Sentences with phrase «new war novel»

He told me they were looking for someone to do a new war novel, American p.o.v. I got in touch, landed the job, and never looked back.

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What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

His new novel The Network ignores the eurozone crisis, as Jane Austen ignored the Napoleonic wars.

In a new study, UC Santa Barbara marine biologists applied existing technology in a novel way to monitor animals coming into and going out of a lagoon via a deep channel dredged during World War II.

Completing his law studies after World War One service, Brackett turned to writing magazine articles and novels; this led to a stint as drama critic for The New Yorker.

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

Adapted from the 1924 novel by Ernest Perochon, the narrative covers several years in the life of the Paridier farm in rural France, beginning in 1915 and running through the end of World War I. With husbands, sons and brothers all shipped off to combat, it's up to the matriarch Hortense (Baye) to run the show, plowing the fields and reaping the crops with the help of her daughter, Solange (Laura Smet), and a brand - new farmhand, Francine (Bry), whom she brings on during the harvest season.

Official Synopsis: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster «300,» this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield — on the sea — as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war.

Check out two new clips full of good advice from the following films: World War Z — This new clip from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the Max Brooks novel features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...

The new period romance starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Shoenaerts is based on a novel that survived World War II against the odds.

«Justice League: War» is based on the 2012 graphic novel, «Justice League: Origin» and focuses on the world before the Justice League was created and gives us a new animated incarnation of DC Entertainment's «The New 52&raqunew animated incarnation of DC Entertainment's «The New 52&raquNew 52».

The film follows the legendary and secretive author through his life — from his rebellious youth to the the bloody front lines of World War II, experiencing great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection, his writing in the pages of The New Yorker, and the PTSD - fueled writer's block that led to the birth of his iconic novel The Catcher In The Rye.

Next up is Sofia Coppola's new take on Thomas Cullinan's novel «The Beguiled,» in which Farrell plays a flirtatious Civil War soldier recuperating from his wounds in a girl's boarding school run by women (Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst).

Gaiman's novel details a coming war between gods old and new, the old based on mythology and the new gods drawing their power and influence from money, technology and celebrity.

Based on the once - shocking novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Carol recreates the caution and danger of lesbianism in post-World War II New York.

Every generation deserves a new screen adaptation of «Little Women,» Louisa May Alcott's enduring novel about the four March sisters growing up during the Civil War.

Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movieNew Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movienew HBO movie...

Why He's About to Break Out: Alwyn has the title role in Ang Lee's new drama, which is based on Ben Fountain's best - selling novel about a teenage Iraq war hero.

His newest book is Crossing the Dead Line, a Civil War novel.

His last novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, was hailed as «a relentlessly crackling mystery and adventure tale» (The Baltimore Sun) and «a new standard for war - based thrillers» (Los Angeles Times).

While her new novel deals with many of the themes typically explored in Li's writings — assimilation to American life, the lives of everyday people in China, and the damage wrought in the aftermath of China's civil war and turn to Communism — Kinder Than Solitude also contains a suspense element.

Her new historical novel in verse, Stone Mirrors, tells the tale of Edmonia Lewis, a girl with an Ojibwe mother and a father from Haiti, who overcomes abuse and prejudice to become a world - class sculptor in the years following the Civil War.

The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel — at once lyrical and blistering — about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9 / 11 Afghanistan.

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We also have: Lisa Silverthorne's Isabel's Tears, a novel about a magical inn; Dayle A. Dermatis» Waking the Witch, a gothic mystery novel with some paranormal elements and a light romance; Kelly Washington's The Pale Waters, the first novella in a four - part epic journey; Erica Lyon's Hot Waters, a steamy sea adventure novel; and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The War and After, five historical fantasy stories of magic and revenge.

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.

Iles wrote his first novel in 1993, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, which became the first of twelve New York Times bestsellers.

In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.

Entwistle returns to narrate this sequel to the Odyssey Award — winning The War That Saved My Life, and her lyrical voice brilliantly captures familiar and new characters through tough times and more lighthearted moments in this unforgettable historical novel set in WWII Britain.

They launch in the iBookstore with over 200 titles, including Hellboy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mass Effect, and the Star Wars comics, which may bring a whole new audience to these graphic novels — now a search in the iBookstore will turn up Star Wars graphic novels as well as the prose novels.

New York Times bestselling author David L. Robbins presents a riveting novel of war, love, and survival, set against the backdrop of an improbable rescue, the Los Baños prison raid — one of the most daring episodes of World War war, love, and survival, set against the backdrop of an improbable rescue, the Los Baños prison raid — one of the most daring episodes of World War War II.

Yet writer Aminatta Forna, who is from Sierra Leone, has dedicated her absorbing new novel, The Hired Man, to that other 1990s war - torn region, Yugoslavia, thus subtly illuminating the prolonged aftereffects of all wars.

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen books, including No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure — two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize — winning classic The Killer Angels.

The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offers a vision of our near - extinction and a heroine - a reimagined Joan of Arc - poised to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history, in this provocative new novel.

In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a «temporary gentleman» - an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent.

Everything about this debut novel is big; from the bidding war between ten publishers which led to an advance of nearly $ 2 million to its 944 page length and its pantheon of vivid characters who live in the New York City of the 1970s.

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.

San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2014 — VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, invites readers and aspiring gourmands to savor the delicious new manga (graphic novel) series, FOOD WARS!

- Nicholas Meyer, New York Times Best Seller and Screenplay Academy Award nominee for The Seven Percent Solution; screenwriter, The Human Stain; director of Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan «Juliana Maio's City of the Sun belongs in the «one percent» of new novels to read, not only because of the way she weaves suspense to keep you turning pages, but because she has married it all to a fascinating point in World War Two history with Middle East setting descriptions that will have you swearing you've been theNew York Times Best Seller and Screenplay Academy Award nominee for The Seven Percent Solution; screenwriter, The Human Stain; director of Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan «Juliana Maio's City of the Sun belongs in the «one percent» of new novels to read, not only because of the way she weaves suspense to keep you turning pages, but because she has married it all to a fascinating point in World War Two history with Middle East setting descriptions that will have you swearing you've been thenew novels to read, not only because of the way she weaves suspense to keep you turning pages, but because she has married it all to a fascinating point in World War Two history with Middle East setting descriptions that will have you swearing you've been there.

The novel is alternately told from there different perspectives: June Han, who is orphaned as an 11 - year - old during the Korean War, then eventually moves to New York City after living in an orphanage in Yongin; Hector Brennan, an American GI who works at the orphanage then becomes a janitor in New Jersey; and Sylvie Tanner, the wife of a missionary who helps run the orphanage.

In The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers» historical novel about the Civil War, Mr. Hockaday says to his new wife:»... there's an Armory in Holland Crossroads.

Yet writer Aminatta Forna, who is from Sierra Leone, has dedicated her absorbing new novel, The Hired Man, to that other 1990s war - torn region, Yugoslavia, thus subtly illuminating the prolonged aftereffects of all wars.Duro is a Croat living in the ghostly town of Gost.

From the author of the # 1 New York Times bestselling Little Bee, a spellbinding novel about three unforgettable individuals thrown together by war, love, and their search for belonging in the ever - changing landscape of WWII London.

Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein «Elizabeth Wein's astonishing new World War II novel is a reminder of the power historical fiction can have in the hands of an accomplished author.

The most anticipated new book is Paulette Jiles» novel set shortly after the end of the Civil War, News of the World.

Marvel Unlimited for the iPad and iPhone has over 15,000 single issues and graphic novels available, including all of the new Star Wars comics.

Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic spanning Kingston in the»70s, the crack wars in»80s New York, and a radically altered Jamaica in the»90s.

The rippling effects of war lie at the heart of Amanda Hodgkinson's haunting debut novel, as one fractured family tries to build a new life together while each member struggles to bury memories from the past.

Now, in her dazzling new novel — her first in more than a decade — Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9 / 11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind - sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.