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- Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books. Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies...18 KB (1,399 words) - 01:12, 14 June 2024
- Lancer Books was a publisher of paperback books founded by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius that operated from 1961 through 1973. While it published stories...8 KB (831 words) - 23:40, 19 December 2023
- Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is...13 KB (1,419 words) - 18:07, 24 June 2024
- Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Robert Bloch wrote of the series,...20 KB (2,664 words) - 02:35, 10 June 2024
- Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was an American book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation...6 KB (582 words) - 22:31, 27 July 2022
- Jay Robert Nash (November 26, 1937 – April 22, 2024) was an American author of more than 70 books on myriad aspects of true crime. Among Nash's crime anthologies...7 KB (845 words) - 12:40, 3 May 2024
- Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"...3 KB (447 words) - 20:39, 12 February 2024
- Belmont Books, also known as Belmont Productions, was an American publisher of genre fiction paperback originals founded in 1960. It specialized in science...10 KB (1,132 words) - 16:32, 15 February 2024
- Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma, in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation...7 KB (1,063 words) - 00:01, 29 March 2024
- Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This is How (2009). Hyland is...13 KB (1,492 words) - 05:32, 15 June 2023
- America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It is a 2006 non-fiction book by the Canadian newspaper columnist and writer Mark Steyn. It forecasts the...21 KB (2,289 words) - 05:41, 11 June 2024
- Sir Gibbie is an 1879 novel by the Scottish author George MacDonald, including dialogue written in the Doric dialect of Scotland, that presents a narrative...11 KB (1,282 words) - 02:16, 6 June 2024
- Moderato Cantabile is a novel by Marguerite Duras. It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras' fame. The plot...16 KB (2,387 words) - 14:20, 5 June 2024
- The Island of Adventure (published in 1944) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the first book in the Adventure Series. The first edition...4 KB (381 words) - 06:02, 15 October 2023
- Charles Townsend Copeland (April 27, 1860 – July 24, 1952) was a professor, poet, and writer. He graduated from Harvard University and spent much of his...3 KB (227 words) - 20:26, 21 April 2024
- Good as Gold is the third novel written by Joseph Heller. Portions of it were printed in the New York Times in 1976, and in Playboy in April 1979. The...4 KB (326 words) - 12:33, 5 June 2024
- Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution is a book by scholar Michael M.J. Fischer, written in 1980. The book is about the role of Islam in Iran and...3 KB (239 words) - 20:24, 13 May 2023