It's incredibly star-packed, meaning that adults are likely to be as amused as the kids. Movie: Deep Water. Deep Water , a movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, is bringing back the era of the erotic thriller.
Melinda and Vic Van Allen are an unhappily married couple. When one of Melinda's lovers winds up dead, Vic intimates that he was the killer. Movie: Infinite. The Reincarnationist Papers is a book sprung from an imaginative premise: The existence of a secret society, called Cognomina, whose members have the ability to remember everything from their past lives. They use that knowledge to enact societal change. Starring: When Chris Evans had scheduling difficulties and had to leave the project, Mark Wahlberg was cast in the lead.
Movie: Dune. Dune is set to be one of 's most anticipated films. Instead of trying to cram all of Dune into one movie, director Denis Villeneuve is going big. Movie: The Last Duel. Eric Jager's book has more than enough to fuel one of the most highly anticipated movies of Two best friends become worst enemies over the course of the story. Movie: The House of Gucci. Early photos from the set of The House of Gucci depicting co-stars Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are drumming up anticipation for the Ridley Scott-directed film, which follows the true and dramatic story of the family behind the legendary fashion house.
Lady Gaga's character, Patrizia Reggiani, was tried and convicted of orchestrating the murder of her ex-husband , Maurizio Gucci Driver. Movie: Nightmare Alley. Guillermo Del Toro helms this psychological thriller set at a s traveling carnival, where a con man played by Bradley Cooper finds his next victims. Ahead of this movie's release, watch the adaptation , a haunting noir movie.
Movie: The Nightingale. Fans of historical fiction should definitely read this bestseller before the movie comes out, if they haven't already. Someone is preying on the graduating class of a Nebraska high school, and exposing all of their secrets in the process. Movie: Fear Street. Netflix is releasing an entire trilogy of movies based on R. Stine's Fear Street novels over the course of summer The time-hopping books are set in the early '90s, as a group of teenagers uncover—and then run from—the occult history of their Ohio hometown.
Your Best Life. Type keyword s to search. Temi Oyeyola. The Dig by John Preston. Movie: The Dig Real life is often stranger than fiction—and so is this novel that's based on an extraordinary turn of events. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. Series : Firefly Lane Firefly Lane is a binge-watch made for streaming with your bestie.
Released On: February 1, on Netflix. French Exit by Patrick DeWitt. Movie: French Exit Patrick DeWitt wrote the novel and screenplay for French Exit , an arch comedy about a widow who goes to Paris with her son to spend the rest of her inheritance in style. The Luminaries by Eleanor Cattan. Series : The Luminaries Eleanor Cattan wrote this six-episode adaptation of her own Booker Prize-winning novel, set during New Zealand's gold rush in the s.
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. Show: Behind Her Eyes Avoid all spoilers when it comes to this psychological thriller, which was turned into a six-part miniseries on Netflix.
Released On: February 17, on Netflix. Cherry by Nico Walker. Movie: Cherry Nico Walker wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Cherry while he was serving prison time for bank robbery.
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Release Date: May 7, on Netflix. Movie: Finding You Finding You will sweep viewers away to Ireland, where the romance is set and entirely filmed. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Release Date: May 14, on Prime Video. The Woman in the Window by A. Movie: The Woman in the Window After many delays, this psychological thriller will soon be available to watch.
Danny DeVito, Mara Wilson and Rhea Perlman star in "Matilda," a movie about a young girl who develops unusual powers based on the children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The book had also been adapted for film in , "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," with the late Gene Wilder in the title role. In Frank Oz's "The Stepford Wives," Nicole Kidman plays Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who uncovers that the submissive housewives in her new neighborhood are robots created by their husbands.
Based on the novel by Ira Levin. Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon appear in 's "Water for Elephants," a romantic drama about a former veterinary student who takes a job in a traveling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife. The novel was written by Sara Gruen in The "Harry Potter" franchise began with J.
Though the film adaptation of "My Sister's Keeper" ends with year-old Anna Fitzgerald Abigail Breslin successfully suing for medical emancipation and her older sister Kate Sofia Vassilieva dying from leukemia, the novel ends with Kate alive and in remission while Anna suffers a much different fate.
Friends and lovers, all in their 20s and 30s, try to navigate their way through modern relationships in 's "He's Just Not That Into You," based on the self-help book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
In , author Winston Groom told the New York Times that writers "took the rough edges off [Forrest Gump]" when they adapted his novel for film and cast Tom Hanks in the title role. Groom said he often envisioned John Goodman as Gump but that he ultimately didn't care what they did to his novel. White published in and adapted into a movie in starring Dakota Fanning.
In , "Angels and Demons" was developed into its own movie as a sequel to the film. Nicholas Sparks has published 18 novels, many of which have become films. One of his most popular novels, "The Notebook," was adapted for film in and has often been ranked one of the best romantic movies of all time. Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen starred in the film version of "Pride and Prejudice," based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Stanley Yelnats Shia LaBeouf and his campmates including Zero Khleo Thomas are forced to dig a hole every day in order to build character in Disney's movie "Holes," based on the novel by Louis Sachar. Seuss' most mischievous character in his children's tale "The Cat in the Hat" came to cinematic life in with the help of Mike Myers.
The columns, which began in , were compiled into two novels, "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," both of which became movies in and , respectively. The third film, 's "Bridget Jones's Baby," was also written by Fielding but adapted from the columns, not a novel.
Nicholas Sparks' novel, "A Walk to Remember," about a young couple who falls in love despite the girl's terminal illness, was adapted into a film starring Mandy Moore and Shane West. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
Knowing that her younger brother, Jamie, has money and thus can help her with the serious cash flow problem she invites him along. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear.
Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.
A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that have captured readers for over seventy years. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.
The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.
The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.
In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in —became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more.
This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice.
Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved? In the year , with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.
Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear. In four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.
Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
He never returned. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina.
Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics.
It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth, exuberance, love, and freedom a golden time that decades later is remembered with nostalgia and deep affection. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.
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