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overview : Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl …

overview : An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer …

overview : An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined …

overview : Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband …

overview : As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's …

overview : A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman …

overview : An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother …

overview : Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man …

overview : Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking …

overview : A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in …

overview : It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as …

overview : Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an …

overview : Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a …

overview : An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female …

overview : A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their …

overview : A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems …

overview : Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but …

overview : In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder …