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Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.
The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 17 million copies.
The Book Thief was published in 2005 and has since been translated into more than 40 languages. The Book Thief was adapted into a film of the same name in 2013. In 2014, Zusak delivered a talk called "The Failurist" at TEDxSydney at the Sydney Opera House. It focused on his drafting process and journey to success through writing The Book Thief. [5]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Kindred (Image Comics), a group of humanoid animals; Kindred (Marvel Comics), a villain of Spider-Man; Kindred, an Amish-like community in The X-Files ' episode "Gender Bender" Kindred, a character from League of Legends who is a personification of death consisting of a duo of lamb and wolf
As stated above, 'The Thief's Journal' is a semi-autobiographical novel, so when the narrator commits to a life of crime, the same way Genet did, we know we are reading a first-hand account of a working-class, queer person in the 1930s. However, poverty isn't seen as one of the central themes of the novel as it's mostly represented explicitly ...
The Public Image is a novel published in 1968 by Scottish author Muriel Spark and shortlisted for the Booker Prize the following year. [2] It is set in Rome and concerns Annabel Christopher, an up-and-coming film actress. Annabel carefully cultivates her image to keep her career on course, managing to mask her lack of talent.
One False Note is the second book in The 39 Clues series. It is written by Gordon Korman, [1] and was published by Scholastic on December 2, 2008. [2] Following the events of The Maze of Bones, the protagonists Amy and Dan Cahill learn about Mozart and travel to Vienna, Austria to search for the second clue in the 39 Clues competition.