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Representing the system’s most unsavory characters in his work as a criminal defense lawyer, jaded attorney Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by sinister events that suggest the workings of a particularly evil perpetrator.

A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant bash but cruelly blows her off. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. The only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, something he considers impossible.

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.

A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters—ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex—as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from life support.

The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn’t quite ready for retirement – especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognizes the hand of Karla – his Moscow nemesis – and sets a trap to catch the traitor.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe’s mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

Explains how Billy Beene, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used a new method to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet.

A former British newspaper columnist describes how he purchased a dilapidated zoo, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money and his wife’s devastating illness.

The story behind the founding of Facebook by Harvard University undergraduates, and how conflicting ideas for the future of the site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.

This story takes on the nature of male-female friendship, love, and career in the post-college years. Set across England in the 1980s and 90s, it’s a tale of two unlikely friends that is told one day at a time, on the same day each year.

Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate ‘birder’ by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a complicated cross-country adventure as each man realizes that the quest for success comes at a price, and that’s not chicken feed!

The story of two girls in nineteenth century China and their friendship beginning at age seven. Lily narrates the story as an old woman, relating how her friendship with Snow Flower grew and then fell apart with a major betrayal.

A series of letters between an estranged husband and wife about their teenage son’s sociopath behavior after he goes on a Columbine-like killing spree.

The true story of how CIA operative Valerie Plame’s career was destroyed and marriage strained when her identity was leaked by the Bush administration in an attempt to undermine her husband’s revelations that the administration mislead Americans regarding weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war.