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Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

Set in New York when Gotham was emerging from the trauma of World War II, an 18-year-old girl breaks free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.

A shepherd leaves Spain in search of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids and meets various spiritual messengers along the way.

Lessa, a young girl, is the only one to survive the assassination of her family, which rules a part of the planet Pern. She disguises herself as a lowly servant in the house of the new ruler but when her telepathic abilities prove to be far stronger than she believed, Lessa finds herself on a journey that will restore the ancient tradition of dragon-riding just in time to fight a space spore.

A worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion will reduce civilization to ashes unless it can be stopped by an improbable group of heroes led by an enigmatic man known as The Fireman. It's no simple blaze: the condition starts as an inky stripe on a bodypart, looking like a tattoo. It's a highly contagious deadly spore that eventually causes the sufferer to burst into flames. Millions are infected; among them is a nurse who treated numerous sufferers until they eventually perished, with the hospital burned to the ground. Pregnant, she finds herself infected with the spore. Knowing infected mothers have birthed healthy babies, she too is in a race against time.

Soldiers fight in an endless war with no clear idea about why they are engaged in combat.

The story centers on a young Jewish woman who is separated from her husband when the Germans invade Prague and uses her talents as an artist to survive until the couple is miraculously reunited decades later in America.

A wealthy British aristocrat falls in love with his Albanian housekeeper, unaware that she is on the run from human traffickers.

A disillusioned lawyer steals $90 million from his law firm, stages his own death and successfully disappears for several years. What at first seems to be a brilliant white-collar crime is further complicated by a murder charge.

He calls himself Columbus. Some call him the "Silver Bear." But all know him as one of the deadliest assassins in the world.

A destitute and pregnant seventeen year old must make an impossible choice between love and honor.

Detective Dave Gurney comes out of retirement in an attempt to solve a mysterious serial killing spree in upstate New York.

In an Italian seaside village in 1962, a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.

Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.

A boy, who appears much older than he actually is, impersonates his friend's father in order to ride in an experimental spaceship. He manages to get aboard, but the spaceship experiences a major malfunction and the boy must save the ship and the crew.

A young woman leaves a hippie commune in Georgia to become a magazine editor in New York.