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Wayfarers (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Wayfarers (Norwegian: Landstrykere) is the first novel in the Wayfarers trilogy, also known as the August trilogy, by Knut Hamsun. It was first published in 1927. The novel portrays the wayfarers August and Edevart's experiences while they travel around in Norway for more or less rando... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayfarers_(novel) |
Göl Yazı | [No dedicated plot section found] Göl Yazı, published in 2017, is a book by Turkish author Enis Batur.
It is a work that contains information and texts about Bursa and Lake Apolyont, Gölyazı, blending factual and fictional elements. The narrative brings together people who have lived in these locations and their encoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6l_Yaz%C4%B1 |
Licence to Kill (novel) | DEA agents collect MI6 agent James Bond and his friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter's wedding in Key West, to have them assist in capturing drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to Sanchez's plane and pulling it out of the air with a Coast Guard helicop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_Kill |
Flowers of Asphalt | [No dedicated plot section found] Flowers of Asphalt is an unfinished novel attributed to American writer Stephen Crane. The novel, said to have been started in 1894, was to be about a male prostitute. No trace of the manuscript has ever been found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_of_Asphalt |
The Nightmarist | [No dedicated plot section found] The Nightmarist is an original graphic novel written and illustrated by Duncan Rouleau and published by Active Images in 2006. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmarist |
Silent Honor | In August, 1941, Hiroko visits the United States from Japan, as she has an uncle, aunt, and cousins living there. Upon first arrival, she settles in well and continues to lead a regular life, however, on December 7, 1941 — Pearl Harbor is bombed, thus making them an enemy in their community and across the USA, as they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Honor |
The Islands of Wisdom | [No dedicated plot section found] Die Inseln der Weisheit (The Islands of Wisdom) is a 1922 novel by Alexander Moszkowski that features expeditions to various utopian and dystopian islands that embody various social-political ideas of European philosophy and extrapolates them for their absurdities when they are put int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Islands_of_Wisdom |
The Golden Ocean | In spring 1740, Peter Palafox, his friend Sean O'Mara and Sean's uncle Liam are riding from Connaught to Cork so that Peter can join the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Sean decides to join, too, so Liam will take the horses back home. They meet Peregrine FitzGerald at the market fair, another boy heading for HMS Centurion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ocean |
Through the Looking-Glass | Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty") while pondering what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up onto a mantelpiece, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind a fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass |
The Third Policeman | The Third Policeman is set in rural Ireland and is narrated by a dedicated amateur scholar who studies de Selby, a scientist and philosopher. The narrator, whose name the reader never learns, is orphaned at a young age. At boarding school, he discovers the work of de Selby and becomes a fanatically dedicated student of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman |
Arqtiq | [No dedicated plot section found] Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arqtiq |
Gangtokey Gondogol | Feluda and Topshe travel to Gangtok for their summer holidays at the start of the Bengali new year. While eating breakfast at the Bagdogra Airport, they meet a man named Sasadhar Bose, who works for a chemical firm dealing with aromatic perfumes. He tells that he had attended a nephew's wedding in Ghatshila and had co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangtokey_Gondogol |
The Guilty (Baldacci novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] The Guilty is thriller novel written by David Baldacci. It is the fourth installment to feature Will Robie, a highly skilled U.S. Government assassin. The book was released on November 17, 2015 by Grand Central Publishing. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guilty_(Baldacci_novel) |
Fallen Angels (Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn novel) | Astronauts from the orbital society fly a modified scramjet, redesigned to harvest nitrogen from the Earth's atmosphere. Government policy declares that these ships are responsible for the ice age, so the scramjet is shot down with a surface-to-air missile. The pilot and copilot, an Earth-born American named Alex MacLe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(Niven,_Pournelle,_and_Flynn_novel) |
Nicholas Fandorin | [No dedicated plot section found] Nicholas Fandorin is the protagonist of four novels by Boris Akunin, subtitled Приключения магистра ("Adventures of the magister [viz., the MA])". He is the grandson of Akunin's other fictional character Erast Fandorin.
The uniting concept of the series is that each novel combines two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Fandorin |
Dayworld | The story is set in a dystopian future in which an overpopulated world solves the problem by allocating people only one day per week. For the rest of the six days they are "stoned", a kind of suspended animation. The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker, someone who lives more than one day a week. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayworld |
Claribel Alegría | [No dedicated plot section found] Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claribel_Alegr%C3%ADa |
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society | The main character is a twelve-year-old girl called Ye Xian who lives in China in the middle of World War II. Like the author, Ye Xian is deemed to bring bad luck because of the death of her mother when Ye Xian was five years old. Despite the many years that has passed (Ye Xian is now twelve years old), her father stil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cinderella_and_the_Secret_Dragon_Society |
François-Marie Banier | [No dedicated plot section found] François-Marie Banier (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi banje]) (born 27 June 1947) is a French novelist, playwright, artist, actor and photographer. His published works include Le Passé Composé (1971) and Balthazar, Fils de Famille (1985).
Banier is particularly known for his photo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie_Banier |
To Kill a Mockingbird | The story, told by Jean Louise Finch, takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. Nicknamed Scout, the narrator, who is six years old at the beginning of the book, lives with her older brother Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, and their wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird |
K. W. Jeter | [No dedicated plot section found] Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and has written three sequels to Blade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter |
George Lippard | [No dedicated plot section found] George Lippard (April 10, 1822 – February 9, 1854) was a 19th-century American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labor organizer. He was a popular author in antebellum America.
A friend of Edgar Allan Poe, Lippard advocated a socialist political philosophy and soug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lippard |
The Last Dickens | The novel is set in the United States, England, and India in 1867 and 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James R. Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await Dickens's unfinished last novel – The Mystery of Edwin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dickens |
Children of Ruin | A long time ago, humanity spread out into the stars with the aim of terraforming other worlds for future colonization. In one star system, two habitable planets were found. On one, alien life was discovered, but it was not as primitive as it first appeared. The other planet was covered in ice, and was terraformed into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Ruin |
Maya Arad | [No dedicated plot section found] Maya Arad (born January 25, 1971) is an American-based Israeli writer. She is generally considered the "foremost Hebrew writer outside Israel". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Arad |
Ahmed Masoud (writer) | [No dedicated plot section found] Ahmed Masoud (born 1981) is a Palestinian and British writer, theatre maker, and academic based in London, England. He has created a number of dance shows and three plays Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea (2009), Walaa (2014) and The Shroud Maker (2017), and authored two novels: Vanished: The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Masoud_(writer) |
Intissar Abdulmomen | [No dedicated plot section found] Intissar Abdulmomen (Arabic: انتصار عبد المنعم), an Egyptian writer and novelist. She has published three short story collections as well as numerous novels and children's stories. She has won several awards including the first place prize in the competition of Ihsan Abdel Quddous in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intissar_Abdulmomen |
Michael Ondaatje | [No dedicated plot section found] Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje |
Sampagitang Walang Bango | Set during the second decade of American occupation and colonization of the Philippines, Regalado invented in Sampagitang Walang Bango the characters Bandino, Nenita, Pakito, and Liling. Bandino was the playboy husband of Nenita. The alienated Nenita, weakened and rebelling against Bandino's indecencies, succumbed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampagitang_Walang_Bango |
Eugénie Grandet | Felix Grandet, master cooper, married the daughter of a wealthy timber merchant at a time when the French Republic had confiscated the lands of the Church in the district of Saumur. When the land was auctioned his wife's dowry and his existing savings enabled him to buy substantial property, including some of the best ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Grandet |
Lucinda Riley | [No dedicated plot section found] Lucinda Kate Riley (née Edmonds; 16 February 1965 – 11 June 2021) was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction, formerly an actress and ballet dancer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Riley |
Četverored | [No dedicated plot section found] Četverored is 1999 Croatian drama film directed by Jakov Sedlar. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Aralica, the plot of the film deals with the Yugoslav death march of Nazi collaborators. It was the first film to deal with the subject, formerly a taboo topic under the Communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cetverored |
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow | The story starts when Sarah Nita and her granddaughter, who is also called Sarah Nita, sit in the shade of their hogan. The elder Sarah Nita wants her daughter to write her story, so her granddaughter gets out the book the white teacher gave to her and starts writing. The first sentence of the book is "My mother bends ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Chased_Away_Sorrow |
The Sword of Shannara | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Shannara |
Joyce Ballou Gregorian | [No dedicated plot section found] Joyce Ballou Gregorian Hampshire (July 5, 1946 – April 29, 1991) was an American author, expert on Oriental rugs, and horse breeder. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Ballou_Gregorian |
Killer Book Club | After the accidental killing of a lecturer, a group of college students keen on horror fiction film and literature agree on a pact of silence, but a masked killer clown takes them down one by one. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Book_Club |
Johan Kling | [No dedicated plot section found] Johan Kling (born Carl-David Johan Natt och Dag, 7 August 1962,) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and novelist. His debut movie, Darling (2007), received numerous nominations and won several awards. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Kling |
Hand of Fate (film) | The film is about a young girl who had her future taken away from her when she was forced to marry a man she did not love. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_Fate_(film) |
Charles Gilman Norris | [No dedicated plot section found] Charles Gilman Norris (April 23, 1881 – July 25, 1945) was an American novelist. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a novelist and playwright. His first book was The Amateur (1916). His other novels include Salt (1919), Brass: A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gilman_Norris |
Diana Çuli | [No dedicated plot section found] Diana Çuli (CHOO-lee) (born 13 April 1951, Tirana) is an Albanian writer, journalist and politician. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tirana in 1973. After graduation she joined the editorial boards of Drita and French-speaking magazine Les lettres alba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%C3%87uli |
Hell's Bounty | [No dedicated plot section found] Hell's Bounty is a horror novel written by American brothers Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale. It takes place in the old western town of Falling Rock. Bounty hunter Smith (no first name given) sets off a chain of events as he searches for one bad hombre Quill. He is blown to hell, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Bounty |
The British Museum Is Falling Down | Set in Swinging London, the novel describes one day in the life of Adam Appleby, who lives in constant fear that his wife might be pregnant again with a fourth child in a small flat in Battersea. As Catholics, they are denied any form of contraception and have to play "Vatican roulette" instead. Adam and Barbara have t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_Museum_Is_Falling_Down |
A Disaffection | [No dedicated plot section found] A Disaffection is a novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman, first published in 1989 by Secker and Warburg. Set in Glasgow, it is written in Scots using a stream-of-consciousness style, centring on a 29-year-old schoolteacher named Patrick Doyle. The novel won the James Tait Bla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disaffection |
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur | [No dedicated plot section found] Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur is a novella written in French by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts he wrote. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal (The Official Report), his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Jour_o%C3%B9_Beaumont_fit_connaissance_avec_sa_douleur |
Foal's Bread | The main subject of the novel is the golden era of Australian show-jumping between the wars. Roley Nancarrow is the 1926 high jump record holder for New South Wales, and, while competing one day at a country show, is captivated by Noah Childs, a 14-year-old drover's daughter, who can coax tired old horses into extraor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foal%27s_Bread |
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa | [No dedicated plot section found] The Adventures of Three Russians and Three Englishmen in South Africa (French: Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe) is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1872. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Three_Englishmen_and_Three_Russians_in_South_Africa |
De Niro's Game | [No dedicated plot section found] De Niro's Game is the debut novel by Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage, originally published in 2006.
The novel's primary characters are Bassam and George, lifelong friends living in war-torn Beirut. The novel traces the different paths that the two follow as they face the difficult c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Niro%27s_Game |
Nila Kaalam | The protagonists are three children — Nilaa (Baby Ranjini Pradeep), Amirdhalingam "Amar" (Master Dinesh) and Balasubramaniam "Pulli" (Master Udayaraj). The two boys work in a garage for the owner (Bala Singh) which is next to Nilaa's house.
Nilaa, daughter of a popular actress, Veni (Roja), who is estranged from her hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nila_Kaalam |
Henry Gauthier-Villars | [No dedicated plot section found] Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy [vili], was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gauthier-Villars |
Good Behaviour (Keane novel) | Living with her ailing mother and Rose, their faithful servant, Aroon St. Charles reflects on her childhood as a member of the Irish gentry.
Aroon is especially close with her governess, Mrs Brock. Prior to teaching Aroon, Mrs Brock worked for the Massingham family. She is dismissed after it becomes clear she is coddl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Behaviour_(Keane_novel) |
Children of Tomorrow | Commander John Lane returns from a ten-year mission in space
to find that the teenagers of Spaceport City have organized
themselves into "outfits", well disciplined, non-violent little gangs with their own customs and argot, and that the parent's
role in teen upbringing has become minimal. His 16-year-old
daughter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Tomorrow |
Tørres Snørtevold | null | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B8rres_Sn%C3%B8rtevold |
The Ministry for the Future | The book follows an international organization named the Ministry for the Future in its mission to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. Beginning in 2025, the organization, established as a subsidiary body under the Paris Agreeme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future |
The Time of the Doves | [No dedicated plot section found] The Time Of The Doves (also translated as The Pigeon Girl or In Diamond Square; original Catalan-language: La plaça del Diamant, that is Diamond Square) is a 1962 novel written by exiled Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda.
The book is named after a square in Barcelona's Gràcia district. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_the_Doves |
For the Love of Mike (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] For the Love of Mike is a novel by Rhys Bowen and published by St. Martin's Press (now owned by Macmillan Publishers) on 30 November 2003, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Historical Mystery in 2004. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_Mike_(novel) |
Vince and Kath | The story revolves around a young man named Vince who bravely sends a text message to his crush, Kath. Until they become text mates and become in-relationship status. As they graduate from college, Vince proposes to Kath. They face different life challenges especially when Vince is stabbed by hooligans and knocks his h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_and_Kath |
Butterfly Crush | Moana and Eva are the song and dance duo "Butterfly Crush". During a performance at Circular Quay in Sydney, a riot engulfs their show. In the midst of the riot, Moana awakens, to discover that the performance and riot was just a virtual dream. She is in the building of the Dreamguides, a cult operating in the Kings Cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Crush |
Well-Tempered Clavicle | [No dedicated plot section found] Well-Tempered Clavicle is the 35th book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. The title is a pun on the Bach musical work The Well-Tempered Clavier.
The back cover of the book states the following:
"When a walking skeleton named Picka Bones happens upon a trio of melodic pets and a lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-Tempered_Clavicle |
The Murderer Is a Fox | Ellery Queen investigates a murder that took place a number of years ago and has blighted the present-day lives of members of the Fox family. For the twelve years following the death of Davy's mother Jessica, and the trial of his father, Davy Fox has suffered inner torture. Davy knew he loved his wife ... as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderer_Is_a_Fox |
Albertine (Rose novel) | The beautiful orphan Albertine comes into contact with the austere young Marcel at a Normandy seaside hotel, whilst on holiday with friends. She soon becomes embroiled in a destructive affair with the young man, trapping them both in his Paris apartment. His jealousy and her strong will, and bisexual attraction to othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertine_(Rose_novel) |
Fractured (novel) | Six months ago, Atlanta homicide detective Faith Mitchell's police captain mother was the focus of an investigation that resulted in her retirement and the firing of six narcotics officers. It was a justified outcome, but the cops want to protect their own, and Faith, along with the entire Atlanta police force, are re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractured_(novel) |
The Forger (Wallace novel) | Plot summary not found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forger_(Wallace_novel) |
Gangadhar Pathak | [No dedicated plot section found] Gangadhar Ramchandra Pathak (born 1923) was an Indian writer, poet and historian, most notable for his works Antara (1962), Śaktiketu (1962) and Apaṅgā (1965). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangadhar_Pathak |
A Staircase in Surrey | The narrator and central character is playwright Duncan Pattullo, son of Lachlan Pattullo, a noted Scottish artist specializing in landscapes but occasionally painting portraits. He is educated in Edinburgh, at a school clearly intended to recall Fettes, and then at the unnamed College in Oxford (of which Surrey is one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Staircase_in_Surrey |
The Rage: Carrie 2 | In 1989, Barbara Lang claims her daughter Rachel is possessed, having seen her display of telekinesis. Barbara is diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized, while six-year-old Rachel is placed in foster care.
Ten years later, Rachel, now an outcast high school student is living with unsympathetic foster parent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rage:_Carrie_2 |
Mokshabhumi | The book is set in the 1280s in the medieval Khasa Kingdom of Nepal. When the emperor Krachalladeva decides to liberate about ten thousand serfs in order to atone for his war crimes, the whole kingdom is caught in a frenzy. There is an upheaval in the Sinja valley. With that upheaval begins the great debate of Khas-Ary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokshabhumi |
Lalmohan Ganguly | [No dedicated plot section found] Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu (Bengali: জটায়ু) is a fictional character in the Feluda stories written by Satyajit Ray. He writes pulp crime thrillers, but is quite weak and nervous in real life. He is fairly wealthy due to the immense sales of his books. He writes at a frequency of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalmohan_Ganguly |
Put on By Cunning | [No dedicated plot section found] Put on by Cunning is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1981, and features her popular series protagonist Inspector Wexford. It is the 11th in the series.
The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act V Scene II: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_By_Cunning |
Bengali novels | [No dedicated plot section found] Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature. Despite the evidence of Bengali literary traditions dating back to the 7th century, the format of novel or prose writing did not fully emerge until the early nineteenth century. The development of Bengali novel was fueled by col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_novels |
Fifty Shades | Anastasia Steele, a young college graduate, meets Christian Grey, a young business mogul, and becomes his submissive partner. The series explores the development of their relationship. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades |
1922 (novella) | In 1922, Wilfred James, a farmer in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, owns 80 acres of farmland that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining 100 acres willed to her by her father. Wilfred scorns the thought of living in a city, but Arlette is discontented with farm life and wants to move ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_(novella) |
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea | Set in the waters off the coast of England, the novel introduces the mysterious character of the Pilot, John Paul Jones, who is a 33-year-old master of marine navigation and a pivotal figure in the war between the Continental Navy and the Royal Navy. His true identity and allegiances are shrouded in mystery, adding an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilot:_A_Tale_of_the_Sea |
Ljubezni Sinjebradca | [No dedicated plot section found] Ljubezni Sinjebradca is a novel by Slovenian author Vinko Möderndorfer. It was first published in 2005. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubezni_Sinjebradca |
Thomas More | [No dedicated plot section found] Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from Oct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More |
Aattakalasam | Balachandran is a respected police officer and devout family man to his wife Indu and their three little children. He also has a younger brother Babu, a young doctor who loves his brother and sister-in-law more than anything. Their house caretaker is Kumaran, a changed double-homicide convict, who stands as the manifes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aattakalasam |
The Dark Imbalance | [No dedicated plot section found] The Dark Imbalance (also known as A Dark Imbalance in the United States) is a 2001 science fiction novel by Sean Williams and Shane Dix. It is the third novel in the Evergence series and is preceded by The Dying Light which was published in 2000. It follows the story of Morgan Roche wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Imbalance |
Signe Hammarsten-Jansson | [No dedicated plot section found] Signe "Ham" Hammarsten-Jansson (née Hammarsten, 1 June 1882 – 6 July 1970) was a Swedish-Finnish graphic artist who designed, among other things, around 220 Finnish postage stamps during the course of three decades. She was the mother of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomin characters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe_Hammarsten-Jansson |
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned | Henry murders his uncle Lawrence with a poison found in the mummy's tomb. When Henry tries to poison Julie in the same manner, Ramses comes to life and attempts to kill Henry, but succeeds only in scaring him away. After his awakening, Julie and Ramses are instantly attracted to each other. Ramses quickly adopts a pseu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy,_or_Ramses_the_Damned |
Miguel Delibes | [No dedicated plot section found] Miguel Delibes Setién MML (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel deˈliβes]; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Delibes |
Eberhard Mock | [No dedicated plot section found] Marek Krajewski (born 4 September 1966, in Wrocław) is a Polish crime writer and linguist.
He is best known for his series of novels set in pre-war Wrocław (which was, at the time, Breslau) with the policeman Eberhard Mock as the protagonist. His novels have been translated into 20 lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Krajewski |
Adolf Beck case | [No dedicated plot section found] The Adolf Beck case was a notorious incident of wrongful conviction by mistaken identity, brought about by unreliable methods of identification, erroneous eyewitness testimony, and a rush to convict the accused. As one of the best known causes célèbres of its time, the case led to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Beck_case |
Tilanjali (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Tilanjali is a 1944 Bengali language novel authored by Subodh Ghosh. The novel was published serially in Desh.
The novel is a love story set in the backdrop of the 1943 Bengal famine. In Tilanjali, the author contrasts the ideological postures of the Indian National Congress and the Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilanjali_(novel) |
Petals of Blood | The book begins by describing the four main characters – Munira, Karega, Wanja, and Abdulla – just after the revelation that three prominent Kenyans, two businessmen and one educator, have been killed in a fire. The next chapter moves back in the novel's timeline, focusing on Munira's move to Ilmorog, to begin work as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petals_of_Blood |
Conan and the Sorcerer | Attempting to steal from a wizard named Hissar Zul, the young Conan finds the tables turned when his intended victim steals his soul and imprisons it inside a mirror. The Wizard promises to restore Conan's soul if he retrieves for Zul a magical artifact previously stolen from him. With little recourses, the barbarian t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_and_the_Sorcerer |
The Old Devils | [No dedicated plot section found] The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1986. It won the Booker Prize. Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, sometime girlfriend of Weaver's old acquaintance Peter Thomas. Alun begins associating with a group of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Devils |
Master of Space and Time | [No dedicated plot section found] Master of Space and Time is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Rudy Rucker that centers on an inventor, Harry Gerber, who discovers a way to create his own tailor-made universe.
Daniel Clowes and director Michel Gondry discussed making a film based on the novel, with Clowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Space_and_Time |
Jabbour Douaihy | [No dedicated plot section found] Jabbour Douaihy (Arabic: جبور الدويهي; 1949 – 23 June 2021) was a critically-acclaimed Lebanese writer, translator, and professor of literature. His novels were nominated four times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and he has also published translations, short story col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabbour_Douaihy |
The Siege of Malta (novel) | An official of the Order of the Knights of St. John arrives in Spain to summon one of their Knights Commander, Don Manuel de Vilheyna, to Malta, the headquarters of the Order, which is threatened by the Turks. He returns to Malta with Vilheyna's nephew, Francisco, and a Servant-at-Arms of the Order, Juan Ramegas. Vilhe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege_of_Malta_(novel) |
Resurrection (Tolstoy novel) | The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. When he was a younger man, at his two aunts' estate, he fell in love with their ward, Katyusha (Katerina Mikhailovna Maslova), who is goddaughter to one aunt and treated badly by the other. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(Tolstoy_novel) |
Tarun Kanti Mishra | [No dedicated plot section found] Tarun Kanti Mishra (born 2 August 1950) is an Indian Odia story writer. More than 15 of his books have been published. He got the Central Sahitya Akademi Award, Odisha Sahitya Academy award and Sarala Award for his contribution in literature and was an IAS in the profession and retired... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarun_Kanti_Mishra |
Once More the Saint | [No dedicated plot section found] Once More the Saint is a collection of three interrelated mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in January 1933. This was the tenth book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The first American editi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More_the_Saint |
The Five Find-Outers | [No dedicated plot section found] The Five Find-Outers and Dog, also known as The Five Find-Outers, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton. The first was published in 1943 and the last in 1961. Set in the fictitious village of Peterswood based on Bourne End, close to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Find-Outers |
Le Cabinet des Antiques | The plot is partially narrated by journalist and author, Emile Blondet. The narrator talks about events he has witnessed, mainly his admiration for Armande d'Esgrignon and a small provincial town where his father, the respectable judge Blondet, still lives.
As a child, Blondet frequently watches Armande while she takes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cabinet_des_Antiques |
A Fragment of Fear | James Compton, an English journalist and crime writer, is vacationing at a hotel in Italy, recovering from the after effects of a car accident. His fiancée Juliet, whom he is planning to marry in the very near future, is on a brief work trip to America.
Lucy Dawson, a fellow English guest with whom he is slightly acqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fragment_of_Fear |
A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation | Bolokitten says that "every thing in the world is a cause," and he links these causes to abolitionists and slavery. He sees two white men and two black women disembarking a boat and follows their group to the city of Amalgamation. Bolokitten learns from them that amalgamation is a "fashionable" thing to do in this city... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sojourn_in_the_City_of_Amalgamation |
Witch Wood | In a prologue to the novel, the narrator muses on the rural parish of Woodilee in the Scottish Borders. Looking at its now-ruined parish kirk, he recalls a legend about its last minister, who disappeared without trace 300 years ago. Locals believe that he was spirited away by the fairies or, as some maintain, by the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Wood |
Cunégonde | [No dedicated plot section found] Cunégonde is a fictional character in Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide. She is the title character's aristocratic cousin and love interest.
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Candide is chased away from his uncle's home after he is caught kissing and fondling Cunégonde. Shortl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cun%C3%A9gonde |
Sea Glass (novel) | [No dedicated plot section found] Sea Glass is a 2002 romance novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the second novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is preceded by Fortune's Rocks and followed by The Pilot's Wife. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Glass_(novel) |
Amazon Island | In the novel, adventurers discover an island populated by women who are the descendants of buccaneers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Island |
August 1 (film) | K. G. Ramachandran, popularly known as KGR, is elected as the new Chief Minister of Kerala. As a young turk with a clean image, KGR overshadows Kazhuthumuttam Vasudevan Pillai, who is another strong aspirant for CM's chair. Just after the meeting, Kazhuthumuttam joins with Eranjoly Aboobakkar and Mathai Thomas Pappacha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1_(film) |
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