Graduation Day was published in 2013 and aims at questioning authority subtly through its characters. It is a work of fiction that describes a terrible place full of deprivation and terror. In such a place, this book gives space to characters like...

Independent Study (2014) is the second novel in Joelle Charbonneau's The Testing trilogy. It resumes the story of the protagonist, Cia, where the first novel left off: at the start of Independent Study, "Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu...

As an African-American writer active in New York in the 1920s, Jean Toomer has often been considered a figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Toomer, however, disavowed the connection believing that it placed his race before his work as a poet. Toomer...

The film’s original title was Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine, but eventually became Starship Troopers when the producers and screenwriter found the novel of the same title by Robert A. Heinlein. Feeling that it was a better title, they licensed the book...

The Fifth Element is a fantastic action film with the elements of comedy directed by Luc Besson. It has been shot in 1996 at the “Gaumont” studio in France, and released in 1997. The budget of the film encounters 90 million dollars, and at that...

Ambiguous Adventure, originally titled L'Aventure ambiguë, is a novel by Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane. It was originally published in 1961 in the author's native language.

The novel is about the interaction between the cultures of Africa...

Women on the Market is a chapter in a philosophy book published by the French philosopher Luce Irigary. The chapter appears in the volume The sex which is not one and is generally considered as being an essay than can be studied on its own. The...

Jean Anouilh updates the context of the classic Greek drama by Sophocles to make it resonate with the era in which it was written: during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany during World War II. As a result, Antigone can be interpreted as a...

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author born on September 30, 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Woodlawn High School, he attended Howard University, but dropped out in order to pursue a career in journalism. Coates worked at...

Hadji Murat is a relatively short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. This novel was published in 1912, after his death; Tolstoy's narrative falls under the category of historical fiction.

The novel pivots around a war in which a brave chieftain, Hadji...

There Was a Country was written by Chinua Achebe, one of Nigeria’s most famous authors. It was published in 2012, after Achebe had remained in silence on the events of the Nigerian Civil War for over forty years. There Was a Country is an account...

Adeline Yen Mah had a traumatic upbringing. As a child, she was raised by her cruel stepmother, abused and neglected. Later, when her father died, this same stepmother kept Adeline from reading his will until two years after his death, at which...

Along the River is a novel that was written by a famous Chinese American writer called Adeline Yen Mah. It was published in early 2009 by Penguin Publishing in hardcover format, and on April 10, 2012, in paperback. The book is part of her Chinese...

The book "Cured" by Bethany Wiggins is the sequel to the original book "Stung". The series revolves around the mass biohazard pandemic happening in the world because of the extinction of the bee population. "Cure", published in March 2014, is a...

Stung is a novel published recently in 2013 and written by Bethany Wiggins. Wiggins is the author of Stung, Shifting, and Cured. This particular novel is exciting and adventurous, telling a fictional, post-apocalyptic story of a girl named Fiona.

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Connie Willis is an American author born on December 31, 1945 in Denver, Colorado. After graduating high school, she attended Colorado State College to study English and elementary education. Her first foray into the literary world began with her...

Although quite prolific as a writer of poetry, drama, essays and novels, the work for which Edgar Lee Masters has always been known and likely will always be known is his 1915 collection of more 200 poems titled Spoon River Anthology. Based...

Dear Mr Henshaw is a children's book by best selling author Beverly Cleary. It follows the story of a young boy called Leigh Botts who does not like his name because people think he is a girl. The book ingeniously tells Leigh's story through his...

Frindle is a highly-acclaimed, bestselling children's book that tells the story of Nicholas Allen, a go-getting, action-oriented fifth grader who is full of ideas and energy. Whilst in Mrs Granger's Language Arts class, Nick decides to invent a...