Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Grey on January 31, 1872. Grey attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship and studied dentistry. It was his dream, however, to become a writer. Grey taught himself how to write and worked...

Between 1854 and 1929, "orphan trains" transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned and homeless children from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for "adoption". Many of these children were first...

Published on May 14, 2013, Inferno is a thrilling mystery written by Dan Brown, starring the protagonist Robert Langdon again, making Inferno the fourth book in that series, along with Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol....

The Nightingale explores the stories of two sisters living in Nazi-occupied France and their involvement in the Resistance, a movement that swept through the nation of France following the German occupation through the end of the war. The...

The Christian book Heaven Is for Real was published in 2010 and became a New York Times bestseller. Later, in 2014, a feature film based on the book debuted and earned $101 million at the box office. It tells the true story of the author’s son,...

As a young boy, Louis Zamperini was a delinquent, uncontrollable and incorrigible. He broke into homes, was constantly fighting and was a serial runaway. As a teenager he channeled his delinquency into running on the track, discovering a talent...

Fifty Shades Freed is the third and final book of the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L. James. Fifty Shades follows the relationship of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Christian introduces to Anastasia to the world of BDSM. The novel picks up...

Fifty Shades Darker is the second book of the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L. James. Fifty Shades follows the relationship of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Christian introduces to Anastasia to the world of BDSM. The novel picks up days after...

The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey is an exquisite novel, one of the best western novels ever. It is recommended for reading at any age because it brings many messages about love and hate and friendship. The novel is popular and actual even in the...

Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel written by Zane Grey and first published in 1912 by Harper & Brothers. Zane Grey was actually an American dentist as well as an author, and his adventure novels and Western novels are his most popular...

Written by an author best known for his adventurous Western tales, Zane Grey's The Man of the Forest, published in 1920, is about a woman who is taken prisoner by a group of outlaws, and the plan that is put into motion to rescue her back.

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There is a very popular and widespread convention that the book is always better than the movie that is made from it. Usually true, perhaps, but not always. For instance, Steven Spielberg turned what was essentially a run-of-the-mill potboiler...

That Marcus Aurelius is remembered several millennia after his death is primarily due to a diary that he kept during his lifetime which he referred to by the utilitarian title “Notes to Himself.” Over time those notes in a personal diary became...

Foucault's Pendulum is the follow-up by Umberto Eco to his wildly successful debut novel The Name of the Rose. The fact that that this makes Foucault’s Pendulum Eco’s second novel should not create the misconception that he was a young,...

Numero Zero is Umberto Eco’s seventh novel and final novel published before his death in 2016. Unlike Eco’s most famous novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, Numero Zero is short and relatively fast-paced with its less than 200...

The Mistletoe Inn is the second book in a series of three Christmas-themed romance novels by bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. The books are not a trilogy but all share the word "Mistletoe" in the title. Evans explains that the books are a...

The Mistletoe Promise is a romantic novel written by Richard Paul Evans. It tells the story of cynical, unlucky-in-love Elise Dutton and devastatingly handsome but emotionally unavailable Nicholas Derr, two lonely, successful people who draw up a...

The Letter is the third and final novel in Richard Paul Evans' "Christmas Box Trilogy". It is a love story that belongs specifically to MaryAnne and David Parkin, but the author's intention is to present the novel as the love story that could, and...

Timepiece is a novel written by Richard Paul Evans. It was published in 1995 and is a sequel to The Christmas Box. Evans has written many books, many for children, and all of the thirty-one include conservative Christian morals and themes and...

The Christmas Box is a short novel written by New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. He did not originally intend it to become a book; it was merely a story he would tell his two younger daughters aloud, never committing it to...