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  • This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible...
    90 KB (6,515 words) - 07:20, 24 June 2024
  • Ekāgratā (Sanskrit: एकाग्रता, "one-pointedness"; Pali: ekaggatā) is intent pursuit of one object, close and undisturbed attention. Yoga emphasises regular...
    6 KB (550 words) - 15:19, 2 October 2022
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    Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924...
    48 KB (7,504 words) - 11:43, 17 May 2024
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    John Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan, pronounced like 'gone' (September 24, 1930 – July 21, 1985), was an American science fiction artist and illustrator...
    7 KB (741 words) - 11:12, 9 April 2024
  • This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian...
    46 KB (4,233 words) - 15:18, 4 June 2024
  • The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel featuring the Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe. Private...
    9 KB (1,112 words) - 03:54, 18 July 2023
  • The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict compiled from her analyses...
    14 KB (1,712 words) - 01:26, 14 November 2023
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    "The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was the first Father Brown short story and also introduces the characters Hercule Flambeau and...
    7 KB (974 words) - 04:45, 30 March 2024
  • Am I A Hindu? is a primer about the Hindu religion, published in 1992, by Ed Viswanathan. The book takes the form of dialog between a Hindu father and...
    3 KB (324 words) - 03:31, 28 June 2024
  • Children and Young Adult Literature portal Midget is the first novel by British author Tim Bowler, first published in 1994. It is a psychic and psychological...
    2 KB (142 words) - 18:07, 6 June 2024
  • The City of Falling Angels (2005) is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. The book tells the story of some interesting inhabitants of Venice, Italy, whom...
    3 KB (276 words) - 15:04, 22 May 2023
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    Daniel Múgica (born 4 April 1967, San Sebastián) is a writer and film director, son of the Spanish Jewish politician Enrique Múgica Herzog and the novelist...
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  • Joanna Ruth Nichols (born March 4, 1948) was a Canadian writer of fiction for children and young adults, primarily historical fiction and historical fantasy...
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  • The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures is a 2004 book written by American entrepreneur Frans Johansson...
    9 KB (857 words) - 20:49, 10 March 2023
  • The Fire People is a historical novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1972. It forms part of the 'Second Welsh Trilogy' of Cordell's writings...
    9 KB (1,383 words) - 06:39, 6 March 2023
  • The Loo Sanction is a 1973 sequel novel to The Eiger Sanction written by Trevanian. In London, England, Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing...
    2 KB (110 words) - 01:22, 30 October 2023
  • Julia Woolfolk Cunningham (October 4, 1916 – February 27, 2008) was an American author of children's literature. She is best remembered for her novel Dorp...
    1 KB (110 words) - 16:41, 16 March 2024
  • Making the Corps is a non-fiction book written by Thomas E. Ricks. It was published in 1997 under Scribner’s publication . Ricks was granted access to...
    3 KB (217 words) - 23:32, 14 June 2023
  • The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing is a children's picture book written by Maxine Trottier and illustrated by Al Van Mil, published in 1995 by Stoddart Publishing...
    6 KB (618 words) - 02:39, 27 July 2023
  • Avatars is a trilogy of post apocalyptic fantasy novels written by Tui T. Sutherland. The trilogy contains three books, namely So This Is How It Ends,...
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