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National Book Awards
National Book Awards, founded (1950) by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manufacturers Institute, and after 1976 sponsored by the National Book Committee for the year's most distinguished works in the areas of Arts and Letters, Children's Literature,... Read more |
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Book of Kings
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Book of life
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Book of Leinster
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book of Numbers
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book of Daniel
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book of Tobit
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book of Esther
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book of Ruth
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Books of Homilies
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science fiction
science fiction, The label ‘science fiction’ suggests a hybrid form, not quite ordinary fiction, not quite science, yet partaking of both...dystopianism, heroic fantasy, horror, and books on UFOs and the paranormal. Yet its startlements... |
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Science Fiction
...outer space made science fiction both more interesting and...readers. Postwar science fiction placed more emphasis on...the greater solidity of books, both paperback and hardbound. Prominent science fiction writers of this century... |
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interactive fiction
interactive fiction is a term encompassing a...is merely one way in which fiction can comment on the world, include...a pastiche reference book in the form of three dictionaries...the poem. Multiple author fiction is seen by some writers as... |
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detective fiction
detective fiction. Crime has been a staple of storytelling since its...78) gained a following for his jokey books, and Christianna Brand (1907–88...boosted the popularity of modern crime fiction as a whole.The whodunit tradition may... |
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New Woman fiction
New Woman fiction, a term used to describe late 19th-cent. writings which foreground the...1894. Grand's own novels, like The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897), include many elements associated with this agent and representative... |
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The Book‐of‐the‐Month Club
...subscribers bought at least four books a year at full price plus postage...introduced discounts, free “book‐dividends,” and its own...000 members. Typical “books‐of‐the‐month” prior...of America. A host of other book‐marketing ventures following...history, ... |
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National Book Awards
National Book Awards, founded (1950) by the American Book Publishers Council, American...Literature, Contemporary Affairs, Fiction, History and Biography, and...awards are made in the areas of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. The... |
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books, the name first given to a series of paperback books published in 1935 by A. Lane...by Maurois (No. 1), and fiction by A. Christie, Hemingway...M. Webb. In 1937 the non-fiction Pelican series was launched... |
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National Book Critics Circle
National Book Critics Circle, organization of 300 professional critics and...1974) to select the “most distinguished” volumes of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and criticism of the preceding year. Each member nominates three books in each category, and the board of ... |
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London Review of Books
London Review of Books, a literary and cultural review founded in 1979...conscious emulation of the New York Review of Books (founded 1963). It has published critical...Jacobson, and has also published poetry and fiction. |
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romance
...lasting: a summer romance. ∎ a book or movie dealing with love in a...historical romances. ∎ a genre of fiction dealing with love in such a way...as “pure romance, complete fiction.” ∎ a work of fiction dealing with events remote from... |
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slash
slash a genre of science fiction, chiefly published in fanzines, in...male pairings from popular films or books is portrayed as having a homosexual...originated among fans of the 1960s science-fiction series Star Trek, in stories centring... |
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Newman, Ernest
...1889–1904, writing on economics and mus. Wrote first book, Gluck and the Opera, in 1895 and A Study of Wagner in 1899. On staff...to Wagner as Man and Artist (1914, rev. 1924), Fact and Fiction about Wagner (1931), and Wagner Nights (1949). Also wrote...Opera Nights (1943), More Opera Nights ... |
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Eysenck, Hans Jurgen
...Maudsley Hospital in London. He wrote numerous articles and some fifty books, including several best-sellers (Know Your Own IQ, Uses and Abuses of Psychology, Fact and Fiction in Psychology), many of which involved him in fierce disputes, not... |
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Lewis, Clive Staples
...and The Screwtape Letters (1942; ostensibly from a senior devil to his nephew, a junior devil). He also published science fiction novels with a Christian flavour and childrens' books, as well as academic works on English literature. |
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Moses
...support the traditional view that Moses himself wrote the five books of the Pentateuch, there are certainly those who regard the...based in Israel's corporate memory to be dismissed as pious fiction.In the NT Moses is named as the giver of the Law (Mark 7... |
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Cailleach Bhéirre
...great-grandchildren were peoples and races. A note in the Book of Lecan (c.1400) says that the Cailleach Bhéirre was of...notion that she is a nun who has taken the veil is a Christian fiction, probably dating from the 8th century.The Cailleach speaks... |
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circulating library
circulating library a library with books lent for a small fee to subscribers; the first circulating library was set up in Edinburgh...Lending Library. The circulating library was particularly associated with a taste for popular fiction. |
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Dún Aonghusa
...stone fort until that time. According to the Lebor Gabála [Book of Invasions], the Fir Bolg built Dún Aonghusa and other...island folklore, although it is called Coillnamhan Fort in the fiction of island-born writer Liam O'Flaherty (1896–1984... |
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Hubbard, Lafayette Ron
Hubbard, Lafayette Ron (1911–86). American science-fiction writer and founder of Scientology. He became widely known with the publication in 1950 of his book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which is the basic textbook of... |
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novel
novel1 • noun curl up with a good novel synonyms: book, paperback, hardcover; story, tale, narrative, romance, roman à clef; piece of fiction; best seller, blockbuster; potboiler, pulp (fiction). |
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line
...13. informal he fed me a line synonyms: story, piece of fiction, fabrication; informal spiel. 14. (lines) he couldn...together, organize, prepare, arrange, prearrange, fix up; book, schedule. on the line a firefighter's life is on the line... |
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SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB IS OUT OF THIS WORLD.(EDITORIAL)
...profiles a Madison area book group. We outline what...how they choose their books, how long they've...In this, our second Book Club of the Month feature...readers to the Science Fiction Book of the Month Circle...feminist-oriented science ... |
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Robert Coover: A Study of the Short Fiction. (book reviews)
...to the merits of that fiction, but rather to the exigencies...were Coover's short fiction worthy of a book-length study - and...critics of Coover's short fiction to whom he refers seem...questions. The best of the books in Twayne's ... |
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Gunn, James. Inside Science Fiction.(Book review)
...that support science fiction thinking. Part 2 of the book consists of seven chapters...devoted to "Science Fiction and the Teacher...The last of the book's major sections...considerations of "Science Fiction and the Real World... |
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Golden Age Stories Launches Interactive Pulp Fiction Book Website.
...based on Hubbard's science fiction story, "The Space Can" found in the book The Great Secret, will keep...released stories performed by audio book cast members. iTunes users...register online to receive iTunes book podcasts at goldenagestories...voice actors ... |
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Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction.(Book Review)
...York Review of Science Fiction. In addition, the book includes a decent bibliography...theoretical works on science fiction for further reference...regarding what science fiction is and does. That said, the book does have some limitations... |
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JPS Guide to American Jewish Fiction.(Book review)
...Guide to American Jewish Fiction, by Josh Lambert. Philadelphia...publication, and evaluate the book's strong and weak points...libraries, curriculum and book club planners, and general...how the publication of books with Judaic themes changed...However, ... |
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SF.(FICTION)(Book review)
...deeply about science fiction, and she shares generously...service to humanity in my book." YVONNE ZIPP Miami...and talks on science fiction and its speculative cousins...smart and often playful book. ... Atwood, who...for the value of genre ... |
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Novel Vs. Fiction.(Book Review)
...Norman, OK.: Pilgrim Books. $16.9,5 (h.b...of essays is "devoted to a fiction being written in our time...fantasy into new forms of fiction" (p.3). While Cope argues...and suggests that this fiction, which has swung like a pendulum...transformed in ... |
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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. .(Book Review)
...contemporary feminist science fiction, and yet very little critical...seventies to feminist science fiction has been convincingly demonstrated...explication" (2). This book is a major exercise in just...For Larbalestier, science fiction is not only a body of ... |
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Science Fiction.(Book review)
Roger Luckhurst. Science Fiction. London: Polity, 2005...Then along came two excellent books to ruin my funny little dream...1996), I know of only three books to take on this task with any...is very much a monument to book culture; in it film and ... |
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