Holland can’t stop listening to the subway performer. She’s even named him, floating down the steps every time that she knows he’ll be there, riding the subway when she doesn’t need to. Then her friend drags her to a bar and she sees the same man on stage. Could her actions be seen as stalking? Fate decides to bring them together anyway when she’s attacked in his subway station and then her uncle is desperate to find a replacement musician for his Broadway play. Holland wants to save the day more than anything, so when she finds out that the man in the station is actually undcumented, she offers a marriage proposal to help him and to save her uncle.
Read MoreThe peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. - IMDB
Read MoreNo one knows what Kiera does with her free time. They don’t know that she’s created an online video game that’s over 500,000 strong. They don’t know that she’s created a safe gaming environment for black people. And they don’t know that she’s scared when one of the gamers winds up dead over a dispute about the game. As the news travels the world, bringing awareness to the very real fact that her game may be discriminating, Kiera struggles to show that she’s just wanting black people to feel like themselves for once. But then an unknown entity threatens to bring down everything that Kiera and the game stand for.
Read MoreAn insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. - IMDB
Read MoreLeila Tūs Salvatíraas, Savior of Thessen and magical Queen of Her realm, is worshiped by all. Except Her father. He wants Her dead. The Sovereign’s Tournament—a centuries-long tradition designed to select The Savior’s husband—is days away, but Brontes’s plan to overthrow his daughter ignites, shifting the objective of the competition from marriage to murder. With the help of Her sisters and some unexpected allies, Leila must unravel Brontes’s network and prevent Her own assassination. But as the body count rises, She learns the deception runs far deeper than She imagined. When She finds Herself falling for one of the tournament competitors, Her father finds himself another target for murder.
Can Leila save Herself and Her beloved, or is their untimely end—and the corruption of Her realm—inevitable?
TRIGGER WARNINGS: This book contains graphic violence, sexual situations, physical abuse, adult language, and references to suicide. - Goodreads
Read MoreA teenage sorceress named Nimue encounters a young Arthur on her quest to find a powerful and ancient sword. - IMDB
Read MoreSometimes it seems like Usagi is hopeless. Sure, she's good with healing herbs, but she's the granddaughter of the leader of a prestigious ninja village and she's such a klutz that she's never made it out of the kiddie class. Finally frustrated with Usagi's lack of progress, her grandfather sends her to marry a local lord and have lots of ninja babies. But the lord has no interest in her or her child bearing potential! After years of goofing around, Usagi is finally determined to reach her goals--she's going to become a ninja and capture her true love's heart! - Goodreads
Read MoreRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. - IMDB
Read MoreSold to a debtor’s ship to pay off her family’s debt, Amaya is almost free when she makes the decision to defy her captain and save a man from drowning. That act of rebellion costs her her ticket off the ship. Jumping overboard to escape her debtor’s life, the man she saves offers her the one thing she wants more than freedom - revenge. The pair team up together with plans to take down the same man that has ruined both of their lives. Disguising herself as a Countess in hopes of becoming friends with the man’s son, the son soon discovers his own secrets, ones that he hopes he can use to save his sick sister. That is until Amaya and his world tangle together in a spectacular fashion.
Read MoreFred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster. - IMDB
Read MorePainting may seem like the best career for an extremely talented artist like Isobel, but not when your clients are the dangerous faerie who will try anything to trick you. Still, they need humans to do craft. Isobel takes great care with each of her clients, making sure to use their payment to protect her family. That is, until she angers one of her most important clients, Rook, by painting him as she sees him. Rook will not have it. Kidnapping her in the middle of the night to stand trial for her crimes, they end up far from their intended destination, realizing that the very thing Isobel painted, is the truth that lies beneath Rook’s glamored skin.
Read MoreThe story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. - IMDB
Read MoreFour years…. It’s been four years of Fable scraping together whatever she could with her own two hands, trying to survive since she was dumped on the shores of Jeval with nothing but a wicked scare down her arm and a plan to find the man that put it there, her dad. All she needs to do is survive a little longer while she dives for gems that can bring her the coin she needs to buy passage off the island. It looks like she might do just that until the men on the island stop ignoring her and want what she scrounged together. Being chased off the island, Fable runs to the one ship she knows, a ship that’s always traded with her, begging for passage to finally start the search for what’s owed to her - a place on her father’s ship, the most notorious trader. A man with a reputation that follows him everywhere.
Read MoreEarly 1970s. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be. - IMDB
Read MoreBook 1 - When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.
Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. But it's too late to turn back.
There are three billion lives at stake, two people who can save them, and one final secret that Cat must unlock. A secret that will change everything. - Goodreads
Read MoreA group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood try to make it big - no matter the cost. - IMDB
Read MoreTold in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.
The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.
A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard. - Goodreads
Read MoreWriter Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbored doubts about their boss' ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted. - IMDB
Read MoreEsha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood, training morning and night to uphold the power of King Vardaan. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has been growing only more volatile. Then Esha’s and Kunal’s paths cross—and an unimaginable chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they’re calling the shots, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces. As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both rebel and soldier must make unforgivable choices. - Goodreads
Read MoreA figure skating Olympic hopeful's struggle to balance love, family and fragile mental health as her dream of winning takes a dizzying hold. - IMDB
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