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All Summer Long

Set in Southern California over a summer in the 1960s and includes the sounds of the Beach Boys music and the beach culture of the time.

American Jesus [Series]

A modern 12-year-old boy realizes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ who has returned to Earth in the present day in a final effort to save mankind.

American Rust

Two longtime friends from an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania have their dreams of escaping to California dashed when they're implicated in a crime.

Amicus

Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

Anatomy of a Misfit

The third-most-popular girl in school is secretly dating a troubled loner when the most popular guy is suddenly interested in her. She struggles to choose between them until she is faced with a tragedy that changes her entire perception of high school and the social order.

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.

Any Person, Living or Dead

Using his homemade time machine, a brilliant reclusive scientist gathers a roundtable of the greatest minds in history (Shakespeare, George Washington, Aristotle, etc.) to solve all of humanity's problems.

Arranged

An unlikely couple goes through a modern-day arranged marriage set up by their fathers who are friends from the old country.

Ascension

A scientist must save the world after gravity is erased from the Earth's atmosphere.

Ashe

Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American player to be selected to the U.S. Davis Cup team and to win three Grand Slam titles.

Athena

A troubled young woman is recruited by a covert agency and learns she is the descendant of the fabled goddess of wisdom and war.

Audition

Sam Davis, who lives alone with his son following the death of his wife seven years prior, is convinced by a filmmaker friend to stage fake auditions to find a new girlfriend. He gets more than he bargained for when he falls for former ballerina with a mysterious past.

A Boy Named Shel

Explores the personal and professional struggles that made Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999, a unique voice. Silverstein’s resume includes best-selling books such as “The Giving Tree,” poetry collections “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic,” chart-topping songs such as Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone”; and memorable illustrations.

A Court of Thorns and R...

After a 19-year-old huntress kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it.

A Dirty Carnival

Story follows the rise and emotional decline of a small-time hoodlum, who collects debts for the mob, but is also burdened by his family’s own financial problems.