Title Recommendations based on Augusten Burroughs
Everyone's favorite novice wizard, Harry Potter, continues his high-flying adventures at Hogwarts. This time around, Harry ignores warnings not to return to school—that is, if he values his life—to investigate a mysterious series of attacks with Ron and Hermione.
Seven babies were all born as part of a mysterious occurrence wherein 43 women around the world gave birth, despite none of them being pregnant. Adopted by eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves, they were raised to be part of a superhero fighting team known as "The Umbrella Academy." Now grown up, one sibling warns that the apocalypse is going to occur in eight days.
A tomboyish girl disguises herself as a young man so she can fight with the Imperial Chinese Army against the invading Huns. With help from wise-cracking dragon Mushu, Mulan just might save her country—and win the heart of handsome Captain Li Shang.
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
When Matthew Crawley is named heir to Lord Grantham's estate of Downton Abbey, he and his mother leave their upper-middle-class life and enter the world of aristocrats. It won't be an easy transition. Lady Violet Crawley isn't so keen on letting a stranger butt into the practice, (distant) relative or not.
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
NCIS: Los Angeles is focused on an elite team of investigators tasked with solving the military's most difficult and perplexing crimes, ranging from high level securities heists to full scale terrorist plots. It's fast paced work, but jokes and banter between Sam Hanna and G. Callen keep things from getting too heavy.
Grey's Anatomy follows the life of Meredith Grey and other surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. Although the program is hard for all interns with many sleepless nights, it's especially stressful for Meredith who lives under the shadow of her mother who pioneered the laparoscopic "Grey Method". And adding to the drama, Meredith had a one-night stand with a doctor she didn't realize is now her boss. Thankfully, there's tequila shots at Joe's Bar after work.
Ten years ago, Piper Chapman smuggled drug money for her then-girlfriend and now she has to leave her comfortable life of iPhones and Whole Foods to serve her time. The only thing that would make prison harder would be if that ex-girlfriend was also an inmate in the same prison and—uh oh, looks like she is.
Jessica Jones used to be a superhero, but she hung up her cape years ago. She dated a guy named Kilgrave who could psychically control her mind and she did things under his control that no hero would do. Now she just wants to make a living as a private investigator so she can drink enough to forget her past.
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. oversees he secretive government agency handles peacekeeping, intelligence gathering, and the "gifted" humans that keep popping up in a world where Iron Man, Thor, and The Hulk are household names. No matter how exotic the locale, most often they were never really there—not officially, anyway.
Dr. Gregory House is the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital where leads a team of handpicked young doctors. Brilliant, pessimistic, self-indulgent, sardonic, proud, and irritable, House hides most of his emotions behind his ever-present snide and witty comebacks. But his unconventional approach to his work makes him a frustrating superior to deal with.
Geniuses who work for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit are chasing down serial killers and battling their own minds. Although they work for the "good guys," the lines are not always so clear.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
