Title Recommendations based on Augusten Burroughs
A super-secret spy organization recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program—just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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.
The Big Bang Theory makes nerds cool. In Pasadena, California, geniuses Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard play Dungeons and Dragons, watch Star Trek, and idolize superheroes—while figuring out how to deal with those with a lower IQ. But that's not easy as Sheldon admits: "I often forget other people have limitations. It's so sad."
In The Walking Dead, Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He tries his best to keep everybody from dying, or worse, becoming undead. Society has fallen apart, and a cure seems to be out of the question. And with stakes that high, in-fighting is bound to develop among the living. Rick doesn't just have to protect everyone from the walkers; he has to protect them from themselves too.
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
15-year-old freshman Charlie is an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope—and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
It ain't easy bein' green—especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot: a wisecracking donkey.
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Sherlock?follows the well known detective—now armed with smart phone, internet, and nicotine patches—as he navigates London's underground with army veteran John Watson.?Sherlock is a genius of deduction, making himself indispensable to the London police despite his quirks.
In Stranger Things, friends Mike, Dustin, and Lucas look for their friend Will Byers, who had disappeared. But they discover something strange instead: a bald girl named Eleven who is walking around the woods in her hospital gown. Eleven speaks only a few words, but she may provide their best hope of finding Will.
Supernatural focuses on two brothers who lost their mother to a demon. Since their mother's death, Dean and Sam Winchester travel across the U.S. in 1967 Chevy Impala, keeping an eye out for the supernatural and battling demons, vampires, and anything else that goes bump in the night.
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
