A Northern Light, also known as A Gathering Light in the U.K., is a young adult historical novel written by Jennifer Donnelly. Harcourt Children’s Books released the novel on April 1st, 2003.

The novel takes place in Herkimer Country and explores...

Alive is a novel written by Piers Paul Read in 1974. The book documents the events of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes which led to many deaths. The book, the story deals with factual occurrences and tells the story of the...

Iris Chang is an American novelist born on March 28, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study journalism and subsequently enrolled at Johns Hopkins University to earn her masters in...

Barrio Boy, written by Ernesto Galarza, is an extraordinary novel that tells the story about his childhood. This book was originally published during 1971 and was later published during 1991 by the University of Notre Dame Press. It starts in...

Ysabel is a fiction novel published in 2007 by Penguin Group. The novel was written by the Canadian author Guy Gavrill Kay and it is his tenth novel. The novel is critically acclaimed and has won the award for the World Fantasy Award for Best...

Sirena is a book written by Donna Jo Napoli that was published in 1998. Sirena is one of the Sirens, the mermaid beings in Greek mythology that sing songs that are impossible for mortals to ignore. When they sing to the Greeks that are sailing to...

Go Ask Alice is a popular young adult novel written by Beatrice Sparks (January 15, 1917- May 25, 2012), an American therapist and Mormon youth counselor. Sparks' modus operandi was writing "real diaries" from the accounts of "troubled teens." The...

The novel Lost Horizon was written in 1933. It was the first book published in “pocket-book” forma and was regarded to be one of the most popular books of the early 20th century. Even the American president F. D. Roosevelt named the Presidential...

Walden Two is a book written by the American writer Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Walden Two was his second published book and it was first published in 1948. A few years later, in 1976, the book was revised and republished, this time with an...

Spellbound is a romance novel that was published recently in 2005. Nora Roberts, the author of this work, is a number one New York Times bestselling author. This novel tells a love story that weaves in and out of reality and fantasy.

Calin Farrell...

The Stud was the second novel written by English author Jackie Collins. It was first published in 1969, just one year after the publication of her first novelquickly became a bestseller.

Collins received a large amount of criticism for The Stud....

Jostein Gaarder is well-known for writing from the perspective of children and the majority of his books are aimed at a young audience. Sophie's World is somewhat of an exception to this as its intention is to bridge the gap between children's and...

Published in 2008, Cockroach is the second novel by Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage. The novel is a dark comedy which draws on Hage's own background as a Lebanese immigrant living in Montreal.

Hage was born in Beirut and grew up there during...

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born on May 19, 1966 in Long Island, New York. She grew up surrounded by art and literature considering both her mother and grandmother were English teachers. They were a heavy influence on her as a child,...

White Oleander is a novel which was written by American author Janet Fitch in 1999. It is Bildungsroman novel, which is based on the psychological, moral and social formation of the personality of the protagonist. Little, Brown and Company...

Such A Pretty Girl is a novel for young adults written by Laura Wiess. It deals with the difficult and controversial topic of child sex abuse and the failure of the legal system to fully protect victims from their abuser.

Meredith Shale is a...