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A librarian-curated selection of some of our favourite books that have made it to the big and silver screens. For accessibility purposes, adaptations available only on streaming platforms have not been included in this list.

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  • Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
    Book, 2014New York : Crown, 2014, c2011. — ScF Weir
  • DVD, 2016Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2016. — DVD MOVIE MART
  • A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night…
    Book, 2018Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2018] — FIC Toew
  • DVD, 2023Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2023] — DVD MOVIE WOME
  • Poor Things

    Episodes From the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish Public Health Officer

    Gray, Alasdair
    In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Mariner Books, 2023. — FIC Gray
  • DVD, 2024United States : 20th Century Studios, 2024. — DVD MOVIE POOR
  • The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.…
    Book, 2016Toronto : Random House of Canada, 2016. — FIC Harr
  • DVD, 2024Canada : Elevation Pictures, [2024] — DVD MOVIE CONC
  • Wicked

    the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West : a Novel

    Maguire, Gregory
    Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals - creatures with voices, souls, and minds - even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, 2024. — FAN Magu
  • DVD, 2024[United States] : Universal, 2024. — DVD MOVIE WICK
  • Hidden Figures

    the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

    Lee Shetterly, Margot
    Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American…
    Book, 2016New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — 510.92 LEE 2016
  • DVD, 2017Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2017] — DVD MOVIE HIDD
  • Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
    Book, 2014New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. — JUV FIC Blu
  • DVD, 2023[United States] : Lionsgate, 2023. — DVD MOVIE ARE
  • Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC…
    Book, 2014[Toronto, Ontario] : Anchor Canada, 2014. — FIC Kwan
  • DVD, 2018Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2018] — DVD MOVIE CRAZ
  • An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all…
    Book, PBK FIC Cric
  • DVD, 2000Willowdale, ON : Universal Studios : 2000,1993 — DVD MOVIE JURA
  • American Prometheus

    the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    Bird, Kai
    J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific…
    Book, 2006New York : Vintage Books, 2006. — 530.092 OPP 2006
  • DVD, 2023[United States] : Universal, 2023. — DVD MOVIE OPPE