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1) Cloud Atlas
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters, a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, over three hundred years later, arrives on the same island, discovering the story of an infamous shipwreck.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
While Jack, Kate, and Locke investigate what's inside the hatch, the "tailies" are found. These survivors are from the tail of the plane and include tough girl Ana-Lucia and the spiritual and mysterious Mr. Eko. Most of the story, which continues 44 days after the crash, focuses on the main conflict between the survivors and the Others, with the continued clash between faith and science being thematic in certain episodes. While some mysteries are...
Description
John Woodson is disillusioned and temporarily without direction. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that will redefine human life and provide a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth. Resistant at first, John finds that with each step he takes and person he meets...
Pub. Date
c2003, c2002
Description
D.O.A. is the story of Frank Bigelow who while on vacation in San Francisco is poisoned by a deadly slow-acting poison. Can he find his murderer before time runs out? Detour is the story of a man's pursuit of the woman he loves that is blocked by fate and another woman. Impact is the story of Walter Williams, a wealthy industrialist whose vicious, two-timing wife, Irene, and her lover, Jim Torrance, plot his death in an "Accidental" car crash. In...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals the time machine, and with it a book that allows his young self to amass a gambling fortune, which has significant consequences to the present. To correct the problems, Marty and Doc must return to 1955 to retrieve the book.
11) Serendipity
Description
Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly hoping that fate will reunite them some day.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
13) Mr. Destiny
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A junior executive finds his wildest dreams have come true when he bumps into a mysterious stranger.
14) Cloud Atlas
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
15) Peaceful warrior
Description
Talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams are changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find his destiny.
16) Donovan's Echo
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Thirty years after his wife and daughter perished in an accident, Donovan Matheson (Danny Glover) returns to his hometown, and becomes convinced that the tragedies of the past will soon repeat themselves. Donovan is a haunted man. He never quite recovered from the pain of losing his family, and now that he's returned home, old memories shadow his every move. As the anniversary of that fateful day draws near, Donovan grows convinced that history is...
17) Garden State
Description
Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not separated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything...
Description
During the bus ride to a corporate retreat, Sam has a premonition in which he and most of his friends, as well as numerous others, die in a horrific bridge collapse. When his vision ends, events begin to mirror what he saw, and he frantically ushers as many of his colleagues, including his friend, Peter, and girlfriend, Molly, away from the disaster before Death can claim them.
"...superlative technical merits...satisfying thrills."--Boxoffice Magazine
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20) Only you
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Faith believes she is destined to marry someone named Damon, but he never appears; that is, until she is about to marry someone else.