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Books that Inspired Movies and Shows March 2024
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird
A definitive portrait of legendary scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb, discusses his seminal role in the twentieth-century scientific world, as well as his lesser-known roles as family man, supposed communist, and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a Long Island family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe. |
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The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
In an alternate-world modern London submerged below flood waters, a woman who has just given birth to her first child is forced to flee her home with her baby to seek refuge in a variety of locations while the baby thrives against all odds.
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Frank Herbert's Dune : the Graphic Novel
by Brian Herbert
Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece, set in the far future amid a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos. Originally published in 1965 and now faithfully adapted graphic novel by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune explores the complex, multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the forces of the empire confront each other for control of Arrakis.
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Horns
by Joe Hill
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart and an incredible new power, a power he uses in the name of vengeance, only to learn that, when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
After discovering the true nature of the one ring, Bilbo Baggins entrusts it to the care of his younger cousin, Frodo, who is charged with bringing about its destruction and thus foiling the plans of the Dark Lord.
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
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