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Timberlake Wertenbaker is a New York born, British writer raised in France. A daughter or a writer and a journalist, Wertenbaker’s interest in writing and language is no surprise and having started her career lecturing in Greek and French,...

Alternately titled The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight, Double is the fourth novel published by British children's/YA novelist Jenny Valentine. Valentine is a previous winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction for her 2007 debut novel,...

George Brant's play comes out of the true story of Mary the elephant, hung in Erwin Tennessee on September 13, 1916. Erwin, Tennessee is the actual town where the events occured, included the young man being trampled to death by Mary and her...

Grounded is a full-length play written by George Brant. The premiere was mounted at the London’s Gate Theatre and proved so successful that it has since been translated into nearly a dozen languages for productions around the globe. Grounded won...

Written in 2003, this novel is about a set of different topics which are considered in detail. The book raises many questions, but there is no doubt that this story is rich in ambiguity. Since the author avoids discussing and explaining his works...

"All That is Solid Melts Into Air" is a phrase that gained prominence through Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. It encapsulates the transient and unstable nature of capitalist societies, where traditional...

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...