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2002-present. Genre. urban fiction. young adult fiction. crime fiction. K'wan Foye, also known simply as K'wan, is an American author of urban fiction. [1][2] According to Foye his first novel, Gangsta, was largely autobiographical. [3] The book reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. [4]
Noble House. King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set.
Preceded by. Shōgun (in chronology of Asian Saga) Followed by. Gai-Jin. Tai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium War. It is the second book in Clavell's Asian Saga, and the first to feature the fictional Struan family.
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars ...
Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, as told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way. Typical of Palahniuk's work, the dominant motifs in ...
978-1-56689-181-3. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife (2006) is the second novel by author Sam Savage, about a rat runt in 1960s Boston who learns to read. In 2006 Coffee House Press published Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife. In 2007 the Spanish publishing house Seix Barral purchased the world rights to Firmin, including ...
A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977.The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California, in the then-future of June 1994, and includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use (both recreational and abusive).
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane is the second book in Suzanne Collins 's children's novel series The Underland Chronicles. [3] Published in 2004, the novel contains elements of high fantasy. [1] The novel focuses on a prophecy mentioned at the end of Gregor the Overlander which the Underlanders believe ...