Movie/TV Tie-Ins (July 2018 Edition)

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BLACK KLANSMAN: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Also available in audio
The extraordinary true story of the African American police officer who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture (BlacKkKlansman) written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Oscar winner Jordan Peele, and starring Adam Driver, John David Washington, Topher Grace, and Alec Baldwin. Fun fact: Lee won the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival for BlacKkKlansman!

BREATH by Tim Winton
Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives. Now a major motion picture starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh.

FAHRENHEIT 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by Tim Hamilton
Okay, okay, it’s not technically a tie-in edition, but this gorgeously imagined graphic novel adaptation of Bradbury’s dystopian classic is the perfect companion for HBO’s TV version, starring Black Panther‘s Michael B. Jordan and The Shape of Water‘s Michael Shannon.

DEATH OF A NATION: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D’Souza
Also available in audio
In a major new work of historical revisionism, D’Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state modeled on the Southern plantation system. D’Souza made the companion movie to the book.

THE SILENT DEATH: A Gereon Rath Mystery by Volker Kutscher
The second book in the internationally bestselling Gereon Rath mystery series, the basis for the TV show BABYLON BERLIN, now airing on Netflix.