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The Guns of Navarone

★★★★☆
Several attempts have been made to silence the guns of Navarone, but all have failed. A small team of experienced mountaineers and saboteurs make one last attempt... the lives of 1200 men are at stake.

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.

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Binti: Home

★☆☆☆☆
Binti comes back home from Oomza for a break, with her Meduse friend in tow. But not everyone is thrilled, as she sets out to discover more about her father's side of the family, the nomadic desert people...

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Red Rising

★☆☆☆☆
A group of teens fight each other brutally in a gladiatorial contest on Mars

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American Psycho

★★☆☆☆
Patrick Bateman is the archetypal yuppie. Rich, handsome, charming, excellent taste in music, art, food and all things fine. He is also a psychopathic killer.

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Super Sad True Love Story

★★☆☆☆
A hopeless romantic navigates a one-sided love affair while America crumbles around him. The story evolves from his diary and her social media account.

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Flipped

★★★☆☆
A romance between two teens which builds up over many years. She flipped the first time she saw him, but realized he wasn't quite as wonderful as she thought. He ran when she first appeared, but slowly realizes how amazing she is...

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Memory Man

★☆☆☆☆
Muscle-man ex-cop who is down and under is caught up in an investigation of a series of crimes which seem to involve him specifically and directly...

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We

★★★★☆
The grand original O.G. dystopian novel, that influenced everything from 1984 to Brave New World, and everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to Ayn Rand. D-503 of the totalitarian OneState is a mathematician who thinks in numbers and equations. But he discovers he has a soul, and passions...

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Binti

★★★☆☆
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people to be offered a place at the prestigious Oomza university. But that would mean leaving her world behind forever and entering a world at war with the Meduse...

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Jurassic Park

★★★★★
Revolutionary new techniques in genetic engineering allow scientists to bring back long-dead animals. They choose to use the technology to make the most amazing theme park ever envisioned... until something goes wrong.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

★★★★★
A young soldier in WW1 recounts his moving story of horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

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