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Set in an underground cryogenic facility after a nuclear fallout renders the atmosphere unbreathable, two custodial workers take care of the cryogenically sleeping personnel that are to re-establish society, but they struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while maintaining the extremely fragile environment of the last livable place on earth.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Two Muslim women, married to the same man, foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.

Animal

After the suicide of her married lover, a woman flees New York City for the canyons above Los Angeles, where she plots the takedown of a woman from her haunted past.

Aru Shah and the End of...

Aru Shah, a twelve-year old girl of Indian descent, lives in an annex of the Museum of Ancient Indian Arts and Culture and is known to lie to her classmates at a rich Atlanta private day school to get them to view her traditional wardrobe as something exotic and not freaky.

Article II

Two friends become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.

Against All Enemies

A counterterrorism adviser to the past three presidents charges that the Bush administration prioritized Iraq above threats from al Qaeda before and after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

All This Time

Former high school quarterback Kyle is left grief-stricken by the tragic loss of his girlfriend Kimberly following a car crash. He eventually begins a cautious romance with an intriguing, creative girl, Marley, who enters his orbit. As strange events begin to unfold around him, Kyle comes to realize that his life with Marley might not be all that it seems.

Anatomy Of A Miracle

A war vet returns from battle to his hometown a paraplegic. Until one day he just literally stands up. No one knows how. The town thinks he's a Messiah and he soon has news media and the Vatican on his doorstep.

A Speck in the Sea

Lobster fisherman John Aldridge falls into the ocean in the middle of the night, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to signal where he is. Anthony Sosinski, his childhood best friend and partner on the boat, wakes up to realize John is gone. An unprecedented multi-state rescue operation takes place involving both the Coast Guard and the fishing community from across the Northeast.

Armageddon 2419 A.D.

After an accident, Buck Rogers is held in suspended animation, where he survives for just short of 500 years. He awakens on an Earth that is caught in a futuristic civil war. Rogers, having lost everyone he loved centuries ago, is a fish out of water who struggles to find a way to fit in with a war-torn world.

A Contract With God

Based on the graphic novel by Will Eisner, the set of four stories show tenement life in 1930s New York.

A Fine Brother

A biopic about Flora Sandes, the only British woman to enlist as a soldier and fight on the frontline in the First World War.

A Life in the Day

Follows the life of Brian Epstein, who discovered and managed the Beatles from 1961 through 1967, when he died of a drug overdose at 32.

A Woman of No Importance

Gerald Arbuthnot, who introduces his prospective employer, Lord Illingworth, to his mother. But she realizes that Illingworth is the man who jilted her long ago and is Gerald's father.

American Radical

Tamer Elnoury, an undercover agent and active Muslim, joins the elite counter-terrorism unit after September 11th. He infiltrates and brings down a terror cell stateside, running up against the clock to foil them, with worn techniques which still entail listening, recording, and proving terrorist intent.

American Sole

Two twentysomethings (Davidson and Jackson) resell sneakers to achieve their American dream.

Angelology

Follows a young nun in upstate New York who, in uncovering a correspondence between the former mother superior and Abigail Rockefeller, unwittingly reignites an ancient war between a society of angelologists (a group that studies angels) and the Nephilim (the monster-like descendants of angels and humans). The book pulls from a variety of religious and mythical histories and, per Simonoff, "blends biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, the apocryphal Book of Enoch and the fall of the rebel angels, with bravura storytelling.