Robert Neville, who believes he is the last human alive after a plague turned everyone into vampires, learns that some infected people have created a new society.

The penal colony on the Moon wins its independence from Earth in a revolution led by computer technician Manuel “Mannie” Garcia O’Kelly, the professor Bernardo de la Paz and the self-aware supercomputer Mike, who drops rocks on Earth to force a surrender.

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Alice Howland, a Harvard psychology professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at fifty, gradually loses her memory, career and independence.

Five-year-old Jack and his Ma escape the shed where she has been held captive for seven years by a man they call Old Nick, after Ma has Jack fake his death.

Andrea Sachs, the overworked assistant to the tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, finally snaps during Paris Fashion Week and tells Miranda off in public after learning her best friend Lily has been in a car crash.

Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner who spent a year trying to lose weight, quit smoking and find love, discovers that her charming boss Daniel Cleaver is a cad and that the stiff lawyer Mark Darcy is the man who truly loves her.

Mia Thermopolis, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who learns she is the heir to the throne of the small European country of Genovia, accepts her role.

Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart, best friends since childhood who kept missing their chance at love for decades through misunderstandings, marriages and distance, finally get together in their fifties.

Holly Kennedy, whose husband Gerry died of a brain tumour, follows the monthly letters he left her, each ending “P.S.