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Hunchback

A disfigured Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, longs to be with other people, leading to his chance encounter with the enchanting Gypsy Esmeralda.

Love May Fail

After escaping her posh life and her cheating husband, a woman finds herself transported back to her childhood home, where she sets out to reunite with a beloved high school English teacher who retired after a horrific event in the classroom.

Red Queen (series)

Set in a world where society is divided by the color of blood, a 17 year old girl must assume the role of a long-lost princess to save her family, while secretly aiding a revolution; her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and her against her own heart.

Skyward

Set in a world where gravity suddenly becomes a fraction of what it is now, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. A woman born just after G-Day has become accustomed to it, but has come across a dangerous plan to bring gravity back.

The Athena Project

An elite all-female Delta team made up of four agents try to stop a terror attack on American soil. After a terror attack in Rome kills 23 Americans, the agents are sent to hunt down the Venetian arms dealer who supplied the explosives. This leads to a much larger terrorist conspiracy.

The Dragonriders of Pern

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.

The Forest of Hands and...

Set in a futuristic world, most of the human race has been taken by a bloodthirsty virus that leaves them roaming the planet as unconsecrated cannibals. Mary seeks a bigger world beyond the fenced off village of survivors, and the survival of the human race seems dependent upon her success in leading a ragtag group through the dark depths of The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Thieves’ Gambit

A young woman, raised by her parents to be an expert thief, must enter a dangerous and cutthroat competition that pits her against other young talented thieves where the winner takes all.

29

A 75-year-old woman is obsessed with remaining young. On her birthday, she wishes she was 29 again, just for one day, and when it comes true, she teams with her young granddaughter to embark on an adventure. Meanwhile, the woman's middle-aged daughter and 75-year-old best friend believe her to be kidnapped and set out on their own escapade.

A Conspiracy of Paper

Set in early 18th century London against the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency, Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer living on the fringes of criminal society, becomes entangled with powerful financial giants.

American Wife

A quiet woman marries a charismatic scion of a political family and ultimately becomes a presidential First Lady.

Animosity

The story is set in a world plunged into chaos as newly intelligent animals gain the power of speech and fight humanity and one other. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and acts as her protection.

Corduroy

Over the course of one night in a closed department store, a teddy bear goes on an adventure to find his lost button so that he can find the home and the friend that he has always wanted.

Eternal Warrior

A movie adaptation of the Valiant Comics character Eternal Warrior.

Grounded

Tells the story of a conflicted American Air Force pilot tasked with operating an unmanned drone.

I’ve Got Your Number

A romantic comedy featuring a lost engagement ring, a stolen cell phone, and two strangers who find each other…just as one of them is about to marry someone else.

Into the Water

Set in a town where a single mother and a teenage girl were found dead in a river within a few months of each other. The story centers on a 15-year-old girl, who has been left parentless while caring for her mother’s sister — a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from.

Little Bee

On an African beach, a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets a vacationing upper-middle-class British couple who've wandered into an area outside the safety of their resort.

Love Letters to the Dead

High school student Laurel's beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes to her epistolary confidants about navigating new and complicated friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time. Ultimately, the letters reveal the painful truth about her past.