Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion is a memoir and biography written by Gregory Boyle. The book was published in 2010 and received many positive reviews. He is a Catholic priest and he writes about events that happened during...

The Winslow Boy is a play by Terence Rattigan that is based on the real-life infamous incident involving George Archer-Shee in the early part of the Twentieth century. Archer-Shee was a young Royal Naval cadet who was accused of stealing a five...

Claude Steele was born and raised in Chicago. His mother, a social worker, and his father, a truck driver, raised him to value hard work, and education. As he grew older, his interest was piqued by the fledgling civil rights movement. He became an...

Jaki Green's poetry often deals with youth and new things, and how they affect the people and things around them. One of her most well know poems, "Who Will Be the Messenger of This Land", asks the reader that very question - in this newly found...

Omkara is a 2006 Indian crime drama directed by Vishal Bhardwaj based on William Shakespeare's Othello. The screenplay was written by Abhishek Chaubey, Robin Bhatt, and Bhardwaj and was produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak. The film made an estimated...

Sharon Creech is an acclaimed children's author who always seems to know how to express what is going on in the heart of a teenage girl. In The Wanderer, a Newberry Honor Book, she allows her thirteen year old protagonist, Sophie, to narrate....

Zero Hour is Ray Bradbury's 1947 - included in Bradbury's collection of short stories entitled The Illustrated Man, released in 1951 - short story following Mrs. Morris and her daughter, Mink. Mrs. Morris is incredibly amused by how excited Mink...

Although infinitely more famous and well-known for his stories about upper crust twit Bertie Wooster and his ever-efficient and loyal butler Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse was no one-trick-pony. During his lifetime, stories featuring the forgetful Lord...

Jamaican novelist Marlon James' novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a sprawling novel covering the attempted assassination of famed musician Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and the aftermath of said attempt. It goes through the crack wars in...

Breaking Night is Liz Murray's 2010 memoir that chronicles her homelessness. After being born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx, New York, Liz struggled fitting in at school. She got made fun of for her dirty clothes and...

Tipi Hedren's pistachio green suit made The Birds such an iconic movie that it comes as an enormous surprise to movie goers that the story was in fact created by English writer Daphne du Maurier, and not by the undisputed king of horror, Alfred...

"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" was written in England, although its author, Stephen Crane, and its protagonist, Jack Potter, are American. The story tells of Potter's return to the town of Yellow Sky with his bride, who comes from the east. He...

“The Blue Hotel” is either a very long short story or a fairly short novella. Either way, it was roundly met with universal rejection by every periodical to which it was initially submitted by Stephen Crane. Popular publishers of the time from...

Il Divo is an Italian movie, and its title derives from the Latin "divus", meaning "God". It is a biographical drama about the former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, 42st Prime Minister, and leader of the Christian Democracy Party. He was...

Louise Labe was a sixteenth-century poet that introduced the world to many feminist ideas. A French writer, many of her ideas and perceptions about women expressed through her poetry were unique to the time. At the time she was writing, women were...

Grasshopper Jungle is an apocalyptical, young adult, science-fiction, coming of age novel written by Andrew A. Smith. The book was published February 11, 2014 by Penguin Books. It has 400 pages and is sold in both hardback and paperback format....