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Erik Larson's works tend to reflect his highly academic approach to life. A summa cum laude grad of the University of Pennsylvania, and also of Columbia University, he turned to journalism after seeing the film All the President's Men, which helps...
Sometimes it seems as though every teen girl dreams of running off to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. This was never more true than in the years of the Great Depression when it really did seem as though a girl could be working on the...
The Brides of Rollrock Island was written by award-winning author Margo Lanagan. It was first published during 2009 and was later published during 2012 by David Fickling Books. This fictional novel tells the story of the magical essence of...
Elizabeth Kostova’s debut novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 by Little, Brown and Co. in the United States. Created and crafted in a time span of ten years, The Historian became a bestseller in the first week of its sale. As a child,...
And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel written by Khaled Hosseini in 2013. It was published on May 21, 2013. The book is written in the genre of historical drama. It won the Goodreads Choice Award in the category "Fiction" and Paris Review...
The film Departures is a Japanese drama directed by Yōjirō Takita and released in 2008. The film is a drama that follows the life of a mortician in a rural area in Japan. The film is inspired by a novel entitled Coffinman, an autobiographical...
The novel Departure is the first standalone novel written by the American writer A.G. Riddle.
The novel follows the trilogy The Atlantis Gene written a few years before the novel Departure. Just like in the series Atlantis, the novel Departure is...
The Atlantis World (The Origins Mystery, Book 3) was written by fiction author A.G. Riddle. This is the last book of The Origins Mystery trilogy. In this final installment, a team of explorers takes a wild journey across space and time to discover...
The Atlantis Plague (The Origins Mystery, Book 2) was written by science fiction author A.G. Riddle. He is the same author who wrote and published The Atlantis Gene (The Origins Mystery, Book 1) in 2015. This book, of his science fiction trilogy,...
The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, Book 1) was written by A.G. Riddle and has sold over a million copies within the U.S. Riddle captivates his readers by telling a story about uncovering human origins as well as human evolution. He speaks of...
The Long Goodbye is the sixth of seven novels that Raymond Chandler published featuring his iconic private detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is right up there with Sherlock Holmes, Sam Space and Miss Marple in the world of literary crime solvers...
Necessary Lies is by Diane Chamberlin, and was published in 2013. It takes place in a town down south, about fifty years ago. This text follows the story of Ivy Hart, a fifteen-year-old girl where her parents die, and she has to take care of her...
Caleb's Crossing was written by Geraldine Brooks, a bestselling author and journalist who grew up in Sydney, Australia. It was published during 2011 by Viking. This fiction novel tells a rich story of a blossoming friendship between two core...
Written by author Max Barry, Lexicon (published in 2013) tells the story of an abnormal school that doesn't teach children math, science and history. Instead, they teach children how to use manipulate people's mind and ultimately control the mind....
The Heir is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 3, 2016. It is a sequel to Cass' best-selling novel, The Heir. This marks the final book in the entire series and concludes the events of both the...
The Heir is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 6, 2015. It is a sequel to Cass' best-selling trilogy, The Selection. The Heir is set twenty years after the events of The One and the main protagonist...
The One is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 6, 2014. The book is the third and final in the trilogy.
The book marks the end of America's journey as an Elite as she is forced to prove her love for...
The Elite is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on April 23, 2013. The book is the second in a trilogy and due to its success has lead to a sequel.
The book focuses on protagonist America Singer, as she...
Fredrik Backman is a blogger and novelist born on June 2, 1981 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Before he published his first novel in 2012, Backman wrote for various publications, including Helsingborgs Dagblad and Moore Magazine. However, A Man Called...
The Amber Spyglass is a young adult fantasy novel written by Philip Pullman, first published in 2000. It is the third and final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, preceded by The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife.
All three books take place...
The Subtle Knife is a novel written by Philip Pullman that was published in 1997. This book is actually the second installment of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman is an English author whose writing is based heavily on religion and...
The Impossible Knife of Memory is a 2014 Young Adult novel by American author Laurie Halse Anderson. It explores the life of the protagonist, Hayley Kincaid, and her father, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after returning from...
Lauren Groff was early on considered a promising writer. Currently, one can hardly find a person who would doubt as to whether she has a talent or not. Her first novel reached a status of bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Its review was...
This name of the author of this collection is well-known among readers who favor short stories over novels. Being the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and many more, Ann Beattie has proved that her genius can...
