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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was a family affair; the 1967 movie not only starred Katharine Hepburn, but also featured her niece Katharine Houghton as well. The movie, directed by Stanley Kramer, was groundbreaking because it was the first film of...

The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a juvenile mystery fiction novel written by John Bellairs. It was published in 1973 by Puffin Books in the format of printed books and holds 179 pages. The book is illustrated by Edward Goey and is the first...

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....

The Book of Dede Korkut is the most famous of the epic stories of the Oghuz Turks, a Western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz Turkic languages (not to be confused with the Turkish language) a group of twenty five different languages including...

The story of William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation is nearly as interesting as the story Bradford tells in his foundational historical document. The original manuscript went missing from its place in Boston sometime following the Revolutionary...

Starting in the year 1900 near the Mediterranean Sea region, Isabelle Eberhardt writes her journal chronicling her epic adventures. A completely rebellious spirit, Eberhardt was an embodiment of women's rights - she did everything that a woman...

The poems of Peter Meinke were written from the 1980's to present day. Most of his poems are on the shorter side, but this does not mean that they do not have great meaning hidden in them. Meinke has published during his career a total of eighteen...

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories is a novel consisting of seventy stories by seventy YA authors about bullying. It was made as a reaction to the suicide of the bullying victim Phoebe Prince in 2010. The two authors and editors Megan...

Eileen is writer Otessa Moshfegh's successful debut novel. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

Eileen follows an unhappy and disturbed...

Speedboat is the first fictional novel written by Renata Adler, published in 1976, and re-published by New York Review Classics in 2013, as it was highly acclaimed. The book won the 1976 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was nominated for the...

Changes: A Love Story was published in 1991, and is a novel written by Alma Ata Aidoo. It tells of a certain time in the life of a career woman in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Esi is a very modern African woman who works for the government,...

Born in Flames is Lizzie Borden's monumental documentary-style feminist fiction film. In it, she ruminates on issues of racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in an alternative United States socialist 'democracy.' Directed, Written, Produced,...

Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, located in Western Asia, and considered to be the very first Persian Empire. The Empire was founded in 550 B.C. and lasted for over two hundred years, and was larger than any previous...

The Business of Fancydancing (1992) is Sherman Alexie's first published novel. It is a collection of many poems and five short stories. Like most of Alexie's works, these poems and short stories are about Native Americans. Most deal with themes of...

The Book of Three is a high fantasy novel for children, written by Lloyd Chudley Alexander, published in 1964. The book was written and published after World War II and is inspired by Welsh mythology. It is the first in the first chronicle Lloyd...

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is Ben Fountain's groundbreaking debut war satire novel. Published in May 2012 by Ecco Press, the novel follows a group of war veterans as they go on a victory tour following an intensely violent firefight which by...

Before I Fall is Lauren Oliver's 2010 debut smash-hit young adult novel. This book follows a very popular high-school girl named Samantha ("Sam") as she is forced to relieve the day of her death - resulting from a tragic car accident - every day...

The Beautiful and Damned is the second novel of Fitzgerald first published in 1921 in the magazine “Metropolitan”. The novel is the second after This Side Of Paradise and the one that precedes The Great Gatsby, so the novel is considered as a...

Art is a French comedy play by Yasmina Reza. The play has run in London’s West End Wyndham’s Theatre, Broadway at the Royale Theatre, and at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris, where the play had its premiere on October 28th, 1994. The...

Chris Kyle’s 2012 debut narrative American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History tells Kyle’s story as a Navy SEAL from 1999 – 2009, during which time he completed four tours in Iraq, as well as his childhood...

An American Childhood is basically exactly what it says on the can; it is the story of Annie Doak, who grew up in the Pittsburgh area between the end of World War Two and the start of the Cold War. As well as being Annie's own biography, it is...

When Breath Becomes Air is neurosurgeon and author Paul Kalanithi's 2016 memoir chronicling his life and his life-ending illness -- stage IV metastatic lung cancer. He begins to notice symptoms as he is on the verge of completing nearly ten years...