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ISBNdb.com is a large online database of book information available both via web interface and API. The database includes title, author, ISBN, ISBN13, publisher, publishing date, binding, pages, list price, and more. [1] It contains data on 33+ million books by more than 11 million authors, with more books added every day. [2]
Lorna Doone was said to be the favourite book of Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly, who may have thought of the idea of his armour by reading of the outlaw Doones "with iron plates on breast and head." [11] Lorna Doone is a character portrayed by Christine McIntyre in The Three Stooges shorts The Hot Scots and Scotched in Scotland. [12]
[1] Maureen Corrigan of the Washington Post writes: "The plot of 'The Plot' is so ingenious that it should be assigned as required reading in the very MFA programs it pinions, both as a model of superior narrative construction and as a warning of the grim realities of the literary life to naïve wannabe writers.' "(qtd. in Book Marks) [2]
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Mo Willems. It was released in 2006 by Hyperion Books . In 2011, Weston Woods Studios released an animated version of the book, narrated by Cheryl Willems, with Mo Willems as the voice of Reginald.
Heller concludes that we do not learn from history (and in fact so much of history may be nonfactual that learning may be impossible). Being a pessimist chronicler of the American Century, his main unspoken theme is of course parallels between the onetime Hellenic overlord respective the onetime ruler of the seas, and his home country.
The Dig is a historical novel by John Preston, published in May 2007, set in the context of the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England.The dust jacket describes it as "a brilliantly realized account of the most famous archaeological dig in Britain in modern times".
The Stonecutter (Swedish: Stenhuggaren) is a 2005 novel, a psychological thriller by Camilla Läckberg. [1] It was translated by Steven T. Murray in 2008. It tells the story of a seven-year old girl who was drowned.
1945 is an alternate history written by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen in 1995 that described the period immediately after World War II in which the United States had fought only against Japan, which allowed Nazi Germany to force a truce with the Soviet Union, and the two victors confront each other in a Cold War, which swiftly turns hot.