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Merrick debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list, [7] and remained in that position for two weeks, [8] spending a total of 10 weeks on the list. [9] Publishers Weekly wrote, "This volume merges several long-running plots; the first chapters sag with the weight of their exposition, and the prose seems overheated even for Rice ...
Suzanne Lang is an American author of children's books and a television producer. She frequently partners with illustrator Max Lang, her husband. [1] Her book Grumpy Monkey, published in 2018, debuted at #8 on The New York Times bestseller list, [2] reaching #1. [3] The book spent 25 weeks on the list. [4] Grumpy Monkey Party Time followed in ...
Nkima is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. His name comes from either the word N'kima ('monkey' in the Mbugu language, a regional dialect of Swahili), or, after the Meru language nickname for Ugali, a dish popular in Kenya and Tanzania made from maize flour (if the latter, it would be similar to a ...
The novel is set in Northern California, an area where Rice lived a large portion of her life. Several scenes of the novel take place in a redwood forest. Rice explained that The Wolf Gift was not her return to supernatural fiction, stating that the religiously themed novels, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana revolved around mystical events as well.
Monkey Hunting is a 2003 novel by Cristina García.. The novel follows four generations of one family: Chen Pan, who leaves China in 1857 on the promise of success in Cuba only to find himself enslaved as an indentured worker; his Chinese granddaughter, Chen Fang, who is raised as a boy so that she can be educated (unbeknownst to her father, who has returned to Cuba as a doctor); and Chen Pan ...
The story is set in old Japan. It is about is a funny little old woman. She likes to laugh ("Tee-he-he-he") and makes dumplings out of rice. One day, one of her dumplings rolls down a hole. The little old woman chases the lost dumpling and ends up in a strange place underground, lined with Jizo (guardian statues).
Blackwood Farm is a 2002 vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the ninth book in her The Vampire Chronicles series. The novel includes some characters who cross over from Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy (1990–1994), continuing the unified story begun in Merrick (2000).
Publishers Weekly described the character development as rushed, book as "action-packed" and Rice's writing as "solid". [4] Kirkus Reviews described the book as "fun but anemic." [2] In 2013, the book was the 11th most popular teen book sold via Amazon, one of three books by Rice in Amazon's top 20 for that year. [5]