A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected & one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice... 
The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.
Stephen Collins is a fast-rising United States Congressman with ambitions to become his party's presidential candidate. This goal is threatened after his mistress (a former research assistant) is found dead in suspicious circumstances, while right-wing opponents to Collins' campaign for social reform attempt to use the scandal to kill his political career. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey, an investigative journalist & Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case which is bigger than it's seemingly small parts.
Published in 1995, Bret Easton Ellis' collection of loosely connected short stories captures a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
High school dweeb Dave Lizewski decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons but what's worse than that when the object of your infatuation believes you're gay & a former cop trying to bring down a druglord has trained his daughter to be a real lethal weapon is already in town? 
John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children & a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism & prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect.
In a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened, a group of sapient rag dolls, living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9, who displays qualities that may help them to survive.
