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The story centers on a brother and sister who move into their late great-grandfather's home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world.

Based on the classic 1950's children's book by Kay Thompson, Eloise jets off to Paris for Fashion Week and, along with one of Europe's top designers, finds herself chasing after a stolen dress.

The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy who faces challenges in an orphanage, and the weird and dangerous world outside after he is adopted by an elderly eccentric as a pet.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves a device that can reflect gravity. He expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. Presented with the opportunity to join the organization and improve his own technology in secret, Grady balks, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age? And when they do, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?

A teenager learns she has powers and travels to Nigeria to learn more about her origins, where she discovers a threat to her newfound magical community.

A Wall Street firm's token Jewish lawyer finds himself in the middle of a chain reaction of international intrigue and bloody violence after the firebombing of a black church in Brooklyn that was once a synagogue.

The Beaumonts, a unique Midwestern family, is made up truly talented individuals with superpowers. As each kid hits the age of thirteen, his or her inherent power comes to light. They call this talent "savvy," and it can be anything. When a Beaumont celebrates that fateful, lucky thirteen, everyone waits with baited breath to see what happens.

A headless horseman terrorizes a small town and its newest resident, Ichabod Crane.

Centers on Chester, a cricket who lives in a NY subway station newsstand and his various friends.

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.

Follows a con man and murderer, who marries a widow with motives to discover where her deceased husband hid money stolen during a bank heist.

A computer repairman and moon resident gets caught up in a rebellion against the authority that controls it from Earth. He fights with the aid of a young female dissenter, an elderly academic and a supercomputer that recently attained consciousness.

Freddie (Jake Gyllenhaal), a civilian surveillance contractor, interrupts a break-in at his apartment while he's spying on a Chinese academic in Vienna. The intruder escapes, but then comes back and tries to kill Freddie, making the American contractor a hunted man. Freddie's only hope for survival is that his pursuer doesn't know the past he's running away from.

A woman rises through the ranks at Peoples Temple and then fights to expose the truth about cult leader Jim Jones to the world before it’s too late.

Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

This story is about a famous soldier named Monza Murcatto (Ferguson). She is betrayed and cast out by her comrades, so she sets out on a mission for revenge. Along the way, her actions end up changing the fate of an entire nation.

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

When a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can't mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario.

Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

One minute, sixteen-year-old girl is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress and the next, she’s Marked as a fledgling vampire, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do.