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A single mom has two kids: one being bullied and the other a math whiz. When the latter is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity on the other side of the country, the mom procures the help of her obnoxious tech millionaire employer and everyone, including the dog, sets out on a road trip that changes their lives.

A man finds himself employed by two very different bosses, one of whom is a notorious gangster.

A 17-year-old and 91-year-old discover the parallels in their lives as outsiders, exposing a secret which has haunted the older woman her entire life.

Set in New England and London, a pair of feuding families find their lives, race and sexual politics increasingly intertwined.

Lisa Stern, a lawyer, takes on the insurance giant Generali for stiffing Holocaust survivors. The results is a $5.2 billion fund which German companies establish to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors.

Centers on a 32-year-old English teacher who tutors a 16-year-old boy at his family's Maldives summer home. En route to join his family, their seaplane crash-lands, stranding the two on an uninhabited island where they develop a strong relationship that's tested years later when they're rescued.

Katy Swartz moves with her mother to small-town West Virginia, resigning herself to thick accents and a boring life. She is hopeful after meeting her neighbors who are a shot of life, and the brother and sister tandem becomes even more interesting when it turns out they are aliens. When she falls for the brother and he touches her, it marks her as a homing device for an army of extraterrestrial bad guys.

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.

A group of unemployed software engineers plan a bank robbery that gets them in trouble with mobsters from Boston and Russia.

Oliver Sipple, a former Marine and Vietnam veteran, saves the life of President Gerald Ford when he deflects the weapon of the would be assassin. But he finds himself in the crosshairs of a media firestorm when news of his sexual orientation leaks to the press. Sipple dies in 1989 at age 47 after being treated for schizophrenia, alcoholism and several other health problems.

Set in modern day, an orphan boy moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a gang. Hardship, murders and secrets waiting to be revealed follow the boy.

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) creates a secret program, Operation Pandora’s Box, to hide an informant inmate that is feeding the FBI dirt on abuse at the Men's Central Jail. An upstart FBI agent, an idealistic sheriff's deputy and the inmate navigate a web of corruption within the county jail system as part of a sting operation.

The story centers on a civilian who wins the chance to join a space shuttle flight, only to find himself alone and adrift in space when the rest of the crew dies.

A multi-narrative romance that tells a universal story through various forms of love letters.

Drafted by the Dodgers and touted as a potential star, Glenn Burke gets off to a flying start when he becomes the only rookie to start in the 1977 World Series. While his adversity is nothing compared to what Jackie Robinson faced when he broke baseball's color barrier, Burke’s decision to come out of the closet hastens his demise. He is surprisingly traded to Oakland in 1978, but gets injured and retires in his second season there. Burke is diagnosed with AIDS in 1994 and dies a year later at age 42.

Having lost the love of his life, a 75-year old man agrees to trade his old carcass for a younger, genetically-enhanced body so that he can join a military coalition sent to protect human colonies in outer space. Injured in battle, he's rescued by a woman who appears to be a younger version of his wife, and while she doesn't recognize him, he decides to abandon his unit and risk everything to be with her.

Against the backdrop of the Cold War in 1959, Mary, an English rose married to a diplomat, begins an affair with a Chicago journalist.

A Texas football team from the Gainesville State School is made up of kids convicted of crimes involving drugs, violence and robbery.