Sentences with phrase «good fictional novel»

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In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

The novel, a New York Times best seller, is a fictional account of Benedict Arnold's socialite wife Peggy Shippen's role in his treason against America.

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.

Jasper Jones (Film Movement), adapted from Craig Silvey's best - selling coming - of - age novel, is the story of Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), a bookish 14 - year - old boy who lives in fictional Corrigan, a small rural Australian town.

SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as the films and video games based on those novels.The group is led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Adapted from the best - selling fictional novel by R.J. Palacio, Jacob Tremblay plays 10 - year - old Auggie — a boy afflicted by severe facial deformities caused by Treacher - Collins Syndrome — prompting his being homeschooled.

First, the five - year fictional delay had to happen because of my storytelling style, in that all my horror / thrillers — not just the Infected series, but my stand - alone novels as well — happen in «real time.»

Author Jan Karon will return to her beloved fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina for the first time since 2005 with the upcoming novel, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.

Mix in a love of Victorian ghost stories, together with nineteenth - and early twentieth - century detective stories, and you have a pretty good idea of the novel's fictional foundations.

RMFW members in good standing who have independently published one or more novel - length book (s) of fiction, or equivalent in fictional short stories, and who have income of at least $ 250 for both print and digital versions of the book (s).

I couldn't have said it better if I tried, but that's the point; thirty - four year - old, currently unemployed Thai journalist Jimm Juree says everything better than I could - even on my best days - and notably better than many of her fictional counterparts in the humorous novel arena.

While some of the pieces about time travel and the ChronoGuard almost had my eyes glazing over, things I loved in this excellent novel were the book refitter's own language, the fictional Thursdays, the Stupidity Surplus, Schrödinger's Night Fever Principle, the good ship Moral Dilemma on the Hypothetical Ocean, Aornis Hades timeloop prison, books whose genres change, piano exchange, the serial killer pun and the cheese smuggling.

-- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Fictional characters serve mainly as mouthpieces for an admittedly noble mission (portions of the novel's proceeds will support a Vietnamese children's foundation); nonfiction might have better served the author's purpose.»

Christine's fictional novels have garnered the ACFW Genesis Award, The Grace Award, Canada's The Word Guild Award, and was a finalist twice for Readers» Favorite as well as 2nd place in RWA's Faith Hope and Love contest.

Not all fictional works, but especially novels where there is an audience that can discover it (zombies, romance, mystery — sure, some genres have more competition among books, but this is compensated for by having more readers), and where the book is pretty good.

Sundblad is known for her collaborative work across mediums — including painting, singing, and performance art — as well as for her vision as co-founder and director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art (named after the fictional New York City it - girl at the center of Bernadette Corporation's collectively penned novel of the same name).

Of the fictional works in this list, the Frankenstein story is retold best by Blade Runner, a movie that, like Shelley's novel, never feels dated no matter when it's viewed.