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by Philip Pullman  Philip Pullman's modern classic of fantasy adventure is now a film directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy) and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, and Eva Green!
Young Lyra's uncle, Lord Asriel, returns from the far North with tales of terrible danger and of a child severed from its daemon familiar. Soon Lyra sets out to save kidnapped children and their familiars from hideous experiments. But an even greater mystery awaits...
by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy's powerful and harrowing modern-day Western is now the basis for one of the most acclaimed films of the fall, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem, and written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, Miller's Crossing).
by Khaled Hosseini The worldwide bestselling phenomenon comes to film! In The Kite Runner, privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.
by Mark Salisbury The legendary Demon Barber of Fleet Street returns in this film version of Steven Sondheim's hit Broadway musical, directed by Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman.
by Neil Gaiman Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria — even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie — where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous — now a major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Claire Danes.
by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Based on the phenomenal bestseller, The Nanny Diaries tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey who accepts a position as a nanny for a wealthy family. She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X (Laura Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Paul Giamatti).
In Tom Perrotta's hilarious, heartbreaking novel, three couples raise their kids in the kind of quiet suburb where nothing ever seems to happen — until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could ever have imagined. Starring Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), the film adaptation was co-written and directed by Todd Field (In the Bedroom).
by Frank Miller Comic book legend and Sin City creator Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor — when a mere 300 Spartan warriors stood against the massive Persian army at Thermopylae — explodes on the big screen, thanks to director Zack Snyder (the Dawn of the Dead remake).
by T. T. Sutherland The adventures of Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Jack Sparrow continue in the third installment of the phenomenal film series from Walt Disney Pictures! And we've got everything a pirate fan can possibly need — from such acclaimed books about real-life pirates as Stephan Talty's Empire of Blue Water and Colin Woodard's The Republic of Pirates to, yes indeed, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates.
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Ian McEwan Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Atonement is Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary Bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary turn the classic poem Beowulf into a thrilling, frightening, innovative, and epic script for the blockbuster film — directed by Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express) and starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Robin Wright Penn, Crispin Glover, and Anthony Hopkins — that illuminates all the wonders and adventure of one of the greatest tales of all time!
by J. K. Rowling In his fifth year at Hogwart's, 15-year-old Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.
by Jhumpa Lahiri The New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award nominee Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri's remarkable debut novel, is a beautiful family portrait that has been hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "emotionally charged and deeply poignant."
by Mariane Pearl For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the broadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told by his surviving wife, Mariane, in the bestseller A Mighty Heart. Starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl and Dan Futterman (Oscar-nominated for his Capote screenplay) as Daniel Pearl, the film adaptation of A Mighty Heart is directed by Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantanamo, Tristram Shandy).
by Daniela Burr and Tiffany Paulsen Nancy Drew, the cleverest sleuth in River Heights, is always on the case — and now she's on the big screen, too! Nancy's taking her sleuthing to a whole new level as she accompanies her father to Los Angeles. After discovering a long-unsolved crime involving the death of a beautiful movie star, Nancy vows to uncover the mystery. But is Nancy in over her head in the fast-paced world of Hollywood?
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