Jojo Rabbit. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Caging Skies
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Caging Skies
Christine Leunens, 2004
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Taika Waititi, 2019

In the later stages of World War II, ten-year-old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler joins the Deutsches Jungvolk (junior section of the Hitler youth). The two are left in a stalemate as the revelation that Rosie hiding Elsa would lead to Rosie’s execution, and neither Jojo nor Elsa is willing to tell Rosie that they know for fear of what would happen next.


Life After Life. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2013 book
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Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, 2013
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John Crowley, 2022-

Ursula Todd dies shortly after being born in 1910, but is reborn and lives multiple lives over the course of the century. She experiences different circumstances and encounters major events, including both world wars and an encounter with Hitler.


Leave No Trace. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2009 book, My Abandonment
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My Abandonment
Peter Rock, 2009
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Debra Granik, 2018

Will, an Iraq War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, lives with his 13-year-old daughter, Tom, in an old growth forest park near Portland, Oregon. They live in isolation, using forest survival skills and only entering the town occasionally for food and supplies.


The Power of the Dog. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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The Power of the Dog
Thomas Savage, 1967
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Jane Campion, 2021

The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil, one of the brothers, will end up launching a campaign against the young widow when she unexpectedly marries his brother and comes to live on the ranch.


Lost Girls. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2013 book, Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker, 2013
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Liz Garbus, 2020

Mari Gilbert, Shannan Gilbert’s mother, relentlessly drives law enforcement agents to search for her missing daughter and, in the process, sheds light on a wave of unsolved murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer.


Eileen. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2015 book
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Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh, 2015
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William Oldroyd, 2023

Set in cold Boston in the 1960s, Eileen moves between her father’s gloomy, emotionally scarred home and the prison where she is an employee, but is isolated by her colleagues. She becomes infatuated with a charismatic woman who joins the prison staff, but before their relationship can fully blossom, her newfound companion leads her into a shocking criminal act that changes everything.


True History of the Kelly Gang. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey, 2000
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Justin Kurzel, 2019

Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels. Nurtured by the notorious bushranger, Harry Power and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.


Old. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2010 comic book, Sand Castle
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Sand Castle
Frederik Peeters, Pierre Oscar Lévy, 2010
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M. Night Shyamalan, 2021

A a chilling, mysterious thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.