A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Biography
This firsthand account by Sierra Leone native Ishmael Beah gives insight into the ghastly, life-shattering experience of children enlisted as soldiers. Beah was only 13 when he was handed an AK-47 and sent off to the killing fields. A bracing memoir about a survivor in a world gone mad.
Released February 2007
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Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child
From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends…and is on its way to something even worse. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team,they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them…
Releases May 15, 2007
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Fiction
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
Releases May 22, 2007
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Stomp The Yard
aka Steppin
Drama
A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented musical drama.
Releases May 15, 2007
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Music and Lyrics
starring Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant
Comedy/Romance
A professional collaboration between a popular lyricist and a washed-up musician takes a decidedly personal turn as the pair gradually finds their relationship developing into something much deeper in a romantic comedy directed by Marc Lawrence and starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.
Releases May 8, 2007
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Because I said so
starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore
Comedy
Diane Keaton stars as a unconditionally loving, but meddling, mother whose vain attempt to prevent her insecure youngest daughter from repeating the same mistakes that she made leads to a series of comic misunderstandings in director Michael Lehmann’s affectionate family comedy.
Releases May 8, 2007
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