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The Ruins is a 2006 horror novel by American author Scott Smith, set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The book fits specifically into the survival horror genre, which is marked by people doing whatever it takes to conquer their environment and stay alive. The novel was released on July 18, 2006 (ISBN 1-4000-4387-5).
On Bookmarks Magazine Jul/Aug 2015 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Atkinson's latest novel is "a sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family" (New ...
The outcome of this excavation was never formally published, and the only report known is a three-page summary filed by Garstang at the end of the work. In a later book, Garstang claimed that Late Bronze Age pottery , dating to c. 1400 BC, was found in this excavation, but this pottery was not mentioned in his earlier summary of the work and ...
The Rúin (2018) is the debut crime novel by Irish/Australian writer Dervla McTiernan.It was originally published by HarperCollins in Australia in 2018. [1]It is the first in the author's Cormac Reilly series of novels, later following by The Scholar and The Good Turn.
The series, which has five books, deals with an orphaned 14-year-old boy, Leven Thumps, who becomes involved in a battle between good and evil. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The five books in the series are titled Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (2005), [ 3 ] Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret (2006), [ 3 ] Leven Thumps and the Eyes of The Want (2007 ...
Title page of Paradise Regained (1671), the first publication of Samson Agonistes.. Milton began plotting various subjects for tragedies in a notebook created in the 1640s. Many of the ideas dealt with the topic of Samson, and he gave them titles such as Samson pursophorus or Hybristes ("Samson the Firebrand, or Samson the Violent"), Samson marriing or in Ramath Lechi, and Dagonalia (the ...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an American children's book series and media franchise created by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. [1] [2] The series follows Greg Heffley, a middle-schooler (high-schooler from book 19 onwards) who illustrates his daily life in a diary (although he insists that it is a journal).
Children of Ruin is a 2019 science fiction novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky, the second in his Children of Time series. The novel was well received, winning the 2019 BSFA Award for Best Novel. [1] The book was followed by the third book in the series, Children of Memory, in 2022.