Sentences with phrase «listed as novels»

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This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

The company is ramping up for a novel «direct listing» — where it would sell its shares to the public without using Wall Street banks as a go - between later this year or early in 2018.

The season is upon us where culture junkies such as myself become enjoyably worked up over various year - end «Best of 2011» lists - best album, movie, novel, etc..

When a British magazine recently listed what its editors considered the best young American novelists, it noted that writers were turning back to childhood, growing up and family relationships as subject matter — what some grumbling critics called «the Norman Rockwellization of the novel.»

The attendees developed a list of top research priorities and a research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.

«Such an experience gives players a space to challenge how they see the world, just as movies like Schindler's List or novels like Animal Farm, did for past audiences,» said Bowman.

Junk food, such as highly processed food and sweets from beverages to candy (really anything with an ingredient list that reads like a short novel or has words that you can't pronounce), rarely had a place in my diet but, to this day, I do love chips and the occasional gummy bear.

a geek, a gamer... I love movies and tv, comic books and graphic novels, video and board games... I'm looking for a woman who likes the same and doesn't list «Hiking» as one of their favourite activities.

All great authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit

Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit The Top 10 Best Comedy Movie Lines From Classic Films (According to Turner Classic Movies) 1.

But for me the dullest and most timid aspect of this year's Oscar list is its almost ignoring Tom Ford's brilliant, ruthlessly provocative thriller Nocturnal Animals, a double - narrative about an unhappy art dealer (Amy Adams) who gets the manuscript of an unpublished novel through the post from her estranged first husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the action of this explicit crime thriller is dramatised as she imagines it, with this very ex-husband pictured in the lead.

The 2008 novel was written as a series of letters and reached the number one position on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperback.

It may have been 1991's The Silence of the Lambs that led to Hannibal Lecter's iconic status as well as his anointment as cinema's all - time greatest villain (at least according to the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains list back in 2003), but the cannibalistic doctor's first on - screen appearance can actually be found in this compelling thriller which writer - director Michael Mann adapted from Thomas Harris» novel Red Dragon.

All that changed with Schindler's List, as the world's biggest director, Spielberg, took on Thomas Thomas Keneally's bestselling novel.

He or she has put up a list of some of the movie's parallels to Emma, a cast list that identifies who's who in terms of the novel, and a note advising, «I notice that people who have read Emma tend to get more enjoyment out of the movie than those who approach it as merely yet another teen flick.»

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

As the fin de siècle approaches, we have been besieged with lists: news events of the century, novels of the century, nonfiction works, films, songs, and, yes, books specific to fields of study.

As students explore Common Core State Standards literature selections and other 6th grade novels, short stories, and poems, our literature - based vocabulary word lists, free printable worksheets, and other resources support your students» growth and their ability to meet reading comprehension goals.

The safety tech list is as long as one would expect at the luxurious end of the crossover spectrum, with features such as adaptive cruise control and automatic braking, lane - keeping alert and assistance, blind - spot and cross-traffic alerts, a 360 - degree camera system, and more novel measures such as inflatable rear seatbelt airbags and a glovebox door airbag designed to provide passenger knee protection all on offer.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

They Almost Always Come Home took honors as the first novel to hold the number one position of all free Kindle downloads when the Kindle download list was first split.

I'm also able to pick a book a quarter from the Historical Novel Society's list, as I review for their website too.

Glimpse continues to be listed as a graphic novel.

I told her what I was looking for, to re-create the first chapter of my novel Clifton Chase and the Arrow of Light as if it was a movie, and she came back with a shot by shot listing of how she would film the trailer.

Book - length graphic novels started to gain traction in the late 1970s, but YA as a category of graphic novels remains a somewhat new phenomenon in the U.S.: YALSA only started publishing its Great Graphic Novels for Teens list a decade ago, and only one book on that list, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006), was originally published novels started to gain traction in the late 1970s, but YA as a category of graphic novels remains a somewhat new phenomenon in the U.S.: YALSA only started publishing its Great Graphic Novels for Teens list a decade ago, and only one book on that list, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006), was originally published novels remains a somewhat new phenomenon in the U.S.: YALSA only started publishing its Great Graphic Novels for Teens list a decade ago, and only one book on that list, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006), was originally published Novels for Teens list a decade ago, and only one book on that list, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (2006), was originally published as YA.

Macomber is beloved for her series such as Cedar Cove and Blossom Street; according to a press release from Random House [PDF], 130 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and four of her novels have debuted at # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

As we compiled our recent list of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time, I couldn't help but think about how comics and graphic novels fit in.

Bookshelf presents a list of graphic novel reviews, courtesy of Industry Professional Katie Monnin, as well as Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and School Library Journal.

On epublishing email lists, writers ask questions such as — how can I get published, which epublishing house should I choose, how can I best promote and market my first novel, etc..

Our eBook conversion service for novels and memoirs is for fairly simple books that do not have any special formatting needs, such as block quotes, tables, lists, etc..

I didn't see any of these on your above list and just wanted to get some clarification for myself, as this is the type of upcoming novel I will be launching in January, 2012.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I knew I had a good publishable novel for it had been assessed, passed on to agents, and been short listed in two competitions, but how to beat the «Great Amazon slush pile» as the traditional publishers rudely call it?

A # 1 Indie Next pick which debuted at # 6 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list, the novel portrays three German war widows who have taken refuge in a Bavarian castle as the war ends.

His first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) brought him admiration and recognition: a glowing review in The New York Times, a Guardian First Book Award as well as inclusion in The National Book Foundation's «5 under 35» list.

That's because the tenth entry in our top 10, Bill Beverly's Dodgers, forms a kind of bridge, it being the only title to appear on both the year's top 10 crime novels and our top 10 crime fiction debuts — a rare double, as those who follow these annual lists will know.

As always, the Amazon list (this is for comics that use Kindle Panel View) is a mix of single - issue comics and graphic novels.

Though not as veteran a rereader as my wife, Karyn, whose favorite books resemble walking dead, I do have a handful of novels to which I regularly return, and this is one, a novel that deserves to be solidly on the list of anyone's greats.

Kindle readers are ahead of the curve, as three of the titles on this list — the first two issues of The Sandman: Overture and George R.R. Martin's The Hedge Knight graphic novel — are pre-orders.

The free list is weirdly eclectic, with bible stories, manga, and edu - comics, as well as a bunch of mislabeled books that aren't really graphic novels.

Amazon is offering the DC Essential Graphic Novels sale as well, which is probably why The Sandman moves up a couple of notches; otherwise, this week's list is very similar to last week's.

Twice selected for Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day («Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity» — The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine's top ten books of the year — the internationally revered A. L. Kennedy returns with a story collection whose glorious wit and vitality make this a not - to - be-missed addition to the canon of one of our most formidable young writers.

Also at the book's end, Berry has included a wealth of back matter, a glossary, a list of characters (possibly of more help if placed at the book's beginning), and an author's note explaining the roots of the religious discord, inquisitions, and wars, and touching on such female mystics as Hildegard of Bingen, who is referenced in the novel.

It seems that this week has been good to new authors, as two debut novels will make a very exciting debut — on the New York Times» best - selling Hardcover Fiction list.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

The latest novels of writers such as Andrzej Stasiuk and Michał Witkowski highlighted a list that included journalists and nonfiction writers who could capitalize on Poland's reputation for producing sharp, essayistic travel writing — a reputation established by Ryszard Kapuscinski that continues in Stasiuk's non-fiction work.

This past week, I noticed that my 99 - cent publications are suddenly being listed by Amazon under more and more best - selling novels as publications that «Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought,» some of the best - selling books by well - known authors.

As the Christmas season approaches, now's the perfect time to treat yourself to this heartwarming novel, as well as to add it to your Christmas gift - giving lisAs the Christmas season approaches, now's the perfect time to treat yourself to this heartwarming novel, as well as to add it to your Christmas gift - giving lisas well as to add it to your Christmas gift - giving lisas to add it to your Christmas gift - giving list.

Even though Amazon does list sub-categories such as: (Victorian, Scottish, Time Travel, etc.) What if you still need help in finding the right phrase or keywords so your romance novel stands out?

A pleasant surprise that Kindle threw on the very second day was by listing it as the second best selling among the fantasy novels on Kindle Store!