Sentences with phrase «of the best novels of»

Michael Morris is the author of the award winning novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, and Slow Way Home, named one of the best novels of the year by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the St. Louis Dispatch.

Virtual Death was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and was named by the Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of the year.

A Map of Home was published in half a dozen languages & won a Hopwood Award, an Arab - American Book Award, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes and Noble Review.

Not exact matches

Now translated into English, Liu Cixin's The Three - Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science - fiction novel and is in the process of being made into a Hollywood movie.

Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.

To me, innovation and making improvements are fine, but getting to the root of an issue and providing a completely novel solution sets the good apart from the great.»

Emily Blunt plays a recently divorced woman who becomes obsessed with a missing - persons case in this adaptation of the best - selling novel of the same name.

The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost of installing panels on thousands of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates of return than they can find in savings accounts and government bonds.

The Boring Company will also use novel engineering to tunnel faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else; a feat which seems reasonable to achieve when you have billions of dollars and excellent engineers at your disposal — which, realistically, solves most engineering problems.

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

The novel almost forced me to look back on my own life and reflect — to see what I can filter out of my life to make it better and more successful moving forward.

Harrison's first novel, «Wolf: A Fake Memoir,» came out in 1971 and he followed two years later with a work of fiction about the ecology, «A Good Day to Die.»

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

In fact, Drucker, drew many of his insights from English literature, including two authors — Charles Dickens and George Eliot — on the Observer's best 100 novels of all time list.

(A good account of this can be found in what is surely the best portrayal of the Industrial Revolution's society in transition, George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch.)»

(The best description of the divorce of work and family, and of its effect on both, is probably Charles Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times.)»

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

At Ionis Pharmaceuticals, we are dedicated to the discovery and development of novel, first - in - class or best - in - class antisense drugs to address significant unmet medical needs in a wide variety of diseases.

Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding of social cues, allowing a leader to better work with and understand others — traits that author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions for the leaders who possessed these qualities.

In a recent podcast interview with Howard Marks the founder of Oaktree Capital Management, Mark's suggested a novel defensive investment strategy I — since none of us can consistently accurately predict the future, develop a portfolio which will do well in a range of outcomes we can imagine instead of betting the farm on one potential outcome.

There is a book of poetry in Scripture that is steamier than any Danielle Steele novel and has better one - liners than a Cameron Crowe movie.

Or the fact that even the best of characters in Tolkien's novels must have more bad attributes, like Farimir taking Frodo to Osgiliath.And Jackson has to add more drama to the tales.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Subtitled «The Novel of Christian England,» this is a really big read, and a good one.

In any event, Ms. Minkowitz is reviewing in the Nation a rash of evangelical novels, including ones by Pat Robertson and Frank Peretti, as well as Charles Colson's Gideon's Torch.

The best of James» novels to read are the last ones: Wings of a Dove and The Golden Bowl.

To postmodern critics, such concerns suggest that life has a «plot,» as in a well - crafted novel, but of course what they are really pointing out is that such issues have no meaning in the absence of a transcendent grounding.

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

And while movies, novels, and songs often lead people astray into false directions of fulfilling their longings and desires, the story of Scripture serves as a better guide.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

Based on Anne Rice's best - selling novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, the film examines a time in Christ's life not typically seen on screen: His childhood.

One might well ask: What is the point of all of these distressing details when the end of the novel will, in most cases, be a sentimentalized scene of happy family life?

They would react to Tolstoy's statement with disbelief — to choose a novel that entertains and fosters a love for life over a treatise that solves every social (or, better, religious) question of humankind!

Anne Lamott is the New York Times best - selling author of Some Assembly Required, Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

That is hardly a novel thought, but it is nonetheless the backbone in a literal sense — the «structure» — of a good story.

I find Ian Barbour's definition of theoretical models in science serves as well in theology: «theoretical models are novel mental constructions.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

The viewer of art and the reader of a novel who surrender themselves to a new order of reality illustrate well both the validity of and the difficulties involved in such spontaneous freedom in the play experience.

It is what the saints strive for, what Dante attempted to suggest in the closing lines of the Divine Comedy, what, in a lesser way, many of our best novels grope after as well.

Many of the more curious features of Murdoch's novels become more comprehensible once one understands this belief that the Good is an imaginative creation: for instance, the seemingly minor yet recurrent instances of paranormal phenomena.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

Best in Fiction: Among novels that released in 2014, my favorite included All the Light We Can not See by Anthony Doerr, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and of course Lila by Marilynne Robinson (which I've only just started).

Adapted from Stephen King's massive series of novels, the big screen version of the story promises to wrestle with ideas like good vs. evil, spirituality and, of course, old - west inspired adventure.

Although I had come prepared to read only one of these interlocking stories, a well - stocked bookseller supplied the other Deptford volumes, as well as some very welcome information: there were seven Davies novels already in print, and another volume was due out shortly.