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William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy holds a distinctive place in American literature. With its publication by Isaiah Thomas and Company of Boston in 1789, The Power of Sympathy became the very first novel written by an American that was set...

Marie Lu wrote the dystopian and young adult novel, Prodigy, not long after her first book, Legend, was a success. Prodigy was published on January 29, 2013, and is the second book of the "Legend" trilogy. It was preceded by Legend and followed by...

Champion was written by Marie Lu in 2013 and was published by Putnam Juvenile. It is the third and final book of the Legend trilogy, which has received praise from Kirkus Review, The New York Times and USA Today, among other sources.

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Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was the co-founders of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and one of the key rivals of Vladimir Lenin. He was very influential due to his Marxist ideology and played a significant role in the first decade of...

His work, remained unknown until the mid of the XX century, is now recognized as the top of American poetry of colonial period. Edward Taylor came to America in 1668, went to Harvard (1668-1671), adopted holy orders after its graduating, and in...

Written by Barbara Kingsolver and published in 2009, The Lacuna is Kingsolver’s sixth novel. The Lacuna traces the journey of Harrison William Shepherd from Mexico City, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to America, the Cold War, and the Red Scare....

“The Stone Boy” was originally published in 1957; nearly three decades later in 1984, the short story was adapted into a movie. “The Stone Boy” was written by Gina Berriault, a California native whose parents were Russian-Jewish. Berriault’s...

Michael Ondaatje's breakout novel Coming Through Slaughter is an interesting attempt to fill in the gaps of the life of Buddy Bolden. Inventing events and people to better explain the known details of Bolden's life, Ondaatje challenges some...

Set during the Civil War, the story begins with a six-year-old Southern boy who wanders away from his house and disappears into the nearby woods, all the while dreaming of military victories and heroic conquests. Feeling emboldened by the spirits...

The Strenuous Life is a collection of many of Theodore Roosevelt’s works and speeches. This collection was published in 1900, and it contains a speech of the same name. “The Strenuous Life” is a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave in 1899 in Chicago,...

Where Things come back is a novel published in the year 2011 by the American author John Corey Whaley. The novel is characterized as being a novel for young adults and it quickly became popular. The author even was awarded the Printz Award in 2012...

Drowning Is Inevitable is a young adult fiction novel by Shalanda Stanley. In the novel, Stanley chronicles the journey of Olivia, a young girl whose mother committed suicide at the tender age of 19. In her quest to break free from bondage to her...

Madeleine Albright is a well known diplomat and the first woman to have attained the position of United States Secretary of State, having been nominated and successfully appointed by Bill Clinton. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by...

Almost 100 years before everything happened in Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a compilation of the official three prequels to A Song of Ice and Fire, one of George R. R. Martin’s works. In A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the...

The fifth of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons was the first novel that was published after the show that was based on it had started. This novel is divided in two parts and was published...

George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows is the fourth novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series which is set in the fantasy world of Westeros. The elements from the novel appeared in season four, five and six of its television adaptation Game of...

Justin Cronin is a fiction novelist. After graduating from Harvard University, he moved on to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught creative writing at La Salle University and English at Rice University, but his true passion is writing. Well...

The Twelve is a novel written by Justin Cronin and published recently in 2012. Cronin is an author who has written five novels and a trilogy with vampires in it, which The Twelve is the second novel in that series. Cronin graduated from Harvard...

Justin Cronin developed the idea for The Passage over a three month period during which he jogged alongside his nine year old daughter Iris, who was riding her bicycle to get fit for soccer season. She felt that his previous novels were 'boring'...

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, written by Robin Sloan, was published in 2012. This takes place in a San Francisco, and the main character is Clay Jannon.

Clay knows technology, but he works in a bookstore where the customers don't even buy many...

Recently published in 2013, Sisterland is a novel that tells about identical twins, Kate and Violet, who are not identical at all. Sisterland was written by Curtis Sittenfeld, who has written a total of five highly praised novels and many short...

The Voice at 3:00 AM is a collection of poems written by Charles Simic. It was published in 2003. Charles Simic is one of the most recognized poets of modern day. He has won various awards, including the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin...

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys tells the story of fifteen-year-old Lina whose family is deported from their home in Lithuania to a Siberian labor camp in 1941. As the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee, Sepetys was inspired by her father to...

Ruta Sepetys is an American author born on November 19, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan. Although Sepetys currently makes her living as a writer, she did not even pursue a humanities field in university. She received a degree in International Finance...