Ruin and Rising is a fantasy action book written by Leigh Bardugo, and was first published by Macmillan on June 17, 2014. The book is the third and final installment in the Grisha trilogy and was preceded by Siege and Storm.

The book follows the...

Published in the summer of 2013, Siege and Storm is the Leigh Bardugo’s follow-up to Shadow and Bone and the middle bridge of the trilogy linking the novel to its sequel, Ruin and Rising. The Grisha Trilogy established Bardugo as a new force to be...

“Shadow and Bone” is the first book in the Grisha Trilogy, a fantasy series set in a fictional universe that brings science and magic into connection. The novel follows the main protagonist Alina as she accidentally discovers that she holds more...

Xala is a novel by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène, originally written in French in 1973. The following year, it was made into an award-winning movie by Sembène himself, and it was translated into English as part of the influential Heinemann...

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Matthew Warchus, Pride (released in 2014) tells the true story of Mark Ashton and a group of lesbian and gay activists who started a group to raise money for British miners who were affected by the British Miners'...

God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone is an articulation of Black divinity of deliverance. Cone was a champion of black liberation theology. The book was published in 1975 and it followed his two publications, “Black Power and Black Liberation”...

Banjo by Claude McKay is based on personal experience. The setting takes place in Marseille, France. McKay published the book in 1929. The book revolves around hopeless and impoverished boys spending time wandering on beaches and docks of...

Crisis in the Red Zone is a non-fiction book about the Ebola outbreak, which began in 2013. Written by American author Richard Preston, the book details the devastating and deadly impact the virus had, and the attempts that were made to discover a...

Cate Kennedy's second short story collection, Like a House on Fire, was published in 2012 by Scribe. In the collection, Kennedy explores topics of displacement, illness, recovery, dependence, and motherhood, among other things. The stories in this...

Schmoedipus is an anthology series by English television dramatist, Dennis Potter and was released on 1975 by BBC (United Kingdom).

The story follows the reunion of a mother, Elizabeth Carter, and her son, Glen, who she had given away at birth....

Hatchet, published by Bradbury Press in 1987, is Gary Paulsen's best-known novel. It is the first of five in the Hatchet series, detailing the events in Brian Robeson's life after he ends up stranded in a forest after the pilot of a bush plane he...

Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow was originally published in 1961 by Houghton Mifflin. Set in Israel, the novel follows a young man named Daniel bar Jamin, who is alive at the same time that Jesus of Nazareth is. After his father is killed...

O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief," written in 1907, is a comedic short story about two kidnappers who are traumatized by the ten-year-old they abduct, eventually having to pay the boy's father to take him back. Although the kidnappers are...

Seamus Heaney's poem "Death of a Naturalist" appears in a collection with the same name. Published in 1966, Death of a Naturalist is recognized as Seamus Heaney's first major volume, and it was well-received by critics, boosting Heaney's career...

Anna in the Tropics is a play by Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz, originally commissioned in 2001 and performed for the first time in Miami in 2002. Later, it premiered on Broadway in 2003.

When writing the play, Cruz has stated that his...

1Q84 is an alternate history fiction written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with the first two volumes published on May 29, 2009, by Shinchosha. The third volume was later published on April 16, 2010. The English-language versions of the...