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Out (novel) | The novel tells the tales of four women, working the graveyard shift at a Japanese bento factory. All four women live hard lives. Masako, the leader of the four women, feels completely alienated from her estranged husband and teenage son. Kuniko, a plump and rather vain girl, has recently been ditched by her boyfriend ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_(novel) |
The Blending (novel series) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Blending is a fantasy series by Sharon Green. There are five novels in The Blending series, and an additional three novels in The Blending Enthroned. The covers for all the books were illustrated by Thomas Canty. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blending_(novel_series) |
The Big Wave | Kino lives with his family on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan while his friend, Jiya, lives in the fishing village below. Though everyone in the area has heard of the big wave no one suspects that when the next one comes, it will wipe out Jiya's entire family and fishing village below the mountain. Jiya soon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Wave |
The Baby-Sitters Club | [No dedicated plot section found] The Baby-Sitters Club (also known as BSC) is a series of novels, written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, that sold more than 190 million copies. Martin wrote an estimated 60-80 novels in the series while subsequent titles were written by ghostwriters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby-Sitters_Club |
The Coroner (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Coroner is M.R. Hall's first novel. It was published by PanMacmillan in 2009, and became the first in a series based around the fictional Jenny Cooper, a former solicitor appointed as coroner in the 'Severn Vale District' (effectively Bristol, England). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coroner_(novel) |
Barrayar | Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan are expecting their first child. Before crafty old Emperor Ezar Vorbarra dies, he maneuvers a very reluctant Aral into agreeing to serve as regent for Ezar's young grandson Gregor. A plot to assassinate the Vorkosigans with poison gas fails, but the antidote, while effective, is also a powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrayar |
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (TV series) | Nils Holgersson is a 14-year-old farm boy, the son of poor farmers. He is lazy and disrespectful to others. In his spare time he enjoys tormenting the animals that live on his family farm.
One Sunday, while his parents are at church and have left him home to read the day's homily in the family Bible, Nils captures a to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Nils_(TV_series) |
Two Thousand Seasons | [No dedicated plot section found] Two Thousand Seasons is a novel by Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah. The novel was first published in 1973 and subsequently published a number of times, including in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. It is an epic historical novel, attempting to depict the last "two tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Thousand_Seasons |
The Blackheath Poisonings | Two families, the Collards and Vandervents have lived together for many years in the same elegant house in the wealthy London suburb of Blackheath. The two have grown intermingled over the years, with numerous secrets. When they begin falling dead to mysterious stomach complaints, Paul Vandervent begins investigating. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackheath_Poisonings |
The Riding Club Crime | Nancy, George and Elsa are enjoying a horse ride, when Nancy's horse falls into a hole while attempting a four-foot jump over a post-and-rail.
Elsa is a counselor at Green Spring Pony Club summer camp, which has been vandalised by unknown persons. The owner, Mrs Rogers, is getting worried. Nancy, disguised as a counse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riding_Club_Crime |
The Art of Keeping Cool | The Art of Keeping Cool deals with the difficulties of childhood during World War II. in 1942, making sense of his family is especially difficult for thirteen-year-old Robert, whose father has been deployed in Europe with the Royal Canadian Air Force for more than six months. After Pearl Harbor, Robert and his family m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Keeping_Cool |
Fyodor Dostoevsky bibliography | [No dedicated plot section found] The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky_bibliography |
Mission to Moulokin | The novel follows the continuing adventures of Skua September, Ethan Fortune and Milliken Williams on the frozen world of Tran-Ky-Ky as they try to help the native race, the Tran, win admission to the Commonwealth. During their struggle they deal with corrupt Commonwealth officials and an insane Tran leader, find the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Moulokin |
Aleister Crowley | [No dedicated plot section found] Aleister Crowley ( AL-ist-ər KROH-lee; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guidin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley |
How I Learned Geography | Driven from home by a "war [that] devastated the land," a family flees to a remote city in the steppes. One day, the father returns from the market not with bread for supper but with a wall-filling map of the world. "'No supper tonight,' Mother said bitterly. 'We'll have the map instead.'" Although hungry, the boy find... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Learned_Geography |
Manvini Bhavai | [No dedicated plot section found] Manvi Ni Bhavai (English: Endurance: A Droll Saga) is a 1947 Gujarati novel written by Pannalal Patel. It is set in the period of the Indian famine of 1899–1900, locally known as the Chhappaniyo Dukal (The Famine of Samvat 1956) in Gujarat. The novel centres around the love story of Ka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manvini_Bhavai |
The Boys in the Island | In the 1950s teenage Frank dreams of leaving Tasmania for Melbourne. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_in_the_Island |
Death of a Superhero | Don, a 15-year-old with terminal cancer, attempts suicide by the train tracks, but ultimately lets the train rush past him. Don draws comic stories and suffers from hallucinations. During a scan, he sees a twisted woman laughing at him.
In an effort to stop his suicide attempts, his parents send him to therapy. Eventua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Superhero |
Beyond This Horizon | [No dedicated plot section found] Beyond This Horizon is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction (April, May 1942, under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald) and then as a single volume by Fantasy Press in 1948. It was award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_This_Horizon |
The Egyptian (film) | In 18th dynasty Egypt, while lion hunting with his friend Horemheb, struggling physician Sinuhe discovers Egypt's newly ascendant pharaoh Akhnaton, who has sought the solitude of the desert in the midst of a religious epiphany. While praying, the ruler is stricken with an epileptic seizure, with which Sinuhe helps him.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian_(film) |
Hank Green | [No dedicated plot section found] William Henry Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American YouTuber, science communicator, novelist, stand-up comedian, and entrepreneur. He produces the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother, author John Green, and hosts the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green |
Manon Lescaut | The seventeen-year-old Chevalier des Grieux, a seminary student and the younger son of a noble family, falls in love at first sight with Manon, a common woman on her way to a convent. He persuades her to run away with him, disappointing his father and forfeiting his hereditary wealth. In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut |
Intrigo: Samaria | While cycling late night, 19-year-old Vera Kall arrives at a farm. She leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through a kitchen door. She hadn't had time to realize that she is not alone, when a sudden blow to the head knocks her onto the kitchen floor where she is left lying. Meanwhile, a successful copywriter at Ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrigo:_Samaria |
The Ghosts of Watt O'Hugh | From the Boston Phoenix:
The title hero – a Western legend, Civil War Veteran, and Wild West Show star – has, like Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five become unstuck in time. Also like Pilgrim, who was forever traumatized by the Allied bombing of Dresden during World War II, at the heart of Watt's chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghosts_of_Watt_O%27Hugh |
The Last Station (novel) | Set in 1910, the novel tells the true story of Tolstoy's life in his last days, before he ran away from his wife and his family home, taking to the road, where he died in a small railway station called Astapovo, with only his doctor and his favourite daughter, Sasha, in attendance (the film of this novel adds Valentin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Station_(novel) |
The Human Condition (film series) | The Criterion Collection website summarises the plot of the film thus: "The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from being a labor camp supervisor to an Imperial Army soldier and eventually Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition_(film_series) |
Evil Angels (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Evil Angels is a 1981 novel by the French writer Pascal Bruckner. The French title is Lunes de fiel, which literally means "moons of bile", a pun on "lune de miel", "honeymoon". The story takes place on a passenger ship heading from Marseille to Istanbul, and focuses on a couple who me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Angels_(novel) |
Pushpa: The Rise | In the late 1990s, Pushpa Raj, a self-esteemed porter, and his friend Kesava resort to logging red sandalwood for notorious smuggler Konda Reddy. Pushpa quickly rises through ranks by saving the stock from being seized by DSP Govindappa and suggesting novel ideas to smuggle the logs bypassing checkpoints. Mangalam Srin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpa:_The_Rise |
Old Gringo | American schoolteacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to work as a governess for the Miranda family and becomes caught up in the Mexican Revolution. The Mexicans transporting her from Chihuahua, secretly soldiers in Pancho Villa's army, use her luggage to smuggle weapons to the servants at the Miranda hacienda. The ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Gringo |
Flashman and the Mountain of Light | At the end of events in Flashman's Lady, Flashman is sent to India when the English are anticipating conflict with the Sikh Army, the Khalsa. He is dispatched by Major George Broadfoot to the Punjab, masquerading as a solicitor attempting to settle the Soochet legacy. Flashman becomes entangled in the intrigues of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_and_the_Mountain_of_Light |
Five Survive | Five Survive follows six high school seniors going on a road trip during their spring break. 17 year old Red Kenny, the protagonist, joins her friends on a journey in a borrowed RV, hoping to find some normalcy and fun after experiencing personal challenges, including the death of her mother. Red is accompanied by her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Survive |
Set in Stone (novel) | Samuel Godwin, an aspiring artist, is forced to drop out of art school following his father's death. Without any qualifications, he contemplates what to do for work. Wealthy businessman Ernest Farrow advertises for an art tutor for his two daughters, and Godwin successfully applies for the position.
He moves into Farro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_in_Stone_(novel) |
Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun) | The story begins with a note from the narrator written in Classical Chinese, describing his reunion with an old friend. Having heard that the friend's brother was ill, he visits them, but discovers that the brother has recovered and taken up an official post. The rest of the story consists of 13 fragments the narrator ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Madman_(Lu_Xun) |
Cherry Valance | Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old boy who is a member of a "gang of greasers", is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by "Socs", the greasers' rival gang. Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers—the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop—come to his rescue. The next night, Ponyboy and two greas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel) |
Habibi (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Habibi is a 1997 young adult novel by Naomi Shihab Nye. It tells the story of 14-year-old Liyana Abboud and her family, her Arab father, American mother, and brother Rafik, who move from their home in St. Louis to Mr. Abboud's native home of Palestine in the 1970s. It is semi-autobiogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habibi_(novel) |
L'âne de Carpizan | [No dedicated plot section found] L'âne de Carpizan is a satirical novel from Quebec written by louperivian writer Raymond Goulet, dancer and dance professor, autopublished in 1957. and re-edited by Moult Éditions in 2019.
When published, the book was described as being the most irreverencious quebec novel , and later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%A2ne_de_Carpizan |
The Mississippi Bubble | [No dedicated plot section found] The Mississippi Bubble is a 1902 novel by American author Emerson Hough. It was Hough's first bestseller, and the fourth-best selling novel in the United States in 1902.
The historical novel revolves around the story of John Law (1671-1729) and the "Mississippi Bubble", an economic bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mississippi_Bubble |
C. Leigh Purtill | Plot summary not found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Leigh_Purtill |
Odd Thomas (novel) | In the beginning of the book, Odd Thomas is silently approached by the ghost of a young girl brutally raped and murdered, and through his unique ability to understand the dead, is psychically led to her killer, a former schoolmate named Harlo Landerson. Koontz discloses how Odd was named and begins, layer by layer, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Thomas_(novel) |
The Circus in Winter | Display No. 1: WALLACE PORTER - or What It Means to See the Elephant
Wallace Porter from Lima, Indiana ran a large livery stable. The struggling 'Hollenbach Circus and Menagerie' paused at the town and Wallace decides to buy the circus, which became the Great Porter Circus.
Display No. 2: JENNIE DIXIANNA - or The Secre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_in_Winter |
Hajime Taguchi | [No dedicated plot section found] Hajime Taguchi (田口一, Taguchi Hajime) (born 1975) is a Japanese novelist who is best known for his work Nakaimo - My Sister is Among Them!. In 2007, his novel Majo Rumika no Akai Ito won the Honorable Mention at the F Bunko J light novel rookie award. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajime_Taguchi |
Count Belisarius | [No dedicated plot section found] Count Belisarius is a historical novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1938, recounting the life of the Roman general Belisarius (AD 500–565).
Just as Graves's Claudius novels (I, Claudius and Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina) were based on The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Belisarius |
James BeauSeigneur | [No dedicated plot section found] James BeauSeigneur (born 1953) is an American novelist. He is a former intelligence analyst who has worked for the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. As an author, he has worked with the Department of Homeland Security by serving on “Terrorist Red Cells” to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_BeauSeigneur |
Petro Marko | [No dedicated plot section found] Petro Marko (November 25, 1913 – December 27, 1991) was an Albanian writer. His best-known novel is titled Hasta La Vista and recounts his experiences as a volunteer of the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Marko |
Found Floating | [No dedicated plot section found] Found Floating is a 1937 detective novel by the Irish writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the sixteenth in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a Scotland Yard detective of the Golden Age known for his methodical technique. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_Floating |
Worth Dying For (novel) | Following the events of 61 Hours, Jack Reacher is on his way to Virginia to meet Major Susan Turner, the current commanding officer of his old Army unit, the elite 110th Military Police Special Investigations Unit. En route, he stops for the night at the Apollo Inn, a fading motel in rural Nebraska. In the motel's bar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_Dying_For_(novel) |
Cold Skin (novel) | The novel chronicles the story of a former fighter for the independence of Ireland who, unmotivated by the events of the Western World, decides to escape from the society in which he lives. He accepts a job offer as a weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle.
On this islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Skin_(novel) |
Duddu Shah | Plot summary not found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duddu_Shah |
Argenis | [No dedicated plot section found] Argenis is a book by John Barclay. It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal. The tendency is royalis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argenis |
Out of Bounds (McDermid novel) | Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie walks the streets of Leith in the small hours. She cannot sleep as her lover and colleague, Phil Parhatka, was killed in the last outing in this series (The Skeleton Road). At night she encounters displaced Syrian refugees in alleyways and under bridges gathered together to try to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Bounds_(McDermid_novel) |
Little Brother (Baillie novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Little Brother is a 1985 children's novel by award winning Australian author Allan Baillie about life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. It was illustrated by Elizabeth Honey. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Baillie_novel) |
The Kid (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Kid is a 2016 historical western novel written by Ron Hansen. It is about the legendary Old West outlaw, Billy the Kid, including his involvement in the Lincoln County War of New Mexico. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kid_(novel) |
King of the Castle (1926 film) | [No dedicated plot section found] King of the Castle is a 1926 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Marjorie Hume, Brian Aherne and Dawson Millward. It was based on a 1922 novel by Keble Howard, who approved the scenario and wrote some of the intertitles.
Many of the outdoor scenes were film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Castle_(1926_film) |
Arabesque (film) | Major Sloane kills Professor Ragheeb, an ancient hieroglyphics expert at Oxford University and steals a hieroglyph-encrypted message. Sloane then asks David Pollock, another professor working there, to meet with shipping magnate Nejim Beshraavi on a business matter. David, however, declines. He is later kidnapped by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque_(film) |
The Technician (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Technician is a 2011 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. The story is set on the world of Masada approximately 20 years after the events of The Line of Polity. The title refers to an unusual albino hooder that creates sculptures from the bones of other creatures. The book provides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technician_(novel) |
Rogue Star (novel) | In The Reefs of Space, the main character, Steve Ryeland, is a genius scientist trying to build a new type of rocket drive. In Starchild there is an unknown person or group called "Starchild" who stands up to the "Plan of Man" computer, leading a bloody rebellion.
In Rogue Star, the "Plan of Man" computer's totalitaria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Star_(novel) |
Speak (Anderson novel) | The summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino meets senior Andy Evans at a high school party, who rapes her while she is drunk. Melinda immediately calls 9-1-1, but her shock renders her unable to speak and she flees to go home. The police arrive and break up the party, and several people are arre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_(Anderson_novel) |
Where the Body Was | [No dedicated plot section found] Where the Body Was is a standalone graphic novel, created by the duo Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. It was published by Image Comics on December 13, 2023. The plot revolves around a murder mystery in the suburbs on the summer of 1984. The story is told from the perspective of multiple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Body_Was |
So Big (novel) | The story follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to be a school teacher in farming country. During her stay on the Pool family farm, she encourages the young Roelf Pool to follow his interests, which include art. Upon his mother's death, Roelf runs away to France. Meanwhile, Selina marries... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Big_(novel) |
Odd and the Frost Giants | Odd is a young Norseman whose father, a woodcutter, drowned during a Viking raid. Soon after he accidentally crushes his leg and his Scottish mother marries a fat widower who neglects him in favor of his own children, and when soon after the winter drags on unnaturally long, Odd leaves his village for the forest. There... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_and_the_Frost_Giants |
Nicholas Tchkotoua | [No dedicated plot section found] His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas Tchkotoua (1909-1984) was a Georgian writer and a prominent member of the Order of Malta. He fled his homeland after the takeover by the Bolsheviks in 1921. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Tchkotoua |
Caravan (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Caravan is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1942. A young Englishman James Darrell goes on the road living with the Romany people in England while trying to make enough money as a writer to marry his sweetheart Oriana. However, she does n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(novel) |
Angel Angel | The Irises, a typical suburban family in Connecticut, are thrown into disarray upon the discovery of the patriarch's extra-marital affair. With his absence in the marital home, his wife, Augusta, struggles to understand or come to terms with the betrayal and takes to her bed for weeks. Her two sons, Matthew and Henry, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Angel |
Beneath the Magic | [No dedicated plot section found] Beneath the Magic is a 1950 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens about a concert pianist. It was released in the United States under the alternative title of Strange Lady. It was one of the final works of Hichens, a romantic novelist whose career stretched back to the Victorian e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Magic |
Tim (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Tim is a novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough, published by Harper and Row in 1974. Her literary agent was Frieda Fishbein.
It portrays the story of the developing relationship between an older, middle-class woman, Mary Horton, who lives on her own and a handsome, developmenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_(novel) |
The Dream Room | [No dedicated plot section found] The Dream Room (German: Die Traumbude) was Erich Maria Remarque's first novel, published under the name Erich Remark. He started writing it at the age of sixteen and completed it after his service in World War I, but it was not published until 1920.
When he published All Quiet on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Room |
The Last September (film) | Set in the early 1920s, Anglo-Irish landowners Sir Richard and Lady Myra Naylor reside in their country estate with their high-spirited niece, Lois, and their nephew Laurence during the twilight of British rule in southern Ireland. They are joined by the Montmorencys who hide the fact that they are presently homeless. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_September_(film) |
Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site | [No dedicated plot section found] The Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National Historic Site) is a historic site located at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was the home of noted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House%E2%80%93Washington%27s_Headquarters_National_Historic_Site |
Madeleine Férat | [No dedicated plot section found] Madeleine Férat is an 1868 novel by the French writer Émile Zola. It was Zola's fourth novel, written immediately after Thérèse Raquin, which had been Zola's first commercial and artistic success. It was published in 1868, first under the title La Honte (The Shame/Disgrace) in serial f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_F%C3%A9rat |
Night School (novel) | In 1996, U.S. Army Major Jack Reacher is in Virginia to receive a medal for eliminating two war criminals in the Balkans when he receives orders from his superior officer and trusted friend, Leon Garber, to attend a special "inter-agency cooperation" school alongside Casey Watterman, an FBI agent, and John White, a CIA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_School_(novel) |
Mina's Matchbox | The novel, set in 1972, follows a twelve-year-old girl named Tomoko who leaves Tokyo to stay with her aunt in Ashiya. There, she lives in a large, pristine mansion with her aunt, uncle, and great-aunt, who's German. She also meets her cousin, Mina, whom she befriends and gets closer to.
The novel briefly touches upon c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina%27s_Matchbox |
Eyvindur P. Eiríksson | [No dedicated plot section found] Eyvindur Pétur Eiríksson (born 13 December 1935) is an Icelandic writer. He has written poetry, novels and plays. His works address concerns about modern alienation and the relationship between man and nature, often approached with dark humour. His novel Landið handan fjarskans receive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyvindur_P._Eir%C3%ADksson |
House of Stairs (Sleator novel) | The story is told largely from the point of view of Peter, a boy who has been labeled as slightly slow and tends to follow authority. The others are Lola, a rebellious juvenile delinquent who doesn't trust anyone; Blossom, an overweight, spoiled girl who grew up in pampered wealth but who has recently been orphaned; Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(Sleator_novel) |
Bing Crosby's Last Song | [No dedicated plot section found] Bing Crosby's Last Song is a novel by the American writer Lester Goran set in 1968 in the Oakland neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It tells the story of Daly Racklin, a Pittsburgh attorney who on a spring day learns from his doctor that he has one year to live. Racklin is a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby%27s_Last_Song |
Deewangee | Raj Goyal (Akshaye Khanna), a young and successful criminal lawyer, famous for never having lost a case, is introduced to popular singer Sargam (Urmila Matondkar) by music magnate Ashwin Mehta (Vijayendra Ghatge). The following day, Ashwin is brutally murdered in his own house. The murderer, Tarang Bharadwaj (Ajay Devg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewangee |
Yes and No (novel) | During an election to Parliament, the stridently radical Whig Oakley stands against the liberal Canningite Tory Germain. Thanks to dealmaking organised by the rakish dandy Fitzalbert, Germain is elected thanks to a deal with the Ultra-Tory Steadman and his reactionary supporters. Oakley then inherits his uncle's estate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_and_No_(novel) |
Margit Sandemo | [No dedicated plot section found] Margit Sandemo (née Underdal, 23 April 1924 – 1 September 2018) was a Norwegian-Swedish historical fantasy author. She had been the best-selling author in the Nordic countries since the 1980s, when her novel series of 47 books, The Legend of the Ice People, was published. She also wrot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Sandemo |
Dreamland (Baker novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Dreamland is a 1999 novel by American author Kevin Baker, published by HarperCollins Publishers. It centers on the colorful underworld of turn-of-the-century New York City, with much of the action taking place at Dreamland amusement park in Coney Island.
Many of the characters and even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamland_(Baker_novel) |
Dating Dead Men | [No dedicated plot section found] Dating Dead Men is a book written by Harley Jane Kozak and published by Doubleday (owned and operated by Penguin Random House) on 20 January 2004, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2005. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_Dead_Men |
Waterless Mountain | Younger Brother, a Navajo Indian living in Arizona in the 1920s, wishes to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and become a medicine man. To accomplish this task, he must undergo several arduous years of training to learn the ancient songs and customs of his ancestors. This includes a journey to the Pacific Ocean in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterless_Mountain |
The Lonely Skier | [No dedicated plot section found] The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by British writer Hammond Innes. It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure. The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Skier |
The Strangers in the House (film) | Hector Loursat, attorney at law, lives with his daughter, Nicole, in a vast and shabby mansion in a provincial town. Their conversation with each other is limited, each somehow holding the other one responsible for the situation: Hector Loursat used to be one of the great attorneys until his wife left him for another m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangers_in_the_House_(film) |
Call Me Bandicoot | [No dedicated plot section found] Call Me Bandicoot is a 1970 young adult novel written by U.S. author William Pène du Bois. The novel takes place on the Staten Island Ferry and focuses on the relationship between an adult passenger and a young man who spins tall tales in exchange for food. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_Bandicoot |
The Green Ribbon (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Green Ribbon is a 1929 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Like a number of Wallace's novels it is set against the backdrop of the horseracing world. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Ribbon_(novel) |
Hobgoblin (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Hobgoblin is a 1981 horror novel by American writer John Coyne about Scott Gardiner, a teenaged boy who becomes obsessed with Hobgoblin, a fantasy roleplaying game based on Irish mythology, as his life in the game and in reality slowly blend. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobgoblin_(novel) |
Taxi (pinball) | [No dedicated plot section found] Taxi is a pinball machine designed by Mark Ritchie and Python Anghelo. It was released in 1988 by Williams Electronics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_(pinball) |
Freedom™ | Deceased genius game developer Matthew Sobol's distributed artificial intelligence The Daemon has infiltrated the computer systems of numerous companies and governments. Many companies have surrendered, either out of fear of annihilation or because they have been converted to the fairer and more efficient system using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2 |
Volker Kutscher | [No dedicated plot section found] Volker Kutscher (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈkʊtʃɐ] ; born 26 December 1962) is a German novelist, best known for his Berlin-based Gereon Rath crime series, which serves as the basis for the Sky thriller series Babylon Berlin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Kutscher |
After the Banquet | It follows Kazu, a middle-age proprietress of an upscale Japanese restaurant that caters to politicians. She meets a semi-retired ambassador, Noguchi, grows to like him, and eventually marries him. From there the novel explores the conflicts that rise up between the two, as the tensions between the political world, Kaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Banquet |
Odd Girl Out (novel) | Laura Landon is a sheltered freshman at a fictional university in a midwestern town. Intensely shy and introverted, she is drawn to the president of the student union, Beth Cullison. Beth is outgoing and friendly, experienced socially (with men, particularly) but feels a void in her life. She doesn't understand how the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Girl_Out_(novel) |
Inevitable (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Inevitable, The Law Inevitable or Inevitable, (Dutch: Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid, literally Along lines of graduality) is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus, published in 1900. It was first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and published in New York ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inevitable_(novel) |
The Angel Makers | During World War I, the men of a Hungarian village leave to fight. In their absence, the women form powerful bonds. Their village is made into a camp for Italian prisoners of war and some women fall for these soldiers. When their men return and begin to mistreat them, the women become murderous in their fight to keep t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel_Makers |
Rosa María Britton | Plot summary not found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Mar%C3%ADa_Britton |
A Choice of Enemies | [No dedicated plot section found] A Choice of Enemies is the third novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. It was first published in 1957 by André Deutsch. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Choice_of_Enemies |
Bhimaa | SI Bhimaa has been transferred to a place called Mahendragiri in Karnataka, where the gangsters control the place. Bhimaa meets Vidya, a school teacher and a follower of Ayurvedic practitioner Ravindra Varma. One night, Bhimaa discovers a tanker engaged in the illicit transportation of young children, where he learns t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimaa |
Pictures from an Institution | [No dedicated plot section found] Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless narrator, a Jarrell-like figure wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_from_an_Institution |
The Lovely Bones | On December 6, 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from school through a cornfield in Norristown, Pennsylvania. George Harvey, her 36-year-old neighbor, a bachelor who builds doll houses for a living, persuades her to look at an underground kid's hideout he constructed in the field. After she goes into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones |
Danny Ramadan | [No dedicated plot section found] Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Arabic: أحمد داني رمضان; born May 31, 1984) is a Syrian–Canadian novelist, public speaker, and LGBTQ-refugee activist who was born in Damascus, Syria. Ramadan's work focuses on themes of immigration, identity, diaspora and belonging. His debut novel, The Clotheslin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Ramadan |
Malegalalli Madumagalu | [No dedicated plot section found] Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu , was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to receive the Jnan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuvempu |
Claudine Griggs | [No dedicated plot section found] Claudine Griggs (born July 27, 1953) is an American author and transgender woman.
Griggs first came out as transgender in 1974. In 1991, at age 37, she underwent gender-affirming surgery with Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado. She kept a detailed, clinical and darkly humorous jou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine_Griggs |
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