Books Gone Hollywood

Books made into television shows or movies. The Book was Better!

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Book cover for "Angela's ashes"
Star rating for Angela's ashes
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies
Book cover for "Another Brooklyn"
Star rating for Another Brooklyn
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't."--Amazon.com.
Book cover for "The bridges of Madison County"
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Average Rating:
5 stars

4. Emma

Book cover for "Emma"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
Book cover for "The girl on the train"
Star rating for The girl on the train
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
Book cover for "Lifeboat 12"
Star rating for Lifeboat 12
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed.
Book cover for "The monuments men"
Star rating for The monuments men
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.

8. Shiloh

Book cover for "Shiloh"
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Series:
Shiloh quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Book cover for "A walk in the woods"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.
Book cover for "War at the Snow White Motel and other stories"
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Description:
In "War at the Snow White Motel",Rex and his family are vacationing in Vermont. A thoughtless act launches him into war with an older teenager at their motel, but a much bigger conflict -- the Vietnam War -- looms large on the horizon. Ant wants to join the #FridaysForFuture movement -- and impressing the new girl at school is only one good reason why. Joseph and Danny are determined to right an old wrong, no matter the consequences. Michel takes...