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(500) Days of Summer: The Shooting Script

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Looking for Alaska

John Green · 262 pages

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Ala

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The People of Paper

Salvador Plascencia · 245 pages

The People of Paper is an exploratory novel, depicting the painful struggles of life and writing through a fantastical world built with paper and imagination.

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Inception: The Shooting Script

Christopher J. Nolan

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Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino · 106 pages

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers · 281 pages

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Screenplay FormatNonlinear NarrativeMale LeadContemporary Fiction
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That Summer

Sarah Dessen · 198 pages

During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.

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Life is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami · 128 pages

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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · 288 pages

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Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay

Stephen King · 376 pages

For the first time in #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s remarkable publishing history, the Master of Horror presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They’re calling it the Storm of the Century, and it’s coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor’easters, but this one is different. Not only is

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The Sterile Cuckoo

John Nichols · 230 pages

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Our Chemical Hearts

Krystal Sutherland · 320 pages

"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

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When Harry Met Sally

Nora Ephron · 122 pages

"A romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city where the primary emotion is unrequited love"--Back cover.

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This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz · 240 pages

This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.

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Where She Went

Gayle Forman · 284 pages

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the cit

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Normal People

Sally Rooney · 288 pages

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re b

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My Legendary Girlfriend

Mike Gayle · 352 pages

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Good Material

Dolly Alderton · 345 pages

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Forever . . .

Judy Blume · 208 pages

There's a first for everything. When you build up something in your mind -- really imagine it, wish for it -- sometimes, when it actually happens, it doesn't live up to your expectations. True love is nothing like that. Especially not for Katherine and Michael, who can't get enough of each other. Their relationship is unique: sincere, intense, and fun all at the same time. Although the

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Juno: The Shooting Script

Diablo Cody, Ivan Reitman · 136 pages

Presents a script of the film, along with photographs, complete cast and crew credits, and a foreword by the director.

Screenplay FormatRomantic ComedyContemporary Fiction
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Something Like Summer

Jay Bell · 291 pages

A love story spanning a decade and beyond as two boys discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.

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Unlikely

Jeffrey Brown · 256 pages

The cartoonist uses a full-length graphic novel format to tell the bittersweet story of how he lost his virginity at age 24 and presents vignettes from his relationship with Allisyn that take place before and after the event.

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Call Me by Your Name

Andre Aciman · 256 pages

It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will

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Gatsby's Girl

Caroline Preston · 336 pages

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Underdogs

Markus Zusak · 505 pages

Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.

First HeartbreakBittersweetMale LeadContemporary Fiction

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