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In the rebuilding of the United States after natural disasters and biological war, the best and brightest high school graduates are put through a series of tests, both physical and mental, to determine whether they have what it takes to become the leaders of future generations.

After arriving in the Middle East region in 2002, a woman works as a journalist in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A Korean-American teenage boy falls in love for fake in order to fall in love for real.

A betrayed murderess on a revenge campaign and a hard-drinking former cop team up to take down a crime lord.

Matt Helm, a former WWII spy, retires and tries unsuccessfully to put his past behind him.

CIA agent John Clark leaves the agency with several colleagues and creates an England-based multinational organization designed to battle terrorism.

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion—a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers—Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?

The true story of Ashley Smith (Mara), a single mother and recovering drug addict who was taken hostage in her own apartment by fugitive, murderer and accused rapist Brian Nichols (Oyelowo). With her back against the wall, Smith turned to the personal spiritual journey of Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life in an attempt to survive and help Brian find a better way out.

A boy discovers he can jump into other people's dreams. But that power turns into a nightmare, literally, when his friends begin falling into an endless sleep and something in the dream world wants the boy's abilities for itself.

A twentysomething woman learns she is a descendant of one of the feuding families made infamous in Romeo and Juliet. She travels to Italy and discovers that the 600-year-old curse is still in effect and her fate is tied to literature’s greatest lovers.

Born on Eventide, Morrigan Crow's fated to die at midnight on her ninth birthday. She is spared when rescued by a mysterious stranger, and after they are chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, they escape to a secret city called Nevermoor.

A young man begins shrinking in size after playing a strange board game and goes largely unnoticed by his parents.

To avenge her sister's death and save her family's tea house, Aza Wu joins the culture of casters who battle with magic for money.

A group of dragonologists go on a globetrotting quest to keep a corrupt man from taking control of the world's dragons and using them to wipe out humanity.

Follows Tracy Flick who is now a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey and still struggling to fight her way to the top.

The story of Laura Ingalls and her family who wander the west in search of a place to can call home.

Follows 27-year old Lucy, who sustained a traumatic brain injury when she was three.

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

Set in 1894, a church going English maid learns her scandalous father is alive and continuing his gruesome experiments on a remote tropical island.

Simon Templar targets the lowlifes and corrupt politicians. He often leaves a calling card at his "crimes," a stick figure of a man with a halo.