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The Aftermath
Rhidian Brook - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Rhidian Brook's The Aftermath is set in post-WWII Germany. Kiera Knightly plays a woman who is newly reunited with her husband after the war, ready to move into a new home. The couple decides to allow the previous owner, along with his daughter, to remain in the house igniting... |
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The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
Osha Gray Davidson - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson is based on the true story of the unlikely friendship between a KKK leader and a civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. The movie adaptation will star Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell.
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London - Joe Books LTD
Format: Book
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Harrison Ford will star in the adaptation of this classic novel orginally published in 1903 and set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Lee Israel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward,... |
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The Flight Attendant
CHRIS BOHJALIAN - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERA USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong... |
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The Goldfinch: A Novel
Donna Tartt - Little Brown & Company
Format: Book
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Donna Tartt's pulitzer-prize winning novel, The Goldfinch, is hitting the big screen with a cast that includes Sarah Paulson, Nicole Kidman, and Luke Wilson.
The eventful novel tells the story of a boy who steals a famous painting during a bombing at a museum.
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The Good Liar: A Novel
Nicholas Searle - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"A superb thriller and a truly engrossing read." - Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10When Roy meets a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley, Roy is a man who lives... |
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Regina King won the best supporting actress in a motion picture Golden Globe for her role as a mother seeking justice for her daughter’s wrongfully imprisoned partner in the adaption of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
Released in theaters December 2018,... |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Book
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The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
Set to star Michael B. Jordan with... |
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo - Canterbury Classics
Format: Book
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This epic read is comig to PBS April 2019.
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Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem - Vintage
Format: Book
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Motherless Brooklyn is a classic detective novel by Jonathan Lethem. Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna... |
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Native Son
Richard Wright - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Native Son by Richard Wright is a coming of age story about Bigger Thomas, an African American teen growing up in the South Side of Chicago in the 1930’s. Check out the local indie cinemas for this adaptation.
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: eBook
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin... |
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Pet Sematary
Stephen King
Format: Book
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Stephen King adaptations are rather popular and this title has ben done before. However, it is rumored that the 2019 adaptation is truer to the original book.
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The Rhythm Section: A Stephanie Patrick Thriller
Mark Burnell - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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The international espionage thriller soon to be a major motion picture, from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively.Stephanie Patrick's life is destroyed by the crash of flight NEO027. Her family was on board and there were no survivors. Devastated,... |
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The Rosie Project: A Novel
Graeme C Simsion - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.THE ART OF LOVE IS NEVER A SCIENCE MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged... |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Maria Semple - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times) . Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband,... |
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The Woman in the Window: A Novel
A. J. Finn - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 Instant New York Times Bestseller - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture"Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing." - Gillian Flynn"Unputdownable." - Stephen King"A dark, twisty confection." - Ruth Ware"Absolutely gripping." - Louise PennyFor readers... |
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