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The Last Enchantment is a fantasy novel written by Mary Stewart in 1979. The story revolves around the reign of Arthur Pendragon of Britain, and the novel is told from the perspective of a clairvoyant and the Wizard Merlin. In the story, Arthur is...
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart was published in 1973. As part of the series the Arthurian Legends, it is the sequel to The Crystal Cave. This story, in first person point-of-view from Merlin, tells the story of the birth and taking care of King...
The Crystal Cave is a fantasy novel written by Mary Stewart in 1970. The book mainly focuses on the character of Merlin, from the Arthurian legends, before he became the legendary magician. The Romans have recently left Britain and the kingdom is...
The Friends, by Rosa Guy, is the first book of a trilogy. It was published December 18, 1995, by Laurel Leaf. The other two books are called Ruby and Edith Jackson. The Friends is a novel about a little girl who lived in the sunlit West Indies...
Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a historical fiction account of the 1937 Parsley Massacre, as seen through the eyes of Amabelle Desir.
The novel centers around the Parsley Massacre of 1937, when Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo...
Published in 1950, Elizabeth Yates's Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel which follows the story of an African prince sold into slavery who later buys his freedom and starts a business in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The book has been...
Noted Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev produced just one work for the stage which can be said to have had the same impact as his greatest books and that play is A Month in the Country. Although Turgenev wrapped up the finishing touches on his...
No one could imagine that frequent visits to the Detroit zoo might be so inspiring and mesmerizing that some time later that frequent visitor would start working on the series of books about the secret world hidden in the zoo. However, it is true...
The Indian in the Cupboard is a children’s fantasy novel published in 1980 by British writer Lynne Reid Bank. The book contains illustrations in the British version by Robin Jacques with Brock Cole taking over the visual imagery for the U.S....
Cloudstreet is Australian writer Tim Winton’s fifth novel, published in 1991. Winton wrote the novel in longhand, much of it inside a cafe in Paris. One day he was traveling by bus with his wife and small child and the handwritten manuscript,...
Breaking News (A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World) was written by author Martin Fletcher. It was published during 2008 by Thomas Dunne Books. Fletcher shares his phenomenal story of...
The Attack is a novel that explores the prospects yet the usual occurrence of the suicide bomber that we see frequently in nowadays's headlines. Its protagonist is Dr. Amin Jaafari, a man of Arab outset who is an incorporated Israeli citizen and...
The Swallows of Kabul is a novel written by Yasmina Khadra. It was published in 2002 and is set in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, when the Taliban was in charge there. There are two main couples in the novel. The first couple is Mohsen, a...
The Beast in the Jungle’ was written by Henry James in 1903. It was originally published in a volume of short stories, named The Better Sort. James wrote many psychological tales, such as ‘The Turn of the Screw’, however this novella was...
The poems of Muriel Rukeyser link the revolutionary communist poetry of the 1930s to the countercultural feminist poetry of the 1960s. Her last published collection of original was The Gates, four years before her death in 1980. That she managed...
The Stone Gods was written by Jeanette Winterson and published in 2007. It combines components of a romance novel with a post apocalypse work while still touching on the topics of how governments are controlled by large corporations, the damaging...
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is an essay anthology by American comedian David Sedaris. The essays in the collection are by and large anecdotal and autobiographical in nature. In the anthology, Sedaris chronicles his life experiences and...
A Rumor of War is Philip Caputo’s 1977 memoir focused on his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo serves as a Marine Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a member of the “first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam.” His unit reached...
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker born on February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School, a school with an arts-focused curriculum, he attended Harvard University to study anthropology and...
Sir Ridley Scott began plannng a prequel to his 1979 blockbuster hit, Alieneven as early as 2000, and discussed the project extensively with James Cameron. Ultimately, though, Alien vs. Predatorbecame the project they worked on, leaving Scott to...
The Russian Debutante's Handbook is a novel written by Gary Shteyngart and was published by Riverhead publishing company in 2002. Shteyngart himself is a Russian-American and integrated aspects from his initial life in Leningrad into this novel.
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Published in 2010, Super Sad True Love Story is a novel written by Gary Shteyngart. The novel takes place in New York City, where everyone is completely consumed by the media and consumer goods. Interestingly, this book takes place in the near...
"Have A Little Faith" is the second non-fiction book written by Mitch Albom, whose first memoir, "Tuesdays With Morrie", was among the the best-selling memoirs of all time. "Have A Little Faith" is the story of an eight year journey undertaken by...
Italian author Italo Calvino's "Marcovaldo" is a collection of short stories that takes us on a tour of Italy from bust to boom; the first, set in the mid 1950s portrays a poor Italy, and the last, a 1960s Italy that is experiencing the joys of...
