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A group of American sailors are shipwrecked in Africa in 1815, captured by Bedouins and sold into slavery.

A past-her-prime movie star keeps her beautiful daughter alive artificially inside their home. While a doctor fights against the death wish of a suicidal drug-addicted young woman.

Fictionalized account of Jimi Hendrix's legendary "lost weekend" in the late 1960s in which two gangsters, who are desperately trying to get away from a mob boss they double-crossed, inadvertently kidnap Hendrix, who is at the height of his career and drug addiction. Along the way, Hendrix ends up teaching one of the gangsters about honesty, and even learns to clean up his own act.

A team of elite former Special Forces operators, led by Navy SEAL sniper Gil Shannon, is unofficially created by the Pentagon to find the location of a nuclear suitcase and the bad guy who intends to detonate it inside the United States.

For high school teen Teddy, life in a sleepy suburb in Alaska is turned upside-down when he innocently posts a photo of his dad online, only to learn he and his family are in the Witness Protection Program. A man seeking revenge invades their town, followed soon after by pursuing FBI agents, but what if his dad's reasons for going into the program aren't as innocent as he says.

A silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar finds popularity starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films.

Shakespeare Shapiro decides to chronicle every mortifying detail of his quest to get into college and find a girlfriend in his memoir, a writing project that every high school senior must complete.

Jonas Salk, a virologist, begins his polio research and eventually discovers a vaccine that he purposefully does not patent which is then used for decades to inoculate against the virus.

Greg Nielsen, an ex-CIA operative, reinvents his identity after the agency sets him up, only to be sucked back into action against his former employers when his stepdaughter is taken hostage years later.

"St. George and the Dragon" is the enduring myth of a knight's struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast.

The movie centers on a broken-down, once-great hockey player who gets a chance to finally fill his legendary father's skates by giving his hometown, known as Hockeytown USA, a pseudo rematch of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game against a Russian team of ex-Olympians.

A miller tells a king that his daughter is capable of spinning straw into gold. The king locks the girl in a tower and demands that she do so by morning, but just as she's given up all hope, an imp-like creature arrives to spin the straw into gold in exchange for jewelry, but as the king's demands grow, so do the imp's. Eventually, the girl promises the imp her first-born son if he agrees to spin an entire room of straw into gold. When the imp returns years later to claim the boy, the now-queen begs him for another trade. The imp agrees, saying that if she can guess his name in three days, he'll let her keep her child.

Follows Steve McQueen's life from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely death at the age of 50 in Mexico. Also features the meeting and issues that evolved between McQueen and Charles Manson.

The project will primarily chronicle Steve McQueen's Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break in the film Somebody Up There Likes Me. The book, which was published in paperback in October, also delves into McQueen's offscreen penchant for motorcycles, fast cars and drugs.

A young man wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in and lead a good life with the beautiful Sadie Blood.

John LeFevre shoots to prominence — anonymously — as the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, an inside look at the real world of international finance.

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.

Sisters, who are triplets, sing jazz and dance in the group The Triplets of Belleville.

Experimental brain therapy Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) dramatically changes both the life and mind of New York Times bestselling author and advocate for the neurologically diverse Elder Robison.