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What Alice Forgot

A woman wakes up after a head injury with no memory of the last 15 years. She discovers her once-happy life is gone – she's now a divorced single mother who must decide whether to start over or fix her relationships.

In a Dark, Dark Wood

A reclusive writer receives an invitation to a bachelorette party of her best friend from high school, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years.

The Rosie Project

Don Tillman, a professor of genetics who may suffer from Aspergers, has never been on a second date until he embarks upon The Wife Project, designing a questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner: a punctual, non-drinking, non-smoking female who will fit in with his regimented lifestyle. When the unorthodox and free-spirited Rosie appears on the scene, it is clear that she fits none of his selection criteria, but she still may just be the perfect match to help turn his life around.

Run, Rose, Run

A young woman comes to country music's capital city to pursue her music-making dreams. The source of her heart-wrenching songs is a brutal secret she has tried desperately to hide, but the past she has fled is reaching out to control her future—and it may destroy everything she has worked for.

Combat Control

Air Force Combat Control Technician (CCT) John Chapman dies in battle on March 4, 2002 in Afghanistan. Following his death, no one imagined it would take over a decade for the truth of what really happened on that snowy mountainside to emerge.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Two Muslim women, married to the same man, foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.

City on Fire

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Angelology

Follows a young nun in upstate New York who, in uncovering a correspondence between the former mother superior and Abigail Rockefeller, unwittingly reignites an ancient war between a society of angelologists (a group that studies angels) and the Nephilim (the monster-like descendants of angels and humans). The book pulls from a variety of religious and mythical histories and, per Simonoff, "blends biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, the apocryphal Book of Enoch and the fall of the rebel angels, with bravura storytelling.

Septimus Heap

Two babies that are switched at birth: one a boy who discovers his birthright as the seventh son of a seventh son, and who is destined to become a powerful wizard; the other a girl who is fated to become a princess.

The Joy Luck Club 2

Mothers become grandmothers and their daughters become mothers in their own right, as a new generation explores their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.

A Horse Walks Into A Bar

retired district court judge is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar. The judge and the comedian, who trade on divisive and offensive jokes, knew each other as boys but have had no contact for over 40 years. With barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shape — one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance and lead to a series of candid and chilling revelations.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky

Pino Lella is a normal Italian teenager living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lella is forced to enlist with the German Army, and is immediately assigned as a personal driver to Adolf Hitler's left hand, General Hans Leyers. This fly on the wall in the upper echelons of the Third Reich positions him to be recruited by the Allies as a spy.

Burial Rites

A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Based upon the Victor Hugo story in which Quasimodo, a hunchbacked bell-ringer, falls in love with the beautiful Esmeralda.

Our Wild Life

Dame Daphne Sheldrick, the leading animal conservationist in Kenya, devotes her life to preventing elephant extinction by endeavoring to save baby elephants left orphaned by war, poaching and culling.