Sentences with phrase «author of the novels where»

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The author of seven novels, beginning in 1977 with Staggerford (the imaginary Minnesota town where most of his stories unfold), Hassler is a writer - in - residence and English teacher at St. John's University, Minnesota.

Such character - centered writing is a mark of good fiction in any genre, but in detective novels, where the author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.

Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay — author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives with her husband Mike, who works for a humanitarian organization in the region.

It said the action was a confirmation of the classic novel by a British author, Jeffery Archer titled «Honour among thieves», where he postulated that criminals do not compromise the actions of other criminals».

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

Adapted from author Kate Brian's best - selling series of novels, Private follows wide - eyed college freshman Reed Brennan during her first semester at Easton Academy, an esteemed private college where nothing is as it seems.

The screenplay, written by Riko Sakaguchi and Yonebayashi, is based on the 1971 children's novel The Little Broomstick by British author Mary Stewart, and the movie's story seems to exist in a unique place, with the characters appearing British but drawn in that specific style of Japanese animation, while the backdrops look as if they could be set in any place where there are fields and forests and farms and tiny villages down some dirt road.

After enlisting, Salinger experiences the horrors of war across the battlefields of Europe, where he begins to pen what would become his iconic novel, The Catcher in the Rye — a work that would forever change the country and its author.

She is also an aspiring author, her tales about Oz known and appreciated by the children of small - town Kansas (this is apparently an alternate universe where Baum's novels have not been published).

His leads are slim until he begins looking into the works of a rather sadist author named Kozlow (Marton Csokas), who specializes in writing the kinds of novels where sexual torture is narrated with a pretentious tone.

From the novel by best - selling author Agatha Christie, «Murder on the Orient Express» tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect and clues are everywhere.

Nine years after meeting Celine (Delpy, Three Colors: White), Jesse (Hawke, Training Day) is a best - selling author, whose latest novel is a fictional account of that night in Vienna where the two fell for each other.

2:00 p.m., Room 7AB — Max Brooks With the troubled «World War Z» getting extensive rewrites and reshoots, Paramount decided to skip Comic - Con with the project, but Max Brooks, author of the source novel, is hosting his own panel, described as «Zombie Survival 101,» where he'll talk about his career and give tips on how to make it through a zombie uprising.

Ann Hite, author of Where the Souls Go Leah Stewart, author of The New Neighbor Mining the Mountain's Secrets: Two Novels 12:00 - 1:00 pm Room 31, Legislative Plaza

If you author a series, you have to pull all your novels over onto Pronoun to maintain the series linkage on Amazon, where likely 50 % + of your sales occur, because Amazon only links the series if all books are published from one «ID».

Today, he is the bestselling author of at least fourteen novels (often writing with a dual narrative style where the two voices are separated by the centuries), fifteen non-fiction books, various collections and a history series for children.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

Not having the happy ending was a wise decision on the author's part, because it would have undercut his overall message, and it would have seemed contrived: While we know slaves did escape to safety in the 19th century, his novel is a commentary on the present, where there is no such «happy ending» of perfect safety and freedom, even for black people who achieve.

From the acclaimed author of The Ash Garden — «an illuminating searchlight on the terra incognita where the personal and the political intersect» (Newsday)-- an even more ambitious novel that follows a doctor from the trenches of the Great War into subsequent conflicts whose horrors would soon envelop the world.

By the time of launch all my rights were returned to me, and while my novel gives publishing credit where it is due, I essentially was and am now a self - published author.

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.

I then discovered I was reading one of the finished versions of this novel, which was quite good since I didn't even realize where Austen left off and the new author began.

While the author's style of writing moved the book along at a decent pace, I think that the genre of Historical Novel requires that the author's imagination be used to supplement where facts are either thin or missing entirely.

In his latest novel, Bradford Morrow exposes the dark side of the rare - book world, where literary forgers create fake letters, signatures and manuscripts by famous authors.

She is the author of over twenty - five suspense novels, including Where Are the Children?

Jonathan Tropper is the internationally bestselling author of six novels: Plan B, The Book of Joe, Everything Changes, How To Talk to a Widower, This Is Where I Leave You, and One Last Thing Before I Go.

Author Gwendolyn Heasley (Where I Belong, A Long Way from You) will publish her third young adult novel with HarperTeen this April, and BookPage has the pleasure of presenting the first look at the plucky heroine at the heart of Don't Call Me Baby.

Who: Jodie Comer, Jacob Collins - Levy, Chris Barnicoat What: An eight - episode limited series based on a novel of the same name by British author Philippa Gregory When: Premieres April 16 Where: Starz Why We're Excited: In this royal tale, which picks up where the award - winning series The White Queen left off, the focus is on the women of the court, in particular the White Queen's Daughter, Elizabeth of York, who marries family enemy King HWhere: Starz Why We're Excited: In this royal tale, which picks up where the award - winning series The White Queen left off, the focus is on the women of the court, in particular the White Queen's Daughter, Elizabeth of York, who marries family enemy King Hwhere the award - winning series The White Queen left off, the focus is on the women of the court, in particular the White Queen's Daughter, Elizabeth of York, who marries family enemy King Henry.

Where some of Høeg's other novels have come close to losing their narrative moorings altogether, overcome by the force of the author's intelligence, in Smilla thedemands of the crime story keep the book grounded just enough to give readers something to hold on to.

Not the one to author Thrity Umrigar's home in Cleveland — where she is associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University — but the one her character Armaiti makes in her compelling new novel, The World We Found.

Chabon's new novel is about the distinct character of each place, as well as the borderline between them (where the author lives in real life).

In Destiny's Embrace, the first novel of a planned series, best - selling author Beverly Jenkins takes readers to a California rancho in 1885, where matriarch Alanza Yates wants her three sons to marry.

The hilarious author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette makes an anticipated return with a novel that will win the hearts of overburdened parents everywhere.

The author of the bestseller Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet sets his second novel in 1920s and 1930s Seattle, where a lonely young boy looks for the mother he longs for.

In her first novel, the author — who was born in South Korea — takes readers into the little - known world of North Korea, where three very different people's destinies collide after they escape to North Korea's border with China.

Where some of his other novels have come close to losing their narrative moorings altogether, overcome by the force of the author's intelligence, in Smilla the demands of the crime story keep the book grounded just enough to give readers something to hold onto.

Don't know where this novel takes place, but it doesn't seem to matter as if the author is telling the reader that the place doesn't really matter and that this type of evil exists everywhere and anywhere.

The moment I turned the final pages of the Author's Note I hopped lickety - split to Mary Doria Russell's website, where she had announced the same day a sequel to Doc, entitled Epitaph, will be released early 2015: Epitaph update: bad news, good news And she's committed to writing a novel about Edgar Allen Poe.

Solo and Q&A sessions with television, film and music legends Kimberly Williams - Paisley (actress from ABC's hit show Nashville, wife of country music star Brad Paisley, and author of Where the Light Gets In), Bill Anderson (Whisperin» Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music), Sean Patrick Flanery (Jane, Two: A Novel).

I would bet that the reason so many romance authors and readers find each other here at Smashwords is that they have found a place where they are not treated as second - class citizens, and authors can make a little money, sometimes a lot of money, and readers can find a great romance novel without paying an arm and leg for it.

The best - selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped - from - the - headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page - turning thriller yet - where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men.

- Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize — winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad «Mark Slouka's masterful new novel is as tough as the town it is set in, that wintery Brewster where «it felt like somebody twice as strong as you had their hand around your throat.»

I will continue to submit to large and small publishers to get input where I can and showcase a few chapters of my novels on publishing websites to get good / harsh feedback from other authors.

Muslim teen poetry group addresses U.S. Islamophobia; authors set to perform Oscar Wilde's work in the prison where he served a sentence; Viet Thanh Nguyen on the process of writing his Pulitzer Prize — winning novel; and other news.

I'm not one of those authors who starts a novel without knowing where it is going or where it is going to end.

The range of topics include: where I live; how writing a bestseller has changed my life; my description of HUNTER and the Dylan Hunter character; a brief synopsis of my two upcoming novels; why I try to help other writers; my favorite thriller authors; the ways in which Ayn Rand's ideas and literary style have influenced me and my writing; my stint writing for Reader's Digest; and whether my outspoken views and political commentaries have affected my readership.

posted your lens on authonomy where I'm trying to get the authors to make book trailers for their books, ive been making my own for fun and posting them on my youtube channel - idea girl consulting - I have two series so far - the munroe series and the calamity girl series of novels that I'm writing

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

New edition (with a new cover) of the author's first novel set in a future Bangkok where calorie sources are scarce.