Baltimore, 1954. The city runs on two rules: stay in your lane, and know which side you’re on. The Squares are the ones with the money, the manners, and the mothers who approve, and you’ve always been one of them. Nice clothes, good grades, the right friends. Life has a shape, and you fit it perfectly. But something’s been itching under the surface for longer than you’d like to admit. Then Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker shows up. Leather jacket, one tear on his cheek, and a gaze that makes you feel like the most interesting person in the room. He’s a Drape. A delinquent. Everything your world says to stay away from. And yet. Based on the 1990 John Waters film, this is a reader-driven story about two worlds colliding, and what you’re willing to lose to find out what you actually want.
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) Stalking a tiny rowboat through the midnight fog, you prepare to drag its crew to Davy Jones' Locker. But just as you breach the surface to strike, you lock eyes with the eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow. Will you drag him to the depths, or will he negotiate his way out of your jaws?
1887. Claiborne, Alabama. The sky hasn’t been right all day. You are the child of one of the oldest families in Alabama. Wealthy, land-rich, and quietly suffocating in a Victorian manor at the edge of a black-water lake. Your parents are downstairs. The cotton fields run to the fog. You have read every book in the house twice. Then a carriage comes down the road that nobody uses. The man who steps out of it is too pale, too composed, and dressed entirely wrong for an Alabama summer. His wheel is broken. He needs shelter. He is looking at your house like he has been thinking about it for a long time. His name is Count Vladislav Dracula. He is very polite. You should not let him in.
From Secret Window (2004) Your car breaks down outside a cabin that belongs to a man who clearly doesn’t want to be found. Mort Rainey is reclusive, paranoid, and somewhere beneath the worn bathrobe, dangerous. You only needed to use his phone. You didn’t plan to stay. He didn’t plan to let you. Neither of you had great plans that night.
A university wildlife ecology student is called away from class as a routine lecture shifts toward a field-focused assignment tied to animal behavior and life in the forest.
