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Confined to house arrest at her tech-mogul grandfather's estate, a rebellious teenage hacker convinced she's smarter than everyone else is forced into a deadly battle of wits with a humanoid AI on the verge of becoming autonomous, whose plan to reform humanity depends on controlling the one person it's programmed to protect.

Apparently So

After being dumped by text, a woman in her fifties leans on her fiercely loyal (and hilariously unfiltered) friends to rebuild her life—transforming heartbreak into triumph with the release of her brutally honest debut book.

The Imbalance 2 (sequel)

Two women. One comeback .Confidence isn't lost, it's just misplaced.

The Imbalance

Two best friends in their fifties leap back into acting — and dating — only to find an industry obsessed with youth, a culture addicted to reinvention, and a brutal truth: starting over is harder when you actually know who you are.

Twenty Last Summers

When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.

Snare

A naive doctor makes a desperate choice to consume experimental medications.

Waiting for the Apocalyse

When the father of a young man he once sentenced kidnaps his lover, a respected judge must decide whether to pay a $2 million ransom — and confront the human cost of the justice system he’s always trusted.

Bubbling Under the Surface

After an elderly Holocaust survivor is nearly murdered in her nursing home bed, her family and the Muslim carer who saved her are pulled into a widening chain of antisemitic attacks, domestic violence, and police investigation that threatens both communities before the hatred spreads further.

Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars

After a highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town before Christmas, he teams up with a fearless girl with Down syndrome to save the holiday spirit and teach their divided community that differences can be strengths.

ONCE THERE WERE STORIES

In this family drama, Christmases of long ago, ones of togetherness, family entertainments, and memorable stories, as told by Grandpa Lynn, now living in his daughter, Rhiannon Nolan's, spare room, now contrast with those of the Nolan family with its packaged television and sports, relatives' distancing, and multitude of electronic distractions.