds his infamous Mercitron and starts a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient’s fight to die.


Dead Man Walking. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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Dead Man Walking
Sister Helen Prejean, 1993
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Tim Robbins, 1995

Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting execution after being convicted and sentenced to death for killing a teenage couple. As the day of his execution comes closer, Poncelet asks Sister Helen Prejean, with whom he has corresponded, to help him with a final appeal.


The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Poster of the 1975 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel
Richard J. Anobile, Jim Sharman, Richard O'Brien, 1980
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Jim Sharman, 1975

Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening, near a town called Denton in 1974. Seeking a telephone, the couple walks to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention.


Children of Dune. Poster of the 2003 TV series and cover of the 1976 book
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Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, 1976
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Greg Yaitanes, 2003

Twelve years have passed since Paul Atreides had become Emperor at the end of Frank Herbert’s Dune by seizing control of the planet Arrakis and forcing a union with the former Emperor’s daughter, the Princess Irulan. Paul’s Fremen armies have since launched several bloody jihads to solidify his position. Deposed Emperor Shaddam IV and the rest of his family are exiled to Salusa Secundus, where his other daughter Princess Wensicia plots to restore House Corrino to power.


Children of Dune. Poster of the 2003 TV series and cover of the 1965 book, Dune Messiah
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Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, 1965
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Greg Yaitanes, 2003

Twelve years have passed since Paul Atreides had become Emperor at the end of Frank Herbert’s Dune by seizing control of the planet Arrakis and forcing a union with the former Emperor’s daughter, the Princess Irulan. Paul’s Fremen armies have since launched several bloody jihads to solidify his position. Deposed Emperor Shaddam IV and the rest of his family are exiled to Salusa Secundus, where his other daughter Princess Wensicia plots to restore House Corrino to power.


Little Women. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1868 book
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
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Gillian Armstrong, 1994

In 1868, Jo March, a teacher in New York City, goes to Mr. Dashwood, an editor who agrees to publish a story she has written. In New York, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship.


Little Women. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Little Women
Laurie Lawlor, 2012
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Gillian Armstrong, 1994

In 1868, Jo March, a teacher in New York City, goes to Mr. Dashwood, an editor who agrees to publish a story she has written. In New York, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship.


Enchanted. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Enchanted: The Junior Novelization
Jasmine Jones, 2007
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Kevin Lima, 2007

In the animated fairy tale kingdom of Andalasia, Narissa, queen of Andalasia and an evil sorceress, schemes to protect her claim to the throne, which she will lose once her stepson, Prince Edward, finds his true love and marries. Robert and his young daughter Morgan encounter Giselle on their way home, and Robert begrudgingly allows Giselle to stay the night in their apartment at the insistence of Morgan, who believes Giselle is a princess.


The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2009 book
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
J. Randy Taraborrelli, 2009
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Laurie Collyer, 2015

A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe’s family life, her relationship with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.


The Client. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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The Client
John Grisham, 1993
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Joel Schumacher, 1994

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford. Authorities – and the mob – realize that Clifford may have told Mark where a Louisiana senator, murdered by Muldano, is buried.


The Lovely Bones. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 2002 book
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold, 2002
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Peter Jackson, 2009

In 1973, 14-year-old high school freshman Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground kid’s hideout he has built. In town, Susie sees Jack, who does not respond to her when she calls.


James and the Giant Peach. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1961 book
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl, 1961
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Henry Selick, 1996

James Henry Trotter is a young orphan whose parents were devoured by a rhinoceros, forcing him to live with his sadistic and domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge. The peach pit is made into a cottage in Central Park, where James lives happily with the bugs, who form his new family and also find success and fame in the city.