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Unfolds from the perspective of a girl growing up in the outer boroughs of New York in the ’90s. With parents newly arrived from Shanghai, the family works through the unique trials of ascending to the middle class.

A 20-year CIA vet is convicted of spying and is sentenced to 23 years in prison, becoming the highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. After leaving behind a failed Army career and while in a state of depression, his youngest son begins to seek solace and advice from his father who is in an Oregon federal prison. The father raises his son's spirits but also coaches him in spycraft, in effect launching a second act of espionage from behind bars by using his son as a courier. In the ensuing year and a half, the son travels the world selling secrets to the Russians, all the while getting deeper and deeper over his head.

Set at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, three irrepressible seniors and their "Lethal Ladies" step dance team navigate a nerve-wracking college application process and strive to elevate the creative outlet that keeps them united and fighting to reach their goals.

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.

The story follows Odette, a princess that is turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

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.

The story centers on the rise and fall of entrepreneur John DeLorean. After his arrest in 1982, DeLorean presses a defense that he was entrapped by the FBI and is eventually acquitted. Still, his company goes bankrupt after producing only 9,000 automobiles.

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

A support group for shoe addicts quickly entangles four of its female members in each other's complicated lives.

Ten years later, the four girls have grown apart, busy with their own adult lives. Tibby tries to bridge the distance in by reuniting the girls for a trip that will change their lives forever.

Follows Jake Fisher, who watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man. Six years have passed when Jake comes across the other man's obituary. He resolves to attend the funeral, hoping to catch a glimpse of Natalie. But the mourning widow is not Natalie, throwing all of his past memories with the woman into question.

A college student learns he is going deaf and memorizes his favorite songs to help capture the most important memories of his life — including falling in love.

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.

Set in 19th-century Germany, the coming-of-age story follows a group of teens discovering their sexuality and dealing with high-wire topics like masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide.

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

Ten students form an a capella group long before the current craze of high school choral groups. The group plays venues such as Wrigley Field and Carnegie Hall, but the members disband three years later (though the group continued on the university level with new singers). But a few years later, the original group not only gets back together but signs a five-album deal.

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

A surrealist story about all the ways we hurt our friends without knowing it, and all the ways they stick around to save us.

Based on the song “Summer Nights” and focuses on the summer romantic fling between high schoolers Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.