How to use "novel" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "novel" in popular movie and book plots

The novel begins with the end of a relationship as the novel's protagonist Nicola Gatling, returning from a trip to the shops to get some cigarettes, is told by her lover Jonathan that he wants her to move out of their shared flat. - The Essence of the Thing
The novel details a year in the life of its teenage protagonist Charles Fox. - The Young Desire It
The novel describes period of Leonid Kuchma presidency and the Orange Revolution. - Notes of a Ukrainian Madman
As the novel progresses Warren finds his views on race challenged and questioned. - Loving Day (novel)
The novel is set in a near-future dystopia in which most people must live in gated communities or in armed nomadic groups called "car families". - Clay's Ark
The novel begins with the Patternmaster, Rayal, in bed with Jansee, his lead wife and sister. - Patternmaster
This second novel in the series recounts the story of how the Patternist society originated. - Mind of My Mind
The story is loosely based on the novel The Almighty by Irving Wallace. - New Delhi (1988 Kannada film)
Ai is a mystery novel writer. - The Inerasable
As Burton tracks down Madeleine across the island and Hochburg and Globus clash over the physicists, the strands of the novel come together at Mandritsara, location of a secret Nazi hospital. - The Madagaskar Plan
He calls the asteroid a "terrarium," applying the name used by Kim Stanley Robinson in his hard science fiction novel 2312. - Wanderers (2014 film)
The second part of the novel is The Heart of Betrayal. - The Kiss of Deception
The story is written by the famous novel writer Joyce who already succeed by contributing two more television series to Mazhavil Manorama. - Krishnathulasi
Beginning in 2008, the novel tells the story of two mixed race, black and white, girls who meet in 1982 in a tap class in London. - Swing Time (novel)
The novel is based on a theory that if a man is made to stay awake without sleep for 3– 4 days, he will be in a mood to confess everything hidden in his mind. - Digambara Samiyar
The novel is narrated by Berekiah Zarco, a 20-year-old kabbalist and manuscript illuminator. - The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
One day, an opportunity arises for her to voice a main role in an upcoming anime adaptation of a light novel as an idol voice actress with four other girls. - Girlish Number
The novel is written in first-person narrative, but from four different people's point of view. - Jagari
The novel ends with Horst and Marietta's wedding and Annemarie and Rudolf's Golden Wedding Anniversary. - Nesthäkchen With White Hair
The novel starts with a reunion in Kolkata of Ravin and his three male friends Manpreet, Amardeep, Happy, who used to study in the same engineering college. - I Too Had a Love Story
In this novel the plot has advanced beyond the year during which Else Ury was writing, 1923. - Nesthäkchen and Her Chicks
The novel tells the story of Eyad, an Israeli Arab teenager from Tira who is admitted to an elite school in Jerusalem. - Dancing Arabs (novel)
The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. - Lady Midnight
The novel ends with Annemarie's high school graduation. - Nesthäkchen's Teenage Years
Similar to Elizabeth Katayama (Elizabeth Kata)'s novel Be Ready with Bells and Drums, which was made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue, the story deals with themes of how perceived handicaps and prejudice can counteract each other and resolve feelings of isolation or alienation, specifically in the example of being 'blind to colour'. - Ichigensan
The novel is set in current day New York City, New York. - Cyberstorm (novel)
Nan Fitzerald was the inspiration for Gresham's first novel and wanted to see him again. - Affairs of a Gentleman
The novel concerns a woman, who is unnamed, and her roommate, B, and boyfriend,. - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Set in Cuba during Fulgencio Batista's reign as dictator, the novel follows the intersecting lives of several families of white American expatriates, the men of which work for the United Fruit Company. - Telex from Cuba
The novel concerns a narrator, referred to only by his last name, "Me", who attempts to reintroduce slavery and segregation in his Los Angeles neighborhood. - The Sellout (book)
The novel follows Nayak and John Lock, an Englishman that has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. - Man on Fire (Kelman novel)
The story of this movie is adapted from Blake Pierce's novel Before He Kills. - Aarathu Sinam
Tang seeks Qin's help who turns out to be a prodigy in solving crimes from the knowledge Qin garnered as a mystery novel lover. - Detective Chinatown
Set in the closing years of the 19th century, this two-part novel tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a young Scottish laird. - The Half-Hearted
A famous author, Sabine Manning, has yet to finish her latest sex-themed novel and is on a European cruise with Merriman Dudley, her manager and lover. - Don't Just Stand There!
After a few months, she writes that her first novel has been accepted by a publisher, and enclosed a check of $1000 as a first installment of her repayment of her college fees. - Daddy Long Legs (musical)
The novel follows six families: the Le Sourds (a revolutionary family), the de Cygnes (a noble family), the Renards (a bourgeois family of merchants), the Blanchards (a family of Napoleon supporters), the Gascons (a family from the slums) and the Jacobs (an art dealing Jewish family). - Paris (novel)
In the novel Tituba is biracial, born on Barbados to a young African slave woman who was raped by an English sailor. - I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
Each chapter of the novel follows a specific character. - The Bird's Nest (novel)
She has lunch with Ben and tries to encourage him to finish the novel he started in college—but he has no regrets having chosen a career in advertising in order to support their family. - Family for Christmas
The novel is based on the life of Swami Vivekananda. - Pransakha Vivekananda
More murders follow and the filming of a novel about witchcraft seems to be inspiring the Necklacing murders. - Close to the Bone (novel)
The novel follows the journeys of a group of Australian men and women roaming the countryside looking for work during the Great Depression of the 1930s. - The Battlers (novel)
The novel relates the main facts of the life of Inés, as written to be read by her adoptive daughter Isabel. - Inés of My Soul
The main character is Hayri İrdal, who narrates the novel and presents it like a memoir. - The Time Regulation Institute
The film appropriates the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel Looking for mr Goodbar, published in 1975 and filmed in 1977. - Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
The scene depicts the strained relationship between mother and daughter following the release of Patti's fictionalized novel about her family. - First Daughter Suite
The novel has many Characters, viz. - Narendra Dai
Children's novel writer Butterfly Wong (Maggie Shiu) is unsuccessful in her career and relationship. - 92 Legendary La Rose Noire
The novel follows the life of the family of gynecologist Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky. - The Kukotsky Enigma
Inspired, Larson finishes his novel with that ending, despite Amos's objections. - True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Two years later, after having been hauled from one foster home to the next, including her uncle's where an older cousin of hers attempted to sexually abuse her from reading her father's novel on sex, Emily lives with June (Chiarain) and Steve (Loui Vangelder), foster parents she feels are not the worst but too suffocating, often rebuffing their attempts at kindness, notably June's. - My Name Is Emily
The novel then explores the functioning of their new society through the impact of human values, such as individuality and personal freedom, on the conventionally hierarchical social order of dog packs. - Fifteen Dogs
The first novel in the Building of Empire series, Operation Underworld is set in the Winter of 1942 Manhattan, New York and utilizes the burning of the French luxury liner Normandie as an inciting incident. - Operation Underworld (novel)
This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Sooky from a Brisbane suburb in the 1950s until her adulthood in London in the 1970s. - Feather Man
The novel relates the story of Bret Maclean who has travelled to Sydney to bring his young wife to his station home. - Return to Coolami
The novel begins with the school explosion and then recounts prior events, beginning in September 1936. - Out of Darkness (novel)
The novel is described by author Glenn Beck as an origin story for Santa Claus. - The Immortal Nicholas
As the novel unfolds he begins to recover his memory and learn whether the upcoming trial will be his or hers. - The Knife and the Butterfly
The novel stars Sali Thimma, a Dalit (untouchable), or someone who is outside of the Indian caste system and therefore has the lowest status. - Naked in Deccan
The novel and film are about the adventures of the guys on the background of the Russian Civil War and the struggle with the Makhnovist forces. - Red Devils (film)
The prologue of the novel relates how humanity gives up the dream of space travel, which is too difficult and dangerous and offers too little benefit, only to discover that there is another way to explore the universe. - Time is the Simplest Thing
The novel follows the course of their relationship from being classmates to friends to romantic partners. - The Deal (2015 novel)
The game is set in the Middle Ages, and its storyline is inspired by historical murder mystery novel The Name of the Rose. - Murder in the Abbey
Set on a sheep station in Yass, New South Wales district of New South Wales, the novel tells the story of the Waldron family, the owner John who is partially paralysed and forced to cede control of his beloved Laverock station to his nephew, which ends badly. - Earth's Quality
The novel follows the fortunes of three Tasmanian families from 1926 to the twentieth century. - Pageant (novel)
The novel follows the exploits of an Australian platoon fighting in France in World War I, and, in particular, those of one of the company, Corporal Frank Jeffreys. - Flesh in Armour
Henrietta is able to marry Lord Melvil, and at their wedding ceremony, all that characters in the novel make an appearance. - Henrietta (novel)
The novel takes place from May 15 2006 to May 12 2007. - The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning
Local author Ashley (Nicholas Newman) has finished his long-awaited epic novel and is having difficulty promoting it, much to the misfortune of his literary agent (Tom Bonington). - The Confusion of Tongues
Set on a Queensland cattle station, the novel tells the story of the interactions between man and beast with the cattle receiving prominence. - Man-Shy
The novel then flashes back to 1962 when Edith meets her friend Lorna—who sees her through the years of her first marriage and divorce. - Golden Days (novel)
The serial was based on a paranormal novel of the same name written by the director Ilias Ahmed. - Anveshitha
The novel is set in a small fishing village on the coast of Queensland, known as "The Passage", and centres around the affairs of the Callaways, original pioneers in the area. - The Passage (Palmer novel)
The novel tells the story of the "Montford" family who settled in Melbourne before the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. - The Madeleine Heritage
Based on the Brothers Grimm story of "Snow-White and Rose-Red", this novel tells the story of 15-year-old motherless Liga, abused by her father, and pregnant with her second child - the first being forcibly miscarried. - Tender Morsels
The novel concerns a future California damaged by drought. - Gold Fame Citrus
Heart of Darkness is a novel told in the first person perspective that surrounds the character Marlow as he retells the story of when he traveled through Africa for his trade company. - Re-Edition Texts: Heart of Darkness
The series follows the novel and presents as main characters the tenants of an old block of flats near Piraeus, during 1950s. - The 10 (TV series)
The novel presents as main characters the tenants of an old block of flats near Piraeus, during 1950s. - The 10 (novel)
The novel focuses on June Reid, a beautiful, rich Connecticut woman. - Did You Ever Have a Family
The narrator of the novel - Givi Shaduri is talking to the reader from the Feast. - Givi Shaduri
It was translated into several languages, including German and RussianThe novel reflects people's struggle for national and social independence. - Arsena of Marabda
The novel chronicles the peregrinations of its love-obsessed picaresque hero, Jeremy Davenant, as he moves from York to Toronto to Montreal’s “Plateau district” and then back to York in pursuit of a destiny, that he believes is determined by a page ripped from an encyclopedia, which includes a university career based on a bogus PhD with a plagiarized thesis on the apocryphal Shakespeare play, A Yorkshire Tragedy, and the intermittently requited love of his “dark lady,” a Roma named Milena. - Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Set in the fictional town of Tula Springs, Louisiana, the novel concerns middle-aged batchelor Bobby Pickens, the assistant manager of Sunny Boy Bargain Store and his half-brotherX. - Modern Baptists
The novel is the story of Seth Rogan, a biologist for Germinat, the fictional biotech company, which, in the novel, is the largest one in the world. - An Involuntary Spy
He is writing a novel about Nachiketas, the mythical boy who sought out Death to learn its secret. - The Painted House
The main character in the novel is Jace Witherspoon, who lives with his parents in River Forest, Illinois. - Split (novel)
Struggling to find his place in life as a self-described “habitual divorcee and father of nothing,” Charlie is repeatedly drawn into outlandish situations over the course of the novel as he tries to help the college achieve regional accreditation, reconcile a divided faculty, and resurrect the college´s annual Christmas party. - Cow Country (novel)
The novel opens with Aziz, the protagonist, and his older brother Ali in their home in a remote village in southeastern Afghanistan. - Green on Blue
As the novel opens, Gregor is numb with shock from the Prophecy of Time's apparent prediction of his death. - Gregor and the Code of Claw
The plot involves a missing constable in the Yorkshire village of Enscombe (which is the name of the estate where Frank Churchill lives in the Austen novel Emma). - Pictures of Perfection
Abby acknowledges his similarity in appearance to the physicist "John Bain" whom she is writing a novel about. - Synchronicity (film)
An autobiographical graphic novel about a gay science-fiction writer meeting a homeless man who becomes his partner. - Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York
Donald believes he dances as well as Fred and throughout the novel considers himself the real "Chinese Fred Astaire" (91). - Donald Duk
This third novel in the NYPD Red series centers on two of the NYPD Red detectives, Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald. - NYPD Red 3
Set in rural western Victoria, this novel deals with a group of itinerants who have congregated around Shane Whittaker. - Tree Palace
The novel explores what might have happened had Joseph Stalin been raised in America, postulating his parents having emigrated to the United States a few months before his birth, instead of remaining in the Russian Empire. - Joe Steele (novel)
The novel centers around the opening of a guest house in a fictional western Ireland coastal town called Stoneybridge. - A Week in Winter
The novel follows the story, told in three intertwined narrative strands, of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a Japanese doctor living in Australia around the time of World War II. - After Darkness (novel)
The novel explores the two main characters' different responses to what they find. - Too Many Men (novel)
The novel is based on three actual plane crashes that took place in Elizabeth, Blume's hometown, over the course of 58 days. - In the Unlikely Event (novel)
The novel tells the story of Vera Frey, a young Australian who marries the heir to a Berlin zoo just prior to World War II. - The Zookeeper's War
In this novel she is on the trail of a killer who is targeting prostitutes. - Eden (Fox novel)
The novel explores the growing friendship between the two men, and two cultures, as they recover from their wounds. - Traitor (novel)
The novel is set in a riverside community and tells the stories of pregnant Rose, grieving her dead father and waiting for the arrival of her baby; Danny, who runs the local water-taxi service and is hiding from his violent father; and the members of the local community. - The River Baptists
Other members include Jack, a talented improviser with a tendency to grandstand; Sam, his insecure girlfriend who acts as the group's emcee; Allison, who has been working on a graphic novel for years; Lindsay, who lives off of her wealthy parents; and Bill, who loves improv but feels increasingly unsuccessful. - Don't Think Twice
Avelum is very much a novel a Georgia—a Soviet Socialist Republic for most of Avelum's (and Chiladze's) life, but the book written and first appearing in a newly independent nation. - Avelum
The novel takes place six months after the first book and surrounds Penny Porter, an ex-blogger who is dating up-and-coming rock star Noah Flynn as he goes on a world tour supporting a new boy band. - Girl Online: On Tour
The novel uses Eliot's poem "Little Gidding" from Four Quartets as a starting point. - A World of Other People
The novel centers around Eva, a culinary prodigy born with a “once-in-a-generation palate” to a chef father and a sommelier mother. - Kitchens of the Great Midwest
The novel takes place against the backdrop of the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis, and particularly the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests. - Hjartsláttur
The novel describes twenty-four hours in the life of "Ari", a young gay Greek Australian. - Loaded (novel)
The novel is presented against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, lush valleys, dense forests, the Black Sea, slave traders, bandits, bounty hunters, noble princes, priests and "false counts". - Antonio and David
Sarah Thornhill is the last child born to William and Sal Thornhill, whose struggle to establish a new life in Australia was told in the author's novel The Secret River. - Sarah Thornhill
The novel is based on the true-life story of Maggie Heffernan, who, in early 1900, was convicted in Melbourne of the drowning murder of her infant son. - Out of the Silence (James novel)
The novel tells the intersecting stories of several different people of widely diverging ages and backgrounds. - Purity (novel)
The novel earlier describes Abbot, a barber, insulting Sun and thus getting into a brawl with Dic, for which Abbott vows revenge. - The Fire People
This story is an eye-catching novel about love and despair trapped in someone's body. - Another Day (2015)
The novel is a first-person narrative from the point of view of the lively and restless Emma Soffía, who for most of the narrative is eleven years old. - Ertu Guð, afi?
While he is still able to make a modest amount of money off of the fame he achieved with the publication of his autobiographical novel Shameless (and the highly successful film adapted from it), demand for him as a public speaker at wine events has waned, Hollywood fortune has failed to materialize, and he has written no further books. - Sideways 3 Chile
A moral tale, the novel tells the story of an Italian saint, Fra Ionio, who comes down from heaven to the small Australian town of Mangowak, to save some eels trapped in a ditch and to teach life lessons to some locals. - The Patron Saint of Eels
The novel is set in a Melbourne of the future, when the rate of human reproductive success has dropped markedly as a result of reactions to a hastily developed and widely distributed flu vaccine. - The Courier's New Bicycle
The novel follows Maya going through being single and the arranged marriage process to realise that she can use old world traditions, and new world savvy to get what she wants. - The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage
The novel consists of two parts: "Book One" which features a group of ex-pat Australians and Papuans on a PNG university campus in the period shortly before independence; and "Book Two", set after PNG independence and follows one character's journey back to Australia. - The Mountain (novel)
These details give rise to three plot threads: The novel finishes with Vera settling down to write the story as a thriller novel, with the names changed, intending to publish it pseudonymously. - Lygarinn: Sönn saga
The novel is divided into 4 parts chronicling its hero's, Data Tutashkhia's, moral evolution, interestingly enough, always narrated from the perspective of a multitude of characters from Tutashkhia's past. - Data Tutashkhia
The novel tells the story of two architects: successful young Australian Andrew Martin, and neglected Johannes Von Ruhland. - The Architect (novel)
Golden Boys is a novel of lost childhood innocence, and the loss of societal patterns of behaviour that allowed young children to roam the streets in the late 70s and early 80s. - Golden Boys (novel)
This novel is the first of the author's series of novels about Inspector Anders of the Rome police force. - The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
Unbeknownst to Kirsten the graphic novel dr Eleven was written by Arthur's first wife, Miranda. - Station Eleven
The novel is set in the 1960s, in post-independence and pre-civil war Nigeria, mainly in Lagos. - The Interpreters (novel)
One day, a novel is mailed to him by his best friend, Harish, aAW. - Force 2
The novel is set in London in the year 1399, a year of revolt, revolution and religious conspiracy. - The Clerkenwell Tales
The story of the novel Cut Like Wound begins on the first evening of Ramzan, 1 August 2012, and ends about a month later in September on St Mary's Feast. - Cut Like Wound
The novel follows a family in crisis, breaking down under the weight of family violence, drugs, lost opportunities and general neglect. - Blood (Birch novel)
The novel closes with him slowly following the armoire up the steps into Palazzo Zuccari. - Il Piacere
The novel is told from his point of view. - The Object of My Affection (novel)
The novel is set in a cane-country town on the north Queensland coast. - A Kindness Cup
A coming of age story, the novel follows the lives of four friends in New York City after they have graduated from college. - A Little Life
The novel deals frankly with changes and interrelationships of the characters and social changes generally, over seven decades. - The Girl Next Door (Rendell novel)
The novel explains the history of a man, Mimoun Driouch, who lives between two cultures, the Moroccan and the Catalan. - The Last Patriarch
This novel centers around a new officer, James Cronley, who at the very end of World War II is recruited for a new intelligence operation and is sent to Germany. - Top Secret (Griffin novel)
The above events are the background to the story, revealed throughout the novel from the point in which Giacinto, Lia's son, comes to the Pintor house. - Canne al vento
The novel follows the relationship between Frank and Elsa across the years. - The Golden Age (London novel)
One False Move is a novel detailing a period of time in the life of Myron Bolitar, sports agent, and a long standing secret in his hometown. - One False Move (Coben novel)
The main plot of the novel revolves around President of the United States Paul Porter and the United States attempt to stop a catastrophic attack on the country by the Chinese. - Act of War (Thor novel)
This novel examines his life on the streets and the changes he undergoes as he transforms from "dog" to "boy". - Dog Boy (novel)
Fade Away is a novel featuring Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, hired by the New Jersey Dragons to find a missing basketball star. - Fade Away (Coben novel)
The novel follows Duffy's attempts to solve a locked-room murder in order to obtain inside information on McCann's whereabouts, which finally leads to the assassination attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Brighton. - In the Morning I'll Be Gone
It becomes an instant bestseller, but Hee-soo's regained fame doesn't last long as she becomes embroiled in another plagiarism scandal, with rumors swirling that the contents of her book are from a novel that had been published 10 years ago. - Bestseller (film)
In the morning, Kat asks Will to read a graphic novel that she wrote. - People Places Things
The novel ends on an uncertain note; Bron and Toby seem to be fated for each other, but she is technically still married to Sam Jones, who also survived the explosion. - This Sweet and Bitter Earth
Set in England, the novel alternates between the story's present in 1892 and flashbacks to 1882. - Delicious (novel)
The novel is set in Victorian England. - His at Night
The novel starts the summer of 1897, three years after a married couple, Bryony Asquith and Leo Marsden, have been estranged. - Not Quite a Husband
An unnamed country's tyrannical ruler, Great Uncle, commands author Alan Sheriff to ghost-write a novel that will have the literary circles of the western world talking about him. - The Tyrant's Novel
The novel tells the tragic story of the Gypsy, Tumry, and his wife Motruna, daughter of the farmer Lepiuk. - The Cottage outside the Village
As Don Ciccio and his colleagues dig deeper into the grisly murder, the mechanics of the detective novel take a backseat to the wordplay and experimentation with which Gadda presents a panorama of life in early fascist Rome. - That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
This book's intricate and interwoven plot has been compared to Finnegans Wake, but a more apt Joyce comparison might be Ulysses, considering the fact that the novel takes place over the course of only one day: May 10, 2014. - The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
The Bath Fugues is a novel of three sections, all interconnecting and modelled on the structure of the Goldberg variations. - The Bath Fugues
The novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Wolf-Man, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient, counter-pointed with an account of Artie Catacomb, a con-man and psychoanalyst living in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. - Double-Wolf
The novel is a fictionalised account of the Australian life of Artem Sergeiv, a Russian émigré to Australia who would later play a significant role in Lenin’s government. - The People's Train
The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe. - The Daughters of Mars
The novel follows the arc of Colts's life, from station hand to World War II in New Guinea to livestock agent, broken, forlorn and alcoholic. - When Colts Ran
The novel follows the story of Yusuf, a boy born in the fictional town of Kawa in Tanzania at the turn of the Twentieth century. - Paradise (Abdulrazak Gurnah)
The novel is narrated by seven different characters whose lives intersect in various ways. - Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)
The novel ends with Louisa at a cafe in Paris, reading Will's last words to her in a letter, that tell her to 'live well'. - Me Before You
The novel follows the story of journalist Felix Moore who is writing an investigative piece about Gaby Baillieux, a young Australian computer hacker. - Amnesia (Carey novel)
The novel is set on the small Melanesian island of Kristi in the far-western Pacific. - Beachmasters
The novel is told from the alternating perspectives of Nick, the only straight member of a queer rock band, and Norah, the daughter of a well-known music producer. - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (novel)
The novel follows two brothers, Elijah and Danny, who have been tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together. - Are We There Yet? (novel)
The novel is the second in the current-era literary series to be set during the original timeline created by Fleming since 1968's Colonel Sun (following Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks) and sees the return of Bond girl Pussy Galore, who made her debut in Goldfinger. - Trigger Mortis
The novel The Great Fire is about the great fire that happened in Chicago. - The Great Fire (children's novel)
The novel was an adaptation of the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharat, giving greater prominence to the character of Radha. - Radha (Novel)
The novel follows the story of 16-year-old Grace Blakely, who remembers her mother being murdered, although everyone else believes that she was killed in an accidental fire. - All Fall Down (Carter novel)
The novel is told in the first person, from the perspective of an American photographer named Charles Castle. - Photographing Fairies (novel)
Based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, this film (two and a half hours long) is pure entertainment. - The Master of Ballantrae (1984 film)
The novel ends with Emaline interning for Ivy in New York City. - The Moon and More
AXE suspects a novel virus or electromagnetic ray is responsible. - The Living Death (Killmaster novel)
The novel opens with the bizarre murder of historian Ram Mathur at the Ganga ghat in Varanasi. - The Emperor's Riddles
The novel is split into three sections, each named for a particular noh mask: Ryō no Onna, Masugami and Fukai. - Masks (novel)
Revolving around a middle-class family, Kaagaz Ke Fools touches upon the issue of lack of good novel writers. - Kaagaz Ke Fools
The plague, earthquakes, wars, rebellions and, of course, love colour this novel and never leave us bored, at the same time, giving us an insight into events in a remote region over a thousand years ago. - The Right Hand of the Grand Master
The conflict between Joey’s approach at taking control over his life, and trying to please his father is what this fiction novel is based upon. - Joey Pigza Loses Control
He is going to write a novel about his adventures. - Kaharlyk (Shynkarenko novel)
Gautam's latest novel is titled RangiTaranga, a word which might hold the key to his past. - RangiTaranga
The novel is set in a futuristic universe. - Sweet Starfire
As they investigate the mysteries, their relationship deepens, and at the end of the novel they become engaged. - Sharp Edges
The novel begins about 160 years after two human beings, Angela and Tommy, were stranded on Eden. - Dark Eden (novel)
The novel is a mystery, and concerns a detective, Finley, who is investigating a puppet troupe led by a Professor Uppal. - Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
a young Cruella De Vil is being mistreated by her mother Madeline as she instructs her Dalmatians to chase her daughter, and is locked in the attic in the same setting that resembles the novel Flowers in the Attic. - Sympathy for the De Vil
The novel is set in London. - An Accidental Man
However, a stray piece of paper upon which he has begun his novel flies away and is picked up by some of the moonshiners, who then attack him. - Mountain Dew (film)
The novel ends with the patron paying back the proxy with his life while simultaneously enacting 'Jubilee' onto the world. - Proxy (novel)
This is presented in the novel as having been a sign of his bad character, and Fulford states that Wickham uses the prestige of the militia and the anonymity it provides to run away from his debts. - George Wickham
A major issue that researchers were focused on is the relationship with the novel by Merezhkovsky "The Birth of Gods. - Daedalus in Crete
As the novel opens, she succeeds, much to the fury of the agency's top IT Security agent, Ed "The Ned" Needham. - The Girl in the Spider's Web
Angeleno art gallery owner Susan Morrow receives the manuscript for a novel penned by her estranged ex-husband Edward Sheffield along with an invitation for dinner during Edward's upcoming visit to Los Angeles. - Nocturnal Animals
At the heart of the novel is a love story between a man and a woman who are forced to hide their feelings and pass as homosexuals. - Nontraditional Love
The most popular interpretation of this popular novel is that Selimovic employed a fictional Ottoman setting to obscure a real critique of life in Communist Yugoslavia. - Death and the Dervish
Throughout their reunion, sticky feelings of love, longing and regret are stirred up in the characters, alongside novel insights into forgiveness, mortality and gratitude. - Burning Bodhi
Dare cannot be bribed, so his opponents spirited him away in a novel fashion. - The Vote That Counted
The novel follows a protagonist, "U". - Satin Island
The novel is set in May 1968. - Operation Moon Rocket
The novel begin as the heroine, Minerva "Min" Dobbs, a chubby, 33-year-old actuary, is dumped by her boyfriend, David. - Bet Me
The film focuses on Jack Goodwin, a young chemistry student who has discovered a novel compound that allows a person to be put in a state of sleep for any length of time. - Looking Forward (1910 film)
She does some clever work in the case, and proves Jack's innocence in a novel way, incidentally falling in love with the man whose life she is working to save. - Love and Law
The story begins with a wealthy businessman reading a novel he had started reading a few days earlier in his house on a large estate. - Continuidad de los parques
It's revealed that Fermin was in prison 20 years earlier with the mysterious stranger as well as David Martin (the protagonist of Zafon's second novel The Angel's Game). - The Prisoner of Heaven
The work was an adaptation of Timothy Shay Arthur's novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. - Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1910 film)
Though these fall flat, all are interested in Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's romantic novel Paul et Virginie. - Graziella
The novel opens with the intrigues of Boris Pinski. - Berlin Without Jews
The novel describes the lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama (literally, "The village in the jungle") as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself. - The Village in the Jungle
Walter Kerner, a German scientist and associate of Martin Bormann, is in Beijing|Peking]] synthesizing a novel compound derived from belladonna called Agent Z, which is capable of inducing psychosis. - Peking & The Tulip Affair (Killmaster novel)
The novel is set immediately after Arthurian Britain, with "Britons" living alongside Saxons. - The Buried Giant
The novel opens in 1825 London, at the annual Smythe-Smith musicale. - The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy
The hero of the novel is Gregory Bridgerton, the youngest male and last unmarried sibling in the Bridgerton family. - On the Way to the Wedding
The novel is a historical romance, set in England in 1799, which is commonly known as the Georgian period. - Three Weeks With Lady X
Much of the novel takes place at st Kilda's, a girls' boarding school in Dublin. - The Secret Place (book)
He continues writing, his next novel being about Trevor. - The Fundamentals of Caring
The novel recounts the tumultuous relationship of the Von Reisen sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, the only children of an intellectual, free-spirited family from a conservative Mennonite community. - All My Puny Sorrows
Though the cafe is nominally set in New York City as per Naylor's earlier novel Mama Day, patrons wander into it from different times and places. - Bailey's Cafe
Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. - With Beauty and Sorrow
Life-Saving Service based on a novel by Joseph Lincoln. - Rugged Water
Adaptation of the novel by Luis Spota, which is a testimony to the brutality of man against the life, nature, and destiny. - Las grandes aguas
Poseidon's Wake is a loose sequel to Reynolds' 2013 novel On the Steel Breeze, featuring numerous recurring characters, but can also be considered a stand-alone story. - Poseidon's Wake
This novel conforms with the rest of the Spanish-American indigenist novels in theme, but not so in style. - Drums for Rancas
The novel mixes narrative, excerpts from Treadup's journal, letters written by Treadup and his wife. - The Call (novel)
Odd takes the bike to a safe house run by the same organization he helped in the last novel after meeting mrs Fischer. - Saint Odd
The film follows Elsie Plush, an avid a dime novel reader who becomes infatuated with the type of hero in Laura Jean Libbey's books. - She Wanted to Marry a Hero
Hrafn decides to return to school; the novel closes with the characters admiring the Northern Lights. - Hrafnaspark
The novel features the story of Sabadil, a simple peasant farmer living in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century. - Die Gottesmutter
The plot was adapted from Augusta Jane Evans's 1867 novel st Elmo. - St. Elmo (1910 Thanhouser film)
Each week the novel was dedicated to a particular enabling the participation of a large cast. - El amor tiene cara de mujer (Argentine telenovela)
The novel explores the power of a curse African society and the myth and power that surrounds twins. - Kintu (novel)
The novel is a satire on old age and concerns Kathleen Hackendorf who has reached the age when she must decide on where she is going to live until the end of her days. - Coda (novel)
The novel introduces the Circle, a Crown-sponsored British paramilitary organisation descended from King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. - The Pendragon Protocol
In this new, different society, with the support of the powerful politician Robert Rediger, the novel ends with François poised to convert to Islam and the prospect of a second, better life, with a prestigious job, and wives chosen for him. - Submission (novel)
As the novel begins, they are in their early thirties, and have not seen each other for several years. - Henry and Cato
The novel is about the lives of two sets of siblings, the privileged Howard siblings Russell and Zoe, who are the children of elite Australian botanists, and the Quayle siblings Stephen and Anna who were orphaned at a young age and raised by an uncle consumed with caring for his mentally-ill wife. - In Certain Circles
It is an adaptation of the novel Tenchi meisatsu by Tow Ubukata. - Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
Mansfield Park is the next best represented novel in terms of major characters. - Old Friends and New Fancies
Harmonia is a visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Rei. - Harmonia (visual novel)
The novel is set in July 1968. - Hood of Death
The novel is set in the 1970s. - Home School (novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Kenton, a down-at-heel freelance journalist who loses money gambling and takes the train to Vienna to borrow money from a man he knows there, Rosen, a Jew he helped escape Germany after the Nazis came to power. - Uncommon Danger
This novel is set in both 1902 and 1912 and in various locations in the United States. - The Striker
The novel describes in detail the anonymous phone calls, safe houses, elaborate aliases and clandestine meetings required to carry this out, and includes a number of tense scenes. - A Kind of Anger
The movie is based on the novel “Ai no Uzu” by Daisuke Miura which was published in 1996. - Love's Whirlpool (2014 film)
The final full-length novel in the series, Saint Odd, is to be released in January 2015. - Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever
The novel was also the 2013 winner of the Agatha Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel. - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
The main subject of the novel is the golden era of Australian show-jumping between the wars. - Foal's Bread
The novel is set in 1972, and the main character Che Selkirk is being brought up in New York by his grandmother. - His Illegal Self
During the novel one canobserve that Stephen rises the ladder of the city life. - Misto (novel)
The novel alternates between different moments in Sean's life. - Wolf in White Van
The novel is told through 11 narrators, characters belonging to highly different worlds within the same city – a group of adolescents at a high school and the bewildered and desperate father of two of them, and a gang of petty criminals trying to cope with the changing times. - See You Tomorrow
The novel follows the story of a young girl, Adara, who befriends an ice dragon after the death of her mother. - The Ice Dragon
The novel starts with Sydney Sage in re-education, still in her dark cell, called reflection time by the Alchemists. - Silver Shadows
The novel surrounds Penny Porter, a 15 year old living with her parents in Brighton. - Girl Online
In the novel he highlights the heroic roles and actions that the Philadelphia free blacks took in order to fight this deadly disease. - An American Plague
Röskva is furious because of Þjálfi's rite of passage in the previous graphic novel and wants to be considered an adult too. - The Sibyl's Visions (Valhalla)
The plot of this film was very similar to the novel written by Lieberman, (the teleplay, written by Ernest Kinoy, was also based on the novel). - Crawlspace (1972 film)
The novel is set in March 1967. - The Bright Blue Death (Killmaster novel)
The novel begins with the funeral of Fanny Peronett, the wife of Hugh Peronett. - An Unofficial Rose
The novel opens with Rachel McLaren at the train station awaiting her brother Jamie's return from the war, and his career as a soldier. - Little Red Lies
The novel centres around Mukhtar, a young Libyan man who stands frozen for ten years like a statue in the middle of public park in Libyan capital Tripoli after he was abandoned by his lover, the young and promiscuous Fatma. - Chewing Gum (novel)
Dylan reveals to his wife, Emily (Klara Landrat), that he has not been writing a new novel but instead has been using his hacking skills to expose the most secret government and corporate secrets. - Fateful Findings
The novel opens in Cuba in 1886, at a time when it was still ruled by the Spanish Empire and Cubans have fought for years for their Independence. - The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
The novel begins on July 4 weekend, as the President attends an event. - The Book of Fate
The novel "The Broken Eye" begins with a sea demon attack on the Chromeria, which a black sperm whale defends and rescues the city from at the last moment. - The Broken Eye
The novel is divided into five parts. - Mr Ma and Son
" The surname "Pangloss" is derived from the character of that name in the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire, the personal tutor of the main character Candide. - The Heir at Law
The novel is set in August 1967. - The Filthy Five (Killmaster novel)
The novel starts in September, after Joe Cardone, the brother of the main character, has come back from his trip to Europe, and after the summer in Toronto for Jason Cardone (Joe's brother) and his two friends, Don and Ferguson (Peachfuzz) the novel chronicles. - Losing Joe's Place
The novel ends with several of the other characters forming couples. - The Nice and the Good
The novel ends with the lyrics for Torn in Half, Brain Train and Nothing Serious. - Buddy's Song (novel)
2 is chronologically set several years after the events of its prequel visual novel Imouto Paradise. - Imouto Paradise 2
The novel begins in August 1942, with Thomsen's first sight of Hannah Doll, wife of Paul Doll, the camp's commandant. - The Zone of Interest
The novel revolves around Serge Carrefax, born in the late 19th century in England. - C (novel)
The novel is set in Kentucky in the 1780s and revolves around the mysterious figure of "Nick of the Woods", dressed as a monster, who seeks to avenge the death of his family by killing numerous Indians, carving a cross on the body of all he slays. - Nick of the Woods
Detained is the first novel in Don Brown's Navy JAG Series. - Detained (novel)
The novel chronicles his childhood and his entry into the broader world. - Jean Santeuil
The novel is set in 1967 Calcutta and follows the life of a family fractured by extremist political activism. - The Lives of Others (novel)
The novel is loosely set around the time of the early 1950s, when the Inuit of Kangirsujuaq had regular but limited contact with Qallunaat, or Euro-Canadians. - Sanaaq
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him. - Satiricosissimo
While Amanda's death is portrayed to be inevitable, the novel concludes with an open ending - the special friendship between Charlie and Sevrin. - At Risk (book)
Set in occupied France during World War II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths eventually cross. - All the Light We Cannot See
The novel concerns Pran Nath (known throughout the book by several other names), the child of a one-time affair between an English father and an Indian mother, and his life from birth to roughly the age of twenty-two, as he travels from India to England to Africa while colonialism begins to come to a close. - The Impressionist
The novel covers a range of world events during the period, often from multiple points of view. - Edge of Eternity
The novel and series end with Maia about to impact on the far side of the world as Palace and the Amish community sit down to begin a meal that will abruptly end with the unfolding tragedy on the other side of the world, all but Palace and two members of the Amish host family oblivious about their imminent fate. - World of Trouble
A theatre graduate student directs a group of undergraduates in an adaptation of a 1980s young adult novel that changes all of them. - Black Box (2013 film)
The novel is written in the first person from Ben's point of view. - Mistress (novel)
Meira is mystified by the fact that Félix has no children, as he is single, a novel concept for her as she comes from a culture where women have as many as 14 children. - Felix and Meira
Just under half the length of the novel tells how a discovery on the Moon brings Massachusetts linguist, Robert Fairlie to a high-security space base in New Mexico and eventually to the planet Ryn. - The Haunted Stars
Paprika's most characteristic sexual activity is masturbating to the late program on Arte; the first edition of the novel reputedly fell open at this scene. - Ruf! Mich! An!
The plot is loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. - 80 Days (2014 video game)
Jo's boss, Ronnie Bunter, Henry's old friend and Bannock Family Trust lawyer, gives Hector the details of the destruction of the entire Bannock family, in a novel written by Ronnie on Carl Peter Bannock, Henry's stepson (briefly mentioned in "Those in Peril"). - Vicious Circle (novel)
The novel describes the life of an outstanding military and political figure of the second half of the 18th century, Grigory Potemkin. - The Favorite (novel)
Due to insecurity of them being always on the top and he was always third place, he wrote the novel to put his anger towards them. - The Gifted (film)
Danny Smiricky (the hero of Škvorecký's 1977 novel The Engineer of Human Souls who also appeared in the previous novel "The Cowards") was present at the church but slept through the event. - The Miracle Game
By the end of the novel Marcus Vallar has died, Ludens is no longer engaged to Irina, and Franca is still married to Jack, while Alison has left him. - The Message to the Planet
His latest novel did not sell well thanks to a pan by critic Richard Cheeseman (a friend of Hugo Lamb) and at a book fair he is upstaged by new author Holly Sykes who has written an immensely popular book about her psychic visions called The Radio People. - The Bone Clocks
The novel describes the maturation process of Ernesto, a 14-year-old who must confront the injustices of the adult world that he becomes a part of, and who is required to take sides. - Deep Rivers
The novel relates one of the most traditional customs of the indigenous communities of Peru: the "Indigenous bullfight", that takes place every year on the 28th of July, the anniversary of the founding of Peru. - Yawar Fiesta
The novel starts with the suicide of Don Andres Aragon of Peralta, head of the most powerful family in the village of San Pedro de Lahuaymarca, in the mountains of Peru. - Todas las Sangres
The novel is set in Brighton in 1957. - My Policeman
The novel begins with its eponymous, thirty-five-year-old hero on a train returning to his native Dorset to Ramsgard (Sherborne). - Wolf Solent
Her ancestor is Baron Von Dinkenstein, who was said to have created a monster called Frankencreep (which inspired famous novelist Mary Shelley to write her novel Frankenstein). - Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
The novel is set during the period after the lifting of Apartheid. - No Time Like the Present
The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel (generally Young Adult or older) by Lois Lowry. - The Giver Quartet
Chapter One The novel opens with Ganus who is working as a servant in the home of a prominent white family. - Place Called Estherville
The novel centers around Celeste Price, a middle school teacher who recounts her pursuit of Jack Patrick, a fourteen year old student of hers. - Tampa (novel)
The novel takes place in an unnamed 20th-century European town. - Schopenhauer's Telescope
At the end of the novel Effingham and Marian return separately to London. - The Unicorn (novel)
This novel is all about Jake Moon's changing relationship with his grandfather. - The Graduation of Jake Moon
Thus the President's orders place his own daughter into harm's way, The novel also features theS. - Fire of the Raging Dragon
The last third of the novel is centered in the courtroom as the murder trial takes place. - Dovey Coe
Surya starts a novel Aayanaki Iddaru (literally, he has two wives). - Aayanaki Iddaru
Romapuri Pandian is a historical novel that talks about the king Peruvazhuthi Pandian who tries to establish a relationship with the Roman Empire. - Romapuri Pandian
The importance of Helen’s role in the novel is only fully revealed at the end. - China Dolls (novel)
Gabriel's Mexican home is the site of early anomalies that become increasingly visible and widespread as the novel progresses, including a special orange that falls from Rafaela's favorite tree at the home. - Tropic of Orange
In the first portion of the book, called "Happily Ever After," the novel moves back and forth in time between Mireille's captivity and her earlier life, meeting and falling in love with husband Michael during graduate school in the Midwest of the United States. - An Untamed State
The novel takes place in Leicestershire, England in current times. - Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Di Shen also realises that the suspect has enacted the plot of his novel which raises the possibility that he is a fan of his work. - Against the Tide (TV series)
The novel is set in Reykjavík, in a dystopian future in which the world is largely controlled by a bank called Gullbanki ('Gold Bank'). - Bókasafn Ömmu Huldar
The novel chronicles the occupation of the United Kingdom by the Nazis from 11 September 1944 to 13 March 1945 who begin a program of "complete Germanisation" of the country. - I, James Blunt
The novel also occasionally looks at the phenomenon from the viewpoint of the Returned, who appear to have no knowledge of or explanation for their return, and only want to live their lives. - The Returned (Mott novel)
The novel gives us fragments of the history of the island kingdom, from its inception to the present day, while the drow launch a devastating attack. - Evermeet: Island of Elves
The novel is set in June 1966. - A Korean Tiger
She convinces Brian to do so, flattering him by reciting quotes from his novel Faster Than the Speed of Love. - Our Idiot Brian
The novel goes on to explain the burial customs and unveils that the corpses were buried in a separate hole initially, then slowly one small hole for the family and then ended up digging a big hole for all those die on that particular day. - Agnaadi
The novel opens with a conversation between Liliane and her psychoanalyst. - Liliane (novel)
The narrator plans to make his final living act the mailing of his letters to the woman, but the novel offers a rather comic ending to the story - as the narrator plans to die in some way on his way home, he experiences overwhelming marvel at the simplest occurrences of life (for example, a milk man delivering milk and being chased by a cat), and is granted “reprieve” from his situation in that Burden and his fiancée have planned a year-long honeymoon, granting the narrator time to remedy the accounts and set things straight. - The Nature of a Crime
When Paula finds Linda editing her novel one morning, she flies into a rage. - Stalker (2010 film)
The novel is split into sections headed by dates in the French Republican Calendar which was in use at the time, and is in the main told by two narrative voices, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, the doctor appointed to be the boys tutor, and Madame Guerin to whom Itard entrusts his care. - Wild Boy (novel)
First published in 1969, the novel tells the story of a Russian spy-ship (the Dmitri Kirov) crashing into Albert's small island in the Isles of Scilly. - And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game
The rest of the novel describes in vivid detail a soldier’s account of the Battle of Waterloo, with Jim and Jack walk from a half-mile away as the battle ensues before joining the battle at the very end. - The Great Shadow
The novel opens with a deathbed scene in which a man named John Vernon is relaying his dying wishes to his daughter, Constance. - Godolphin (novel)
The novel opens with a narrator describing the beauty of the Land of Anahuac, with its picturesque, valleys, mountains, plains, and rolling landscapes. - The Rifle Rangers: or Adventures in South Mexico
However, correspondence with Juan Manuel increase his amorous illusions increasingly by his promise that the rise of the novel for so long dreamed. - El alma herida
Set during the reign of Edward III of England in the 14th-century, the novel follows the romance between Joan of Kent and Edward's eldest son, Edward, the Black Prince. - The First Princess of Wales
Saga of Old City was the first novel to feature Gord the Rogue. - Saga of Old City
Themes around race, class, loyalty to family, sex, the theory of language, the life of canonical western artists, abortion, and sexual identity are also explored as the novel unfolds. - Erasure (novel)
The novel begins with the Rigonda family and two men aboard a castaway ship somewhere in the south Pacific. - The Island Queen (novel)
The novel alternates between the adventures of "New York tour guide Larry Bloom" who works "a nine-to-five grind herding privileged tourists through the city" and chapters from a book manuscript he has written "about the light in his listless life, Starshine Hart, a 29-year-old, job-jumping beauty who attracts the gaze and adoration of nearly every man in the Tri-state area". - The Biology of Luck
The novel is set in August 1966. - Seven Against Greece (Killmaster novel)
The writer forms the idea for a novel based on the stories his cellmates share, however when he contracts typhoid fever it becomes hard for him to distinguish what is real and what is imaginary. - Write and Fight
Set in modern times, this novel interconnects the past to the present. - The Swinging Bridge
The novel opens with a funny scene where Ahmad, the main character and the book’s narrator, is with his friend Nevine in her car by Cairo-Alexandria desert road. - A Well-Trained Stray
The novel has about thirty characters belonging to three generations of eight families belonging to Malabar during the end of the Second World War, when the famous Moplah rebellion broke out in Kerala. - Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum
In 2001 he and his friend Cyril are invited to New York to DJ at PS1 MoMA but Cyril refuses to go, having finally decided to commit to the graphic novel he had wanted to write. - Eden (2014 French film)
Much of the novel focuses on Bartle's promise to the mother of Murph, a fellow Private, not to let him die in the war. - The Yellow Birds
The novel is set in Kerala in 1950s-an era of transition from feudal system to modern democracy. - Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha (novel)
The year is 1910, and this novel tells the true story of Tolstoy’s life in his last days, before he ran away from his wife and family home, taking to the road, where he died in a small railway station called Astapovo, with only his doctor and most beloved daughter, Sasha, in attendance (the film of this novel add Valentin Bulgakov and others to the deathbed scene who were not, in fact, present). - The Last Station (novel)
The novel ends with Michelle waking from a coma after the final battle and Sean realizing how much their relationship meant to him. - The Sixth Man (novel)
The novel begins with an introduction to Crescent "Cress" Moon Darnel, a sixteen-year-old girl living in a satellite in space that has been her prison for most of her life. - Cress (novel)
The novel is written as the memoir of Eugene Luther, one of the first followers of Cavism, founded by John Cave, an American undertaker. - Messiah (Vidal novel)
It is revealed through the novel that Tibby was suffering from Huntington's disease and aware that she was going to die, even though her death by drowning was an accident. - Sisterhood Everlasting
Hoping to create a visual novel computer game, he turns to school beauties Eriri Spencer Sawamura for designing the art, and Utaha Kasumigaoka for writing the game scenario. - Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
The novel is a third person narrative, mainly centring on the thoughts and experiences of Margaret Pargeter. - Time of Trial
The novel takes place in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in 1918. - The Cove (novel)
A major climax in the novel comes when Porius mates with the young giantess, he names Creiddylad, one of two surviving Cewri, or giants, the true aboriginals of Britain. - Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages
Sally becomes a professional writer, and her first book is The Killing of Billy D, a bestselling non-fiction novel about the murder of Billy Don. - The Brunist Day of Wrath
The novel then goes back in time to 1898, when the Marie Curie and her husband discover radioactivity. - Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Based on the 1962 novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke is about a Kentucky truck driver, (James Franciscus), who moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a hot-shot writer. - Youngblood Hawke (film)
This series was based on the novel The Point of Rescue. - Case Sensitive (TV series)
The novel is presented by an unnamed narrator who makes an annual visit to the fictional town of Cedarville. - Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There
The novel is divided into two "books", First Light and Last Light, technical terms from RTR training manuals. - Warriors For the Working Day
The novel is divided into four parts, called "movements". - No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again
The novel is set in a crumbling 21st-century America. - A Death of Honor
As the novel begins, Sanshirō (first name) Ogawa (family name) has graduated from high school (equivalent to modern-day college) in Kumamoto on the southern island of Kyushu and is riding the train north to pursue his graduate studies at the University of Tokyo. - Sanshirō (novel)
He had interviewed the author over a period of days twelve years earlier, following the publication of Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, which received critical praise and became an international bestseller, a touchstone for numerous readers. - The End of the Tour
The novel is set in 1833, during a British naval survey of the coastline of the Arabian Peninsula. - Secret of the Sands
As the novel opens, Pete Robinson is supervising the drawing and quartering of the town's mayor by four automobiles. - Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
This is a historical novel with its roots in the beginning of the 20th century. - Los plateados
He adopts the pseudonym of Mastram and churns out his pornographic novel series, which becomes a best selling cake. - Mastram
The structure of the novel is as an interview between a war correspondent and the commander of the battalion. - Volokolamsk Highway
The novel consists of three parts, each named after a character. - We Are Incredible
Subbaiah), and his blind mother (Ganthimathi), and his inherent belief that imprisonment does not serve the good of the victim or the perpetrator, the Judge resolves to try a novel experiment of forcing Sivaji Ganesan to live with the farmer's family and looking after their financial needs. - Needhi
This novel focuses on Latin-American immigrants’ drama in the US, particularly undocumented experiences. - Crisis (novel by Jorge Majfud)
The novel falls into two distinct parts covering two time periods – 1912 and 1917 Elinor Brooke, student at Slade, is home for the weekend from her studies in London, along with her older siblings Rachel and Toby. - Toby's Room
The novel ends with Bourne kissing Sara\Rebeka in the hospital. - The Bourne Retribution
This novel battles with diverse situations including ethnic conflicts and birds. - The Road from Elephant Pass (novel)
The novel has four parts: "De zaaidhede" ("the sowing"), "De wiedsters" ("the weed removers"), "Bloei" ("flowering"), and "De slijting" (the manual pulling of the flax without removal of the roots). - De vlaschaard
The novel covers the history of the descending George Mills in the family and all of them are aware of their fates and equally feeble and ineffective in changing circumstances. - George Mills (novel)
The novel opens with a fire set by Maame, an Asante woman enslaved by Cobbe of the Fante people; Maame set the fire to escape and return home, but in the chaos she left behind Effia, her newly born baby who was fathered by Cobbe. - Homegoing (2016 novel)
The novel opens with an English couple, Guy and Harriet Pringle, travelling through Yugoslavia towards Romania on a train. - The Great Fortune
The novel is about the life of Teddy Todd (younger brother of Ursula Todd, the protagonist of the companion work, Life After Life). - A God in Ruins (novel)
The novel is set in Niagara Falls in the summer of 1889, and focuses on the lives of several characters whose numerous obsessions, “concentrated chiefly in the image of the whirlpool, draw them inexorably together. - The Whirlpool (Jane Urquhart novel)
The first half of the novel concerns each family member individually and goes chronologically from 1980 to 2005. - The Green Road (Enright novel)
The show is inspired from the novel Chandrakanta (novel). - Prem Ya Paheli - Chandrakanta
The novel is the story of Archie Ferguson told at four different times, and in four different versions. - 4 3 2 1 (novel)
The novel has an asynchronous narrative structure that weaves together four major narratives: The narratives are loosely related, linked together if not by chronological time, then by common characters and themes. - Broken Sleep
The novel shifts from first-person narration by David, an marijuana dealer and aspiring filmmaker in Portland, Oregon, to third-person narration by Courtney, his ex-girlfriend who has left Portland and is living in the East Village in New York City, where she has moved into a squat. - Bongwater (novel)
The game is loosely based on Paulo Coelho's autobiographical 1987 novel The Pilgrimage. - Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon
The novel opens as Charles and second wife Barbra (an immigrant from Taiwan who chose her English name from Barbra Streisand) prepare to pack some clothes and personal items for a road trip from their soon-to-be-foreclosed Bel Air mansion to upstate New York, where they will live with his eldest child, daughter Saina. - The Wangs vs. the World
The novel chronicles the lives and interactions of two sets of brothers: Eliot and Dwight in Maryland, andJ. - The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
The novel follows the adventures of Anthony Lammas, the young Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at St Andrews, who is drawn into a plot to kill the Prime Minister. - The Free Fishers
The novel relates the adventures of Bill, a 13-year-old boy, and his magic walking stick that has the power to take him and whoever he is holding by the hand to any desired place, from "the blinding white sands of the Solomon Islands. - The Magic Walking Stick
The novel narrated in first person. - Fero (novel)
In the final novel of the series, the crew of the Invincible find themselves in a distant, as yet unexplored by humans, section of the galaxy. - The Flight Engineer
The novel is set in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII, and explores the possible consequences had the Tudors been overthrown by a rightful descendant of Edward III. - The Blanket of the Dark
The first part of the novel deals with Mayotte's childhood in the village of Carbet in Martinique. - I am a Martinican Woman
The novel is set in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and follows the adventures of Francis Birkenshaw, an eighteen-year-old law apprentice. - A Lost Lady of Old Years
The novel is set in Tweeddale in Scotland and follows the adventures of John Burnet, a relative of the 17th century historian Gilbert Burnet. - John Burnet of Barns
The novel is set in Galloway in Scotland in the late 17th century, and follows the adventures of the impoverished Jean Sieur de Rohaine. - Sir Quixote of the Moors
The novel relates the internal turmoils of its adolescent protagonist, Walter Parrish, when he is sent to spend a month's holiday on his uncle's decaying fruit farm in the Kent countryside. - Seen Dimly before Dawn
Unknown to her father, France has written a novel which has been accepted for publication. - Daughters and Sons
The film, as the novel does, is set mainly in 1959, and centres around Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk. - The Bookshop (film)
Jun Hashimoto is an unsuccessful sci-fi novel writer who struggles with a task given by his manager. - Kasa wo Motanai Aritachi wa
The novel takes the form of a loosely-coupled collection of short stories presenting a sweeping tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman, French, Flemish, English, Scottish and American scenes. - The Path of the King
The film plot is based on a novel by the Polish writer, Olga Tokarczuk. - Spoor (film)
Few chapters of novel by Sergey Malitsky (which is the literary base of the game's script) are published on AurumDust's website. - Ash of Gods: Redemption
It has been known from the first novel that back in 2006, Court was betrayed by his CIA superiors and that he had to kill some of his colleagues in order to escape. - On Target (novel)
(She knows her sister will try to find and rescue her) Andrée and Dick, with the help of their streetwise servants – one of many comic touches in the novel – trace Cécile across France to a convent beyond Nancy. - Cécile (novel)
Rajendra manages to steal the manuscript of a novel Anup is working on, which has an idealistic theme on poverty. - Hamrahi (1945 film)
The novel is set in Yugoslavia in 1950 under the communist regime. - Paloma Negra (novel)
The novel ends with the family on the path to healing and forgiveness. - Ghana Must Go
The novel takes place in a rural Korean village, and follows two Korean university students who are working to promote literacy and modern agriculture in the Korean countryside. - Sangnoksu
As with Broster's most successful novel The Flight of the Heron (1925), and 'The Wounded Name', published 1922, the focus of the novel, despite the female love interest, is the close friendship which develops between two very different young men. - "Mr. Rowl"
Humne Jeena Seekh Liya is adapted from a Marathi novel titled Shaala (School), and is a coming of age story of four school friends. - Humne Jeena Seekh Liya
The novel presents a lengthy procession of Blood Drinkers from previous adventures as they form a united front against a possible adversary in the form of replimoid beings created many millennia ago for one specific purpose: the destruction of Atlantis and its all-powerful ruler - Amel. - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
This adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel follows the adventures of a group of slaves in the 19th-century American South. - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987 film)
The novel concludes with the team listening to a farewell message from the alien brain originally imprisoned within the Baobab, a song of unearthly beauty. - Beyond the Ice Limit
At the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Alexandra, recently elected Abbess of Crewe, circumnavigating the issue of electronic bugging in the convent, while there is a visible police presence outside the gates. - The Abbess of Crewe
The convention involving a novel opening with a discussion among unnamed men was common in the Tokugawa era. - Setchūbai
The novel begins at the ending and then continues at the beginning of the story; this is called the "flashback technique", a concept that was newly introduced in late Qing China. - Xin Zhongguo weilai ji
The novel follows the story of the two men from their adolescence in the Australian bush to their coming of age on the battlefields of World War. - 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli
The novel opens with Rebus and his girlfriend, Deborah Quant (who is the latest pathologist in Edinburgh) dining in a restaurant. - Rather Be the Devil
Perumpadavam Sreedharan's novel in Malayalam Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (‘Like a Psalm’) was written in 1993 and dealt with 21 days in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. - In Return: Just a Book
As a sequel to Piccolo Mondo Moderno, the novel takes up the story of Piero Maironi. - Il Santo (novel)
The novel is set during the Second World War on the island of Mus, which lies in the Adriatic Sea. - Season in Purgatory
Jennifer Maloney has suggested that the novel contains several autobiographical elements. - Here I Am (novel)
David reads the novel and praises it to his confidant-uncle, who notices his admiration for Margaret: Presenting Philip with the volume, David invites Margaret to meet his best friend; then regrets having no opportunity to talk to Margaret alone. - The River Flows (novel)
The novel is set in year 1900. - He Lover of Death
The novel is set simultaneously in the 1960s and 1980s China. - The Bathing Women
Leif, the younger of the two and the only one who can read, finds a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and begins to treat the novel as if it were historical nonfiction, using their surroundings as proof. - OzLand
Bertie is pushed by Aunt Dahlia into going to Marsham Manor (near Goodwood) with her so she can get Cornelia Fothergill to sign her latest novel to her, so she can use it in her magazine. - Aunt Dahlia, Cornelia and Madeline
This novel centers around Capt. - The Assassination Option (Griffin novel)
The novel is set on a remote island off the coast of Norway during World War II. - When Jays Fly to Barbmo
Entering into a premature midlife crisis, he decides to turn his life around and write the great novel that he always felt inside him. - The Ivory Tower (1993 film)
Daughter of the Drow is an Underdark novel about a drow princess who, after giving up all hope of escape from her chores as an evil spider-god priestess locked in a bitter struggle for power, encounters a berserker warrior and becomes involved in a quest involving a talisman of power and finds true love. - Daughter of the Drow
The novel is centred around the Greek island of Kalymnos where, for thousands of years, the locals have put out to sea to dive for sponges. - The Sponge Divers
The novel is divided chronologically into three sections: 1790, 1794, and 1799, which focus on, respectively, Zama's sexual, financial, and existential conflicts. - Zama (novel)
I Belonged To You is a romance omnibus of mini love stories adapted from Zhang Jiajia's best-selling internet "bedtime stories" novel of the same name. - I Belonged to You
The novel follows the story of Rupetta, a mechanical woman built in rural France in 1619 and endowed with sentience and immortality. - Rupetta
Lily presses him about how the novel ends, but he says she must read it herself. - I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
The novel is set in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1845-46. - The Tilted Cross
The novel causes Susan to reminisce about her past life with Edward, where they were neighbours who briefly lived together after Edward's father died and her parents took him in. - Tony and Susan
The novel follows two characters in alternating chapters. - Something Coming Through
The novel is largely based on factual events and follows two main characters: Terry Winters (based on Roger Windsor), chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers; and Stephen Sweet (based on David Hart), an advisor to the Thatcher government. - GB84
The game contains the characters featured in Victor Hugo's original novel such as Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus, as well as characters created specifically for the Disney film such as the gargoyles Hugo, Victor and Laverne. - Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
This novel is about a family of Spanish immigrants in the sixties and about the adventures of one of its main storytellers, Consuelo, the daughter of a prostitute to whom the title refers to. - La reina de América
The novel is set in Gippsland, Victoria, which is depicted as an idyllic place with peoples from many nations working on the land in harmony. - White Topee
The novel follows the story of a young, psychotic teenage boy living on the fringes of society in Sydney. - The Chantic Bird
The novel is set in the Middle East on the brink of war. - The Tower of Babel (Morris West novel)
Set during the years 1910 to 1916, the novel follows the story of Starkey Moore, a loner living in the small outback town of Hope, who discovers a young man collapsed by the side of a road in a storm. - Dead Men Running (novel)
The novel follows the story of Shannon Hicks, a country girl who arrives in Sydney just before the outbreak of World War II and proceeds to make her way through city life. - Ride on Stranger (novel)
Set in Sydney in the early part of the twentieth century, the novel is a series of stories told from the perspective of people associated with the son of an indigenous boxer, Chiddy Hay. - The Big Smoke (novel)
The novel is a family saga told through the eyes of 16-year-old Angus Weekes who goes to live with the St James family in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales after the death of his guardian. - Edens Lost (novel)
The novel follows the story of three people living in the fictional NSW north-coast town of Doolinba: a man returned from Vietnam, scarred and damaged; the woman in charge of the local post office, embittered by marriage; and an indigenous boy, orphaned and afraid. - The Half-Burnt Tree
The novel is again set in the West Australian goldfields, this time in 1936, and also follows the life of its main character Sally Gough. - Winged Seeds
The novel is set in the fictional New Zealand North Island town of Te Kana. - The Witch's Thorn
The novel follows the adventures of Derek Calver, one of Chandler's early major characters. - The Rim of Space
The novel features the author's minor series character the ex-Empress Irene, who has by this time abdicated her throne and Benjamin Trafford. - Nebula Alert
Set in the Western Australian goldfields during the period 1914 to 1927, the novel follows the story of Sally Gough and her family. - Golden Miles
The novel ends with Dhamon being presumed dead and the remaining heroes deciding that they will continue to fight against the dragons in honor of Shaon and Dhamon. - The Dawning of a New Age
The novel tells the story of painter Gavin Leigh's marriage to Ella Barnes. - Night of the Party
The novel forms part of Sanderson's Cosmere arc of inter-connected novels. - White Sand (graphic novel)
Set in a squalid fettlers' siding on the east-west railway just south of Woomera, this novel follows the story of Sylvie Edwards and her younger brother Reg. - The Min-Min
Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye and wants to produce it at his prep school in Pennsylvania. - Coming Through the Rye (film)
The novel opens in Hull where the industry is under threat with paraffin and coal oil replacing whale oil. - The North Water
Set around 1850 the novel follows the composer Richard Wagner as he fights for recognition and details his relationships with Franz Liszt, Hans von Buelow and his wife Cosima von Buelow (who later married Wagner). - The Young Cosima
The novel follows this doomed affair to its tragic end. - Maurice Guest (novel)
The novel follows the life of Bridget Malwyn, the illegitimate daughter of an Irish peer and an English governess. - Such Pleasure
Theories of Forgetting is a novel made up of three intersecting narratives. - Theories of Forgetting
The novel follows Caxton's journey of discovery into her own family's past and the living conditions of Australia's original inhabitants. - Black Lightning (novel)
Set in the fictional Australian country town of Gubba, the novel details the town's preparations for its upcoming centenary celebrations, the social and financial factions in the town and the discovery of something long thought lost. - Picnic Races (novel)
A retelling of the bliblical fall of man told from a female perspective, the novel tells the story of Lily Fields, the broken daughter of Eve. - Eve (Wm. Paul Young novel)
The novel is based on the early student life of Agee at st Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee, and at Phillips Exeter Academy. - The Morning Watch
The novel follows the story of Alice Langton as told by her grandson Guy de Teba Langton who pieces the story together from her diaries and family gossip. - The Cardboard Crown
The novel is narrated by Victor, a former Person Bound to Labor (nicknamed 'peeb' in the alternate history) who, after escaping life in a Hard Four state, has been forced to work as an undercover agent for a mysterious federal marshall, infiltrating and gathering evidence to prosecute fellow escapees and the people and organizations helping peebs escape slavery. - Underground Airlines
The novel concerns Tess, a woman who moves from the Ohio to New York City, where she becomes a backwaitress without any other career goals. - Sweetbitter
The novel concerns Furo Wariboko, a Nigerian man, who wakes up one day to discover that he has become white. - Blackass
Kothe Kharak Singh is a political novel and the main events of the plot take place in a village in Punjab. - Kothe Kharak Singh
The novel presupposes a referendum to have taken place in the United Kingdom in 2015, on whether the country should join a United States of Europe (a development of the European Union) as part of a Treaty of Aachen. - The Aachen Memorandum
The novel opens with twelve middle-aged women meeting at a South African boarding school where they were once pupils. - Cracks (novel)
The novel centers around a group of survivors in Brisbane, Australia after the city is covered with “carnivorous” strawberry jam that eats organic material. - Jam (novel)
The novel opens on the sixteenth birthday of the protagonist Magnus Chase, who has been living on the streets of Boston since his mother Natalie's death two years ago. - The Sword of Summer
The novel develops Crane's search for a marriage partner. - Quicksand (Larsen novel)
The novel begins in the dead of winter in Glory, West Virginia, in the midst of a mining strike. - The Barefoot Man (novel)
The novel is set in Novara, a small town surrounded by snowy mountains, where lots of wars took places, for example the one against Crucchi. - Heart of stone (novel)
The novel is based on the monologue of Timodemo, who was born in Nauplia (Greece). - An infinite number
Though the novel also follows the lives of many other Greenlanders, Gunnar and Margret function as the novel's protagonists. - The Greenlanders
The novel concludes with Elio as the narrator remarking to the reader that if Oliver ever really loved him and remembered everything as he said he did, he should once more "look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name". - Call Me by Your Name
Maude (Clara Mamet) is suspended from school, loses a friend, has a broken heart, and lack of inspiration for her novel leads to her downfall. - Two-Bit Waltz
The novel is set in an old Sydney harbour suburb and follows the exploits of a group of young buys who attempt to clear the name of the father of one of them from a war disgrace. - The Racketty Street Gang
The protagonist of the novel is LaRose Iron, a young boy. - LaRose (novel)
The novel begins with an aged woman named Kanchan returning to her native village in Jhalawad region of peninsular Saurashtra during the 1980s. - Akhepatar
The novel is part fantasy and part historical fiction. - Tangara (novel)
The novel is apparently a little dark and morbid, but it raises important questions about the binary between imagination and reality which continue to haunt the reader long after the reading is over. - Dreamcatcher (2016)
The novel centres around one day in the life of a young schoolteacher in a small Queensland town. - Girl with a Monkey
The novel follows a group of passengers on a cruise ship docked at a Pacific Island as a hurricane approaches. - A Boat Load of Home Folk
The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper, Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer), which effects the editorial staff killing a famous Moscow journalist. - Journalists (novel)
This novel is about 42-year-old Kennard Stirling, son of a wealthy family, who has spurned his inheritance in favour of a small town, rural New South Wales coast, where he spends his days helping the elderly and needy members of the community, while in his spare time working on his own hobby: a project to rejuvenate various bush blocks, but fertilised by the murdered remains of itinerants, drifters and economic losers that Stirling has judged not to offer anything to society. - The World Repair Video Game
The novel tells the story of a Detroit family with 13 children as it responds to the economic woes of the city, in both the 1920s, and during the 1980s. - The Turner House
During the course of the novel Pattie and Muriel both fall in love with Eugene. - The Time of the Angels
At the same time, secondary characters from throughout the novel who are wealthy residents of the area mysteriously go missing, with a promoted Pilbeam researching the case. - Number 11 (novel)
The novel concerns a billionaire, Ross Lockhart, who is inspired by the terminal illness of his wife Artis to seek immortality for both of them through cryopreservation. - Zero K (novel)
The novel ends in a way that we may think Julia and Lukas may develop a friendship. - In the Land of Armadillos
The novel (written in first person) starts with Jon Whitcroft, one of the protagonists, reaching the train station. - Ghost Knight
This novel is a sequel to the author's previous novel Tiger in the Bush and is the second of two by the author concentrating on the Lorenny family, who live deep in the rainforest in south-western Tasmania. - Devil's Hill (novel)
This novel is the first of two by the author concentrating on the Lorenny family, who live deep in the rainforest in south-western Tasmania. - Tiger in the Bush
The novel tells the story of William Wooding, the overweight 35-year old manager of an English bookshop in the capital of an unnamed South American country. - Tango (novel)
The film is based on a novel of a Czech writer Ludvik Ashkenazy. - Brutus (2016 film)
The novel is presented as a naration by the protagonist, Isaac Swift, of the story. - The Wild Numbers
The novel follows the adventures of a fleet of seven ships in a Norwegian whaling expedition near the South Pole. - Whalers of the Midnight Sun
The novel starts at France's 24-hour Le Mans race when British champion racing driver Greg Rafferty crashes his car. - The Green Helmet (novel)
The novel is set in 1979 in Auburn Academy, an exclusive boarding school in New Hampshire (based on Phillips Exeter Academy, where Erens herself was a student). - The Virgins (novel)
Chief editor of the "Adventure Business" magazine decides to commission a novel from the famous writer Moldavantsev which is to be a continuation of the famous literary creation of Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. - How Robinson Was Created
The novel is set in East Germany in the mid-seventies and follows a double-stranded narrative. - Stasi Child (novel)
The novel opens with Sasha Samokhina vacationing at the beach with her mother. - Vita Nostra
The novel then jumps to the summer of 1920 in the United States, whereS. - 1920: America's Great War
The novel is told by William "Liam" Garrihy many years after his time as a teenage member of a Brooklyn longshoremen gang. - Light of the Diddicoy
The principal character of the novel is the Reverend John Gore, a 31-year old Church of England vicar who returns to his native north-east in order to start a new church in the run-down (fictional) area of Hoxheath. - Crusaders (novel)
(Wallace, indeed, had initially modeled Tynan on Hoover) The protagonist of the novel is Attorney General Christopher Collins, whom Wallace modeled on Ramsey Clark, who, while in that office, became one of Hoover's bitterest enemies. - The R Document
His bestselling novel alienates him from most of his family, including his father Cal played by Gil Birmingham, his brother Tuska played by Tyler Christopher, and his sister Pinti played by Q'orianka Kilcher because of the autobiographical content. - Shouting Secrets (film)
A writer compels a publisher to read his novel that tells the story of a girl who tries to lose his virginity. - Honey (1981 film)
The novel covers the time period from nineties of the last century to zero years of the present century. - The World According to Novikoff
The novel opens with the detonation of a bomb by a Kashmiri man, Shockie. - The Association of Small Bombs
Set in a wealthy Surrey suburb of South London, the novel takes the form of a series of increasingly bizarre letters written by Eliza Peabody, an interfering neighbour and hospice volunteer. - The Queen of the Tambourine
This young adult novel is told in three distinct voices: Wink, Poppy, and Midnight. - Wink Poppy Midnight
The novel continues the story of the Langtons, an Anglo-Australian family based in Melbourne, who have never truly come to terms with their place in Australian society. - A Difficult Young Man
The novel is based on the author's experiences serving with the Australian army fighting the Japanese in Papua New Guinea during World War II. - The Ridge and the River
The novel starts with the description of মহবতনগর (mohobbotnagar) village how difficult the life is in the village. - Lalsalu
The novel takes place in the fictional town of Prespa (named after the homonymous area and representing Talev's home town Prilep) and follows the story of a typical Renaissance family. - The Iron Candlestick
While 23 years old nightporter Romain Esnart dreams about writing a great novel his father becomes a pensioner. - Memories (2014 film)
In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith’s most ambitious novel since Gorky Park, the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself. - Tatiana (novel)
The novel begins and ends in the winter of 2011, from the accidental discovery by the authorities that Els was doing home genetic experiments to his flight across the country. - Orfeo (novel)
The novel ends with the tutor of admissions being vested with the responsibility of conveying the news of their son's death to his parents. - Best Kept Secret (novel)
The novel is an interplanetary adventure along the lines of de Camp's Krishna series. - La Vermine du Lion
The novel is a coming of age story, the main protagonists are 'sparky Christina', the daughter of Alice, and her 'saintly adopted sister Pam' who could not be more different. - Juggling (novel)
The novel is written in three parts, spanning generations. - A Man Was Going Down the Road
In the caizi jiaren novel "sentiment replaces libido" and "refined, internal feelings replace vulgar, external sensations". - Caizi jiaren
The restoration of Shiki's memory via God's Word as well as what happened to him after the events of the movie are left unexplained, though in the original novel much more about him is touched upon and he is killed by one of his students in a considerably karmic fashion. - The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording
Set in Malaysia, the novel deals with Velunni Kurup, a septuagenarian self-made millionaire and a host to his greedy relatives who try to defraud him of his wealth. - Avakasikal
Both Gil and Linda long for the days when Gil was a struggling writer whose novel only sold fourteen copies; though their happiness was defined by love instead of money. - The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
He starts writing a novel with seven different story lines, all inspired from his surroundings. - Chandamama Kathalu
As the novel progresses, situations become increasingly surreal, as the ritual slaughter of a baby by Satanist doctors causes an impenetrable fog of implicitly supernatural origin to beshroud the hospital, impeding contact with the outside world. - Hospital (novel)
This novel relates the story of Dan Scoular, an unemployed man who turns to bare-knuckle boxing to make a living. - The Big Man (novel)
The novel presents a historical and personal perspective of Texaco, a shantytown suburb just outside Martinique's capital Fort-de-France. - Texaco (novel)
With growing fear of becoming discovered, Weyland is forced to enter a state of hibernation and the novel is brought to a close. - The Vampire Tapestry
The first half of the novel tells the story of political activists imprisoned in the 1980s by the newly established Islamic regime and their children, some born inside prison, some at home forced to watch as their parents are taken away. - Children of the Jacaranda Tree
The novel centers on Jackson Oz, who is an outcast among professional and academic ecologists and biologists. - Zoo (Patterson novel)
The novel ends when a group of new survivors, looking for shelter, arrives. - The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor
The novel is about a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky, who is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. - A Darker Place
The novel takes the form of a confession written by Billie when she fears a journalist will expose her past. - Billie Morgan
The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe alternative possible lives for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an upper middle class family near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. - Life After Life (novel)
The novel focuses on Perry Crandall, a man with an IQ of 76, who wins $12 million in a lottery. - Lottery (novel)
Spanning eighty years, the novel follows the life of Touba, a young woman educated by her father in a time when few women received education. - Touba and the Meaning of Night
The novel tells the tale of a woman, An Tinh Nguyen, born in Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive who immigrates to Canada with her family as a child. - Ru (novel)
Dibia’s novel closes on the image of a blackbird that had bolstered Omoniyi’s spirits in jail. - Blackbird (Dibia novel)
The novel concerns Evie Steppman, who aged 54 and living in Gullane in Scotland tells of her life growing up in 1940s Lagos at the end of British rule in Nigeria, and more specifically of her auditory abilities as she maps the world around her through her amazing sense of hearing, beginning in the womb. - The Echo Chamber
The main character in the novel (the "girl" of the title) is Katherine Lind, a library assistant. - A Girl in Winter
The novel is set in September 1966. - The Devil's Cockpit (Killmaster novel)
The novel then jumps forward some twenty years. - The Dead Secret
The novel ends with Temeraire and Laurence deep in Russia, low on provender, and the first snow of the fateful winter of 1812/1813 beginning to fall. - Blood of Tyrants
The story is based on the novel "Naan Ramasheshan Vandhirukkirean" written by Indra Soundarrajan. - Puguntha Veedu
The novel starts with a depiction of the mood and setting of a hot summer night in the tiny (and fictional) Ozarks village of Stay More, using rich description to invoke all of the senses. - Lightning Bug (novel)
Most of the novel says us about the trio (Avantika, Shrey, Deb) and a girl named Tiya, travelling in an old car. - If It's Not Forever
The first part of the novel describes Porsche's childhood on Jarrtree and her arrival on Earth. - Beneath the Gated Sky
Predicament is a powerful and disturbing account of the psychological fantasy world of adolescence with the familiar small-town setting of Morrieson's writing, so is a coming-of-age novel and a crime comedy. - Predicament
The novel begins with the women reuniting for one of their regular scheduled meetings. - The Dirty Girls Social Club
The novel begins in 1893 with the birth of Peter Stublands, but the first three chapters are devoted to the lives of his parents. - Joan and Peter
The novel ends with both standing up watching, and love have always felt for Blackberry comes up, love the one that was drowned by life's circumstances. - Sangue Bom
Never before had Bulwer written with so light a touch and so gentle a humor, and this novel has been called the most brilliant and attractive of productions. - The Caxtons
The novel is set in October 1965. - Double Identity (Killmaster novel)
The novel briefly retells the story of how Eliot placed his first wife, Vivienne Eliot, in a mental institution, and how she eventually died. - The Archivist
The novel has no main protagonist or plotline, being comprised instead of loosely connected scenes of village life. - The Field of Life and Death
Set in village called "Mooduru", the novel revolves around two main characters: Mookajji and her grandson Subbraya. - Mookajjiya Kanasugalu
The novel opens within an action scene, where a group of men trying to burn their victim are engaged in a conversation. - Jiuming Qiyuan
In the earlier versions of the novel by Jin Tianhe, Sai Jinhua, a courtesan, travels to the west with her husband, a scholar. - A Flower in a Sinful Sea
The novel begins 11 years before the present time; Angelina D’Angelo rushes through the halls of the Birthing Center stopping right in front of the nursery window to look at the newborn babies in the room. - 11 Birthdays
The main events of the novel occur between the years of 1993-2007, from Laura's neonaticide through Alec packing up and leaving his family. - A Friend of the Family
The novel closes after the final disastrous attack in which Stark teams up with the American reinforcements to defeat the foreign military powers. - Stark's War
The novel incorporates Persian stories and fables as well as historical figures such as Mossadeq (Mohammad Mosaddegh) and Ruhollah Khomeini (the Ayatollah Khomeini) and historic events. - Cry of the Peacock (novel)
The novel tells the life story of Roxanna, born as a “bad-luck child” in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, through the world of Iran’s aristocracy, into the whorehouses of Turkey and to Los Angeles, where she and Lili are reunited. - Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
The film is derived from Narayan's novel The Financial Expert, another of his works set in Malgudi. - Banker Margayya
Quine, once hailed as one of the original literary rebels—presented as the literary world's version of music's punk rock scene—has struggled for years to recreate the success of his original novel and has fallen out of public view. - Cormoran Strike
The novel closes with Strike at a doctor's appointment for his injured leg. - The Cuckoo's Calling
The novel takes place in Iran in the decade before the Islamic Revolution and follows 12-year-old Yaas, who is born into an upper-class Muslim/Jewish family. - Caspian Rain
The novel opens in the German bathing resort of Baden-Baden (or simply Baden) in the summer of 1862, where the young Russian Grigory Litvinov has arrived en route home to Russia to meet his fiancée Tatiana Shestov, who will soon be arriving with her aunt and guardian, Kapitolina Markovna Shestov, from Dresden. - Smoke (novel)
The film is based on the first half of Tiny Times 10, the first novel in Guo's Tiny Times series. - Tiny Times
In the novel Thottiyude Makan, we witness the story of three generations of thottis, cleaners of night soil. - Thottiyude Makan
Set in Kuttanad, the novel traces the evolution of the central Travancore society from the early 19th century to the mid-twentieth century. - Kayar
Told mostly from the point of view of the eldest daughter, Sayward, the novel explores how the family carves a homestead from the forest, suffering losses and hardships along the way. - The Awakening Land trilogy
The events of the novel take place at some point after The Dæmons and before The Sea Devils; settings include a North Sea oil rig and a distant planet in a very distant future. - Harvest of Time
Gloria (Sofía Vergara) tells him that he can not write and she challenges him to write the thriller novel that he said he put aside because of lack of time. - Career Day (Modern Family)
The novel ends with Courtney on her way to see Charles Cunningham and her parents for dinner, while Anthony contemplates returning to his island in the fall. - Chocolates for Breakfast
The novel opens on the first day of spring, 2001, with Maxine Tarnow walking her two sons to school before going to work. - Bleeding Edge
A novel of waiting, it is set in an almost empty old fortress close to a sea which defines the ancestral border between the stagnant principality of Orsenna and the territory of its archenemy, the mysterious and elusive Farghestan. - The Opposing Shore
The novel is the story of this family and their hope in the midst of struggles. - Losing Absalom
The novel is set amidst the background of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe, which was ordered by King William III. - Lady of the Glen
As with many van Vogt works, the novel uses a psychological element, in this case Intelligence Quotient or IQ. - Supermind (novel)
Set thirteen years before the events of The Maze Runner and the prologue, the novel chronologically begins in New York City when the world is hit by solar flares. - The Kill Order
The gentleman of the novel is called Michael Bliss. - The Long Short Cut
The novel consists of alternating chapters belonging to two loosely coupled parts: "Directorate" (or "Peretz", this part was published in 1968) and "Forest" (or "Candide", published in 1966). - Snail on the Slope
Vikram has written a novel named 'Sixteen' which is nominated for the Booker Prize finals. - Sixteen (2013 Indian film)
The novel tells the story of journalist Khaleque Biswas and his protege Nur Hussain. - The Black Coat
The novel opens in the early 1920s, and is for the most part told in the first person of Timothy Harcombe, aged nine at the beginning of the narrative. - English Music (novel)
Giovanni claims to be an author writing a historical novel on the Normandy landings, which is problematic as many citizens in the area are much more familiar with the event than he is. - The Family (2013 film)
The novel captures the traumas and psychological graph of Appunni, an introvert and angry youth, aspiring to avenge the insult meted out to him in a matrilineal family by building a new edifice on the ruins of his ancestral home. - Naalukettu (novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress who works at a bar, of which she has recently become part owner. - Dead Ever After
Clint throws his novel in the fire and tells Lucy that he is not a writer and says he is actually a teacher, living in Fort Chicken. - Cooties (film)
When the novel begins, Joe is in the employ of one of Boston's most powerful mobsters, Tim Hickey. - Live by Night
Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, a novel about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels her experience, and Augustus gives Hazel Counter Insurgence. - The Fault in Our Stars (film)
Under this surface plot the novel deals with several other subjects of human interest, ultimately about morality. - The Night of the Generals (novel)
The novel is about the fictive family Debruyker. - Groenten uit Balen
Jane later ends her relationship with Valery because it feels like a betrayal of her friendship with Brian, and Brian's first novel is published by Galassi. - 5 to 7
In late 2009 and early 2010, Cathy attends multiple social functions for the promotion of Jamie's novel and for celebrating its success (63 weeks as a bestseller). - The Last Five Years (film)
Hoping to impress both the Little Red-Haired Girl and his teacher, Charlie Brown writes his report on the collegiate-level novel War and Peace. - The Peanuts Movie
The novel is set in Yugoslavia in 1950. - German Lottery
The story picks up from the previous novel in 1850, when Omakayas is 9 years old and with the arrival of a group of Ojibwe refugees who have been driven off their land by the government. - The Game of Silence
The novel tells the story of MacKayla Lane or "Mac", the daughter of Jack and Rainey Lane who works as a bartender in Georgia and lives a completely normal life. - Darkfever
The novel begins in London, where the impoverished French teacher Robert Morgand applies at the travel agency Baker & Company for the post of guide and interpreter on a tour of three archipelagos: the Azores, the Madeira Islands, and the Canary Islands. - The Thompson Travel Agency
Rather than present the story in the first-person narrative as the original novel did, the play is presented as a reading of Boone's own writing, read aloud in segments by his teacher. - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)
A passionate story about doomed love, it was written at a time when the novel as a literary form was yet in a nascent stage. - Miri Jiyori
The novel takes place in a fictionalized post-apocalyptic future version of Sudan, where the light-skinned Nuru oppress the dark-skinned Okeke. - Who Fears Death
Although the events surrounding Captain Charles Boycott that brought him to international attention occurred in 1879–80, the novel has parallel narratives alternating between this period and approximately thirty years earlier. - Boycott (novel)
Thomas is a writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. - Venus in Fur (film)
The novel follows a diverse group of characters who are caught up in the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. - Insurrection (O'Flaherty novel)
This love arouses in d'Annunzio of the inspiration for the writing of his first great novel of the Decadentism: The Pleasure (Il Piacere). - D'Annunzio (film)
The novel tells the story of Bertha Rodrigues, the youngest child of police inspector James Rodrigues and Mary Gomez, a housewife. - The Shrimp People
Based on the bestselling novel of Eros Atalia, Ligo na U, Lapit na Me is an examination of postmodern love and relationship and the way this generation deals with their love and fear. - Ligo na Ü, Lapit na Me
The beginning of the end credits imply that Edith has written a novel titled Crimson Peak based on her experiences. - Crimson Peak
The novel is a saga about four generations of the Eurasian Rosario family, who have Malay and Portuguese blood in them. - A River of Roses
The novel is set in Moscow in the mid-nineties and is written in the form of first-person narrative by the protagonist, Nicholas, an English, Moscow-based commercial lawyer. - Snowdrops (novel)
Parts of the novel are written in the form of diaries kept by Nakajima, as he attempts to learn the English language. - Island in the Centre
Set in Israel during the eighteen months leading up to the Six-Day War, the novel portrays life on a fictional kibbutz, Granot, where the founding generation and their children struggle to come to terms with each other and the ideological tensions within Israeli society. - A Perfect Peace
The novel opens with Harry Dresden still living on the island of Demonreach, unable to reach his allies and plagued by increasing headaches. - Skin Game (The Dresden Files)
The novel ends with Theo travelling the world to put things right by buying back the fake antiques that he had sold. - The Goldfinch (novel)
The novel is set in Canberra in the months leading up to the 1996 Australian Federal election. - The Trojan Dog
Like the previous novel the mystical stones (ie. - The Last Guardian (novel)
Divided into three parts and set in Singapore, the dual protagonists are followed through in the novel in alternate chapters. - A Dance of Moths
The novel was written in 2010, published in 2012, and set in 2014 AD, in the near-future. - Red Jihad
The novel has two main threads: a bildungsroman describing the life of Joseph Skizzen, and Skizzen's own private philosophical meditations on how horrible humanity is. - Middle C (novel)
The novel opens with Alice and her friends plunge into the final semester senior year. - Incredibly Alice
The novel begins with Subject Seven in the compound containment room. - Subject Seven
He becomes one with them in creating a beautiful playground there with novel ideas drawn from David Werner's famous book on creative use of readily available things around. - Thutturi
Taking place in the 1960s during Singapore's formative years as a young independent republic, the novel traces the growth and sexual maturation of young Esha (also named Su Yen) as she grows up an orphan reared by the matriarch of her extended clan, known only as Grandma, and schooled in a Catholic missionary school. - The Scent of the Gods
The novel unfolds as Miguel's personal journal entries. - We Were Here (novel)
The Leopard Hunts in Darkness by Wilbur Smith is a novel of politics, betrayal, love and friendship. - The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
The novel traces the resistance movement of a group of freedom fighters who are watched by secret police at the capital, and who later migrated to the northern provinces of their country (Vietnam during the Vietnam War) to continue their struggles against foreign invaders. - The Immolation
Meanwhile, Aaloklata, Anupam's wife, receives a call from one of her publishers and is asked to write a novel that should be explicit and raw unlike the previous novels that are poetic and conventional in nature. - Probhu Nosto Ho Jai
The novel details how Trevor's Pay It Forward attempts are successful or not successful and how some of the "Pay It Forward" chains result happenings such as Trevor meeting the President, and Trevor's untimely death, which was made by one last person to help in his Pay It Forward 'project' which soon turned into "The Movement". - Pay It Forward (novel)
The stories are based on the childhood fantasy worlds of the three women: In addition to the three women's erotic flashbacks, the graphic novel depicts sexual encounters between the women and other guests and staff of the hotel. - Lost Girls
This novel has many subplots and is set in a variety settings throughout the world. - Poseidon's Arrow
A debutant English crime novel writer Jebin Jose discovers that his deceased father had run bankrupt with an unlisted property in Pondicherry. - Pizza II: Villa
The novel follows the Norquay brothers Rod, Phil, and Grove, from 1909 to 1920. - The Inverted Pyramid (novel)
The main character is an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. - The Great Beauty
The novel begins with Jack as an abandoned illegitimate child, whose attending nurse is instructed by his father to inform Jack when he grows up that he is a "Gentleman". - Colonel Jack
Screenplay by German and Eduard Volodarsky (1941-2012), the film is based on the novel of his father (Operatsiya "S Novym Godom", or Operation "Happy New Year"), Yuri German (1910-1967), a famous Soviet novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. - Trial on the Road
The remainder of the novel simply goes into more detail. - The Void Captain's Tale
The novel ends as Charlie waits for psychiatric aid to arrive, and, as he believes, to be taken 'home' to a state hospital for the insane. - Trauma (novel)
The film was based on the novel and screenplay of Konstantin Simonov (1915-1979), a famous military journalist who wrote the famous poem "Wait for me" during World War II in 1941. - Twenty Days Without War
The backdrop of the novel is the brewing conflict between Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus. - The Seven Wonders (Saylor novel)
The novel The Seven Wonders, which was published later, acts as a prequel to this story. - The House of the Vestals
The novel describes an American road trip by two unmarried thirty-something sisters, Frannie and Doris. - Spinsters (novel)
The revelation that they are not two but one takes the story to novel planes. - Breaking News Live
The novel ends with Alex asking his therapist Adele Finaly if he will ever outgrow or solve his problem in life, that he is a cop which endangers his, his friends', and his family's lives. - Alex Cross, Run
Chronologically, this is the fourteenth and final Allan Quatermain novel published, although the events of the novel Allan Quatermain occur after it. - Allan and the Ice-gods
The novel is divided into four parts—"Hanger Town", "Non-Negligible Probabilities", "Wishful Thinking", and "Soon, They Will"—each containing five chapters, and an epilogue. - The Last Policeman
The theme of the novel is motherhood and how it changes one's perception of the world. - The Hand That First Held Mine
The novel is in the form of a production diary for Shine On, Harvest Moon, the fictional musical being created about the life of vaudevillian Nora Bayes. - Smash (novel)
About twenty years before the play begins, the Arctic explorer Captain John Hatteras became the first man to reach the North Pole, but went mad in the attempt (as described in Verne's novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras). - Journey Through the Impossible
The scene is laid just outside Austria in the most conservative portion of Old Bavaria among a simple peasantry “whose passions, expressed without reservation or but clumsily concealed” were a novel revelation of human nature to theatregoers. - Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
The novel is set almost 20 years after a plague has devastated the Earth's population. - The City, Not Long After
This novel is mostly set in Nepal, but parts of it take place in Indonesia, India, Tibet, southern China, Albania, Bulgaria and at the Fargo home and research center on the California coast. - The Kingdom (novel)
The events described are insinuated to be based on fact and several names used in the novel are supposedly altered to protect the identities of those involved. - The Beetle (novel)
The novel presents itself as an extended first-person report by Krina Alizond-114, created by the "incalculably wealthy" Sondra Alizond-1 to be a scholar of accountancy practice historiography. - Neptune's Brood
The characters in the novel will then use that engine to journey to the centre of the galaxy, mainly to observe the source of the mysterious "Omega clouds". - Cauldron (McDevitt novel)
The novel is set in Spring 1966 (late March – early April). - Operation Starvation (novel)
Artifact of Evil was the second novel to feature Gord the Rogue. - Artifact of Evil
The novel has aspects of alternate history as in this version of reality the United Kingdom and France merged in the 1950s to form the nation of Brittany. - Ack-Ack Macaque
This book is a thriller novel set just before and during the 2012 London Olympics. - Private Games
At that time, Triveni was a very popular writer in the Kannada language and all the village people would wait eagerly for the weekly magazine Karmaveera, where one of her novel Kashi Yatre was appearing as a serial. - How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
Alem then escapes to England from a violent civil war in Badme, which at the time of the novel (2000/1999), was disputed to be either in Ethiopia or in Eritrea. - Refugee Boy
The novel follows her fight for freedom and her relationship with Milo, a genetically altered survivor of the Gene Wars. - The Sky Lords
The first part of the novel centers around Nick Dunne and his wife Amy's marriage. - Gone Girl (novel)
The novel also features a young Samuel Johnson as Claudia's tutor, and the mysterious Midwinter, a fiddler and a sort of gypsy king who leads the Spoonbills, a 'secret army' of innkeepers and peasants of 'Old England' who are above politics, but assist Maclean in return for aid Maclean gave them early on in the novel. - Midwinter (novel)
The novel is from the point of view of the Austrian countess Martha Althaus over the course of 4 wars. - Die Waffen nieder!
As the novel nears its apocalyptic conclusion (which may in fact be happening, or may simply be a description of a movie trailer), contradictory events occur designed to disorient in the same way our data-flooded culture disorients. - 10:01
Head in Flames is a collage novel built on a triadic structure. - Head in Flames
Calendar of Regrets is a collage novel comprising twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel—through time, space, narrative, and death. - Calendar of Regrets
Writer Kenneth Magee bets he can finish a novel in a short period of time. - Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947 film)
The short story on which this novel is based – which was originally published in the 1997 anthology edited by Douglas Winter called Revelations – won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. - The Big Blow (novel)
The novel is set in Sutherland Shire in the 1970s. - Puberty Blues (novel)
The novel begins where The Indigo Spell left off, when Alchemist Sydney Sage proclaimed her love to the Moroi Adrian Ivashkov. - The Fiery Heart
The novel charts the rise and fall of the fictional kibbutz Givat Abirim, set against the backdrop of its modern-day privatization and the introduction of differential wages. - Tabula Rasa (novel)
The novel centers around a LAPD beat cop named Bumper Morgan, who utilizes intimidation and in some cases physical violence in his dealings with the criminal elements he encounters. - The Blue Knight (novel)
The alien library discovered in the previous novel proved to have locations of many unknown worlds. - The Defiant Agents
The novel begins with a cover sheet indicating a recipient named "Walleye", CCed to theFD. - Who Could That Be at This Hour?
The novel opens in the year 1952. - And the Mountains Echoed
The novel follows Cale along his path away from his own humanity. - Midnight's Mask
The novel is set over four days in London, where homeless 22-year-old Ripley Bogle aimlessly wanders the streets and, with angry satire, reflects on his life, directly addressing the reader. - Ripley Bogle
The novel relates life on Pepper Street, a suburban, middle-class neighborhood in Cabrillo, California. - The Road Through the Wall
Set in Houston, Texas this novel tells the story of a vicious serial killer terrorizing the entire city and the police officer's desperation to stop him. - Act of Love (novel)
The novel is divided into three sections, namely "The Follower", "The Lover" and "The Guardian". - In a Strange Room
Full of dramatic collisions, the film is loosely based on the novel by Vladimir Zheleznikov. - Scarecrow (1984 film)
The novel begins with the worst day of Lucy Savage's life. - Getting Rid of Bradley
Edwin is an "eccentric young show-off who fancied himself something of a literary wonder"; he writes a novel at age ten, but dies mysteriously at age eleven. - Edwin Mullhouse
The novel follows Dion Moloch, an intellectual, prejudiced, unmotivated, enigmatic employment manager at the Great American Telegraph Company in New York City. - Moloch: or, This Gentile World
The novel concludes with Captain Douglas renouncing his passion for Madeleine Philips and a contrite Bealby returning to Shonts and telling his mother he is willing to "'ave another go" at a career in domestic service. - Bealby
The novel begins with mr Jamms hiring X— to convince his estranged artist son Jim to return for one last visit home before mr Jamms dies of his just diagnosed terminal illness. - Dyad (novel)
The novel opens with a 13-page section consisting almost entirely of paragraphs that begin "It all began with. - *** (novel)
The novel is a story of English social and political life. - The Marriage of William Ashe
However, another antagonist of the novel kills Ava. - Alex Cross (novel series)
The novel begins (with deceptively straightforward text) by introducing Bert and Belle, "a truly happy pair", a married couple living in a suburb near Manhattan. - We Can Report Them
Of Xman's background, we learn he was born an oversized orphan in Eunuque Falls, Iowa, a suburb of Old Balls, raised in an orphanage outside of Cincinnati, and ended up in the city C or C— some time before the novel begins. - Xman
The novel opens with both Hap Collins and Leonard Pine working as a security guards at a chicken plant. - Captains Outrageous
The plot of the novel turns on Lady Harman's relationship with George Brumley (invariably "Mr. - The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The novel is set in March 1966. - Danger Key
The novel covers a wide range of world events during the period, including the rise of Nazism, the ascent of Franco in Spain, the short-lived growth of British fascism, Action T4, the Battle of Moscow, the Blitz, the Normandy landings, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the development of the atom bomb, the fall of Berlin and many more. - Winter of the World
The novel is told in three portions, "First Night", "First Week", "First Love", and a short epilogue, "Extend". - Actress in the House
The novel deals with the aftermath of a school shooting. - Hate List
Annabeth says that Reyna, as a Roman, should bring the Athena Parthenos (in the Argo II's hold) back to Camp Half-Blood to appease both the Greeks and Romans, with Nico and Coach Hedge volunteering to accompany her, and the novel ends. - The House of Hades
The boy Achilles Paoloni employed by Soubrette, a small publishing house of the knight Pasquale Belafronte, wrote a science fiction novel that he hopes in vain to publish with the help of the hostile knightS. - Toto in the Moon
The novel consists of a frame story (summarized here indented), intercut with eight chapters that are the eight manuscripts mentioned in the frame story. - A Smuggler's Bible
The novel is a Bildungsroman recounting the passage of Kurt Gray—his surname plays on the author's Brown—from his adolescent years in central Michigan to mature adult and his development as a musician and composer. - Better Angel
Six years before the novel begins, Jack Hind was obsessed with solving the Hershey Laurel kidnapping. - Hind's Kidnap
Ted announces the breakup to the gang the following day at his apartment, where Robin says the reason he asked her to meet at the bar was to pitch ideas for a Mosby Boys young adult novel series. - The Autumn of Break-Ups
One key difference is that the novel places Richardson ashore recovering from a battle injury and working on the torpedo exploder problem when Bledsoe takes out Richardson's boat and dies in its sinking of the USS Walrus. - Run Silent, Run Deep (1958 film)
Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Hitchcock turns down film proposals, such as adapting Casino Royale in favor of a horror novel called Psycho by Robert Bloch, based on the real-life crimes of murderer Ed Gein. - Hitchcock (film)
The novel is set during the Great Depression in East Texas. - Edge of Dark Water
This was the last novel written by Scott O’Dell, an award-winning writer of children’s historical fiction. - My Name Is Not Angelica
The novel begins sometime in the near-future in a small town in rural America. - The Peripheral
What follows is a version of the events in the novel arranged in a timeline. - Women and Men
There is also a mysterious character named Aarnav (Arbaaz Khan) who wants to write a novel based on Devyani's life but seems to have an ulterior motive. - Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny
This novel is full of suspense and violence as the two protagonists investigate the disappearance. - The Two-Bear Mambo
The novel opens in 1945. - Seducing Ingrid Bergman
See Ya, Simon is a fictional novel of a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. - See Ya, Simon
The novel ends with Barbara and several servants leaving on a ship intended for the colonies. - Through a Glass Darkly (Koen novel)
The rest of the novel concerns Patrick's visit to his parents one weekend and, on a separate day, to his married elder brother Gavin's home. - A Disaffection
Although Donleavy began work on the novel A Fairy Tale of New York following completion of The Ginger Man, his second completed and published novel was A Singular Man. - A Singular Man
The novel is about a man named Nick Escalante, nicknamed "the Mex" by his friends, who hires himself out in Las Vegas not as a mercenary or bodyguard but as a service listed in the Yellow Pages directory under "Chaperone". - Heat (Goldman novel)
The novel begins with a brief introduction of Charity's life. - Cutters Don't Cry
Kasuga discovers that she is working on a novel and is brought to tears upon reading the manuscript because he can identify with the protagonist. - The Flowers of Evil (manga)
The novel opens with dr Marina Singh reading a letter from dr Annick Swenson to mr Fox, Marina's boss and secret lover. - State of Wonder
Thus the novel ends on a note of hope, however muted. - The Life and Adventures of Remus
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory enjoy a picnic in New York's Central Park in 2012, with the Doctor reading from a pulp novel about a 1930s detective named Melody Malone. - The Angels Take Manhattan
The novel is unusual amongst literary works in German in that all the characters are undead in the process of decomposition and are presented as mute zombies in the manner of splatter films. - The Children of the Dead
The first volume of the novel describes some of her adventures in different eras, as related to Alistair Crowley, and the adventures of Emma, a survivor of one of the rituals Mara has disrupted, accompanied by her ghostly lover Caroline. - Rhapsody of Blood
The novel begins as Sophie Dempsey and her younger sister Amy approach the small Ohio town of Temptation. - Welcome to Temptation
The results of their tabletop role-playing game sessions over six days created material for a seven-volume light novel series. - Chaos Dragon
The Doctor and Davros laughing over Davros' joke is similar to a scene in Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's graphic novel , with the Joker and Batman laughing together at one of the Joker's jokes. - The Witch's Familiar
The novel opens in London in 1831. - No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
The Battle of Darkness sets up the novel for the explanation of the central metaphor of the story. - The Dark Forest
A grandfather, a father and his son are the three figures that form a tripod from which the novel is set. - Abyssinian Chronicles
The protagonists of the novel blame the downfall of Europe on liberalism, atheism, tolerance, and the fall of the authority and hollowing out of the Catholic Church through the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. - The Notre Dame de Paris Mosque
The novel is set during the Regency era, in the remote seaside community of Spindle Cove. - A Night to Surrender
Buster begins working on a novel and decides to move in with Suzanne while Annie accepts a role from the writer/director who directed her to an Academy Award nomination, Lucy Wayne. - The Family Fang
When rumors of their affair begin to circulate, Remington tries to break off the affair, but then resolves to abandon wife, career, party, and country and live abroad in Italy, where he writes the apologia pro vita sua that the novel constitutes. - The New Machiavelli
A struggling novelist, Xiao Ai, has her horror novel rejected by her publisher. - Bunshinsaba (2012 film)
Before The novel begins in a small Welsh town in 2013, where Basil Grey, a mechanical engineer and a member of the United Nation's run Institute, has just witnessed his lover, an alien named Kalp, being shot to death in their living room. - Triptych (Frey novel)
The novel concerns the efforts of an American oil company to purchase a Mexican ranch from its unwilling owner. - The White Rose (Traven novel)
The novel's second "book" is dominated by Philip Rylands's letters describing the British political situation ("many of the leading participants in the strike appear in the novel without disguise") and his recruitment to the Open Conspiracy, Wells's plan for establishing a World Republic. - Meanwhile (novel)
The novel begins with the protagonist, who calls himself Mole, going to a flea market in order to find people to live aboard his "ark," an abandoned mine that he has outfitted so that it will withstand the nuclear holocaust that he predicts is imminent. - The Ark Sakura
The rest of the novel is divided into six books. - The World of William Clissold
The author explained that it was a love story, but some critics suggested that the novel is also a statement on the plight of religious minorities living in Pakistan. - Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
This novel tells the story of Hugues Martin,a graduate from the prestigious École hôtelière de Lausanne of Switzerland. - Hotel Vendome (novel)
The novel concerns the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, in her old age. - The Testament of Mary
The novel ends with Addie living with Dwight and his family. - Waiting for Normal
This novel tells the story of film director, Tallie Jones, a Hollywood legend who experienced betrayals from the people she least expects. - Betrayal (Steel novel)
The novel is set, as the title suggests, in the year 2312, in the great city of Terminator on Mercury, which is built on gigantic tracks in order to constantly stay on the planet's nightside. - 2312 (novel)
The novel opens with Marghalitha coming to her home after defrocking herself, as per her own wishes. - Othappu
Craig and Alcidia arrange to meet in London, but the novel ends on a sour note as both realise their romance will have to end before it has begun. - Twenty-fourth Level (novel)
Code_18 is a visual novel in which the player takes the role of Hayato Hino, a high school student at Ryuusei Academy in Tokyo, and a member of the school's Second Science Club. - Code 18
Following epigraphs from Karl Marx and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the novel tells the story of a man, variously called Callum or Alan, who is planning to kill himself. - 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
The novel follows the life of Laura Timmins (the author Flora Thompson herself, born Flora Timms) after her move at the age of 14 from her childhood hamlet of 'Lark Rise' to the nearby village of ‘Candleford Green’ where she takes up her first job as an assistant in the post office. - Candleford Green
The novel follows the childhood of Laura Timmins (the author Flora Thompson herself, born Flora Timms) in the small rural northern Oxfordshire hamlet of 'Lark Rise' and the surrounding countryside. - Over to Candleford
The novel is written in a kind of internal monologue by Berg/Greb, which mingles description, speech, and thoughts, without clearly distinguishing them, and filtering everything through the central character's viewpoint. - Berg (novel)
As the novel ends, Laurence is approached by Gong Su, the cook he and Temeraire hired when they left China during Black Powder War. - Crucible of Gold
The novel ends with Jason knocking on someone's door, and when they open, asking if he can use their telephone. - Beyonders: A World Without Heroes
The text of this novel of ideas presents itself as a book that has been written as the result of a promise to a dying man. - The Research Magnificent
The novel is set as parallel stories in each chapter, dealing with a particular character or a group of characters. - Oru Theruvinte Katha
The novel begins in Paris, as an MI6 officer prepares to meet a would-be Soviet defector. - Spy in Chancery (novel)
The novel ends with a letter from Amanda to Craig, where she writes that she has been deceiving her interrogator and teasing him that she will infiltrate the British intelligence services. - Sole Agent (novel)
The novel tells the story of a washed-up, desperate American salesman Alan Clay who travels to Saudi Arabia to secure the IT contract from the royal government for a massive new complex being built in the middle of the desert. - A Hologram for the King
The novel picks up where Robert Howard's "Red Nails" leaves off, with Conan and his current flame, the she-pirate Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, newly escaped from the self-destruction of the lost city of Xuchotl. - Conan and the Gods of the Mountain
The novel traces, in a stream of consciousness style with occasional flashbacks, how his daughter Laura and her drug addict friends react as authorities investigate his death. - Even the Dogs
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us". - Galore (novel)
The novel starts with Dija's cousin, Hamit, who is on a bus with a small box on his hands. - If I Were a Boy (novel)
The novel is about the American Morgan family and their experiences in Wales. - A String in the Harp
The film has a novel beginning. - Paavai Vilakku
The novel tells two interwoven, non-separated stories, the first revolves mainly around the Albanian members of the International Brigades, the horrors of war that they experience and also their personalities and personal philosophies. - Hasta La Vista (novel)
The first part of the novel is set in 1980s Protestant East Belfast and is told through the eyes of six-year-old Saoirse whose father is in the RUC and mother, a Catholic from Donegal struggles to cope with the sectarian pressures and turns to drink. - Where They Were Missed
The novel is written from the perspectives of Georgia and Shaun Mason, siblings and blogger-reporters. - Blackout (Grant novel)
The novel blends elements of mythology and urban fantasy. - Tricked (novel)
The novel blends elements of mythology and urban fantasy. - Hexed (novel)
The novel blends elements of mythology and urban fantasy. - Hounded (novel)
The novel does not have much of a plot, it has been described as "unashamedly utilitarian", more of a "didactic treatise", almost a manifesto of Krasicki's reformist ideals. - Pan Podstoli
The novel is about a group of Egyptians who are doing their postgraduate studies in University of Illinois at Chicago, they face many obstacles during their stay in Chicago. - Chicago (novel)
Alex is sort of glad that Kyle is dead, deciding he may write a novel based on his and Craig's adventures in friendship into enemies, and Craig's final stand (which ultimately led to his death). - Cross Fire (novel)
It's a novel problem, and Archie takes the unusual step of consulting Wolfe in the plant rooms. - Eeny Meeny Murder Mo
The novel is based in the year 2020 and aboard a new unsinkable cruise ship Titanic, named for the RMS Titanic. - Titanic 2020: Cannibal City
The novel in based in the year 2020 and follows a stowaway named Jimmy Armstrong and his journey on the brand new and purportedly "unsinkable" cruise ship Titanic. - Titanic 2020
The novella is mainly set prior to the incidents in What The Night Knows, but also bookends the novel itself. - Darkness Under the Sun
The novel picks up fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale ends. - Getting to Happy
The novel is set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona. - Nada (novel)
The novel is inspired by the real-life story of Ray Chapman, the only professional baseball player killed by a pitch. - Calico Joe
The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjorie's family is renting for the summer. - Marriage (novel)
The novel opens with a deceased programmer inside a device that has driven a hole saw through the back of her neck. - Strange Flesh
When she visits Dickens at his home, he assures her that he has broken with the past and shows her the manuscript of a new novel that he's just completed, Great Expectations. - The Invisible Woman (2013 film)
The novel will focus on how Drizzt will prepare to fight Herzgo Alegni and prelude the appearance of Dagult Neverember, who is set to be the Lord Protector of New Neverwinter. - Neverwinter Saga
The central character of the novel is Nikki, an attractive chartered accountant. - Bollywood Striptease
The novel is presented as the diary of Morwenna, a 15-year-old Welsh science fiction and fantasy fan, in 1979 and 1980. - Among Others
The story of the film is based on the novel of Robinson Crusoe. - Robinson Crusoe (1947 film)
He warns her that finishing the novel is impossible and that her potentials will be wasted if she marries Sam. - I Do, Adieu
The story of the film is loosely based on a novel named ‘Godavari Kathalu’, written by BVS Rama Rao. - Gundello Godari
This novel focuses on the Levin family and their friends, trapped inside the besieged city. - The Siege (Dunmore novel)
The novel purports to be a memoir written in 1900 by Kwasi Boachi, one of two Ashanti princes taken from their homeland to the Netherlands in 1837 to receive a Christian education. - The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
Before the novel starts, Lo’s brother Oren ran away and was found dead in an abandoned apartment building in Neverland “the city of lost children”. - The Butterfly Clues
After briefly revisiting some of the surviving characters from the first book, the novel jumps back to the start of the plague. - The Twelve (novel)
The novel starts with Brandd winning the Twenties. - Planet of the Damned
In the meantime, he is in the process of writing an English novel too. - Spirit (2012 film)
Holston spends the novel processing and investigating the circumstances surrounding his wife's (Allison) death. - Silo (series)
Shabanu is 18 in this novel and she has many external and internal conflicts to face. - Haveli (novel)
The novel begins, like Goethe's Faust, with a "Prologue in Heaven", depicting John Dee and his scryer Edward Kelley–who Dee as yet only knows as Edward Talbot–watching Angels in a crystal. - The Solitudes (novel)
The novel mainly follows three women, Sally Simmonds, Edith Carstairs, and Geraldine Hill, and their involvement with the WSPU. - Suffragette Sally
Then, when Haley's first novel comes out, it is a great critical success, but its dystopian, anti-capitalist theme is not well received by the agency. - Sweet Tooth (novel)
The novel reaches its climax in the closing pages as Rief hunts down his suspect, finally confronting him on a fierce, windy morning on Hampstead Heath. - Waiting for Sunrise
The novel opens with Jack Reacher, whose nose is broken, trying to get a ride out of Nebraska, hitch-hiking in the middle of the night, without any car stopping for him. - A Wanted Man
The novel centers on four students attending an American university and studying history. - The Monk, the Moor & Moses Ben Jalloun
The novel explores the loss, self-recrimination, and in some cases, self-discovery caused by the mother's disappearance. - Please Look After Mom
The film is based on a same title novel by the Swiss author Martin Suter. - Lila, Lila
The basis for the film's plot is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov: The White Guard. - The White Guard (TV series)
The novel intercuts Karlsson's adventures as a centenarian with increasingly fantastic past episodes from his long life. - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The novel is situated on board of the UNSS Armenia, a generation ship which is traveling from the Earth to a far away planet, where humanity is to establish a new civilisation. - Journey into Space (book)
After pretending to accidentally meet at a comedy club Birdie mentioned online the two become friends and partners at a ballroom-dance class, and Sam begins to write a novel based on their relationship. - A Case of You (film)
The novel features as the main character, sixteen-year-old Ethan Wate who lives in Gatlin, South Carolina, with his widowed father. - Beautiful Creatures (novel)
The novel then follows the life of Soedana, who spends his childhood working off his father's debt before running away. - Nemoe Karma
The novel is based in Albany, New York. - Another Man's Treasure (novel)
As the novel opens, Ray Mitchell is lying in a hospital, having been attacked and gravely injured by being hit over the head by a large vase. - Samaritan (Price novel)
Towards the end of the novel the first and only other person appears. - The Wall (novel)
The novel spans four decades. - From This Wicked Patch of Dust
The theme of the tragic hero and the sufferings of the heroine was inspired from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel Devdas, which has also been inspiration to various other films. - Aah (film)
The novel is structured as a recorded narrative of the purported exploits of 121-year-old Jack Crabb, a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation, as he describes his wanderings across the nineteenth-century American West to Ralph Fielding Snell, a somewhat gullible "Man of Letters". - Little Big Man (novel)
Although Hardy was not a seriously religious man – he could be called an agnostic Christian – the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge presents the characters with extraordinarily difficult moral dilemmas in the Christian story-telling tradition. - The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003 film)
The story in this film is a loose adaptation of notable Leopold von Sacher Masoch novel Venus in Furs. - Venus in Furs (1995 film)
At dinner, Sam announces that her first novel has been accepted for publication. - Stuck in Love
The plot of the light novel is set in an air race competition performed using advanced civilian "valkyries" (variable fighters) in the massive space emigration colony ship Macross Frontier in the year 2058D, one year before the events of the Macross Frontier anime television series. - Macross The Ride
The novel begins as Sukartono (Tono), a Dutch-trained doctor, and his wife Sumartini (Tini), residents of Batavia (modern day Jakarta), are suffering a marital breakdown. - Belenggu
The prisoners in the novel are not actively tortured, but are fed poorly and live without light. - This Blinding Absence of Light
In 2016, Varun narrated these stories, because these incidents prompted him to write a novel called "Moondru Kaadhal". - Moondru Per Moondru Kadal
Alex is a high school junior who struggles with depression; the novel opens a few months after he drank Pine-Sol in an apparent suicide attempt. - What They Always Tell Us
The novel is the story of Wendi Shasta Leonardo's wanderjahr. - Child of Fortune
The novel concludes by revealing the truth about Dennis's family, the murder and the biographer. - The Life (novel)
Sankar named his novel Chowringhee as the novel is set in Chowringhee, a neighborhood in Calcutta, in the mid-1950s. - Chowringhee (novel)
The television adaptation differs from the novel in many respects, completely omitting the section set in the 1970s. - Birdsong (TV serial)
Walter concludes that the infected have somehow merged with their doppelgangers from the parallel universe, giving them this novel biology and a new set of memories; the few who remain unaffected, like Cliff, likely did not have a doppelganger in the parallel universe's version of Westfield. - Welcome to Westfield
The novel is about twins Matt and Emily ("Em") Calder who share an ability that allows them to make artwork come to life, due to their powerful imaginations. - Hollow Earth (novel)
The plot of the novel surrounds Dan Starkey and his recent appointment as the editor of Belfast's trendiest magazine, Belfast Confidential; described by Bateman as "a cross between Private Eye and Hello". - Belfast Confidential
This novel follows Dan Starkey who is currently both unemployed and single. - The Horse with My Name
The first part of the novel is set in Devon, where Dr Conybeare, a progressive-minded physician, resides in the parish of Rev. - They Were Defeated
The novel explores a powerful picture of change and transition. - The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker
The plot of this novel is based on Wrathlin Island, a small island north of mainland Ireland. - Turbulent Priests
Although her own inimitable take on the story of Jarl Buthar's guerilla campaign and a final battle at Rannerdale between the Normans and the Anglo-Scandinavian Cumbrians led by the Jarl, Sutcliff's novel was clearly inspired by the dramatized history written by Lakeland historian Nicholas Size, called "The Secret Valley: The Real Romance of Unconquered Lakeland" (pub. - The Shield Ring
The protagonist of the novel is Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Maccon, who is "soulless", and thus unaffected by the powers of supernatural beings. - Timeless (Carriger novel)
When the novel is finished and the Brat is about to leave, Stephen attempts to rob MacMillan's safe and the Brat takes the blame. - The Brat (1919 film)
She is the daughter of Boanerges and Emerenciana, he, of Justin, which makes this novel a kind of Romeo and Juliet hillbilly who will highlight in history. - Cabocla
The novel concludes with their commitment to one another through marriage, the ceremony being carried out within the prison walls. - The Master of Man
This novel is set in 1908, as international tensions are rising and moving the world toward war. - The Spy (Cussler novel)
The novel centres around a young engineer named Jean-Baptiste Baratte, who is tasked with the removal of the Les Innocents cemetery from Les Halles, Paris in 1786 (the Place Joachim-du-Bellay now occupies the area) and the removal of its church. - Pure (Miller novel)
The novel begins in October, 1803, six years after the events in Pride and Prejudice which resulted in the marriage of mr Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet. - Death Comes to Pemberley
The central characters of the novel are Maya and Sohail. - The Good Muslim
The story of the novel spins around the life of the freedom-fighter, Magfar Ahmed Chowdhury, also known as Azad and his mother. - Maa (novel)
This novel centers around the exploits of Clive Cussler's characters Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. - Medusa (Cussler novel)
The novel follows the actions of a soldier-mercenary named Gentilhomme from Louisiana who follows the prolific, Caesar-like, General Salter, who himself commands a mercenary army after he has been disgraced and exiled from theS. - The Profession
Seth wonders if "this graphic novel thing" will catch on and hopes it will bring new members to the club. - The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
The novel consists of six segments (The Meeting, The Retrospective, Rain and Wine, Marriage and Parting, Sleepwalking, and The Maiden Tower). - Artush and Zaur
The novel opens with the Bigtree family suffering tragedy and finding their way of life under threat. - Swamplandia!
The novel begins with a scene of mystification. - Kacper Ryx
This novel is set after the Chaos War. - Spirit of the Wind (novel)
Ianib wins a prestigious award for his novel and this serves as a bonding experience between the father and the Jewish son-in-law. - Empty Nest (film)
The novel begins with the arrival of a bitter and angry Khirad Hussain at Ashar Hussain’s office. - Humsafar (novel)
The greater part of the novel consists of episodes from Alvaro's younger years: his childhood, days as a student at university, and his time abroad. - Marks of Identity
His wife, in the beginning of the novel is embarrassed by his dream and keeps Lyson behind lock and key when he is working on his project. - Islay (novel)
The novel examines the effects on Takano's life and relationships of the impending events of World War II, and the possibility of conscription. - One Morning Like a Bird
As the novel opens, Wadzek, owner of a factory that produces steam engines, is locked in a struggle with his more powerful rival Rommel, whose much larger company manufactures turbines. - Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine
Aya of Yop City is a novel that follows the lives of many different people living in the Côte d'Ivoire. - Aya of Yop City
The novel focuses on a veteran photojournalist named Clement Glass, and his struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of a church massacre. - The Optimists (novel)
The protagonist in the novel is a young Indian called Dasan who was born in French Mahe and got educated in Pondicherry. - Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil
Set in the early 1980s, during the height of Cold War, the novel follows a series of parallel storylines. - Rabies (novel)
Hélène's moral integrity in the novel centres on the dawning realisation that the forces which drove her hated mother's behaviour also exist within her and she must transcend them if she is not to repeat the life of her mother. - Le Vin de solitude
The novel narrates a story set in Delhi through the eyes of a Malayali youth, named Sahadevan, who lands in the capital after securing a job in a travel agency. - Delhi Gadhakal
The novel closes with Conor accepting that people are complex and must be judged and punished for their actions, not their thoughts, and that prizing the truth is one of the most difficult and important things a person can do. - A Monster Calls
The novel begins with Remi Foster, aged six, living with her grandparents and their foster children in Nigeria. - Yoruba Girl Dancing
Set in 1763, this novel centres round the historical figure of Giacomo Casanova and loosely follows his autobiographical Histoire de ma vie. - Casanova (novel)
Set in the mid-18th century, the novel follows Dyer as he attempts to come to terms with this disability whilst working as a sideshow freak, then as a surgeon, until his eventual consignment to the Bethlem institute. - Ingenious Pain
However, the novel interweaves several different timelines around Tayo, from both before and after the war, as well as a spiritual timeline where the Thought Woman (also known as Spider Woman), Corn Woman and Reed Woman, the three main Pueblo spiritual entities, create the world and then Hummingbird and Green Bottle Fly must go down to the Fourth World to retrieve Reed Woman to stop a drought. - Ceremony (Silko novel)
The novel ends with the passing away of the patriarch and the salvation of family scion Francis who joins Lawrence. - Rubber (Tamil novel)
The novel centres around the adventures of Peter Grant, a young officer in the Metropolitan Police; who, following an unexpected encounter with a ghost, is recruited into the small branch of the Met that deals with magic and the supernatural. - Rivers of London (novel)
Used in this novel skilfully is the utilization of a secondary story, delivered to us a couple of pages at a time, at long intervals; This sub-plot is perfectly timed, revealing the killer’s motive or insanity, at just the correct pace. - The Stone Cutter
The novel begins when the protagonist, 17-year-old Samantha "Sam" Kingston, is killed in a car accident in her hometown of Ridgeview. - Before I Fall
The novel follows Carver's subsequent attempts to oust the dictator, and force a regime change. - Dictator (novel)
According to Denis Sampson it is "a novel about marital dissatisfaction that develops into a moral fable because the dilemmas in which these characters find themselves mirror a society in spiritual and cultural crisis". - An Answer from Limbo
The novel begins two years after the events of Knights of the Old Republic and begins with Revan living on Coruscant, now married to Bastila Shan, on the outs with the Jedi Order and experiencing horrible insomnia due to nightmares he believes are part of his forgotten past as the Sith Lord Darth Revan. - Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
This novel takes place twelve years after the previous Samuel Carver novel, The Survivor, with Carver having spent the intervening years as a security consultant. - Assassin (Cain novel)
The novel opens with Samuel Carver masquerading as a maintenance man. - The Survivor (Cain novel)
By the end of the previous novel he starts to be interested in he and Lexis other longtime friend, Rachel. - At First Sight (novel)
The novel proposes a fictional account for the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on some of the conspiracy theories in subsequent circulation. - The Accident Man
It is through Vandiyathevan that we meet most of the characters in the novel such as Arulmozhivarman, the prince whom all the people loved, and Periya Pazhavetturayar, the chancellor who married Nandhini,(the main conspirator) when he was sixty. - Ponniyin Selvan (unfinished film)
The second half of the novel includes interviews with the author,E Hinton, in which she discusses her earlier novels, the movies based on the books, and her idea for the title of Some of Tim’s Stories. - Some of Tim's Stories
Hal owns a minor holding in Lothian and the novel describes Hal's problems regarding the appointment of John Balliol by Edward I of England as the King of Scotland. - The Lion Wakes
This novel centres around the oathsworn band attempting to protect the pregnant Queen Sigrith from the combined forces of their old enemy Sterki and Styrbjorn, nephew to King Eirik, who is seeking to claim the throne by ridding himself of the current heir, Sigrith's child. - The Prow Beast
Attempting to write his novel of love, Dwijen ironically loses his intimacy and connection with his wife, Manosi (Zerifa Wahid). - Dwaar
This novel centres around the oathsworn band returning to their quest for Attila the Huns legendary lost hoard of silver. - The White Raven (novel)
The story revolves around Orm Rurikson, a young man who joined the crew of a Viking band as a child in the previous novel and is now their reluctant leader. - The Wolf Sea
The novel follows the "Oathsworn", the brotherhood who crew the boat, as they hunt for relics, including the secret burial horde of Attila the Hun, their journeys taking them through a treacherous maritime area known as "The Whale Road". - The Whale Road
The novel is based around the Scottish Wars of Independence and in particular the actions of Robert the Bruce, set in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. - Insurrection (Young novel)
Whereas the action of the novel takes place in France, this screen version is set in the UK in 1952 as Britain prepares for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. - The Scapegoat (2012 film)
After coming in contact with the production of the film Hunger, based on Knut Hamsun's novel with the same title, Barnum decides to become a scriptwriter for film. - The Half Brother
Set in Belfast in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a 37-year-old Catholic male teacher, Diarmuid Devine, who is single and sexually inexperienced. - The Feast of Lupercal
The symbolism Camus uses in this philosophical novel leads Germain to expand his horizon, making him think as never before. - My Afternoons with Margueritte
This novel continues the story of Alan Dale, based on the historical Alan-a-Dale; warrior and troubadour in Robin Hood's band of outlaws. - King's Man
This novel continues the story of Alan Dale, based on the historical Alan-a-Dale; warrior and troubadour in Robin Hoods band of outlaws. - Holy Warrior
Like The Death of Artemio Cruz, the novel also draws heavily on cinematic techniques. - Terra Nostra (novel)
The novel follows the story of Philip Blake, his daughter Penny, his older brother Brian, and his friends Bobby and Nick as they struggle to survive in a world ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. - The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
This novel begins in 1931, a few years after the conclusion of The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. - Judgment Day (novel)
The novel takes place in 1860 or 1870 in Lagerlöf's native Värmland and is about the tenant farmer Jan in Skrolycka and his daughter Glory Goldie Sunnycastle. - The Emperor of Portugallia
The novel is divided into 5 sections, each told from a different family member's perspective. - When the Emperor was Divine
The novel is told in the first person plural, from the point of view of many girls and women, none of whom is individualized as a continuing character, but all of whom are vividly described in a sentence or two. - The Buddha in the Attic
Ching-teng begins to work on a web novel about his experiences with Chia-yi. - You Are the Apple of My Eye
This is her big break but the author of the novel on which the musical is based is less than pleased about this adaption — and he does not think much of Caterina. - Das einfache Mädchen
The novel narrates the childhood and very early adulthood life of a boy, Mattia, and a girl, Alice, both of whom had exposure to traumatic situations when they were both 8 years old. - The Solitude of Prime Numbers (novel)
The novel starts in a village Rangapura near Tumkur in Karnataka. - Matadana
Based on the original novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, the story takes place sometime in the future. - Loups=Garous
The novel has a dual storyline, following the exploits of the new Cubs on the field while also covering the investigation into the cause of the plane crash, which it turns out might not have been an accident. - The Curse: Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Or Do They?
The plot of the movie is taken from Ken Follett's novel The Man from st Petersburg. - Rukhsat
The novel chronicles the brutal, Arctic campaign fought on the ice and in the skies above it. - Acacia: The Sacred Band
Leigh wrote this novel about a mother of two young children who leaves her husband and goes to live with her mother in rural France. - Disquiet (Leigh novel)
His manager, Grant, arrives and urges Joseph to write his next novel after telling him that his previous book sold over 5 million copies. - 11-11-11 (film)
The movie was based on a Bengali novel authored by Shankar (Mansamman) and was first movie about sexual harassment in office a bold concept movie did well at box office some bold scene was also present in movie Mallika Sarabhai play a woman who case against Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen help to mithun. - Sheesha (1986 film)
His body falls next to the book Anna was reading: Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita". - Murder in a Blue World
The novel follows Fiona, now as Weyrwoman of Telgar, as the dragonriders come to realize that there are no longer enough dragons to protect the planet for the whole Pass. - Dragongirl
The novel is set in the future of 1960 and depicts a world that is geopolitically broadly similar to that of 1906, with Britain and theS. - An Anglo-American Alliance
The novel is narrated by "Cookie", a news agency reporter. - The Year of Living Dangerously (novel)
Simon Green has stated that the final novel in the series will be called Night Fall, and will feature the first meeting between John Taylor and Eddie Drood. - Secret History (book series)
The novel begins with the fourteen-year-old Norman McGregor packaging a loaf of bread for his uncle, the "village wit", – who ironically nicknames him "Beaut" because of his off-putting appearance – in his mother Nance's Coal Creek bakery (bought with the savings of her late husband/Beaut's father "Cracked" McGregor). - Marching Men
The novel begins as the narrator, Jenny, describes her cousin by marriage Kitty Baldry pining in the abandoned nursery where her dead first son would have been raised. - The Return of the Soldier
Events from the Doomsday Prophecy novel by Rupert Crane begin happening in real life. - Doomsday Prophecy
The novel begins in 1678 during the reign of Charles II of England. - Ondine (novel)
Following a prologue set in AD 71 when the golden menorah from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem is locked away in Rome, the novel picks up in present-day Turkey with marine archaeologist Jack Howard on a hunt for ancient treasures in the harbour of Istanbul, formerly Constantinople. - Crusader Gold
His thirtysomething assistant Seo Ji-woo (Kim Mu-yeol) has recently published his first book, described as a genre novel with psychological insight, and it has shot to the top of the bestseller lists. - A Muse
The novel was started by Lisa Tetzner, and finished by her husband Kurt Held (actually Kurt Kläber). - Die schwarzen Brüder
It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space in the year 2300. - Treasure Island in Outer Space
The final sentence in the novel reveals a ringing mobile phone in the town square. - The Phoenix Files
When the bullies watches him reading a classic novel at school, they force him to read Little Women to them. - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
The main climax of the novel is when Art, returning out of curiosity to a cave where he and a girl from the village thought a wild beast lived, uncover an illicit still run by Hector and Red Douglas (a local rascal). - Young Art and Old Hector
This film's story is based upon the famous romance novel 'Love Story' by the American writer Erich Segal. - Mera Naam Hai Mohabbat (1975 film)
The novel is set in Christiania, and deals with the everyday life of two friends, "Herman Ek" and "candidate Jarmann". - Fra Kristiania-Bohêmen
The Orpheus hallucinations come to an end and the slim memoir of this strange story effectively becomes the third novel he has been trying to write. - The Medusa Frequency
The novel centers on Cornelius Van Toller, a wealthy New Yorker, with Jekyll-and-Hyde character. - The Dark Wheel (novel)
Henry Skrimshander begins the novel as a 17-year-old playing on a Legion baseball team in Lankton, South Dakota. - The Art of Fielding
The novel concerns Udo Berger, a German war-game champion, who returns with his girlfriend Ingeborg to the small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. - The Third Reich (novel)
The novel describes young heroine’s relations with the surrounding world, frame of mind and opinions of contemporaries and their attitudes to events of crucial period. - Caucasian days
The novel begins with John Calvino investigating the murder of a family, committed by Billy Lucas. - What the Night Knows
This is a presupposition which, on the cover, this novel presents. - A Manhã do Mundo
in the construction of the story for picture purposes, the salient features of th novel have been retained and a descriptive address accompanies the production". - It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911 film)
The serial, taking place over the course of a single day, portrays their involvement in the theft of the original manuscript of the novel Treasure Island and their attempts to return it to its rightful owners. - The Adventures of Clint and Mac
The novel shows Carroll striving both to make the plan a success and to receive credit for it, goals that are often in tension. - Freedom (William Safire novel)
The novel is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from anterograde amnesia. - Before I Go to Sleep
The opening credits of Sing Sing Nights state that the film was "suggested by the novel by Harry Stephen Keeler". - Sing Sing Nights (film)
As the novel progresses, the Society is increasingly portrayed as dystopian. - Matched
The novel takes place in the future, and tells the story of a human hunter named Roy Crawford who is framed for murder on the alien planet Vellirian. - Planet of Death (novel)
The novel is not only a rousing fantasy adventure story, but a philosophical exploration of the relationship between material reality and the abstract concepts through which humans struggle to understand it. - The Ship of Ishtar
The novel ends with Rosalie apologizing to Mama for causing her to break her ankle. - Johnny Kellock Died Today
The novel is written in the form of travel literature. - Last Letters from Hav
The novel begins by introducing the protagonist Emaline, who is a twelve-year- old girl who like other little girls, loves playing with friends and going to school. - The Crazy Man
She ultimately becomes ill with pneumonia (this attitude towards life by Amalia is a much closer comparison to the suicide of Alfonso Nitti, the protagonist of the novel Una Vita (A Life). - Senilità
The novel begins by following a group of mostly pre-teen children - the central character Darling and her friends Stina, Chipo, Bastard and Godknows - living in tin shacks in Zimbabwe after their homes have been bulldozed by Mugabe's paramilitary police. - We Need New Names
The novel starts immediately after the arrest of protagonist Jack Zollo in My Life as a Criminal. - My Life in Prison
He begins reading the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which transfixes a young girl named Matilda (Xzannjah). - Mr. Pip
The novel switches back and forth between Chuckie Lurgan's third-person narrative and Jake Johnson's first-person narrative. - Eureka Street (novel)
The first series of The Field of Blood adapts the novel of the same name, which is set in 1982. - The Field of Blood (TV series)
With Book Two, the novel takes a futuristic turn and the action of the novel extends into the early 1950s. - The Holy Terror (Wells novel)
The novel opens in medias res with Zach photographing a palace that had belonged to Saddam Hussein. - Cannonball (novel)
Some critics of The Nine-tailed Turtle argue that the novel does not have a plot structure and the placement of the scandal is an example of that. - The Nine-tailed Turtle
, both Tatsuya and Miyuki ranked as one of the most popular light novel characters. - The Irregular at Magic High School
A novel of strong emotion, full of adventure and rich descriptions, where the author perfectly recreates the particular atmosphere of children’s summertime on an island. - The Treasure of Vaghia
The novel follows the Frake family from the fictional town of Brunswick, Iowa. - State Fair (novel)
The film and Fast's novel are based on a true story, but they take a number of liberties. - Freedom Road
The novel is set in and around "Uncle Corny's" garden near Sunbury-on-Thames. - Kit and Kitty
Early in the narrative, Schmaltz's character acknowledges what will be a key characteristic of the remaining five sections of the novel when he states: "I'm afraid I'm getting a little off the subject of Coolidge, and if there's anything I hate it's a fellow that if he starts to talk about a subject he can't stick to it" (p. - The Man Who Knew Coolidge
The novel is narrated by the heroine of the story. - Erema
As the year comes to a close, Cath struggles to finish writing her fan fiction novel of two years, Carry On, Simon, and to write her original short story for fiction-writing. - Fangirl (novel)
The novel closes with the news that Brynhild, who had been feeling that she was "too aloof for life," has gained a new sense of confidence and self-assurance from her brief affair, is with child. - Brynhild (novel)
The novel focuses on the romance, marriage and divorce of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson. - The Paris Wife
The novel was originally to be released on April 15, 2014. - Shadow Falls: After Dark
The novel is set in 1199 England, and follows the events of Lady of the Forest. - Lady of Sherwood
his light novel is set within a universe based on the real world, where normal girls undergo training to become ship girls. - Kantai Collection
The novel weaves together Gamini's ruthless ambition to reunite Sri Lanka, the story of his military campaign, and his romantic relationship with a woman named Raji. - Winds of Sinhala
The Typhon Pact Series follows the events of the trilogy by David Alan Mack, along with the stand-alone novel A Singular Destiny by KeithA. - Star Trek: Typhon Pact
The novel is divided into four parts, and each part is divided into four chapters. - Dissident Gardens
It is based on the novel Ice Ages, by German author. - Two Lives (film)
The novel is set in February. - Mission to Venice
The novel has a convoluted plot, in common with many of Collins’ works. - Hide and Seek (Collins novel)
The story is loosely based on the novel The Almighty by Irving Wallace. - New Delhi (1988 Hindi film)
Just as Mendle begins to accept that the girl he named Aira Flight is probably a missing person somewhere, and in need of help, her memory begins to return in flashes — and when it does, the pieces are oddly straight out of the novel Mendle is writing. - Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
The protagonist, Walter Thirsk, tells the story from his perspective, but in fact is rarely present when the events of the novel take place due to his injury that he sustains at the beginning of the novel. - Harvest (Crace novel)
The novel has a complex plot, common in Collins’ work. - Man and Wife (novel)
The story of this movie is adapted from Blake Pierce's novel Before He Kills. - Memories (2013 film)
Set in the late 1970s in Poldrea, a small village in Cornwall, the novel describes the relationship of Emma, a young woman, and her grandmother, Mad, a famous retired actress. - Rule Britannia (novel)
The novel centres around the death of Jack Laidlaw's brother who is run over by a car. - Strange Loyalties
The novel's plot is purposely underdeveloped, as Dujardin acknowledged in a later essay on his novel and its technique, Le Monologue intérieur (1931) and especially in a letter written a year after the novel's publication. - Les lauriers sont coupés
The novel continues the story of some of the same characters in the wake of the same biological catastrophe depicted in Atwood's earlier novels in the trilogy. - MaddAddam
The novel concerns the death of Moira Penny, a postgraduate literature student in Oxford, whose naked body is found outside her apartment. - Dying, In Other Words
The novel is about Helen a 27-year-old Glaswegian, who lives in London and works in a casino. - Mo Said She Was Quirky
The novel focuses on the characters and their interactions with one another in a small town in Upper Michigan. - Other Electricities
Nonetheless, the after-effects of this clash are evident in the novel as is discussed. - Red April
The novel emphasizes the need of implicit confidence and trust, if two persons united in wedlock are to live happily together. - The Pilot and His Wife
The novel is about a future world. - Pinpre Puran
The novel describes the historic period in the Balkans from the beginning of World War I in 1914, to the end of World War II in 1945 through the lives and destinies of the Saloms, a Sephardic Jewish family from Sarajevo. - The Scent of Rain in the Balkans
The serial was inspired by Peyami Safa's novel Canan, published in 1925. - Canan (TV series)
The novel is set in the near future of 2013, where China has entered a "Golden Age of Ascendancy," while Western nations have stagnated after a second economic crisis in early 2011. - The Fat Years
The victim's sister, Terry, arrives on the island and helped by a mystery novel writer met at the airport starts to investigate. - Ratman
The second half of the novel concerns events during World War II, the brothers volunteering for both the LDV and ARP and Hattie for the VAD. - The Two Pound Tram
Carol, a super agent and star-maker, has just scooped her competition by selling the movie rights to the romance novel Whirlwind and is spending a fortune to find the perfect actor to play the male lead. - What a Woman!
Beth invites Emilia to dinner with the family, during which Emelia reveals she is writing a novel but is struggling to live up to the Conan Doyle name. - Albatross (film)
The central action of the novel takes place during the period following the nationalist demonstrations of 8 May 1945, which included the Sétif massacre. - Nedjma
A saga of love and hatred is set in breathtakingly beautiful locales with the backdrop of militancyKashmeer was a novel attempt. - Kashmeer (TV series)
The novel is narrated by the 89-year-old Lily Bere, the sister of the character Willy Dunne from A Long Long Way and the daughter of the character Thomas Dunne from The Steward of Christendom, as she looks back on her life, having lived through the Irish War of Independence and escaped to Chicago with her boyfriend Tadg Bere. - On Canaan's Side
James found and read a novel manuscript Miles finished years ago without ever telling anyone, and has been jealous ever since but also impressed by Miles's talent. - Third Star
Although the novel ends in the family selling off the farm to a developer who then leases it to less-than-caring tenants, its concern for the land continued as Bromfield returned to the United States and made Malabar Farm a model of sustainable agriculture. - The Farm (Bromfield novel)
As the novel begins, Miles agrees to take his ailing mother, Phyllis, to live with her sister in Wisconsin. - Vertical (novel)
The novel shows the process of filmmaking from a child actor's perspective. - The Painted Garden
The film, based on the novel Storm Over Paris by Sterling Noel, follows a man who is sent undercover to infiltrate an international crime organisation. - House of Secrets (1956 film)
The novel is told from the point of view of Elmis, Angelo's designated Martian guardian, who must shield him from the malignant Abdicators. - A Mirror for Observers
The novel details their fragile emotional and psychological states as they interact with each other and their friends. - Desperate Characters (novel)
Like most of the villages, Goriyar has its own set of caste divisions and in the novel the most economically progressive caste in the village is that of the Godhis. - Juloos
It is 2041 and he has released a best selling novel called "High Kick: Revenge of the Short-legged". - High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged
The novel includes much more drug use and sexual content, and has quite a different ending. - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (film)
The novel ends with her loneliness after Ameer's death after the bloody partition and so called independence of both the nations, India and Pakistan. - Sunlight on a Broken Column
The novel ends with Tantivo leaving Victorianas – going back in exile – but with a renewed sense and sagacity after the altercations and travails he experienced in the island nation. - An Embarrassment of Riches
Armando Aguinaldo, in turn – in a scene from the novel – secretly watched his nephew Meynard Aguinaldo and the daughter of Cornelius James when the dating couple were copulating inside one of the suites of his beach resort. - Voyeurs & Savages
The movie's story is based on Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo, which in turn was based on a Goan, Abbe Faria. - Bhuierantlo Munis
Augustus gives Hazel The Price of Dawn, and Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, a novel written by Peter Van Houten, who lives in Amsterdam, about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels Hazel's own experience. - The Fault in Our Stars
The novel starts with an adult Mary spending a weekend in an isolated cottage on the Essex marshes during World War II. - Mariana (Dickens novel)
The novel relates the story of Hedwig Marga de Fontayne, the scion of a wealthy family, whose sexual frustration manifests itself as a death drive. - Van de koele meren des doods
Daluyong begins where Francisco’s novel Maganda pa ang Daigdig ("The World Be Beautiful Still") ends. - Daluyong
The novel is about Lino Rivera, a gardener, who lost faith in an "oppressive social system" in the Philippines. - Maganda pa ang Daigdig
The characters of the novel include Ata, Teta, Pedro, and a factory owner. - Ang mga Anak Dalita
The setting of the novel was during the final years of Spanish colonialism. - Anino ng Kahapon
The novel begins months before the onset of the Philippine–American War. - Ipaghiganti Mo Ako...!
The novel is set mainly in Vienna in 1910. - Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
Love is the story of Vinayachandran (Kunchacko Boban), a romantic novel writer who helps people with love issues. - Doctor Love (film)
Ba'al's Blood Book was also mentioned briefly in Dekker's novel Green, as it was compiled only about a year before Green took place. - The Blood Book
The main protagonist in Romero's novel is Violetta Rosario "Viola" Dananay. - Always Hiding
Perla is aware that Gus is about to write a novel based on her life and determined to stop it. - Too Much Money
The plot of the novel narrates the love story of the protagonists Celso and Rita. - Busabos ng Palad
The novel focuses on both the Price family and the kidnappers in the time leading up to the abduction. - Seesaw (novel)
The first tells about the life of the writer Jules Verne and the history of creation and publication of the novel In Search of the Castaways. - In Search for Captain Grant
The novel was left largely unfinished, with the book initially planned to have three parts. - The Hanging Garden (White novel)
Later, while using the laptop, Dora happens upon the novel and reads it. - The Words (film)
The novel is composed of three parts. - May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso
The novel is narrated in the first person and follows the life of Ditě (a name meaning "child" in Czech), an aspiring hotelier. - I Served the King of England
The novel is broken into thirteen chapters, with the first five being the development of King Arthur's background, while the remaining are nearly stand-alone stories covering the exploits of different knights. - The Sword and the Circle
The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. - The Odd Women
The novel centers on Charles Yu, a time machine mechanic. - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Software professional Abhijit (Abhilash in Malayalam) (Mammooty) is Arun (Karunan in Malayalam) when he delves into the pages of a novel written by Gopinath Shindhe (Gopinatha Pillai in Malayalam). - Shikari (2012 film)
Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studios, is taking part in the endless search to find an actress to star in the adaptation of a best-selling novel Girl of the North. - Second Fiddle (1939 film)
He decides to write one final novel before death comes visiting. - Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram
The novel is divided in three parts. - The Cannibal (novel)
Franklin Evans or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, the first novel written by Walt Whitman, is the rag-to-riches story of Franklin Evans. - Franklin Evans
The novel can be seen as existing in counterpoint with Conscience of the King. - The Little Emperors
The film is based on selected chapters of Wu Cheng'en's classical novel Journey to the West, and tells the story of how Sun Wukong rebels against the Jade Emperor of Heaven. - The Monkey King (film)
It is also revealed that he intends to raise an army of adults, revealing him as the "Saint George" adult from the previous novel (The Enemy). - The Dead (novel)
After the reception, Josh, Michael, and Michael's dad, played football, and the novel concluded with Caitlin coloring her first colored picture. - Mockingbird (Erskine novel)
The novel is set between Sardinia and the city of Genoa. - Un destino ridicolo
The serial was based very loosely on Arthur Reeve's final novel and in it, the Clutching Hand has a new secret identity - dr Paul Gironda, the very man whom Kennedy is looking for. - The Clutching Hand
The novel is split into three sections. - Gold by the Inch
Simonini's idea is first inspired by an account of a masonic gathering in Alexandre Dumas's novel Joseph Balsamo, and he gradually embroiders it using other sources, each inspired by the other — Eugène Sue's Les Mystères du Peuple, Maurice Joly's The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu and a novel called Biarritz by a Prussian secret agent called Hermann Goedsche who used Sir John Retcliffe as a nom de plume. - The Prague Cemetery
The novel delves into the origins of Church of Unitology, Michael Altman, Necromorphs and the mysterious Black Marker in the Dead Space universe. - Dead Space: Martyr
The end of the novel returns to the author's conversation with a now-elderly Lev in his apartment when the author's grandmother joins, and is revealed to be Vika. - City of Thieves (novel)
The major character in this novel is a Dwarf by the name of Chane Feldstone. - The Gates of Thorbardin
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme. - Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle
In the aftermath of the Spellplague and a Primordial Fire Elemental's almost destroying Neverwinter, as seen in the novel Gauntlgrym, the remaining citizens form factions and struggle for dominance over the populace as the dead begin to rise and attack "the city they once called home". - Neverwinter (video game)
The film starts off with a scene from the novel Moby Dick, with a whaler on a stormy sea in the 19th century, chasing "the white whale". - Dot and the Whale
The novel starts with Mark in a delirious, dream-like state due to the fact that he suffers from a deadly fever. - The Midnight Charter
The scenery of the novel is inspired by Kokořín Castle and its surroundings. - Cikáni
Bess is brought into the novel when Raleigh is seeking favor at Queen Elizabeth's court at the Palace of Westminster. - Lady in Waiting (novel)
A large part of the novel is made up of a flashback to 1985-86 when Albert traveled around Europe with his friend Viktor, and by coincidence ends up in Hong Kong and later Paris, where he meets a girl and almost decides to stay for good, before ending up returning to his father in Hässelby. - Hässelby (novel)
As the novel progresses, Dede and D'Orothea show up to help Mary Ann with her recuperation, Shawna befriends a homeless junkie prostitute, Jake makes a startling discovery, and a threat from the past comes back to haunt the former Barbary Lane residents. - Mary Ann in Autumn
The novel is set in the boom period during World War Norway did not participate in the war, but the country's merchant fleet carried goods at increasing freight rates. - Bør Børson
Once again a cruel, heartless miser, he decides to put a dome over the town to get revenge on everyone who had treated him badly (inspired by Stephen King's novel Under the Dome), only to be informed that something similar was already done and it would not work again because they could simply cave their way out. - The Fool Monty
Receiving hundreds of packages in the mail containing unsold copies of his failed novel Faster Than the Speed of Love, Brian is convinced that he isn't meant to be a writer and gives up. - Brian Writes a Bestseller
The novel traces the harrowing life of Rebecca with several interesting temporal juxtapositions and flashbacks that add to its complexity. - Mourning Ruby
The novel coalesces into an ending that brings together the disparate narrative strands amongst the three central male characters. - The Finkler Question
In the end Marala is restored to her ancestral estate; as the Aquilonian Countess Albiona she will later play a role in the events of the novel Conan the Conqueror. - The Star of Khorala
The disease that causes a world-wide catastrophe in the novel is H5N1, a strain of bird flu that was in the news at the time of publication. - Pandemia
The novel tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd beginning with his childhood in Mexico during the 1930s. - The Lacuna
Chronologically, the novel shifts back and forth throughout the late 20th century, depicting in detail the personal growth and mistakes of each family member. - The Corrections
The novel is split into four sections covering the Das family from the children’s perspective in this order: adulthood, adolescence and early adulthood, childhood, and a final return to an adult perspective in the final chapter. - Clear Light of Day
Set in 1825, Bayou st John is a novel about two fugitives with a master/slave relationship who escape to start new lives in New Orleans. - Bayou St. John (novel)
The novel ends with Jael, seemingly having accepted the offer from the Dictator, starting to address the public, through Michael's voice, for the first time. - Facial Justice
Richard Kennedy's cover art is in color, while the illustrations within the novel are black and white charcoal drawings. - Outcast (Sutcliff novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Maccon, who is "soulless", and thus unaffected by the powers of supernatural beings. - Heartless (Carriger novel)
George and Linda start a publishing company, with their first book being a political thriller novel written by Wayne. - Wanderlust (2012 film)
The novel begins circa 1980, when an ageing schoolteacher, Hal Price, is kidnapped at gunpoint by two teenaged brothers, Victor and Will. - Spanish City (novel)
The novel deals with the efforts of an alien species to escape their homeworld, whose system is passing through a cloud of interstellar debris, resulting in a high rate of in-falling matter. - The Crucible of Time
The series is based on the novel Bano. - Dastaan (TV series)
Paul Devereaux, who previously appeared in the Forsyth novel Avenger, is tasked by theS. - The Cobra (novel)
Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as "a triumph of language, imagination, and humor" (El País). - The Elephant's Journey
This is an historical novel set in the seventeenth-century. - La Dormition des amants
At this point in the novel it becomes clear that Isabelle is in fact Angust's late wife. - The Enemy's Cosmetique
Retelling the first third of Outlander, the graphic novel follows married World War II nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall, who finds herself transported back in time to Scotland in 1743. - The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
The novel is about two female students, called Blanche and Christa. - Antichrista
The novel first introduces with what actual historical events happened in our timeline and then tells of the point of divergence of historical events before it begins its story. - Red Inferno: 1945
The novel begins with Aliide Truu, an elderly woman who has survived many of the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia. - Purge (novel)
The novel in its original version is strikingly similar to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, from the many prolonged descriptions of the clothes worn by the characters to specific scenes such as Ross dispensing advice on the appropriate type of shoe to wear with chinos, which is taken almost word-for-word from a similar passage in Ellis's work. - The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Two former gay lovers, Pete, and the narrator of the novel Tim, are reunited when Tim needs a ride back to Los Angeles. - Tim and Pete
For the little time that was given to him, the novel "The Gambler" was completed. - Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky
The plot, inspired by Dostoyevsky's novel The Gambler, involves a young man entering the Peking Palace Casino and becoming a serious gambler in order to win the affection of a showgirl there, both of whom are being manipulated by the casino boss. - Gambler (album)
Jack (James Nesbitt) is an Irish travel writer who when younger had desires to be a great author like William Butler Yeats or James Joyce but never wrote the novel he dreamed of. - The Way (film)
The novel centers on a man who looks at the world and at himself. - Abaddón el exterminador
He plans to write an SF novel about three alien androids—Andra and children Targo and Ulu—who land on Earth coming from an advanced civilisation from the galaxy of Arkana. - Visitors from the Galaxy
The novel opens with Kostelec still under German occupation, and ends a week later after the Red Army has liberated the town. - The Cowards
The focus of much of the novel is the community of Etxelur. - Stone Spring
Upon return, Thormod finds his father killed by childhood friends, and swears the blood feud after which the novel is named. - Blood Feud (novel)
We find in this novel all the familiar characters made famous by Alice in Wonderland: the dormouse, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and others. - Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream
The novel is set in England over a period of eighteen months in the years 1460-61. - The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York
The novel writes two separate stories- the legend of Nikola and his real life - that blend together. - Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
When a copy of Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is discovered in the estate of the sole survivor of an earlier expedition to the north, a young woman named Chaka Milana, whose brother died in the previous expedition almost a decade ago, decides to gather a band of explorers and try to find Haven, a legendary stronghold where the knowledge of mankind is said to have been collected and kept safe for future generations. - Eternity Road (novel)
The principal character of the novel is Arthur Haggerston, an intelligent but rebellious teenager who lives with his mother, Peg, and her lover, Harry Parker, a former seaman who works in a sardine-canning factory. - The Day of the Sardine
Brett is later re-arrested by the cops for his newest crimes, the novel ends with Sam telling Brett that one can only change their own life. - Raw (novel)
The novel begins as a hard-boiled detective thriller in what is presumably New York City, about thirty years or so after the end of the Second World War - a future date at the time of writing. - Plan for Chaos
The novel jumps between two settings, the village of Afikpo from 1972 until 1981, and Lagos from 1983 and onward. - GraceLand
The novel begins with the thirteen-year-old Billy Williams, nicknamed Billy Twice, going to work his first day in the coal mine underneath the fictional Welsh town of Aberowen in 1911. - Fall of Giants
Based on characters created by Kix Brooks (as the alter egos of country superstars, Brooks and Dunn), The Adventures of Slim and Howdy is a comic crime novel that chronicles the exploits of a couple of gifted but undiscovered guitar pickin', honky tonk entertainin', country singers. - The Adventures of Slim and Howdy
When Sal returns home that night, he is able to write his novel about his life on the road with Dean. - On the Road (film)
The novel begins with Spenser receiving a large payment for a case he worked for Rita Fiore. - Back Story
The novel links to Catch the Lightning through the treaty, but apparently it did not work as intended, because even during the events of Catch the Lighning, both Skolia and Eubean Concord are still on shaky grounds. - The Ruby Dice
A musician from the symphony orchestra reads an English thriller novel during the concert, while performing his parts of the Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. - The Phantom of Morrisville
The romantic tryst between Ellen and Tom in the woods after the death of Agnes as per the novel does not occur, rather they become closer after Ellen states that Jack needs a master builder to apprentice to. - The Pillars of the Earth (miniseries)
Alexandre Borges and Murilo Benicio interpret rivals in history, respectively Jacques Leclair and Victor Valentine, who spend the entire novel feuding over who stands in the world as a successful fashion designer, named transformed into designer collections and paraded in major fashion weeks and photographed for celebrity magazines. - Ti Ti Ti
The novel opens with Jacob setting up a crime scene (in which he is the victim) for his mother to solve. - House Rules (novel)
The film is adapted from a novel by Dalene Matthee. - Circles in a Forest
The story told by the novel A Pele do Ogro occurs in the cities of London, Rome, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, and as a basis for the plot, the story of 19th-century Europe. - A Pele do Ogro
The novel is centered on an attempt to beat a concrete-pouring record set elsewhere in the Soviet Union by a shock brigade in Kharkov. - Time, Forward! (novel)
The novel is set in the year 2011; about forty years from the time it was written. - The Second Trip
The novel contains footnotes, which are intended to be both funny and informative, as well as further commentary on the nature and philosophy of radio and broadcasting, than there is time for the movie to encompass. - Danger on the Air
The novel opens with Carter and their father Julius Kane to visit Sadie, who has been living with her maternal grandparents since the death of the siblings' mother, Ruby Kane. - The Red Pyramid (novel)
The novel is narrated by 22-year-old Morgan, a rich young American orphan who is a relation of banker Morgan, having been brought up by his aunt and cousin. - Every Man for Himself (novel)
They enter into pitch-black darkness, and Vimes realizes he can see perfectly in the darkness, a skill rewarded to him by the Summoning Dark (a demon that briefly possessed him in the novel Thud. - Snuff (Pratchett novel)
The novel ends eight months later as the people of Gracehope are slowly educated on global warming and the dangers of staying in their colony. - First Light (Stead novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Shorty Mathews, a petty criminal just released from Pentonville Prison. - They Drive by Night (novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Harry Fabian, a morally reprehensible spiv determined to become the top wrestling promoter in London. - Night and the City (novel)
The novel ends with a deep feeling of guilt and sadness in Satyacharan. - Aranyak
Chaosbound is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment some attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - Chaosbound
The movie, based upon the novel of the same name by Naguib Mahfouz, examines the social conditions of Cairenes during the first decade of the twentieth century. - The Hunger (1986 film)
Varāngacharita is a novel that covers the life and times of a fictional prince, Varānga, to elucidate the principles and ethics of Jainism. - Varangacharita
The novel follows the plight of Helmer, who resides on a Dutch farm with his father. - The Twin (novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Kennedy, a 25-year-old spiv. - The Gilt Kid
The novel is broken into 11 parts of varying lengths. - The Passage (Cronin novel)
The novel is based on the Overton window concept in political theory, in which at any given moment there is a range of policies related to any particular issue that are considered politically acceptable ("in the window"), and other policies that politicians seeking to gain or hold public office do not feel they can recommend without being considered too far outside the mainstream ("outside the window"). - The Overton Window
The action of the novel spans a much longer period of time than its predecessor, covering approximately 20 years of their marriage as the couple become parents to a very large family. - The Fields (novel)
The novel revolves around the life of Dostoyevsky from the time of his meeting with Anna till their union. - Oru Sankeerthanam Pole
The novel finally comes to a close with John James finishing his reminiscences at the Villa Luxe, a house he has been renting on a Mediterranean island for the past nine years from Eddie, after fleeing the US owing to his fear of being connected with Smee's death. - The New Confessions
The novel opens on Minnie Ransom, the "fabled healer of the district", performing a healing on Velma Henry who has attempted suicide by slitting her wrists and sticking her head into a gas oven. - The Salt Eaters
The first part of the Bot Colony novel relates how KHT managed to infiltrate Bot Colony. - Bot Colony
The film is based on the novel by Russell Greenan The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton. - The Secret Life of Algernon
The novel begins in Detroit and tells the story of Robbie Daniels, a multimillionaire who guns down a Haitian refugee who broke into his Palm Beach mansion, calling it "practice". - Split Images
The novel begins with Rose in her prison cell contemplating the charges brought against her and occasionally using the bond to slip into Lissa's mind to view goings-on at Court. - Last Sacrifice
The film follows the plot of Wouk's novel closely, depicting events from March 1939 until the entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941. - The Winds of War (miniseries)
The novel features two investigators from Boucher/Holmes' earlier locked door mystery Nine Times Nine: Sister Ursula of the convent of the fictitious Sisters of Martha of Bethany, and police detective Terence "Terry" Marshall. - Rocket to the Morgue
From this central moment, this novel weaves out the stories of two families that intercross across divisions of race and class. - Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
The novel begins immediately after the ending of Backlash, with Luke and Ben Skywalker being surrounded over Dathomir by the Sith fleet summoned by Vestara Khai, their Sith prisoner. - Allies (Star Wars novel)
The novel tells the story of Cory Avalon, an orphan who is lured through an enchanted gateway disguised as a mirror, and ends up in the magical world of Abydonne. - The Dragon's Familiar
The novel also describes a Parliamentary election in the fictional borough of Percycross, in which Sir Thomas, a Conservative, and Moggs, a Radical, are two of the four candidates for the two available seats. - Ralph the Heir
The narrator and hero of the novel is a young Byzantine freedman of Priscus nicknamed Zeta who travels with him to Attila. - Slave of the Huns
The beginning of the novel contains changing plots that will later become entwined as the story progresses. - So This Is How It Ends
The original novel takes place in Detroit and tells the story of a seriously crazed 'Oklahoma Wildman' Clement Mansell who knows how easy it is to get away with murder - thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his beautiful, tough-as-nails lawyer Carolyn Wilder. - City Primeval
The discovery provides the glint of a new lead for Park, and the novel tracks her investigation into what really happened, which ultimately reveals the mystery of her parents' homicide. - The Interpreter (Kim novel)
The novel follows a group of four Viennese teens during the 1950s as they violently engage with the previous generation's Post-World War II legacy. - Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Anita Desai's novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries, India and the United States. - Fasting, Feasting
Olly writes the two first chapters of a novel and an editor pays him $50,000 to finish it. - The Best Man (2005 film)
We find out at the start of the novel that in the previous book the Soul Eaters marked Torak with the Soul Eater symbol. - Outcast (Paver novel)
Before the action of the novel begins, Beau Nash, an historical figure who served as Master of Ceremonies of Bath, has ordered Beaucaire out of the public rooms because of his low status. - Monsieur Beaucaire (novel)
The novel is based on a violent event that took place on Palm Island, Queensland (called Doebin in the novel) in 1930, in which the white Superintendent of the settlement, Robert Curry (Brodie in the novel), ran amok, setting fire to buildings and killing his own children in the process. - The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
The novel concerns Anne, a teenager who leaves her chaotic home life and finds sanctuary in the nearby woods where she makes a new life for herself, foraging and hunting for food and building a house. - Pollard (novel)
The novel narrates the story of guerrillas who were unwilling to surrender while awaiting the return of the armed forces of the United States. - Cry Slaughter!
With this cliffhanger the novel ends. - Mind Wizards of Callisto
Fellow Passengers uses nearly every word of the original Dickens novel activated by the cast as narrative theatre. - Fellow Passengers
The novel opens with 13-year-old Madison "Maddy" Spencer waking in Hell, unsure of the details surrounding her death. - Damned (Palahniuk novel)
In the past, the Alchemists were dominant, but by the time of the novel the Mechanics have taken the lead, and institute widespread economic and industrial innovations. - The Alchemy of Stone
The novel is divided intro three sections: "Youth," "Struggle," and "Revolt". - The "Genius" (novel)
The title of the novel comes from this line said by Weiyangsheng. - The Carnal Prayer Mat
The novel opens at Simon's boarding school in the south of England, where the poisonous atmosphere of bullying and denigration has nurtured Simon's "devils", as he describes his blind rages. - The Scarecrows
The title of the novel creates expectations about a cruel murderer, but Stefan Gashtev is a funny little person who has been trying to become popular all his life. - The Executioner (Kisyov novel)
The rest of the novel follows the characters and how they are each changed through their newfound relationship with Satan. - Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.
Hartmann adds a self-proclamation, which is written in much the same way as in Der arme Heinrich: The novel begins with a Whitsun celebration at the court of Arthur, the epitome of courtly festivities. - Iwein
Adolph had stolen Tekla away from Gustav, and then Tekla wrote a novel that was a roman a clef with the main character based on Gustav. - Creditors (play)
The novel is split into two books, which revolve around two different casts of characters who inhabit the same world. - The Orphan's Tales
The novel follows Eugene Buckingham, the only son of a South Carolina planter, as he crosses paths with Julia Tennyson, a Scottish American journalist who has written a number of pamphlets under various pseudonyms. - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
(It is also a source of personal frustration to Demane: though it is not revealed until the next novel in the series, Crucible of Gold, he and Ensign Emily Roland have formed a romantic attachment, and by obtaining a dragon of his own to fly alongside Excidium, whom she will someday inherit from her mother, he had hoped to increase his standing in her eyes) The British finally catch sight of the thieves near Uluru, and chase them northwards to the northern coast. - Tongues of Serpents
Within The Bronx Kill, Martin is writing a novel about an Irishman named Michael Furey, who moves to America once he has discovered that his family has been murdered, most likely by his brother, Hugh. - The Bronx Kill
The novel then cuts to the present day, to Ani, the halfling whose life Devlin spared, as she tries to fit in with the other hounds, but cannot, due to her father's protectiveness and her mortal blood. - Radiant Shadows
Hemingway offers to show Gil's novel to Gertrude Stein, and Gil goes to fetch his manuscript from his hotel. - Midnight in Paris
This novel is generally felt to be the most humorous of dr Fell's adventures, somewhat echoing the farcical later adventures of Carr's Sir Henry Merrivale. - The Blind Barber
The novel presents an unflinching look at the hardships endured by the Marines who waged the war on behalf of America. - Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
In its structure, the novel reflects Andersen's own life and his travels through Italy. - The Improvisatore
The novel closes with the image of the mother and daughter driving away from the Mühlviertel, with Hilde at the wheel and her foot on the gas pedal. - February Shadows
The novel opens with Sukhen, the protagonist, trying to capture a butterfly. - Prajapati (novel)
This novel ends on a funny note with the author comes out of his dream by server pouring hot Rasam on his hand in the marriage dinner. - Ganapati (novel)
The comedy of the novel revolves around his attempts to understand English as it was spoken in Australia by the working classes in the 1950s and 1960s. - They're a Weird Mob
The novel follows the adventures of Meredith (Muggs), a Sixth Form prefect at fictional Leadham House Preparatory School in England, and the adventures he has with his friends Hawk, Pongo, Clayton, Pigface, Renton, and Murray as well as a ubiquitous and beloved bulldoog named Uggles. - Meredith and Co.
The novel is told in the first person singular. - The Vast Fields of Ordinary
The novel also features the re-appearance of Hiaasen's recurring character, ex-Florida governor Clinton "Skink" Tyree. - Star Island (novel)
As the novel continues, these individual storylines converge with one another, often through the intervention of July. - Driftless
Set around the year 2004, the novel focusses on Fredrik Welin, once a successful orthopaedic surgeon forced to retire early from his profession career. - Italian Shoes
The novel is written in the first person singular. - Sprout (novel)
The novel begins with questioning the mere physicality of the man-woman relationship but then transports the reader into the higher planes of platonic love. - The Dark Abode
The novel opens when Mike Rudd, the twin brother of Garth's deceased father, arrives at the Rudd home. - In Mike We Trust
The Dream Lord describes the Doctor sarcastically as "The Oncoming Storm", a name coined by his archenemies the Daleks, and first mentioned in the Seventh Doctor novel Love and War and subsequently on-screen in "The Parting of the Ways", where it was attributed to the Daleks. - Amy's Choice (Doctor Who)
A successful playwright Sir Howard Furnival (Stephenson) assists her in preparing a play based upon a novel she has written, but keeps this secret from his wife Doris (Dean), who is very jealous. - A Society Exile
The four Prime children grow up in a bleak North Country farmhouse called 'The Beacon'; Colin and Berenice marry locally, May, the central character of the novel went to university in London but returns within a year. - The Beacon (novel)
He moves to a smalltown to concentrate on his novel and meets Anne who falls for the troubled writer. - Descendant (2003 film)
The novel opens with Franky explaining how "Freaky" came into her life. - Freaky Green Eyes
The novel is set in the eastern suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area, in the communities of Scarborough, Whitby and Oshawa. - The Moved and the Shaken
The novel begins in the summer of 1799 at the Dutch East India Company trading post Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki. - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
As a consequence of the fact that the novel is told using an oscillating narrator, the reader has the benefit of 'hearing' the thoughts of the main characters. - Beauty (novel)
The story is an unofficial prequel to Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. - Rage and Passion
The story is an unofficial prequel to Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. - The Mystery of the Condor Hero
Some of the people in the novel are not who they appear to be. - The Twelfth Card
The author, Mo Yan, uses self-reference and by the end of the novel introduces himself as one of the main characters. - Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Within portions of the novel Lao Can acts as a detective in several small crime-related plots. - The Travels of Lao Can
The ladder (which the novel is presumably named after) is Brian Keaney's representation of the Biblical Jacob's Ladder. - Jacob's Ladder (novel)
The novel begins with a brief prologue explaining the history of Dark River, the fictional reservation where the main character, Thomas Just, is born. - People of the Whale
The novel begins with the breaking off of the engagement between Barney Thayer and Charlotte Barnard after Charlotte's father and Barney get into a heated political argument. - Pembroke (book)
The novel opens “a few years after the Civil War” with John Warwick, from Clarence, South Carolina, leaving a hotel in Patesville, North Carolina. - The House Behind the Cedars (book)
At this point the attention of the novel shifts to Lloyd Searight, a young, attractive girl, who works as a nurse, despite being independently wealthy. - A Man's Woman
The novel Evelyn's Husband revolves around four major characters, placing them in extraordinary situations under the power of coincidental fate in order to examine human nature, morality, and love. - Evelyn's Husband
The remainder of the novel portrays the characters' intertwined lives through Charles Chesnutt’s use of melodramatic subplots and, in the process, provides a picture of life in the post-Civil War South. - The Colonel's Dream
The novel is told by a first-person narrator, a 36-year-old American airman of Jewish descent, Ben Isaacs, who had worked as a teacher before volunteering for the Air Force. - Face of a Hero
The Christmas Tango is based on the novel by. - Christmas Tango
The novel surrounds undercover Northern Irish policeman Martin Murphy. - Murphy's Law (novel)
The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as Governor Stark's right-hand man. - All the King's Men
Demkë before being assigned the post as Zylo's assistant used to be a bright individualistic person who gave up on his own ideals to substitute them with the "ideals of the greater good", which in the novel is an euphemism for his superiors will. - The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo
The novel focuses on an unnamed female narrator, who explores her existential situation as a woman and writer, both through personal reflection and in dialogue form. - Malina (novel)
This novel starts with five highly dangerous detainees pulled out from their cells in Guantanamo Bay detention camp, stripped off their jumpsuits and changed into civilian clothes. - The First Commandment (novel)
The novel is set in 1997 at the height of the Britpop music scene. - Kill Your Friends
The novel is a mix of the two men's stories as Palmer continues to find out more about the doctor. - The House of Doctor Dee
The novel follows the six "chosen ones" Minoo, Rebecka, Vanessa, Anna-Karin, Ida, and Linnéa, all of whom are first-year students at the same secondary school. - The Circle (novel)
The novel tells the story of a man born to a prostitute. - Whoreson (novel)
In the cafeteria, Britta is in line when she runs into Subway and finds herself attracted to his altruistic personality and their mutual love of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. - Digital Exploration of Interior Design
The novel and details the life of a girl named Sandra. - Black Girl Lost
The novel ends when Curtis shoots and kills Dan, falling in and out of consciousness, while rats begin to eat both his and Dan’s bodies. - Cry Revenge
The novel ends with Bannister celebrating with the Rucker family in his new house in Antigua, with all the gold. - The Racketeer (novel)
The novel is set at a North Carolina amusement park in 1973 and involves a carny who must confront the "legacy of a vicious murder and the fate of a dying child". - Joyland (novel)
Diane Chambers' attempts at writing her novel are said to have failed, which led to her leaving Boston to write in Hollywood. - Home Is the Sailor (Cheers)
Dhwani comes to stay at Trivandrum Lodge, aiming to write a novel with Kochi as the backdrop. - Trivandrum Lodge
The novel tells the story of a Detroit hit man who, like the patriarch of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has high aspirations for his daughter and teaches her in the arts he knows best, in this case knife wielding. - Daddy Cool (novel)
Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who is struggling to recreate the early success of his first novel but unable to commit to any of his ideas. - Ruby Sparks
The novel is set in the country-side around Lamotte-Beuvron and Brinon-sur-Sauldre, and deals with the relationship between landowners and poor people in the years after World War. - Raboliot
The novel engages with both the damages caused by Mormon polygamy and the Idea:. - The Giant Joshua
Brother Mark's role in the novel is fulfilled by Cadfael's earnest assistant, Brother Oswin. - Cadfael (TV series)
While the parish priest is frustrated by people's allegiance to the well rather than the church, the novel traces the stories of numerous people who find inspiration through the well in many different ways. - Whitethorn Woods
The novel is set in Nova Scotia, Montreal and New York City during the early 1960s. - White Figure, White Ground
The novel is set in London in the 1950s. - A Choice of Enemies
The novel is set in Montreal, Canada. - Son of a Smaller Hero
The novel is set in London and Montreal during the late 1960s. - St. Urbain's Horseman
A novel deeply in the American grain that tells the story of the funny and painful transit to manhood accomplished (and endured) by Tonto Schwartz. - In the Name of the Father (novel)
Following the painful, yet exuberant, process of the Santuzzu children's displacement from their homeland and relocation in Papa Santuzzu's conceived lush "faraway garden," Ardizzone's novel re-imagines the meaning of such a journey, where every obvious gain entails some unforeseen sacrifice. - In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu
Torey ends his narration of the novel by stating that Chris's body was never found, but he does show some hope, through letters from people he thought could be Chris in disguise. - The Body of Christopher Creed
At a dinner celebrating the 70th birthday of their father Henry Meyerwitz (Ron Rifkin), tensions among the four Meyerwitz siblings explode thanks to the success of the youngest son, Nathan (Ben Schwartz), whose new novel Peep World is a thinly veiled portrait of the family. - Peep World
” The film was based on the best-selling biographical novel that two of her twelve children wrote about their childhoods. - Cheaper by the Dozen
The novel is told in the third person, but with two strong narrative foci on the two protagonists. - Zone of Emptiness
The film is based on the British novel Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome. - Drei Mann in einem Boot
Butters confesses to writing the novel himself. - The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Based upon a novel by Zane Grey, Man of the Forest involves a young lady (Verna Hillie) who is captured by a band of outlaws led by Clint Beasley (Noah Beery). - Man of the Forest
Based on the novel Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey, the film is about a rancher whose spread includes the only way out of the valley where an outlaw is hiding a huge herd of stolen cattle. - Heritage of the Desert (1932 film)
The novel starts off with Daisuke, the protagonist, waking up and staring at the ceiling with his hand on his heart, feeling for his heartbeat. - Sorekara
The film covers the first half of the novel and ends with the truce between the Qianlong Emperor and the Red Flower Society at Liuhe Pagoda. - The Romance of Book and Sword
The film covers the second half of the Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. - Princess Fragrance (film)
The novel begins with Chief Stone investigating the murder of a man Suit finds crammed into the trunk of an abandoned car. - Split Image (novel)
The novel beings to close as It is later revealed that Ellen has gotten over Andre and has married, under the condition the man knows how to contain his love within human capacities. - Supermale (novel)
The main plot of the novel involves the investigation of the Night Hawk. - Night and Day (Parker novel)
The third and final novel in the Jason Croft series once more brings Jason into contact with dr George Murray on Earth. - Jason, Son of Jason
The second novel in the Jason Croft series finds Jason once again relating his adventures on the world of Palos to dr George Murray via astral projection. - The Mouthpiece of Zitu
In both the novel and the miniseries, political parties are not named but referred to generically as the "party". - Favorite Son (miniseries)
The movie is based on a novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor which in turn is loosely based on the tale of Old Drum, a foxhound which is said to the inspiration of the "Man's Best Friend" speech in 1870. - The Voice of Bugle Ann
Set on the planet Palos, the novel concerns Jason Croft, a wealthy American who has learned the art of astral projection from a Hindu teacher. - Palos of the Dog Star Pack
The novel takes the reader chronologically through three significant periods in Beard's life: 2000, 2005 and 2009, interspersed with some recollections of his student days in Oxford. - Solar (novel)
The novel continues on from the end of Don't Call Me Ishmael. - Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs
Young Frederick Ellis and his grandmother mrs Mary Ellis are reading the galleys for a novel that Frederick is about to publish. - The Autumn Garden
The third season loosely follows the plot of the novel Club Dead, which finds Sookie teaming up with a werewolf sent by Eric, named Alcide in Mississippi in order to track down Bill, who has been kidnapped and is being held hostage by a vampire King. - True Blood (season 3)
The novel is based around the aftermath of the incident that leads to the Brennan family leaving the town of Mumbilli and is written from Tom's perspective. - The Story of Tom Brennan
Other central characters in the novel are the English soldier "Sammy Jenkins", who has a background as a poor boy from Whitechapel, and the poor IRA girl "Brigid Doherty". - Rosapenna
However other companions are reading the exact same book – the popular detective novel "Deadly Murder". - Sportloto-82
The novel closes with the description, ". - The Running Man (novel)
The novel opens in a world reduced to a grim struggle for existence after a plague of madness that afflicted individuals at random. - A Plague of Pythons
Among the plot deviations from novel to movie:. - Kidnapped (2005 miniseries)
The protagonist of the novel is a young unnamed fox. - Fox Bunny Funny
Set a few years after the events of The Big Sleep, the new novel begins with long passages of text lifted from the original to set the scene, establish the characters, and remind readers of the events of the first book. - Perchance to Dream (novel)
The novel ends with the quest unfinished and the mysteries of Tara's heritage and destiny unresolved, with the travelers flying onward to new adventures in their magical air-gondola. - Tara of the Twilight
The subplots of the novel focus on Lenox's evolving personal relationship with Grey and McConnell's strained marriage to Lady Victoria "Toto" Phillips, all recurring characters in Finch's books. - A Beautiful Blue Death
The novel speaks about religious feelings and relationships and the mystic reach of these aspects. - Sufi Paranja Katha
The protagonist of the novel is a 20-year-old man named Artyom who was born before the nuclear holocaust. - Metro 2033
The action of the novel moves back to the late 1950s, when they worked for a missionary society in a dangerous and crowded South African township, and then follows the couple to Bechuanaland, where in the loneliness of a remote mission station an unspeakable loss occurs. - A Change of Climate
She seems unconcerned with her parents murders, and the novel ends with her having dinner with Jesse and Jenn. - Stranger in Paradise (novel)
The novel begins with the notorious Spare Change serial killer resurfacing after 20 years. - Spare Change (novel)
It chronicles Jack Kerouac writing his seminal novel On the Road, and its effect on their lives. - Heart Beat (film)
The novel is set in China during the Qing dynasty during the reign of the Daoguang Emperor. - Xiagu Danxin
The novel centres around a bizarre German museum dedicated to suicide; Herr Schmidt, its grim grey curator; and the respectable Doctor Ernst Frölicher and his shocking secret. - Little Hands Clapping
The first strand of the novel follows Hollis Henry, a former member of the early 1990s cult band The Curfew and a freelance journalist. - Spook Country
The novel centers on Glawen Clattuc, an intelligent, capable young man. - Araminta Station
Narrated by Sir Dickon Mountjoy, a twelfth-century Norman nobleman, the novel describes his lifelong friendship with Cedric of Pelham Wood, a Saxon yeoman. - Cedric the Forester
The novel ends as Miranda reflects on the events in an epilogue. - When You Reach Me
The novel recounts Mona's relation with Wade, and Sally's relation with one of the archivists of Church Central, Etcher. - Arc d'X
Inspired by her loss, she starts writing a novel called Autumn Years. - Once in a Lifetime (1994 film)
The novel follows the relationship of photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot and English teacher Carter Maguire. - Vision in White
Set four years before the events described in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the novel takes place in an alternate universe version of Regency era England where zombies are a well-known menace spawned by an event known as The Troubles. - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
The novel ends with Waterlily’s self-affirmation to never break her promise. - Waterlily (novel)
Opens with author Will Bunting retelling the story of the novel he had written. - American Vampire
This novel begins with the Back-to-Africa rally, which is run by Reverend Deke O’Malley. - Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel)
As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright’s script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th century—to the point where the novel’s footnotes come alive and literally try to take over the narrative. - Book – A Novel
The novel is set in Portugal in the summer of 1938, during Salazar's dictatorship. - Pereira Maintains
The novel opens with Correus frustrated at serving in a peacetime establishment and requesting transfer to a more active post. - The Emperor's Games
After publishing a well-received collection of short stories, Lisa writes a novel based on Ruth's affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. - Collected Stories (play)
Allan Brown writes that Howie's arguments with Lord Summerisle have more impact in the novel than they did in the film, as the casting of Christopher Lee, who is associated with many villainous roles, made it difficult for the film's audience to trust Lord Summerisle or consider his arguments seriously. - The Wicker Man (novel)
Tron: Evolution serves as a precursor to the movie and sequel to both the graphic novel and the Nintendo Wii and DS versions,. - Tron: Evolution
The novel opens with Correus returning from a spying expedition to some of the local British tribes, one of which, the Silures, will provide the main antagonist in the person of their king Bendigeid. - Barbarian Princess (novel)
Ponmudi was a love story based on the Bharathidasan novel Edhirparatha Mutham. - Ponmudi (1950 film)
Aaron envies Ryan because Ryan is a successful author, while he has not yet had his novel published, and resents his brother because Ryan would rather spend money on a first class airline ticket than help him pay for the funeral expenses. - Death at a Funeral (2010 film)
Commits suicide at the conclusion of the novel to relieve Isaac the burden of taking care of him and to allow Isaac to leave his hometown. - American Rust
The long novel is composed of 12 chapters, and is set between the years 1642 and 1648. - A Gloriosa Família
The novel takes place sometime in the future, when the Earth is dominated by several wealthy and lucrative businesspeople. - Stargonauts
The first part of the novel details Christopher's parents' courtship and marriage in pre-World War II Germany, Christopher's childhood, and the mystery surrounding his mother's disappearance. - The Last Supper (novel)
The title and deep theme of the novel is a nod to Richard Dawkins' 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. - The Unselfish Gene
The novel begins with Seward tracking down Elizabeth Báthory, whom he believes is a vampire. - Dracula the Un-dead
As a satire of high fantasy the novel mocks most of the conventions of the genre from using traditional villainous races, orcs, as the protagonists, to having the noble characters have much less than noble motivations and secrets. - Grunts!
It was revealed in the novel that Louisa Barrett was sexually abused by the former president Grover Cleveland. - City of Light (novel)
The remainder of the novel follows Grafton’s exploits in what became known as The Christmas Bombings. - Flight of the Intruder (novel)
The novel visits their lives and their relationship on July 15 in successive years in each chapter for 20 years. - One Day (novel)
Departing from actual history, the novel depicts a fictitious Japanese invasion and conquest of Hawaii in late 1941, in the wake of an attack on Pearl Harbor far more successful than happened in reality, and the ensuing struggle by the United States to regain the islands in 1942. - 1942 (novel)
The novel tells the story of a boy named Bob Miller whose scientist father, Sam Miller, has invented a "time ring", a circular device that allows time travel. - Tunnel Through Time
The novel consists of a forward and thirty-six chapters. - Caballero: A Historical Novel
The novel is set around 1911 to 1919 in Delhi. - Twilight in Delhi
The novel begins prior to the American Revolution. - The Rifle
The book chronicles Aguilar's search for answers and his efforts to rehabilitate his young, beautiful and admittedly singular wife through the use of alternating narrative styles that, as the novel progresses, shed further light on the mysterious events that took place during Aguilar's absence as well as the nature of Agustina's family and childhood, both of which precipitated Agustina's struggle with mental illness. - Delirium (Restrepo novel)
The novel begins with Roland and his ka-tet arriving at a river on their journey to the Dark Tower. - The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Rux's novel is written beautifully in a neo-1970s hipster style, and his writing is so effective because the attitudes, values, and mores that these artists abide by is subtly woven into his narrative and washes over us in undulating waves, constantly reminding the reader that art is indeed a state of being in many respects and not simply something that one does or is defined by the places or the conditions where one lives. - Asphalt (novel)
It is also revealed ( if not know earlier in the novel ) that David and Rosa are the parents of Angel. - Fire World
Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel Shortcomings is his only work that fully deals with themes of being a young Asian-American male in American society. - Shortcomings (comics)
Blu's Hanging is a novel which introduces the very distressed life of the Ogata family. - Blu's Hanging
The novel is divided into three main sections entitled "Iroquireland", "Mohock Club" and "Cold Cold Heart". - Manituana
The novel begins in the year 1900 with the McClure family, which consists of Emma, the mother, her father Granpap, and Emma’s children: Basil, Kirk, Bonnie, and John. - To Make My Bread
The novel tells the story of Kemal, a convalescing Turkish fighter pilot, who, after his friend mysteriously disappears, is left with a generous allowance and the use of his large house in Istanbul’s Taksim district. - Many and Many a Year Ago
The novel flips between telling the history of the main characters in Hesse, their homeland, and current events in the mundane world (what the Fables call our world). - Peter & Max: A Fables Novel
She follows him after he leaves school and they start living together, he working on his novel and she encouraging him and working at an office responsible for busting up protests. - A World to Win (Conroy novel)
The novel is orchestrated into four parts named after the four main characters: “İhsan,” “Nuran,” “Suad,” and “Mümtaz”. - A Mind at Peace
He also recites the incredibly complicated plot of the novel in which the paintings were primarily conceived. - The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Boyd searches Echo's pod and finds the leaf used as a bookmark for a novel she has been reading. - Belonging (Dollhouse)
The novel opens with her waiting in a spaceport for a seat on a shuttle to Earth orbit, which will be the first step on a journey to the research space station Einstein, where she is to live with her new foster father, Yoshi, a poet and college friend of her mother's. - Barbary (novel)
The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, that of the physical sciences has languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century. - The Blue Star (novel)
Castle Dor began life as the unfinished last novel by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier. - Castle Dor
In order to return Wendy to England, Fighting Prawn devises a plan to help Captain hook resurrect the sunken flying ship from the previous novel (which no longer flies) so Hook can use it to return to piracy and deliver Wendy to England. - Peter and the Sword of Mercy
The novel closes with the whole group singing "Silent Night", the children in English, and the adults (minus Miss Williams) in German. - From Anna
The novel concerns the conflict between the fictional General Haraka, a leader of the Mau Mau, and British forces representing the colonial government, led by Captain Kingsley. - Carcase for Hounds
The original rights for Morell's novel went through 10 years of passing hands before culminating in the 1982 film. - Ruckus (film)
The novel follows the relationship of Dorothy Brown, a British woman in Assam, and her relationship with a tantric of the Kamakhya Temple in Assam. - The Man from Chinnamasta
The Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar brings sudden twist to the novel and the protagonist plunges headlong into the crisis for most of the people she is close to are Sikhs. - Pages Stained with Blood
Small's novel contains real documents from the era, including letters written by cavalrymen who witnessed the massacre and contemporary newspaper accounts. - Choke Creek
The novel follows two alienated teenagers in Staten Island, 15-year-old Louis "Marsh" Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, as they cope with their family issues. - Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!
The novel is characterized by stories like this: a collection of Charlotte's memories and the narrator's memories, intertwining so that the text moves seamlessly through their lives in a dreamlike fashion. - Dreams of My Russian Summers
The novel is structured like a haiku to provide the illusion of self-contained meaning. - Point Omega
Another of the protagonists is Bautista Amaya (Facundo Arana), an anthropologist widowed at the beginning of the novel as Duarte runs over his wife with his car and not left in place to help her. - Vidas robadas
Louie Brunellesches, a small-time New York gangster who also appears in Tosches' novel Cut Numbers, returns in a smaller role, making this something of a sequel. - In the Hand of Dante
The novel starts out with an African girl named Simone, who tastes a piece of chocolate for the Midnight Sun (as the book centers around the sense of taste, like the first novel, which centers around scent, and the second, which centers around the sense of sound). - This Book Is Not Good for You
Set between the late 19th century and present-day, the graphic novel Logicomix is based on the story of the so-called "foundational quest" in mathematics. - Logicomix
Based on the novel of the same name by Jacques Chardonne, the film is set in the early 20th century. - Sentimental Destinies
The novel ends with the same passage as it began: "When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves". - The Land of Green Plums
McNamara has written a novel titled "Fix the Fox", a crime thriller about the murder of five lawyers, which he hopes to publish and leave behind a positive legacy instead of a negative one. - Fox (film)
When the novel begins, Sookie Stackhouse is still recovering physically and emotionally from the torture she received at the hands of demented fairies Lochlan and Neave in the previous book (Dead and Gone). - Dead in the Family
The novel is essentially a tragedy and follows the lives of American novelist Emily Wilkes and her husband, a communist from a wealthy background, over several decades. - I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist
The play is based on a 1957 novel by Mark Harris and deals with the experiences of an idealistic young soldier in a Georgia-based Army training camp during World War II and the Army captain who, by hospitalizing him, saves him from the war. - Something About a Soldier
The memory is poignant, and Irene decides that she cannot revisit the past through his novel anymore. - The Secret in Their Eyes
The novel ends with Summers drifting into unconsciousness and death, hearing the sounds of the soldiers destroying the village and "the wailing of squaws and the crying of children and the voices of soldiers proud of themselves". - Fair Land, Fair Land
The novel begins at 7 AM, with Derik riding up to the Danvers State Hospital in his car. - Project 17
The novel starts when she is demoted to Z rank at the start of the novel. - Fearless (Lott novel)
The novel tells the story of LuAnn Tyler, a destitute mother living in a trailer park, who meets with Jackson, a man running a massive lottery scam from inside the National Lottery. - The Winner (novel)
Alex then recounts this tale to his children though his novel called Trial. - Alex Cross's Trial
At the end of the novel he is about to follow the last clue that remains to his past: an address in the Via della Botteghe Obscure in Rome, where Jimmy Pedro Stern is recorded as having lived in the 1930s. - Missing Person (novel)
He later writes a very critical account of the incident in his novel Kaputt. - Gruber's Journey
The novel follows the adventures of Kuang Li Chien, an easterner from the country of Shou Lung, and Tychoben Arisaenn, a minor bard who lives in the seedy port town of Spandeliyon, Altumbel. - The Yellow Silk
This novel is set in Thay. - The Crimson Gold
The novel is about a boy called Measle who has been recently reunited with his parents, Sam and Lee Stubbs. - Measle and the Dragodon
He stresses throughout the novel that he is just as intelligent, or more intelligent, than others around him. - Stuck In Neutral
The novel begins with a special notice from the Etherhorde Mariner, announcing that the IMS Chathrand has mysteriously vanished at sea on a voyage to transport Thasha Isiq to a political wedding to bring peace to the two competing empires of northwest Alifros. - The Red Wolf Conspiracy
The novel begins in Albania, where a spy named Paul Dimiter is tortured by the authorities. - Dimiter
Set initially in Tsarist Russia, the novel tells of Sara Moses, always known as 'Mrs Moses'. - The Family Frying Pan
The novel ends with hope that he'll return, the last lines being "Keep calling for me Viola-, Cuz here I come". - Monsters of Men
The novel takes place almost entirely around Lichfield, Virginia, Cabell's fictionalization of Richmond, Virginia, particularly in Kennaston's house, in the country. - The Cream of the Jest
The novel follows the adventure of four bears, Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (a black bear), Toklo (a brown bear) and Ujurak (a brown bear). - The Quest Begins
One of the subplots of the novel details the budding love between Pitar and Maluma, a female member of the band. - Hominid (novel)
This adventure is based on the SSI computer game Curse of the Azure Bonds, and ties in with the novel of the same name. - Curse of the Azure Bonds (module)
The plot of the novel involves John Constantine being convinced to enter a reality television program which has suffered several strange hauntings, a thinly veiled satire of British programmes Most Haunted and Big Brother. - Dark Entries (comics)
The novel ends with Ananya giving birth to twin boys. - 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
The novel is divided in three parts. - Names in Marble
This is the novel that has been structured from human myths melted down and recreated one of the most perfectly executed literary whims. - The City of Pleasure
Having faced a degree a controversy over her first novel, Life, Love and Assimilation, Abdullah is unsure how her second novel will be received: "It's ultra violent and ultra sexual, and there are some morally ambiguous sex scenes in there, so I don't know how people will react to that," she says on her website. - Child's Play (novel)
By the end of the novel Mulk Raj Anand, the author, has made a compelling case for the end of untouchability on the grounds that it is an inhumane, unjust system of oppression. - Untouchable (novel)
The novel opens in 1954 in the small logging settlement of Twisted River on the Androscoggin River in northern New Hampshire. - Last Night in Twisted River
The novel opens with the country of Ferelden occupied by the neighbouring Orlesian Empire. - Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne
The novel was also set in the World of Greyhawk with scant references to its location. - Keep on the Borderlands (novel)
The novel is divided into three parts: the first part leads up to the Battle of Hattin; the second part, set four years later, shows Philip d'Aubigny's escape from captivity at the time of the Third Crusade, and the final part deals with Philip's reclaiming his ancestral lands in the Welsh Marches. - Knight Crusader
The novel ends with the news that on 30 September 1139, Empress Maud invaded England, establishing herself at Arundel Castle in West Sussex. - Saint Peter's Fair
The novel is set in Melbourne. - Three Dollars (novel)
The novel begins with a short prologue in which Will, on a visit to an eccentric neighbor, learns about protons, a microscopic particle of matter which, the neighbor tells him, is the indestructible building block of all matter. - Smiles to Go
Much of the action of this short novel takes place in the rickety old stage-coach — or coucou — of Pierrotin, which regularly carries passengers and goods between Paris and Val-d'Oise. - Un début dans la vie
The novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. - Richard Blade (series)
This is an important event because the original novel Jud Suss involved a positive portrayal of a Jewish civil servant in Germany. - The Unwritten
The novel begins in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 6, 2007, where we meet Eric Jeffers some six days before his seventeenth birthday. - Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Fifteen years old when the novel begins, she has been brought up by the doctor. - Ursule Mirouët
Ewart Adamson based the screenplay on the 1928 novel The Last Trap, by American mystery writer Sinclair Gluck. - The Dark Hour (1936 film)
He is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a contracted novel that will pay his bills including a lucrative advance by his publisher. - My Dear Secretary
The novel is set in September, AD 81. - The Man from Pomegranate Street
Jo March (Kay Francis), the lead character in Alcott's novel Little Women, now runs a private school for young boys. - Little Men (1940 film)
The novel is split into two loosely interconnecting stories. - The Rehearsal (novel)
The novel starts in the spring of 1971 and ends a year later, with the changing seasons being used to illustrate changes in the themes of the novel. - This River Awakens
In the novel Tricks, the story begins with five teenagers, all residing in various parts of the United States. - Tricks (novel)
The novel ends with Clay reaching out to Skye. - Thirteen Reasons Why
The story follows the plot of Sense and Sensibility, but places the novel in an alternate universe version of Regency era United Kingdom where an event known as “The Alteration” has turned the creatures of the sea against mankind. - Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
The novel then jumps ahead to New York City in 2004 and shifts to the story of Walter and Patty's friend Richard, who has finally succeeded in becoming a minor indie rock star in his middle age. - Freedom (Franzen novel)
The novel suggests that this is a reward for the now "Sir" Alfred Wincham's "war work", but Fanny is unclear about her husband's role during this period. - Don't Tell Alfred
Durrell develops further in this novel the process of deliberate breakdown of logical narrative, which he has used throughout the series. - Quinx
The novel is set in the period from the outbreak of World War II in 1939 with the Nazi invasion of Poland, to the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. - Constance (novel)
The heroine of the novel is Matilda, a widow in her fifties, who lives alone in an isolated cottage in Cornwall, England. - Jumping the Queue
The novel centres on the character of Katinka Bai, a quiet, sensitive young woman married to a boisterous and somewhat vulgar station master, Bai. - Ved Vejen
After a brief flashback to 1920, with a glimpse of Indiana Jones as a college student in Chicago, the novel moves to its main setting. - Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi
Michael takes pleasure in the other man’s humiliation, but the experience proves prophetic of several burdens assumed during the novel and the difficulty characters will have sustaining them. - Bay of Souls
The novel focuses around Don Halifax and his wife of sixty years, Sarah, an astronomer who translated the first transmission sent from an extraterrestrial source to Earth 38 years prior to the opening of the story. - Rollback (novel)
The principal protagonist of the novel is Mick Looney, an Irish construction worker from Kilburn, London, who comes to the conclusion that he is the rightful King of Ireland. - The Looney: An Irish Fantasy
The protagonist of the novel is Genly Ai, a male Terran native, who is sent to invite Gethen to join the Ekumen, the coalition of humanoid worlds. - The Left Hand of Darkness
He learns from Meno, an aging television talk show host, that Archer Aymes, a Columbia University graduate, became an overnight literary sensation for his first book, an experimental novel titled Mother and Son, published during the McCarthy era. - Talk (play)
The bulk of the novel is the titular report, which describes in objective, repetitive and seemingly trivial detail the bizarre activity, taking place one overcast January day, apparently in England, around a suburban house in which a writer, mr Mary, lives with his wife. - Report on Probability A
This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. - The Princess and the Unicorn
The novel is centered on the Mohawk Grill, a diner run by Harry Saunders and charts the lives two intersecting families, the Grouses and the Gaffneys. - Mohawk (novel)
The novel combines the three plotlines of Bo's account of his friendship with Tommie and his work in Bangladesh, which he perceives as futile; Tommie's account, a success story which ends in suicide; and the reflections of Tommie's grandfather. - Bougainville (novel)
The climax of the novel takes place between the young earl and mrs O’Hara on the cliffs above the cottage. - An Eye for an Eye (novel)
The novel suggests “Lightning” as a prelude to an army-backed coup to seize control over the Soviet Union, even as the laser weapon will make the Soviet Union the world’s leading super power. - Winter Hawk
The novel is set among the Old Order Amish in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania region. - Kingdom of Simplicity
Throughout the novel the real Beth shows that she is nowhere near the perfect girl that Denis has imagined. - I Love You, Beth Cooper
The novel is told from the perspective of twelve-year-oldS. - The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
The novel ends with the family traveling back to the bunker, seeing it as an oasis of protection from Zazu's organization and the world they intend to create. - Relentless (Koontz novel)
World-famous actress Carole Barber has come to Paris to work on her new novel and to find herself. - Honor Thyself
The scene of this novel is Paris, where the branch of a well-known London bank is being audited. - The Accounting
One of Jarry's 'pataphysical works, the novel relates the adventures of dr Faustroll and his companion, a lawyer named Panmuphle, on their travels in a copper skiff on a sea that is superimposed over the streets and buildings of Paris. - Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
The novel is about The Hon. - Under Two Flags (novel)
The novel follows a seemingly relativistic plot, where time and space disappear as absolutes. - Tours of the Black Clock
This romance novel is set in the period of World War II at a military hospital during nightly bomb raids and blackouts. - The Charioteer
Secondary school student Mikaela writes an erotic novel and gives it to her teacher. - Svart Lucia
The novel follows Totty, a young urchin living in poverty in Victorian-era London. - Tit for Tat (novel)
Over the period of one year, the time to the next monsoon, the novel builds to a crisis which Keating compares to waiting for a monsoon to break. - Under a Monsoon Cloud
The novel focuses on the relationship between a psychoanalyst, dr Lulu Shinefield, and a young troubled woman, Dawn Henley, from the beginning of their therapy together through to its termination. - August (Rossner novel)
The second part of the novel is also based on a traditional story-type, The Rival Suitors. - Modeste Mignon
Based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s autobiographical novel and set during the fearful times of Stalin’s mass arrests, the series takes place in a sharashka, a prison-laboratory for secret research where Russia’s greatest minds are put to government use. - The First Circle (miniseries)
The novel is set in the 1980s. - Bog Child
Even though they are now together, the novel concludes with the implication that she will continue to volunteer herself to those who have need of her. - Winter Woman
It is a modern version of Gösta Berlings Saga, with several hints to the novel in style and story but it is not based on the novel. - Morsarvet
At the start of the novel he arrives in a small town – Fort Farrell, located in the northeastern British Columbia to perform a small job for the Matterson Corporation. - Landslide (novel)
Yuuta must type out the writer’s latest novel word-for-steamy-word, while hiding the fact he’s falling in love with his master. - Author's Pet
The novel is narrated by an unnamed medical professor. - Elsie Venner
The novel returns to Jason, Lauren, and Adrien-Michel, who at this point has told Lauren that he has always been Michel. - Days Between Stations (novel)
The live-action film is an adaptation of the first 1/3rd of the original novel or the first four volumes (out of a total of 12). - Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Haywood's novel follows the life of a Pamela-esque character, who attempts to use her seemingly innocent nature to become a prosperous noblewoman at the expense of her empty-headed master. - The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected
The novel is prefaced by a section entitled "Questions", which consists of four passages numbered in Roman numerals. - Asking Questions
The novel is about an African-American man estranged from his white wife and their children, and who must come up with a sum of money within four days to have them returned. - Man Gone Down
The novel follows the story of a young Jewish woman from London who emigrates to the future Israel in 1946 and lives through the birth of the nation. - When I Lived in Modern Times
The novel is set in the 1980s Cardiff where maths prodigy Rumi Vasi grows up with her Hindu parents. - Gifted (novel)
To console herself, his daughter (blind from the crash) writes a novel where she, her mother and brother have died in a car wreck but her father(but blind) has survived. - Written By
The plot of the novel revolves around Jardine bringing Sean Delancey, his English poetry project partner, into various schemes to ensure their arrival at Theamelpos for the summer. - A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
The prelude of the novel begins with a 1982 letter from the elderly daughter of Rupert Brooke by a Tahitian women to Nell Golightly, asking Nell to help the daughter better understand her father. - The Great Lover (novel)
The novel explores the life and love story of the female protagonist named Ninay, a heartbroken young woman who died of cholera. - Nínay
In the alternative history scenario of the novel and series, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, has with the aid of the time-displaced citizens of Grantville, West Virginia, tipped the balance in the Thirty Years' War and become emperor of much of Germany, now reorganized as the United States of Europe. - 1635: The Eastern Front
The novel ends with Max, having overcome some of his personal demons, now relaxed and on a date with a fellow CIA officer whom he had met earlier, during the effort against the Mexican cartels which she had penetrated. - Against All Enemies (novel)
Later in the novel Dina discovers she is pregnant, and decides to return to the US for an abortion. - Time for Bed
The novel is set at the time of the English Civil War. - The King's General
Interspersed throughout the novel are chapters of Amelia’s life after this summer, where she has been sent back to her brother and locked away, thought to be mad. - The Vespertine
Koroku Inumura's original war romance light novel revolves around Charles Karino, a Levamme Empire mercenary aerial pilot who mans the twin-seater reconnaissance seaplane Santa Cruz. - The Princess and the Pilot
The novel begins by recounting the time that has passed since the First World War: generations have come and gone, and technology continues to advance and spread from Europe and America over the rest of the world. - Berge Meere und Giganten
Banville is concerned in this novel with "the elusive and unstable nature of identity". - Eclipse (Banville novel)
The novel is told in second-person narrative but primarily from three points of view: Edinburgh Police Inspector Kavanaugh, who investigates spammers murdered in gruesome and inventive ways, and learns about similar cases in other parts of Europe; Anwar, a former identity thief who becomes Scottish honorary consul for a fictional Central Asian state; and "The Toymaker", an enforcer and organizer for the criminal "Operation". - Rule 34 (novel)
While looking for Charlie at the loft, Vanessa spots Dan's novel and reads it. - The Wrong Goodbye (Gossip Girl)
He had thus written a best selling novel titled Marriage, the Living Death. - Wives Never Know
The 2012 television show picks up on the story of Mitchell McDeere and his family ten years after the fictional setting of the 1991 novel and 1993 film. - The Firm (2012 TV series)
The novel portrays the life of the Adivasis of Attappadi, a region in Malabar, to the south of the Nilgiris and to the east of Kerala. - Ponni (novel)
The novel is set in the fictitious Dutch town of Koopstad. - God's Fool
She lives in the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow, which is nicknamed "Zoo City" in the novel for its large population of animalled people, refugees and the dispossessed. - Zoo City
The novel describes Seryozha's experiences, and those of his family, friends and neighbors over the course of a summer. - Seryozha (novel)
The pivotal event on which the novel turns is the return of Raghu to his native village after a lapse of several years, to raise money to build a city mansion for himself by selling his ancestral home. - Verukal
William meets and becomes infatuated with a young and intelligent prostitute named Sugar (Romola Garai), who is writing a novel of her own, filled with hatred and revenge against all the men who abused her and her colleagues. - The Crimson Petal and the White (miniseries)
In the alternative history scenario of the novel and series, Emperor Gustav Adolphus, ruler of the new United States of Europe, has suffered a head trauma in battle, rendering him unable to rule. - 1636: The Saxon Uprising
The novel starts right after Vicki Byrne had seen someone in the woods around their safe house. - Protected (Left Behind: The Kids)
The novel is narrated by Benoite-Marie "Berie" Carr. - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
The novel tells the story of a group of "mutants" with enhanced mental abilities and the ability to move between (apparently all empty) parallel worlds organizing the colonization of those worlds by the population at large. - Ring Around the Sun (novel)
The novel also follows Anders' stepfather on the island, the illusionist Simon, who is starting to notice that there is something strange with the island and the sea itself. - Harbour (novel)
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. - Nana (1944 film)
The novel employs a framing device which claims that it is a work of scholarship, a translation of texts from the Late Middle Ages. - Ash: A Secret History
Foreword The novel opens with a fictitious foreword, a brief note dated 1876, in which the purported editor of the memoirs, Daniel Clapsaddle Carvel, claims that they are just as his grandfather, Richard Carvel, wrote them, all the more realistic for their imperfections. - Richard Carvel
The drama ends with Hammad falling ill but the novel continues with Hammad going back to his house on the request of Imaan. - Khuda Aur Muhabbat
The film is based on a novel love story with recession and its aftermath as the backdrop. - Murali Meets Meera
A parable rooted in the absurdities of modern India, this novel takes a light-hearted dig at the pretensions of people who matter. - The Goat, the Sofa, and Mr. Swami
As it happens, Ingrid had read and enjoyed his first novel and he was an admirer of her poems. - Black Butterflies
Bill is, at this stage, an unknown artist, though as the novel progresses, so too does his career in the New York art scene. - What I Loved
It is through Vandiyathevan that we meet most of the characters in the novel such as Arulmozhivarman, the prince whom all the people loved, and Periya Pazhavetturayar, the chancellor who married Nandhini (the main conspirator) when he was sixty. - Ponniyin Selvan
While researching his latest novel "I Conquered the Desert" in North Africa, Reggie Blake (Terry-Thomas) finds himself lost in the desert. - His and Hers (film)
The novel is not divided into chapters, but there are two distinct sections of the work. - The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils
Set in Friday Harbor, the novel opens with a prologue that features six-year-old Holly Nolan’s letter to Santa Claus, asking for a mother for Christmas. - Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
The novel begins as Caesar searches for an excuse to use his Roman legions in Gaul in order to gain political capital in Rome. - The Druid King
Having reached his artistic zenith with the award-winning 'Jackapple Joe', a novel published 10 years ago, he has failed to duplicate his earlier success, and now writes second-rate science-fiction novels under a pseudonym. - Blackberry Wine
The novel ends with the aliens effortlessly teleporting Falkner and his colleagues across the light years back to Earth. - Knight Moves (novel)
Parts of the novel take place during the Cultural Revolution in China, as told through flashbacks. - The Three-Body Problem
For the fourth straight novel in the Kinsey Millhone series (dating back to "S" Is for Silence), the viewpoint alternates between Millhone and other characters, principally Nora Vogelsang and Lorenzo Dante. - "V" Is for Vengeance
It's an Arabic Egyptian spoken film Based on a novel by the famous writer Ehsan Kodous, the film discusses eternal conflict of power and authority, symbolized by the love affair between a politician and a belly dancer, revealing the corruption of a system where it becomes difficult to decide which has more integrity, the politician or the dancer. - The Belly Dancer and the Politician
This is a real novel about the heroic past of Eger in the middle of the 16th century when the town was one of the ultimate strongholds against the Ottoman forces advancing. - Yoomurjak's Ring
The novel is set in late 1970/early 1971 in Manhattan. - The Comeback (novel)
The novel concerns the tension between the officious inspectors and the drivers themselves who aim to arrive early. - The Maintenance of Headway
At the time the novel was being written the Park government roamed the streets of Seoul, its fashion police literally measuring the hair-length of men and the skirt-length of women. - The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui novel)
It is set in 1986 and following the storyline of Kaye's first novel Stars Screaming, Gene Burk has just lost his fiancee in an airplane crash. - The Dead Circus
Sixty-five-year-old publisher Timothy Cavendish reaps a windfall when Dermot Hoggins, the gangster author of Knuckle Sandwich, murders a critic who gave the novel a harsh review, generating huge sales. - Cloud Atlas (film)
The novel opens with an event from Séverine Sérizy's childhood, in which a mechanic touches the eight-year-old on her way from her bedroom to her mother's. - Belle de Jour (novel)
The novel concerns the interconnected lives of the inhabitants of Higby, a fictional town in northern Mississippi, during the Labor Day weekend in 1993. - Welcome to Higby
By necessity, this novel is told from the viewpoints of Miles and Mark. - Mirror Dance
The theme of the novel is built around an individual struggling to find identify and belonging, similar to Sutcliff novels such as Outcast and Dawn Wind, revolving around conflicting cultures, and the duties assumed and performed by individuals within those cultures. - The Mark of the Horse Lord
The film is an adaptation of the novel The Master and Margarita by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. - The Master and Margarita (1994 film)
Magic Seeds is a sequel to Naipaul's 2001 novel Half a Life. - Magic Seeds
On a visit to a bookshop, she is given a copy of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, which she starts to read avidly, drawing parallels between the novel and her own life which she records in her diary. - Hello Hemingway
The novel tells the story of Mags, an enslaved child working alongside other enslaved orphans in the bowels of a gemstone mine. - Foundation (Lackey novel)
Part I The novel concerns the love triangle between Kate Cregeen and the two good friends and cousins, the illegitimate, poorly educated but good-hearted Peter Quilliam, and the well-educated and cultured Philip Christian. - The Manxman (novel)
The novel is set in Bristol, England, from 1919 to 1940 and centers on Harry Clifton, a young boy destined to follow in the footsteps of his father and uncle and work on the docks until a new world is opened up to him. - Only Time Will Tell (novel)
Whilst many of Hardcastle's other books see their protagonists triumph over adversity, the end of this short novel sees Kenny continuing to struggle with the many pressures of top class football. - Goals in the Air
Meanwhile, Jayamohan also reveals that Subhashini has had relations with many men including him, and Ramu was a pimp than a cousin for herThe story is based on the novel byR Shyamala,published in 1984. - Sandhyakku Virinja Poovu
The narrator of the novel is Birdie Lee, a multiracial child who has a white mother and black father. - Caucasia (novel)
The novel The Snake's Skin is about entire universe, where the space is complete and united. - The Snake's Skin
The novel then focuses on the investigation into her life, disappearance, and death by reporter Stacey Flynn. - So Much Pretty
To show that what they are doing is wrong, she decides to write a novel on her own with a personal story that readers will connect with. - The Book Job
The novel opens with Ted, the protagonist, speaking at an AA meeting at his three month mark. - Love Sick (novel)
The novel is set in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, when it was still a British territory. - The Piano Teacher (Lee novel)
Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, following the ending of the original novel in which Artyom's missile strike against the Dark Ones — mysterious beings that seemingly threatened the survivors of a nuclear war living in the Moscow Metro — occurred. - Metro: Last Light
An extra novel follows salesman and longtime friend of Takano's, Yokozawa, as he’s swept off his feet following a harsh breakup by attractive widower and single father Kirishima. - Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi
The concept behind the novel is that the Mayans were the first civilization in the world, and that they had taken their civilization to Europe during the time of Antiquity. - The Heirs of Columbus
The novel starts with dr Josef Breuer sitting in a cafe in Venice, Italy waiting for Lou Salomé, who was involved with Friedrich Nietzsche. - When Nietzsche Wept (novel)
The first quarter of the novel details Zeluco’s numerous initial wrongdoings in rapid succession. - Zeluco
The novel is a satire of labour relations and describes how the scheme is brought to the brink of disaster. - The Scheme for Full Employment
The novel was published in Danish in May 2005, under the name Brooklyn Dårskab. - The Brooklyn Follies
The novel starts at the end of 1999, when Kristin, a teenage drop-out, answers a sexual ad written by a man who calls himself the Occupant. - The Sea Came in at Midnight
At the end of the novel the two plot threads touch briefly. - The Lad and the Lion
She tells her nurse that "a novel is the only thing to teach a girl life, and the way of the world". - Polly Honeycombe
The Cain of the novel is named Joaquin. - Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion
Like its predecessor , the novel Lord of Souls takes places about 40 years after the events of and , and some 160 years prior to the events of. - Lord of Souls
Like its predecessor, this novel tells its story from the viewpoints of both Miles and Ekaterin, on occasion smoothly switching from one to the other during a given scene. - A Civil Campaign
The novel follows two parallel storylines. - Conan the Savage
In the meantime, he is also working on the adaptation of a famous best–selling novel and reconciling with his ex–girlfriend Katharina (Jasmin Gerat), with whom he is working on the adaptation. - Kokowääh
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Trishna tells the story of a woman whose life is destroyed by the restrictions of social status, complications of love and life, and her development as an individual. - Trishna (2011 film)
When the novel opens, she is looking for a job as a nanny. - A Gate at the Stairs
The rest of the novel centres on Conrad's attempts to uncover the identity of Lily's killer and to discover the reasons for her murder. - Corpsing (novel)
The protagonist in the novel is a policeman named Detective Gorby, who is given the task of solving the murder. - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
The rest of the novel is about the inexorable progress of the two kingdoms towards an epic confrontation. - Durgaastamana
The novel begins in Gotham City where Batman attempts to thwart a crime but he is being pursued by the police force who consider him a villain. - Enemies & Allies
The novel centers on Lieutenant Tat'yana Levchenko, who decides to join the Soviet Army as a sniper after her husband, Nikolai Grigorovich (who is known as Koyla by "those few friends he had") goes missing in action and her daughter, Masha, is killed by Germans in their hometown of Kiev, Ukraine. - Beautiful Assassin
The novel concludes with Lara being temporarily reunited with Molly and stating to the reader while her life is not perfect like it used to be, she is perfectly fine with that. - Life in the Fat Lane (novel)
The novel describes the childhood and adolescence of Marin, the narrator, especially his times at school. - Viața ca o pradă
The story in the novel was set in Penang in the early 1900s during the colonisation of Britain over Malaya. - Interlok
She has also published a novel under his name, which is now a bestseller. - Hell Is Sold Out
The rest of the novel explores the events leading up to Skippy's death, as well as the aftermath within the Seabrook community. - Skippy Dies
The novel follows the story of a copywriter who enters an around-the-world solo boat race, and a filmmaker who makes him the subject of a documentary. - Outerbridge Reach
As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her 2 older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13) who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family's country manor home located in the English village of Bishop's Lacey. - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Frank Bois writes a successful first novel and finds himself looking back over his life. - Frankie Starlight
The novel is narrated in the first person by the protagonist Archibald Johnson. - Happy Face
A subplot throughout the novel involves Bond's investigations into a KGB operation code-named "Steel Cartridge". - Carte Blanche (novel)
The plot, similar to the novel Tik-Tok of Oz, but lacking Quox and the journey to the kingdom of Tititi-Hoochoo, deals with the Shaggy Man's attempt to rescue his brother, Wiggy (unnamed in the novel), from the Dominions of Ruggedo, the Metal Monarch. - The Tik-Tok Man of Oz
An original and sexy Nordic crime novel with a suspenseful plot, intriguing characters and a fantastic setting in Iceland’s scenic capital during the winter of 2010-2011, full of ghostly abandoned, half-built buildings and dusty with ash from a volcanic eruption. - Lilja Sigurdardottir
The novel is told from the viewpoint of Kevin Thunder who grows up in 1960s Dublin, next door to Bram Stoker's house. - Mistaken (novel)
The plot of the novel revolves around Napoleon's wars in central Europe, and failed invasion of Russia, as his armies rapidly lose men and their reputation for invincibility. - The Fields of Death
The Golden One, the "creator" from the previous novel in the series, soon appears to him revealing himself as Apollo the Greek god and that his plans are for the Trojans to be victorious in that era so as to create a Euro-Asian Empire. - Vengeance of Orion
The plot of the novel revolves around Napoleon's wars in central Europe, and plans for the invasion of England, foiled by the Battle of Trafalgar. - Fire and Sword (novel)
The novel picks up shortly after the end of Frostbite following werewolves Cheyenne “Chey” Clark and Montgomery “Monty” Powell as they travel toward the Arctic Circle in search of a cure for the curse of lycanthropy that has afflicted them both. - Overwinter (novel)
This is in contrast to many of Armstrong’s Conservative friends shown earlier in the novel who tolerate Mosley and even being to accept some of his political ideas, especially the regime's anti-semitic propaganda, which disturbs Armstrong. - The Leader (novel)
From the novel by Compton Mackenzie. - Carnival (1946 film)
The novel begins with a depiction of the playful childhood of a naughty threesome - Ummachu, Mayan and Beeran. - Ummachu
Hoover employs several novel techniques, including the monitoring of registration numbers on ransom bills and expert analysis of the kidnapper's handwriting. - J. Edgar
He then sees Anya whom he had been looking for throughout the previous novel in the series. - Orion in the Dying Time
This was due in part to Konoha winning a new author's contest with his novel Similar to the Sky, which he wrote under the pen name Miu Inoue. - Book Girl (film)
Though the tone of the novel strives to be comic and optimistic, the narrator's life is beset by a series of tragic events: his father (a mortician), his wife, and his daughter Cassandra commit suicide; his son-in-law Fernandez is killed after he has left Cassandra to live with his gay lover; Skipper is beaten up and perhaps raped during a mutiny on board ofSS. - Second Skin (novel)
Finally, Jolene ends up in Los Angeles, working as a comic illustrator for a graphic novel company. - Jolene (film)
So, the movie departs from the novel and leaves the impression that Nathan is truly dead, and that the previous scenes were a wishful dream sequence of one of the two boy lovers. - Dream Boy (film)
In the Arsène Lupin universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the kings of France, as revealed to Arsène Lupin by Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924). - The Hollow Needle
The play is set in the eighteenth century, like Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist, however Kundera deliberately leaves the historical aspects of time and place as ambiguous: Just as the play's language is not a reconstruction of the language of another time, nor should the historical character of the set and costumes be insisted on. - Jacques and his Master
With echoes of The Cricket in Times Square, From the Mixed-Up Files of mrs Basil Frankweiler, and Charlotte's Web, this novel explores friendship, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas in the context of a high-stakes art heist. - Masterpiece (novel)
The novel is set in a post-human future solar system. - The Quantum Thief
Similar to Sutcliff's Arthurian Novel The Sword and the Circle, most of the chapters in this novel are nearly stand-alone tales, covering many of the stories and characters associated with the Fenian Cycle. - The High Deeds of Finn MacCool
The novel Pharmakon is divided into three parts. - Pharmakon (novel)
The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests. - Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)
The afterword of the novel is narrated by the ghost of Florio Ferrante, the paramedic who saved Charlie's life. - The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
The novel begins with the birth of Adolf Hitler and his early childhood. - Veitikka
In the beginning of the novel Henry (Vlad's best friend and drudge) and Vlad (the half vampire/half human protagonist of the story) welcome Henry's cousin, Joss, to Bathory. - Ninth Grade Slays
The novel is narrated by Rashid in all but one of the ten chapters, which exception is drawn from the notebooks of his brother Amin. - Desertion (novel)
This novel concerns kidnappings by parents who did not get custody of their children. - Kiss Mommy Goodbye
Ethan begins writing a new novel at the time that he and Jesse begin dating. - My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010 film)
The story is continued in the novel Empire, in which the President of the United States is dead and the civil war is about to start. - Shadow Complex
The chair he occupies in the novel belonged to his mentor, the German history professor and Nazi collaborator Magus Tabor. - The Tunnel (novel)
The story of the novel begins several hours after the end of Rough Draft, after Kirill Maximov, a regular man who was turned into a functional, escapes from Arkan (or Earth 1), fights his friend and curator of our world (Earth 2 or Demos) Kotya, and kills his midwife-functional Natalia Ivanova. - Final Draft (novel)
The novel ends with Alex asking Bree to marry him as Kyle Craig gives Cross a phone call, stating that he wants to have "fun" with Cross, but he will give him a break since his case with Zeus. - I, Alex Cross
The film is an adaptation of a story in Chinese mythology (in particular, the epic fantasy novel Fengshen Bang) about the warrior deity Nezha. - Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King
The novel is represented as a tale told by the "most learned of all cats". - The Ghost Drum
Komatsu wants to submit the novel for a prestigious literary prize and promote its author as a new literary prodigy. - 1Q84
As the novel concludes, Savannah is making her recovery and Tom becomes closer to his wife and children. - The Prince of Tides (novel)
The film starts from the position close to the literary inspiration suggested in the title, but rather from developing it in the same manner as the novel it is used as a witty commentary on the political situation of Poland in the period of the Polish People's Republic. - The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Like the archaeologists working in the Letterbox Cave (a pivotal location in the story) the novel gradually brushes through layers of the past, revealing not only Dan’s harrowing story of war, guilt and love but reaching back to the foundations of modern South African society when a young Khoi flees the brutality of his trekboer master. - Journeys to the End of the World
The novel begins with the Flock traveling to Chad in Africa. - Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel
The protagonist is novelist Aubrey Blanford, introduced as a character 50 pages before the end of the first novel of the quintet, Monsieur. - Livia (novel)
The novel opens on the day when over seven hundred Men of the Boar from many islands gather together, summoned by the chief Nectan. - The Stronghold
He soon decides to turn his life around, forgetting about Amanda, deserting Tad, reconnecting with Michael, being with Vicky and finally restarting the novel he once gave up on. - Bright Lights, Big City (musical)
By the time the novel ends, the women have created an anthology of autobiographical stories called "LIFE STORIES – Our Class Book" appended to the book. - Push (novel)
The novel and the Eighth Doctor Adventures end uncertainly, as the Doctor leaps into the very heart of the Vore hive. - The Gallifrey Chronicles (Doctor Who novel)
The novel is told in two parts: the first is set in present-day Scotland where Amy Shone, a seemingly itinerant and illiterate drifter has just found work as the caretaker of a caravan site and camping ground. - Like (novel)
The title is explained early in the novel by the character Mistry: "Blackmail," he said, "Perhaps the most hateful crime, short of murder, that is to be found. - The Iciest Sin
The novel is written in diary form. - My Life Starring Mum
The novel begins with Saffron searching through the colour chart pinned up in her house, looking for her name,Saffron. - Saffy's Angel
In the first part of this novel we meet the inventors of the artificial life. - The Death Guard
This novel is a sort of 'inside look" at the workings of a fictional Roman Catholic Bishop's headquarters in the United Kingdom. - The Bishop (novel)
The novel describes a near utopia in which almost everything is automated by Computer One, with humanity's primary struggle being what to do with all its leisure time when there is very little work to be done. - Computer One
The novel begins just after Inspector Ghote has been given the task of investigating Frank Master's murder. - Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
The novel tracks the life of Father Campbell, a convert to Catholicism from a wealthy family, from his ordination to the priesthood just before the First World War until his death many years later, as a Cardinal. - A Thread of Scarlet
It is the unlikely friendship of these two brothers-in-arms, and the passions they arouse in others, that drive the novel to its tragic conclusion. - Mudbound (novel)
The novel opens in Colin Lockwood's school during a history lesson, the night after an air raid. - The Exeter Blitz
The novel opens with two charlatans commissioning a biographical novel. - Papa Sartre
The novel is set in the US, England, and India in 1867 and 1870. - The Last Dickens
Part One The novel starts with Pharinet describing her life as a young girl, playing in the gardens with her best friends Ellony and Khaster, and thinking about her brother's future. - Sea Dragon Heir
Conversations with accountants and employees of other companies lead Bigou to realize that most of the business enterprises of the time in France are behaving similarly, The novel gives us a picture of Bigou's life. - Yellow Tapers for Paris
As the story unfolds we find that everyone in the Sussex village where the novel is set, lives with their own inner dramas. - The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
The novel concerns the issue of personhood and what it takes to be considered a member of the moral universe. - The Modular Man
The basic plot of the novel centers on the effects of the use of a form of LSD that the military tested out on some its marines during Vietnam as a means of making its soldiers better in combat. - God Drug
Set in the Bronx against the historical backdrop of United States Senator Eugene McCarthy's unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1968 elections, the novel focuses on Connors's "rocky relationship that fared no better than McCarthy's campaign", in the words of critic Wayne Hoffman (author of the novel Hard), who described it in The Washington Post as a "classic". - The Boys on the Rock
The novel deals with issues such as the AIDS epidemic, sex, the Lebanese civil war, death, and the meaning of life. - Koolaids: The Art of War
The novel ends at Beka and Goodwin's welcome home party, as Beka and Tunstall agree to stay partners. - Bloodhound (novel)
The novel transitions to Lancashire and the Radcliffe family. - Guy Fawkes (novel)
The plot follows the general outline of the novel of the same name, omitting many details and some entire episodes. - Les Misérables (1978 film)
The novel opens with an article in The Times of India, which names Ghote as the officer to escort fraudster Bhattacharya from Calcutta to Mumbai. - Inspector Ghote Goes by Train
The novel takes place after the events of , and in which French Huguenot extremist Michel Ducos came close to assassinating Pope Urban VIII and forced to flee with his followers from Rome. - 1635: The Dreeson Incident
Although the novel has one clearly defined plot of action, the narrative is sometimes interrupted by the hero's reminiscences as well as by his appeals to the fictitious Ukrainian king Olelko the Second. - The Moscoviad
A great deal of the political intrigue of the novel centers around the fact that Salvator is a monk of a monotheistic religion at odds with that of his mother, and that he will have to give up his monastic vows to take the throne, with many believing he will cling to pacifism, and others believing he will turn from his religion - if he turns either way, his political enemies can celebrate victory. - Wings of Wrath
At her campsite, she chides Ben for giving up too easily on his dreams: of a singing career quashed by a teacher's harsh remarks, and a novel which he failed to find a publisher for. - One Week (2008 film)
In a series of flashbacks, the omniscient narrator of the novel chronicles the businessman's life from his childhood days in İzmir to his present cosmopolitan existence and status as one of the richest men in the world. - The Birthday Party (novel)
The novel is set in a small town in South Australia, where the whites, or "Goonyas" live in "The Port", while the Nungas, the Aborigines, live in "The Point". - Deadly, Unna?
However, a few years before the novel begins, the AIs take over the Moon and precipitate an economic collapse on Earth by subtle market manipulations. - Headlong (Ings novel)
The novel opens with the Lady Jessica back on Arrakis following the disappearance of her son Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib, who according to Fremen custom has walked into the desert to die after he is blinded. - The Winds of Dune
The planet Paradise, visited by humans earlier, was a test site for one of their experiments to create shapeshifters (see novel Paradise Lost). - The Last of the Immortals
In the character of Elinor, Justine Crump argues in her article on the novel for The Literary Encyclopedia, Burney represents feminist arguments, but she does not either explicitly criticise or endorse them. - The Wanderer (Burney novel)
Based on the novel Marthandavarma, the film recounts the adventures of the crown Prince, Marthandavarma on how he eliminates his arch rivals one by one, so as to ascend to the throne of Travancore. - Marthanda Varma (film)
The novel takes place in December. - Club Dead
The novel is set mostly in Tokyo and tells the story of a young Australian teacher of English, and his relationship with two women, Tilly, another Australian English teacher, and Mami, a Japanese hotel heiress. - Tuvalu (novel)
Whereas the novel follows the experiences of the group right up to World War II and beyond, the film ends just after the First World War, the final scene being Adrien's chance meeting with his future wife. - The Officers' Ward (film)
The novel ends with Kingshaw committing suicide by drowning himself in the familiar stream in Hang Wood and mrs Kingshaw comforting Hooper who is described as feeling triumphant. - I'm the King of the Castle
The novel is a sequel to Doyle's 1996 book The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, describing the life of alcoholic and battered wife Paula Spencer. - Paula Spencer (novel)
The last portion of this novel focuses on a man who becomes obsessed with his car horn, the repercussions of which spiral far beyond his control. - Nostalgia (novel)
The entire series is resolved with a seventh novel named The Fire Ascending. - The Last Dragon Chronicles
The novel tells the story of a Jewish businessman, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, who, because of his exceptional talent for finance and politics, becomes the top advisor for the Duke of Württemberg. - Jud Süß (Feuchtwanger novel)
Although labelled as Science Fiction by the publisher, the bulk of the novel owes more to the thriller style of the John Buchan tradition, as the Cambridge hero battles across wild Irish landscapes fighting a series of murderous thugs and secret policemen. - Ossian's Ride
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones is the second novel in the Alcatraz series. - Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
The novel follows the misadventures of the character Rudy Spruance who has been mistaken for another soldier and inadvertently assigned to Greenland. - No One Thinks of Greenland
The author himself likens the series to that of a yonkoma novel which portrays the characters having comical conversations and parodying otaku culture. - Student Council's Discretion
The novel is set shortly after the events of The Third Option. - Separation of Power (novel)
The novel abruptly shifts its perspective to Ninon's story. - To the Wedding
The novel begins with Chase Insteadman, a former child actor whose career seems to be over, accidentally meeting Perkus Tooth, a once-promising critic now barely surviving by writing liner notes for CDs and DVDs, at the office space of The Criterion Collection, and Perkus is eager to expose Chase to a self-contained universe of pop culture esoterica. - Chronic City
The novel begins where its predecessor, The Fall of Colossus leaves off, with the supercomputer immobilized and the Martians arriving on Earth. - Colossus and the Crab
The major characters and the plot of the play are nearly identical with the 1810 novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley. - Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline
The humans assume that the Visitors have created these vehicles as a gift in return for the plant matter which the Visitors are consuming, and the novel touches on the disruption such well-meaning gifts might incur on the Earth's economic systems. - The Visitors (novel)
The novel follows the life of Lisbeï, the daughter of the "mother" of the Betely community, in the province of Litale. - Chroniques du pays des mères
Central to the novel is Rocco's affair with Melita, a Maltese woman who travels the island repairing jukeboxes. - The Jukebox Queen of Malta
The novel begins with a deadly explosion in the office of a successful mathematics professor at a midwestern university. - A Person of Interest (novel)
Set in London, the novel tells the story of a dying man called Bruno and his family. - Bruno's Dream
The novel starts off a few days before the end of the , describing the actions on the undersea Ballard research lab on Earth. - Doom 3: Maelstrom
Set in the fictional Shandong town of Wali, the novel explores the enduring culture and psychology of the Chinese people. - The Ancient Ship
The novel opens with the beginning of the trial, which takes place in pre-1914 Munich. - The Deruga Case
The novel is first person narrative of twelve years old Egon who tries to become a normal teenager with normal teenage problems of growing up in a milieu of little industrial town in then Tito's Yugoslavia with open borders to the West that allowed free visits to the other side of iron curtain that was not so iron at the borders between now Slovenia and Italy, in times of record players and popular and less popular alternative music records. - King of the Rattling Spirits
The novel starts with a first-person reflection on her life so far by the protagonist, Virginia "Ginny" Hull Babcock Bliss, as she catches a plane to look after her gravely ill mother. - Kinflicks
Ilias, a Greek Orthodox monk, was raised in Greece, like Edna in Hungary, by a father with rigid and unreasonable expectations: it is his arrival in Jerusalem that unexpectedly shapes the destiny of all the others and brings the novel to its conclusion. - Mortal Love (novel)
Set in 1784 on Hamilton Hill, Washington County, Pennsylvania, near the Monongahela River some 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, this historical novel for children features ten-year-old Ann Hamilton. - The Cabin Faced West
His greatest work is a novel called Tyaag—the story of his romance with Sunita. - Tyaag
This discovery starts him on a journey of self-reflection which includes starting a novel and taking a psychology class at New York University. - Griffin & Phoenix (2006 film)
The film follows the Edna Ferber novel in telling the story of Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton) and Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), Alaska settlers in the period following World War Kennedy works his way up through the Alaskan fish cannery business, befriending Wang, a Chinese worker (George Takei), and Storm, an idealistic fishing boat captain. - Ice Palace (film)
The novel chronicles the story of a family of Jewish immigrants in Melbourne over a period of several decades. - Things Could Be Worse
His publisher loves it, and the novel is rushed into production under the title, Brutus and Balzaak. - Gentlemen Broncos
They end the novel being a couple again. - Along for the Ride (novel)
The novel is set in the middle of the twentieth century, and opens in Chicago, where the protagonist Edgar Krug has designed an enormous colored-glass exhibition hall. - The Gray Cloth
The novel centers around a twelve-year-old girl by the name of Joan who has just moved from Connecticut to a town in California. - The Wild Girls
The novel has a tragic end for all its characters. - The Nether World
The novel follows schoolteacher Rachel Cameron through a summer affair and its consequences on her life. - A Jest of God
Set in 1920's Dublin in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the novel centers on Gypo Nolan. - The Informer (novel)
For an in-depth account of the plot, See Main Article: Wuthering Heights Based on the classic novel by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights is a story of love, obsession, hate and revenge. - Wuthering Heights (2009 TV serial)
The novel begins a psychiatrist's assessment recommending that Hopkins be immediately retired from duty with a full pension. - Suicide Hill
The novel ends with him deciding to go back, make peace and reach out to the aliens in an attempt to use their knowledge of the planet's mineral wealth to enrich him. - Hunter's Run
The novel relates the story of an Aboriginal woman who was prepared since her childhood to be Wytaliba station's housekeeper, but falls in love and has a romance with her owner Hugh Watt a white man. - Coonardoo
The novel ends with Dick bravely leaving the sanitarium where he has been offered a safe nursing job, to try to establish himself in the world on his own and perhaps get Evelyn back. - The Vodi
The story is continued in Hilary Mantel's next novel Vacant Possession. - Every Day is Mother's Day
The novel centers on a nameless petty criminal locked in a remand cell, and explores his feelings of impotence, hatred and rage, and fantasies of revenge. - The Room (novel)
The novel is set in inner city suburbs of Melbourne in the mid 1970s. - Monkey Grip (novel)
The central character of the novel is Eugene Wren, a wealthy, middle-aged art dealer whose secretive personality jeopardizes both his sanity and his relationship with, and eventual engagement to, Ella Cotswold, an attractive general practitioner ten years his junior. - Portobello (novel)
As a young woman, she sets out to uncover the identity of her father's killer, and for this reason the novel is often classed among the first detective novels in English. - Clara Vaughan
The novel culminates with he and Avatre escaping the compound by air, only to be caught by Ari and Kashet. - The Dragon Jousters series
It is shown late in the novel that Lisa Brooke had in fact married an Irishman, Matthew O'Brien, who has been committed to an asylum most of his life under the delusion that he is God. - Memento Mori (novel)
The novel begins with shy, eleven-year-old Seymour staying with Thelma, an acquaintance of his mother for the summer holidays. - Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
The graphic novel leaps between the tale of a prince in the 9th century and another prince in the 13th century whose destinies are linked by a prophecy. - Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel
(Baum was simultaneously writing a similar story, of a brave girl defending and supporting her brother, in his 1911 novel The Flying Girl. - The Daring Twins
The setting is Los Angeles in 1970; the arrest and trial of the Manson Family is featured throughout the novel as a current event. - Inherent Vice
The middle section of the novel devotes attention to the romantic involvements of Gabriel and Max Petion, who rescue young women from exploitation. - Caesar's Column
Early in the novel it appears that the issue holds considerable gravity: it seems to concern women's rights, and Collopy is rallying the Dublin Corporation to implement some kind of change and trying to persuade Father Fahrt to secure the support of the church. - The Hard Life
Although this novel is written in the third person, it presents the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, Sade Solaja. - The Other Side of Truth
The novel portrays the close friendship between two women doing artistic work, Jonna and Mari, who live in separate apartments in the same house. - Fair Play (novel)
The novel also features Bolaño's only direct reference to the year eponymous of his novel 2666: "Guerrero, at that time of night, is more like a cemetery than an avenue, not a cemetery in 1974 or in 1968, or 1975, but a cemetery in the year 2666, a forgotten cemetery under the eyelid of a corpse or an unborn child, bathed in the dispassionate fluids of an eye that tried so hard to forget one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else". - Amulet (novel)
As the novel progresses it becomes clear that Ruiz-Tagle is far more and far less than a mere poet through progressively darker and ironic twists and turns. - Distant Star
As the novel opens, it is a record-hot Memorial Day when Miss Cynthia Summer calls Police Chief Mario Balzic to say that she hadn't seen one of her student roomers. - The Blank Page
The novel opens with John Andrasko being found dead on a station platform late at night in Rocksburg. - The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
The novel follows on from events in The Enemies of Jupiter, at the end of which Jonathan goes missing and is believed to have died in the fire in Rome. - The Gladiators from Capua
The publisher says that Aimee quit in protest after the company rejected a graphic novel submitted by her lover, Antoine Bisson, a freelance artist. - Mr. Monk Is Miserable
Based on the novel by author Rabindranath Tagore, Chaturanga is about a love caught between conflicting worlds of ideas. - Chaturanga (film)
Shaw claims that Macbeth has been bettered by Scott's novel Rob Roy, and "proves" the point by staging a fight between the ghosts of the two Scots, which Rob Roy wins. - Shakes versus Shav
Based on the author's experience as an Irish Guardsman in World War I, this short novel tells the story of a squad of British soldiers in an unidentified area of the Western Front. - Return of the Brute
The film is based on a 2003 novel by the same name, written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. - The Orange Girl
The novel centres on James Hyde and his family. - A House is Built
Over the course of the novel Will recounts the events of the previous year which led to him being in a coma to his nieces, Annie and Suzanne. - Through Black Spruce
The novel tells the story of Adam McCormick and Gracie Highsmith, and their relationship to Jamie Marks, a boy found in the woods, supposedly murdered. - One for Sorrow (novel)
The novel kicks off in New York City with the abduction of a wealthy couple's young daughter. - Darkhouse
The novel describes, in retrospect, the history and culture of California from its earliest days, and its influence on the rest of the United States and the world when - after an unspecified date in 1969 - the state suffers a Richter magnitude 9 earthquake and the populous coastal regions west of the San Andreas Fault sink into the Pacific Ocean. - The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
The novel follows the activities of Ingram York, a disc-jockey in Los Angeles. - Black Cocktail
The novel opens with Randall being killed in a motorcycle accident. - Cavedweller
This novel follows 16-year-old Denny Colbert, whose father was involved in a tragic accident that killed 22 children. - In the Middle of the Night (novel)
such is the erotic novel wheelchair-bound novelist Taeko sets out to write. - Strange Circus
This novel is about suicide, a topic that permeates overtly or covertly all of Bernhard’s work. - Yes (novel)
It turned out the Comedian was the mastermind behind all the events, working on behalf of the American government to cover up the Watergate Scandal (a reference to a comment made about Woodward and Bernstein by the Comedian in both the graphic novel and film). - Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
He stops speaking to Gambetti in the second half of the novel because Gambetti has been an agent in Murau’s self-deception. - Extinction (Bernhard novel)
The German title translates as something like Confusion or Disturbance, but the American publisher chose Gargoyles, perhaps in order to render the array of human freaks the novel depicts to its very end. - Gargoyles (novel)
The novel ends with Poynt overlooking a massive inland saltlake which now spreads around his castle, whereas in the rest of Welkin the sea begins to cascade down into the land. - Castle Storm
The whole novel is an account of what the narrator sees and hears while sitting on a chair with a glass of champagne in hand and, subsequently, at the table during dinner. - Woodcutters (novel)
At the end of the novel she prematurely leaves the post-memorial reception held in honour of her father to meet her lover and possibly to remain with him. - The Believers (novel)
The novel does not take place at the time of the events recounted, but at the time its narrator recalls them. - The Loser
His world, like the graphic novel itself, is black and white. - La Tour (comics)
The novel tells the story of a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during the Second World War. - Miss Ranskill Comes Home
This novel is about a boy, Jess Ferigo, who winds up on a voyage of poaching along with Pat Fee and Old Boxer. - The Lonely Voyage
The novel opens with Percy Jackson on a drive with Rachel Dare. - The Last Olympian
The novel is about the disastrous expedition of Commander Adams who dies suddenly. - The Unforgiving Wind
The novel tells the story of Charley Summers, a young Englishman who comes back from Germany, where he was detained as a POW for three years after having been wounded in combat in France (possibly in 1939-1940). - Back (novel)
The novel is a quest story, primarily concerned with Rupert, prince of the Forest Kingdom and second in line to the throne who makes an arduous journey to prove his worth, do his duty and eventually save the Kingdom from the spread of the evil Darkwood. - Blue Moon Rising (novel)
The novel is an intricate analysis of Mamah's emotional torments as an intellectual in her own right, wife, mother, friend, and member of society. - Loving Frank
The novel revolves around a middle class Turkish family (the Tekins) in the 1930s. - Yaprak Dökümü
The novel follows Verne and André Nemo from their childhoods. - Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius
Easily Mackay Brown's most religious novel - written after he was received into the Roman Catholic Church - it is seen principally from the perspective of outsiders (peasants, mercenaries, schoolfriends, tinkers) which Mackay Brown interleaves with the Christian tradition of the seamless robe of Jesus. - Magnus (novel)
Abbott" (much to Richard's surprise) and Abby loudly mentions that one of her classmates has bought an awful crime novel called "The Gravedigger and the Chambermaid". - Mother Is a Freshman
The novel starts when he is eighteen years old, in his second year of his junior college and facing enlistment into National Service. - Heartland (Shiau novel)
However, the novel ends with Kamen once more entering a dream state, and hints that our timeline is the result of his broadcasting a telepathic message to one of Hitler's advisors at the time of the Dunkirk Evacuation. - Weaver (Baxter novel)
The novel provides a first-person account of Cupcake Brown's triumph over adversity. - A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
The extensive diacritical marks appear in the novel as published by Stern. - The Last Egyptian
The novel is set in 1943 in the fictional town of Thames Lockden (based on Henley-on-Thames), and largely follows the experiences of Miss Roach who lives in the Rosamund Tea Rooms, a guest house, having left London during the Blitz. - The Slaves of Solitude
The novel opens with a graphic scene of prison violence in which a prisoner is strung up by his thumbs. - The Glass Cell (novel)
Embalming takes place in the last decade of the 19th century in Europe and is based on the idea that Victor Frankenstein actually existed and created an artificial human from bodyparts of dead people with the novel being a fictional account of non-fictional events (see Frankenstein's monster) and that even 150 years after this event, numerous scientists across Europe are using what's left of his notes to try and create their own monsters. - Embalming (manga)
Warren Motte wrote a review in World Literature Today to note that, like many of Le Clézio's writings Onitsha is a novel of apprenticeship. - Onitsha (novel)
The man narrates to himself an extract from the novel on which the film is based, “Because neither Kit nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. - The Sheltering Sky (film)
While inspired by fact, and carefully researched, the novel is rich with Robinson's trademark black humour and verbal wit. - The Eldorado Network
Les Mauvais Bergers is the story of a workers' strike, which is opposed by the boss, Hargand, and cruelly crushed in blood by the army, in a situation similar to that of Émile Zola's famous novel Germinal. - Les Mauvais Bergers
The setting for most of the novel "is Catchprice Motors, a terminally run-down used car business founded by Frieda Catchprice in the Forties but now resembling nothing more than a 'badly tended family grave'. - The Tax Inspector
Tessa's brother, Cal, is a brutally honest individual who has mixed feelings throughout the novel ranging from lack of care to jealousy to sadness. - Before I Die
The novel takes place mostly in Los Angeles in the year 1992, and there are references to the United States presidential election. - Expiration Date (novel)
When Tony approaches his publisher expecting an advance on his newest novel, he is told that success has gone to his head and the novel is unpublishable. - The Wedding Night
Protagonist Gus Bailey, introduced in Dunne's earlier novel People Like Us, is a successful writer who is assigned to cover the Simpson trial for Vanity Fair. - Another City, Not My Own
The novel centres on the mystery of who could have set fire to Mr Hick’s cottage. - The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage
The novel is set in 1792 and weaves the story of the beautiful but sexless androgyne Tintomara around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, commonly nicknamed 'The Theatre King', on the stage of Stockholm's Royal Swedish Opera at a masked ball in 1792. - The Queen's Tiara
The novel starts with Korendir bounded on Mhurgai slave ship, he is a sullen character who engineers an impossible escape, taking his partner on the oar, Haldeth, with him. - Master of Whitestorm
For Dries this is an opportunity to get some inspiration for a new novel and he accepts the offer. - Ex Drummer
Set against turbulent events in Memphis, Tennessee in the late 1970s, the novel concerns a young, white, college student named Jackson Taylor who befriends an older black woman named Cassina Gambrel. - Cassina Gambrel Was Missing
The work is Brad Thor's first novel with the character of Scot Harvath, an ex-Navy SEAL and currentS. - The Lions of Lucerne
The novel begins with a large explosion at the University of Central Florida's science department, destroying the university and everything within a mile of it. - Into the Looking Glass
He is as a result maimed for life and this novel uses his development into adolescence and later into adulthood to explore the problems he faces. - Los Cachorros
This novel has two mysteries. - Denial (novel)
The novel alternates between the Kalpa and present-day Seattle, where three drifters, Ginny, Jack and Daniel are in possession of sum-runners, small stone-like talismans that give them "fate-shifting" abilities, whereby they can jump between fate-lines (world lines in a multiverse). - City at the End of Time
Dave claims that he comes from "the mid-west", a reference to the novel The Great Gatsby. - Kids Ain't Like Everybody Else
Because of this, some critics believe the novel was not meant to be written as a completely accurate view of the French culture. - Paris France (novel)
The novel is narrated by Eleanor Allard,ka. - Girls in Love (novel)
The novel ends with an impassioned statement from Endore that warns of the inevitability of a race war as the result of the white man's transgressions. - Babouk
The novel starts by introducing best friends Erik Von Darkmoor, an apprentice blacksmith and bastard son of the local baron, and Roo Avery, a local trouble maker. - Shadow of a Dark Queen
The novel concerns an intelligence agent and a blood feud in the Dry Towns in the north of a world called Wolf. - The Door Through Space
Like The Return of John MacNab, this novel is something of a homage to the stories of John Buchan, although the connection is not made explicit this time around. - Romanno Bridge
The novel starts in a future dystopian Earth where the upper class lives a life of privilege, while most others live in the "pool", an endless crowd of unemployable youths depending on government assistance or crime for survival. - The Cyborg from Earth
They have rescued kidnapped children in the previous novel and now they relax for a while in her tutor Aristo's home city of Corinth. - The Fugitive from Corinth
Historically significant people appearing in the novel include Madame Chiang Kai-shek, actress Anna May Wong, film personality Tom Gubbins, and Christine Sterling, the "Mother of Olvera Street". - Shanghai Girls
The novel opens with dr Norval's return to New England from a geological expedition in the Southwest, accompanied by a ten-year-old girl, Lola, and trunks of supposed geological specimens. - Who Would Have Thought It?
Then the novel described the pleasant (initially) life during the Greek occupation to get up to the Destruction of Smyrna. - The children of Niobe (novel)
Amit is Rajarshi (Saheb Chatterjee), an internationally celebrated film director who is about to make a film called Mon Amour, to be produced by a French production house, a relocation of Tagore’s novel to contemporary Kolkata. - Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited
The novel concerns a person who is transported into the future and an alien world where Terrans and Darkovans have meshed and become decadent. - Falcons of Narabedla
The novel is set in Penang. - The Gift of Rain
The novel tells the story of two characters, Rue Cassels and Michael Bequith, and their encounter with an alien spacecraft Rue has named Jentry's Envy. - Permanence (novel)
's novel was based on Finch's stories, told to him by Finch while both were patients in the hospital. - Neverwas
This novel tells the story of Bernard Doyle, an Irish Catholic Boston politician. - Run (novel)
The Knife that Killed Me is a novel which follows a teenager, Paul Varderman, as he tries to fit in with a group in his school. - The Knife That Killed Me
Similar themes were addressed in the novel Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, in which an Army officer is entrusted with the stolen body of Evita Perón, ordered to keep it hidden in order to prevent its becoming a shrine to the Peronist movement. - La vida por Perón
The main story of the novel unfolds in 2002, when the British leave the islands and Santa Esperanza gains independence. - Santa Esperanza
This crime and courtroom drama is based on a novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose works are highly respected within the German-speaking intellectual community but whose appeal has proved difficult to translate. - Justice (1993 film)
The novel has two narratives in alternate chapters. - Incandescence (novel)
Later that night in bed after sex, the two discover a shared interest in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which Belisa studied at college and Ted taught every semester. - The Last Time (film)
The novel follows the lives of four protagonists - Pearl, Anna, Sonia and Adam - who have all been touched by grief and despair. - Careless (novel)
The novel is divided into four books. - Service of All the Dead
The novel is divided into three books - the first mile, the second mile and the third mile. - The Riddle of the Third Mile
As the novel begins, Margaret Bowman of Charlbury Drive Chipping Norton is off to a funeral. - The Secret of Annexe 3
The novel then follows Leslie as she prepares for a normal day of school. - Ink Exchange
At the beginning of the novel Michael has just returned home from service in the Great War. - Michael (novel)
The novel is set in early summer AD 81. - The Scribes from Alexandria
The story is based on a novel by Shri. - Kunku
The protagonist is so thrilled by this novel that he sets off in search of the new life it describes, finding a number of other readers who have become similarly consumed as well as a few people who seek to destroy the book because of the effect it has on its followers. - The New Life (novel)
Will is devastated when he learns that the book, The Highfield Mole, is not a serious academic work but a novel to amuse children. - Closer (novel)
Gjata had written a novel with the same title earlier. - Tana (film)
The 27 chapters of the novel are structured in 3 parts: the first part describes the birth, childhood, learning and marriage of Esteve; the second part presents us Esteve as a good model of a shopkeeper and that's the reason there's a conflict afterwards with Ramonet, the son who wants to be an artist and not be part of the shop management; the third part is the reconciliation between the artist and the social class he belongs to. - L'auca del senyor Esteve
Just as in Blackout, the novel switches between multiple people and times. - Blackout/All Clear
The novel opens during the midst of World War II, in a London park where a concert is taking place. - The Heat of the Day
The novel is set in London at the turn of the 20th century and its plot focuses on the machinations and developments of finance capital, something that is often considered to be unusual for Brecht as his work is traditionally viewed as being based more concerned with conditions of industrial production. - Threepenny Novel
The novel ends with a detailed description of Becket's death: the knights who pursued him inform Becket he was to go to Winchester to give an account of his actions, but Becket refuses. - Time and Chance (novel)
The novel opens in 1172 when Henry and Eleanor have been married for decades and have four grown sons: Henry the Young King, Richard the Lionheart, Geoffrey II and John Lackland. - Devil's Brood
The novel is set in the Netherlands. - Shadrach (novel)
Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play opening in New York City; this play-within-the-play is an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and happens to be the novel that inspired the term "masochism". - Venus in Fur
The novel begins when Sunny Randall is approached by Buddy Bolen to provide protection for his number one client, Erin Flint. - Blue Screen (novel)
The cliffhanger ending in the novel is also replaced by a happy reunion for Hu Fei and his third love interest Miao Ruolan. - Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain (2006 TV series)
The novel features a domestic mystery as a hive on Holmes’s farm has been repeatedly swarming and a colony of bees is found to have disappeared. - The Language of Bees
They encounter characters from the Chinese classical novel Water Margin and join them in their adventures. - Troublesome Night 16
The novel tells the story of the Venable family, Jonathan, Bertha, and their five children, who in 1780 walk from North Carolina to Kentucky to homestead on 400 acres. - Tree of Freedom
The novel is set in Bengali society of the early 1900s. - Choritrohin
The novel is largely set in and near the town of Dillsborough, in the fictional county of Rufford. - The American Senator
The novel begins with the discovery of a body hanging from a tree in the park. - High Profile
The individual places several items into a brief case, appearing among them a deck of cards, a notebook, and a copy of the children's novel mr Pig and Sonny Too — an actual publication written in 1977 by the American author Lillian Hoban. - Pig (1998 film)
Using alternating first-person perspectives, the novel tells the stories of Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee, and Sarah O'Rourke (née Summers), a magazine editor from Surrey. - The Other Hand
The novel is narrated by Homer Pierce Figg, an orphan from Maine. - The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
But it is at this point in the novel that the hatred borne him by his twin-brother Garrick really comes into the open: Garrick, who has been forced to live in the shadow of his twin's superiority since childhood, and who has vowed to pay him back for it. - The Sound of Thunder
The novel begins with Jesse drinking again, but after getting drunk with Jenn at the beginning he stops drinking completely. - Stone Cold (Parker novel)
The novel consists of fifty chapters grouped into five sections of ten chapters each, named as follows: 26-year-old Ignatius "Ig" Perrish wakes up one morning after a drunken night (in the woods containing an old foundry, near where his girlfriend's corpse was discovered) to find that he has sprouted bony, sensitive horns from his temples. - Horns (novel)
The novel is partially concurrent with Nothomb's earlier novel, Fear and Trembling. - Tokyo Fiancée
The focus of the novel is on two Gujarati Brahmin families. - Saraswatichandra (novel)
The novel ends with the Monroes remaining blissfully unaware of Bunnicula's strange feeding habits, and the danger Chester believes them to be in. - Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
One of the first scenes in the novel is of Cam having what he thinks is a marijuana-induced hallucination of flames during his English class. - Going Bovine
The third Jesse Stone novel finds Chief Stone investigating the death of a teenage girl after her body washes up on shore. - Death in Paradise (novel)
The novel takes place in the fictional town of Minton in New England, which is inhabited entirely by white people, and coloured people are almost unknown among the townfolk. - The Ebony Idol
The novel follows the relationship of florist Emmaline "Emma" Grant and architect Jackson "Jack" Cooke. - Bed of Roses (novel)
In Parker's second Jesse Stone novel we find Chief Stone settled into his new life after the events that marked his arrival in Night Passage. - Trouble in Paradise (Parker novel)
The novel begins with Stone’s cross country road trip to Paradise during which the disintegration of his marriage is detailed through flashbacks. - Night Passage (novel)
The novel presents how difficult it is to form a working history of a population who had been historically uprooted from their past. - Benang
A direct sequel to Grand Days and beginning in 1931, the novel traces the private and public lives of an Australian woman Edith Campbell Berry, during her final years as an official of the League of Nations based in Geneva. - Dark Palace
Most of the latter half of the novel recounts the quest of Marcus for acceptance into the Kingdom. - The Secret of the Kingdom
The title of the novel comes from Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta; the following quotation serves as the epigraph to the novel:. - The Wench Is Dead
The novel ends as both nations are massing troops together, and it is suggested that a second war may be inevitable unless changes are made. - Gray Victory
The novel begins with the strange murder of Sir Michael Ferrara. - Brood of the Witch-Queen
Dengeki Gakuen RPG features eight main female characters from Dengeki Bunko light novel series, who include: Shana (voiced by: Rie Kugimiya) from Shakugan no Shana, Kino (voiced by: Ai Maeda) from Kino's Journey, Kana Iriya (voiced by: Ai Nonaka) from Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, Index (voiced by: Yuka Iguchi) from Toaru Majutsu no Index, Taiga Aisaka (voiced by: Rie Kugimiya) from Toradora. - Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus
The recommended novel deals with the death of a disliked university professor, murdered in a gruesome way ("large dent in his skull, multiple stab wounds, and his tongue cut out" as described by the reviewer). - Paula Gosling
The novel tells the story of Phillip Turner who refuses to believe that his brother’s death was suicide. - The Little Walls
The novel chronicles the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a gynoid in a distant future in which humanity is extinct and a near-feudal android society has spread throughout the Solar System. - Saturn's Children (novel)
After many conflicts involving the graphic novel sales and the voice actress choice, Reversi is chosen for an anime adaptation with Miho as the primary actress, after she passes a public audition. - Bakuman
He is capable of using something called an "imperative voice", causing most humans to follow his instructions without question (similar to the Voice from Frank Herbert's novel Dune). - Dances on the Snow
This novel begins with Jack and the fleet arriving in the Sutrah system. - The Lost Fleet: Fearless
The novel is set in Greenwich Village, near Washington Square. - Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
Becky's relationship with Jess has drastically improved since the last novel as is evident when Jess arrives. - Shopaholic and Baby
The novel employs first person story-telling from the perspective of Jesus. - The Gospel According to the Son
At the end of the novel the doctor tells Helen she can go home and she asks Robin if she can go live with him. - Wetlands (novel)
Oz's reminiscent novel describes the doings of a twelve-year-old boy in 1947, the last year of the British Mandate of Palestine, during the British–Zionist conflict. - Panther in the Basement
The novel commences with the protagonist, Becky Bloomwood, coming to the conclusion of her extravagant ten-month-long honeymoon around the world with her husband, Luke. - Shopaholic and Sister
The River Why is an adaptation of the 1983 Sierra Club novel by David James Duncan. - The River Why (film)
When a very old don dies and Herrick helps clear out his rooms he finds the typescript of a short novel which he believes the deceased academic has written. - Pastors and Masters
The situation becomes complicated when Captain Kasak takes an experimental Klingon warship to the planet as well The novel also offers an alternate explanation, via Kasak's viewpoint, of why Klingons' facial features have changed over the years. - Rules of Engagement (Star Trek novel)
The Given Day is a historical novel set in Boston, Massachusetts and Tulsa, Oklahoma. - The Given Day
Commander Piper is taking a vacation from Star Fleet following the events of the novel Dreadnought. - Battlestations!
This story is continued in the novel Possession, also byM. - Demons (Star Trek novel)
The novel begins with lt Piper (no first name), a native of Proxima Beta, taking the Kobayashi Maru simulation at Starfleet Academy. - Dreadnought!
The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim out of his rightful share of the treasure in 1759. - Treasure Island (1999 film)
The story takes place in the world created by author Terry Goodkind in his fantasy novel series, The Sword of Truth. - Legend of the Seeker
This, however, is implicit: Koch makes no attempt to write a history of that war (and readers without any background knowledge may find parts of the novel confusing), or to take sides in the debates over that history, and it is through personal stories and personal tragedies that he sheds light on the broader tragedies. - Highways to a War
The novel starts with Emmett stalled out in a small town outside Chicago, his car having died. - The Steel Mirror
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). - Half of a Yellow Sun
The novel is a dark and disorienting tale of the self-destructive character of totalitarian thinking. - Auto-da-Fé (novel)
Whilst doing this, Ruby comes across a Newspaper Advert for an audition for a Television adaptation of the novel "The Terrible Tempest Twins,". - Double Act (film)
As the novel progresses Komayo discovers that Yoshioka betrayed her. - Geisha in Rivalry
Set in a future when humanity has forgotten its origins in Earth, the novel describes the political equations and power struggle between the emperor, a quasi-religious group, a pre-sentient computer named the Mag Comm and the Lord Commander. - Relic of Empire
Taking its inspiration from the Celtic legend of the Selkie, the novel describes a race of apparent humans with the ability to change into other forms. - The Silkie (novel)
The novel concerns her efforts to adjust to her unique situation. - Eva (novel)
The main character in this novel is Melissa Fuller, but "You can call me Mel", as she says. - The Boy Next Door (novel)
The novel deals with fifteen adolescent boys from a reformatory in World War II Japan. - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
The novel opens with the admiral briefing his pilots on the situation. - Return of the Flying Tigers
But the novel ends in an anticlimax: Miriam dies in childbirth when she was only fifteen, giving birth to her twin sons. - The Slave-Girl from Jerusalem
The novel focuses on the narrator and protagonist Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. - Paper Towns
The mysterious Baron (in the novel his last name Lefuet is a German ananym for devil, like "lived" is in English), a grumpy and very wealthy businessman always wearing a black carnation in his buttonhole, tries unsuccessfully to buy Timm's laugh. - Timm Thaler (1979 TV series)
The novel details Sylvia Foley's return to Australia after having lived in England for twenty years. - The Impersonators
They go on walks together, and one day Emily shows Arthur a lonely house on a hill, the one that inspired her writing her novel Wuthering Heights. - Devotion (1946 film)
- The Washington Post "There may be a better novel than Tirra Lirra by the River this year, but I doubt it". - Tirra Lirra by the River
The novel focuses on the character Griffin which was created by screenwriter David Goyer specifically for the film. - Jumper: Griffin's Story (novel)
The novel also brings back a familiar character, Ras Thavas, the amoral mad scientist from the earlier novel The Master Mind of Mars. - Synthetic Men of Mars
The novel begins with Ravi’s arrival at Khasak and his encounters with its people, Allappicha Mollakka, Appukkili, Shivaraman Nair, Madhavan Nair, Kuppuvachan, Maimoona, Khaliyar, Aliyar, and the students of his school like Kunhamina, Karuvu, Unipparadi, Kochusuhara and others. - Khasakkinte Itihasam
Helen wins the case and publishes a hugely successful novel of her life story. - True Confession
The later part of the novel focuses more on Augustus' rule. - Augustus (Williams novel)
The novel concerns American mining engineer Nicholas Graydon. - The Face in the Abyss
The plot of the novel continues to unfold in its pattern of liberty, capture and escape, with the protagonist’s goal imperceptibly altering from rejoining his outer world comrades to romance with La-ja. - Back to the Stone Age
The novel is set in small, fictional town in upstate New York called Thomaston. - Bridge of Sighs (novel)
The novel deals with issues such as alienation, social decay, drug use and New Zealand gang culture, as well as political and environmental issues. - Stonedogs
The narrator of the novel has spent the first two and a half years of her life in a nearly vegetative state until she is jolted out of her plant-like, tube-like state, and gains a peculiar but complete awareness of the world around her. - The Character of Rain
As the novel progresses, it is shown that this young man, Doby Saxon, and the Indian Agent may be the same soul inhabiting two separate bodies, and the Indian Agent has been forced to live in the future on the same reservation still plagued by the consequences of his decision. - Ledfeather
The ending of the novel occurs ten years after Alissa's death with the meeting of Jerome and Juliette. - Strait Is the Gate
Unlike other retellings or translations of the Old French sources, this novel seeks to retell the central love-drama in such a way as to restore its complexity and emotional depth for the modern reader. - Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the "Book of Galehaut" Retold
This Matthew Scudder noir crime novel starts out much like the previous books in the series. - When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Much of the novel follows out his attempts to present what Lakewalkers do, how, and with what limitations, in ways that farmers should understand. - Passage (Bujold novel)
The novel finishes with the Atrebatan Kingdom annexed regardless and the remaining Boars and Wolves disbanded. - The Eagle and the Wolves
Gessen's novel centers around the stories of three literary-minded friends: Keith, a Harvard-educated writer living in New York City; Sam, living in Boston and writing the "great Zionist epic"; and Mark, who is trying to complete a history dissertation on the Mensheviks at Syracuse University. - All the Sad Young Literary Men
The novel is set in New York towards the end of the Second World War. - Focus (novel)
The novel concerns the adventures of a hero who encounters a queen with remarkable talents. - The Magician Out of Manchuria
Though each book is a stand-alone story, they are all inter-connected by two recurring characters, a young girl named Sarah (who plays an important part in the first novel and is portrayed as a secondary character in subsequent stories) and the inn's caretaker/manager, who is intimately familiar with the hotel's history. - Nightmare Inn
The city visited remains unnamed, however the novel contains an accurate description of Nottingham landmarks, its streetscape, and its environment in 1969, with additional recallings of 1959. - The Unfortunates
The novel prologue retells part of the events of Flight of the Old Dog from the perspective of crew member David Luger, as he makes the decision to sacrifice himself in order to allow his crewmates to take off from a Soviet airbase and return home. - Night of the Hawk
The novel explores the relationships between the O'Neill teenagers and the Ryan children, as well as the lives of a large cast of secondary characters. - Firefly Summer
The novel concerns the vampire Don Sebastian in Victorian England. - Yellow Fog
The novel concerns mummies in the Connecticut town of Oxrun Station, a suburb of New York. - The Long Night of the Grave
The novel concerns the adventures of Molly Kerbridge, a member of the Planetary Federation, on a world called Tringe. - Winter Reckoning
She finally gets an outline from him for the last few chapters, which she uses to finish the novel on her own. - Ever Since Eve
The novel is set shortly after the events of The Bonehunters. - Return of the Crimson Guard
The novel concerns the adventures of Starrett, an aviator who is becomes lost in Africa and discovers a lost civilization. - The Undying Land
The novel begins with a prologue set at the 20th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon III) in 1962 where a large group of famous science fiction authors in attendance are watching a television broadcast of an American space probe as it lands on an inhabited Mars. - In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
The novel concerns werewolves in the Connecticut town of Oxrun Station, a suburb of New York. - The Dark Cry of the Moon
The girls all grew up together in the fictional town of Hammond, New York (the same setting Oates used for her 1990 novel Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart). - Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Some characters and locations of the story reappear in changed contexts in Mann's novel Buddenbrooks. - Little Herr Friedemann
The novel concerns the friendship between Father Christmas who lives for 100 years and Father Time who lives for only one. - The Hundred-Year Christmas
The novel concerns the adventures of Con Levington, a Secret Service agent, who travels to the Gobi Desert searching for the source of the drug Koresh. - Yellow Men Sleep
With Curtis now available, Christabel rebuffs a marriage proposal from Nick, whose novel is about to be published by Caine. - Born to Be Bad (1950 film)
Set in the Egypt-like kingdom of Ashdod and primarily narrated by the glass-working slave Tirzah, the novel takes place during the final stages of the construction of the titular Threshold, an enormous glass-clad pyramid. - Threshold (Douglass novel)
The novel concerns vampires in the Connecticut town of Oxrun Station, a suburb of New York. - The Soft Whisper of the Dead
The novel begins in World War II London. - The Book of Lost Things
Much of the exposition in the novel is handled by way of riddles and clues, which take the form of puzzles and images, through which Jess discovers, with the help of ‘V,’ the truth about the strange events taking place on Lume. - The Riddles of Epsilon
The novel ends as the Caterbird leads the Edgedancer over the Edge to save Cloud Wolf, going where no sky-ship has ever gone before. - Stormchaser (novel)
In the last novel of the series, Mara's actions in the first two books come back to haunt her. - Mistress of the Empire
Most of the novel centers around the first few years of Mary's Stuart's imprisonment, during which time she makes several failed escape attempts and almost immediately begins to seduce the earl. - The Other Queen
Martin may not have much going for him but he has read "Daniel Strong," a best-selling, self-help novel by the popular TV guru dr Waxling (Dennis Hopper). - Search and Destroy (film)
Set in late 1944 Germany, during the assault on the Siegfried Line, the novel follows 15 days in a US Army Rifle Squad led by the venerable Sergeant Cooley. - The Beardless Warriors
This angers Louisa; she writes another novel that casts Nell in a negative light. - His Little Women
Seventeen Against the Dealer is the final novel in the seven-part Tillerman Cycle. - Seventeen Against the Dealer
Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed and provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay (from a based-on-actual event novel by Michiro Maruyana translated by Younghill Kang) about twelve Japanese seamen who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. - Anatahan (film)
Both Horia Pătraşcu's novel and the screenplay (co-authored by Pătraşcu and Pintilie) are closely based on real-life events. - The Reenactment
The novel begins with the journey of Dora Greenfield from London to Imber by train. - The Bell (novel)
The plot of the novel revolves around the title character Jane Spring, an attractive and intelligent 31-year-old Manhattan assistant district attorney and West Point general's daughter who grew up without a female role model and struggles to understand why she fails to 'keep' men in a relationship. - The Thing About Jane Spring
The novel is principally about duty and truth in marriage, and the relationship of a couple to society. - Kept in the Dark
As the novel progresses, Ivy maintains a shaky friendship with Franny, compromised by her attempts at befriending the other girls. - The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
The novel concerns the adventures of Datu Buang who, as a fugitive, stumbles across the remains of an alien lost city in the jungles of Malaysia and battles furiously with a semi-intelligent ape-creature. - As It Is Written
The novel begins on the night before Guinevere's departure from her home, the kingdom of Rheged to Logres, in order to marry King Arthur. - Child of the Northern Spring
Set in the fictional town of Albion Mines, Nova Scotia, the novel takes place against the backdrop of a coal mine explosion that kills twenty-six miners, loosely based on the real-life Westray Mine explosion of 1992. - Twenty-Six (novel)
Fielding uses the story in a novel but changes the facts radically. - The Survivors (Raven novel)
The novel concerns English adventurer Victor Marshall who is hired to find a fellow Englishman who is lost in Asiatic Sapelung. - Fields of Sleep
The novel centers on 16-year-old Clare, who has dreamed of becoming a dancer all her life and has worked hard to achieve her dream. - On Pointe
The novel is set in 1962, before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. - The Fire-Eaters
The novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century girl named Coriander. - I, Coriander
In the first novel Island in the Sea of Time, the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts is transported by an unknown phenomenon (called "The Event" in the series) back in time on March 17, 1998 at 9:15 pm EST to the Bronze Age circa 1250s BC (corresponding to the late Heroic Age of the Trojan War). - On the Oceans of Eternity
The novel is a Lovecraftian story of werewolves. - The Black Wolf
The novel concerns the story of Count Dracula in England and is set before the events in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. - The Revenge of Dracula
The novel begins in Rwanda. - Pagan Babies
Infinite Space contains themes from the novel Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke. - Infinite Space
The novel is an adventure story about the rise of Genghis Khan and the fabled kingdom of Prester John. - The Three Palladins
The novel is a retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia's point of view. - Dating Hamlet
Susan Silverman is away at a conference and only returns at the end of the novel to celebrate the successful conclusion of the case. - School Days (novel)
This pulse-pounding novel also shows us some highly dangerous events occurring with Nancy while she's investigating the case. - The Runaway Bride (novel)
The novel adventures in the lost world of Baal in Arabia, which is inhabited by dinosaurs. - The Bowl of Baal
The Wyrmling Horde is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - The Wyrmling Horde
The novel is a planetary romance which stars Esau Cairn, an Earth-man of great physical strength and prowess. - Almuric
The novel adventures in the realms of Prester John. - The Temple of the Ten
It is interesting to note that in the original novel Arcady Hall was destined to become a Nuclear Research Establishment. - Love on a Branch Line (TV series)
After hearing the complete transmission, Jason Gridley pledges to lead an expedition to Pellucidar through the polar opening and rescue David Innes, thus setting the stage for the sequel Tarzan at the Earth's Core, a cross-over novel linking Burroughs’ Pellucidar and Tarzan series. - Tanar of Pellucidar
The novel concerns Adam Thane, a soldier of fortune who fights for the woman he loves against the immortals of Ganymede. - The Goddess of Ganymede
What is more, when the novel opens she is being harassed by a female journalist who states her intention to publicize hitherto unknown facts about Inga's deceased husband, a cult author and filmmaker, and who demands that she be co-operative without telling her what exactly she is aiming at or planning to do. - The Sorrows of an American
The novel is set in the American Northwest. - The Shack
The novel concerns the prehistoric adventures of Tharn. - The Return of Tharn
The novel concerns American Leif Langdon who discovers a warm valley in Alaska. - Dwellers in the Mirage
The story, drawn from La masseria delle allodole, the best-selling novel by Antonia Arslan, tells about the Avakian clan, an Armenian family living in Turkey and having two houses. - The Lark Farm
Set on Venus, the novel concerns Robert Grandon whose wife Vernia is kidnapped by the Huitsenni, a race of pirates. - The Port of Peril
The novel is vibrant with symbolism. - Too Loud a Solitude
The action of the novel is divided between Paris and Issoudun. - La Rabouilleuse
In this final novel of the series, Anne Dare, finally on the throne of Crotheny, goes to war with both the Church and the powerful northern nation of Hansa. - The Born Queen
In this third novel of the series, Anne Dare continues her flight from her Uncle's minions, with the help of the dessrator Cazio and the knight Sir Neil MeqVren. - The Blood Knight
The action of the novel takes place largely over two days. - Gli indifferenti
The novel is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. - The Acolyte (novel)
The novel concerns a love tale and lunar beings who have been guiding the earth for millennia. - The Moon Maiden
The novel concerns super-beings who reveal that our solar system is an atom in a larger universe. - People of the Comet
The novel depicts human suffering in many ways: the physical and psychological pain of foot binding; the suffering of women of the time, who were treated as property; the terrible trek up the mountains to escape from the horrors of the Taiping Rebellion; the painful return down the mountain trail with dead bodies everywhere. - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The novel describes the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, interwoven with the experiences of Arthur Ransome, then a journalist in Russia. - Blood Red, Snow White
The novel culminates chronologically with the Suez Crisis. - The Rich Pay Late
As the movie opens, a woman writer with a recently bestselling novel is being questioned about a murder. - Roman de Gare
The novel concerns the first real estate boom on the planet Venus. - The Planet of Youth
The novel concerns two corporations competing to develop the power of atomic energy. - Green Fire (novel)
The First Chief: Will Henry Lee: The novel opens in 1919, when the growing town of Delano, Georgia hires its first police chief. - Chiefs (novel)
A breathtaking novel of suspense and high-adventure by New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods. - Run Before the Wind
The story laid on the planet Mesklin as used in the author's novel Mission of Gravity, but set in an earlier period when the College established by the Terrestrials is still being set up and the teachers as well as the students are still learning. - Lecture Demonstration
The novel concerns an African expedition. - The Iron Star
The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and gentle writer. - The Dark Other
The novel concerns Henry Merwin, who after taking part in an experiment finds himself 12,000 years in the future. - After 12,000 Years
The novel concerns Lieutenant Commander Frank Jacklin who is blown up in a thorium bomb explosion while on the battleship Alaska. - The Rat Race (novel)
Realizing that his novel prognosticates Scully's murder, Padgett heads to the incinerator to destroy his novel. - Milagro (The X-Files)
As the novel progresses, Clay learns that Rip also had a fling with Rain and is now obsessed with her. - Imperial Bedrooms
Newman was in his 40s and was an esteemed theologian at the time of his conversion, but in the novel he displaces his experience onto Charles Reding, a young student entering Oxford and experiencing its intellectual climate for the first time. - Loss and Gain
Part II of the novel further traces the development of the relationship between Mala and Otoh, a plot line that interweaves with one of Mala’s memories of Pohpoh. - Cereus Blooms at Night
Kisan Kanya was based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto and focussed on the plight of poor farmers. - Kisan Kanya
The novel concerns a tyrant who attempts to control civilization by using a madness-inducing drug. - Murder Madness
The novel takes place, roughly, over a period of three years. - Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
The novel is set in the London theatres of the 1930s. - An Expert in Murder
Part 1: The Corporal, The Hare, The Partisan, and The Headmaster The novel starts out from the point of view of Nikki Mond. - War of the Rats
Raphael finds the novel to be "overly romantic" and the conclusion melodramatic. - Dragon Bones
The novel is set in the immediate post-World War II period in the fictional English small provincial town of Otterbury. - The Otterbury Incident
The novel concerns electrical engineer Myles Cabot, who disappears from his home in Boston while performing an experiment. - The Radio Man
The culminating event of the novel is Sarah and Bruce's break-up. - The Underdog (novel)
The novel concerns Anton Harkness, the commander of an American submarine in World War I which is caught in a whirlpool which drags it to the bottom of the sea where it collides with a glass dome. - The Sunken World
The framing narrative of the novel is written from the perspective of Jasper, writing secretly from the prison cell he is incarcerated in for an initially undisclosed crime. - A Fraction of the Whole
The novel comes to an end: Morgan is getting over her loss for Mark, Norman and Colie are in a relationship, and Isabel and Morgan come together during a disco beat. - Keeping the Moon
Birdie saves Apple, but as schemed by Marchpane is incinerated — though, because of her simplicity, she appears to enjoy the novel experience. - Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
The novel opens with Conan walking to Shadizar through the Karpash Mountains. - Conan the Formidable
The novel concerns Smith who breaks out of prison by means of time travel. - The Night People (novel)
In the novel the narrator speaks about the times in more personal terms: "As the saying went, the blade of grass points where the wind blows. - The Interior (novel)
The novel concerns conspiracy theories and a case similar to the Lindbergh kidnapping but set in a mythical Germanic country. - Behind the Evidence
The first chapter of the novel is called ‘Desher Wer,’ which means ‘old red’ in Ancient Egyptian. - The Old Red Hippopotamus
The central character of the novel named after him, Blanquerna, was born to Evast and Aloma. - Blanquerna
This novel is the final book of the Finders Stone Trilogy. - Song of the Saurials
Near the end of the novel seven gruesome murders are solved. - Flower Net
However, all references in this novel place it in the twenty-second century, with the twentieth and twenty-first mentioned as the past. - The Fall of Colossus
The novel concerns the problems of running of a space station. - Space Tug (novel)
The novel concerns the sabotage of attempts to place a platform in Earth orbit. - Space Platform
Set 6,000 years in the future, the novel concerns the murder of the head of a matriarchal society. - Murder in Millennium VI
The novel describes the fictional story of a young teenager by the name of William Campbell who starts out as a sergeant and later is promoted to a full Knight Templar. - Brethren (novel)
The novel is set in 1960s Alexandria at the pension Miramar. - Miramar (novel)
The novel concerns an empire of invisible wizards and adventure in the realm of Annwyn. - Kinsmen of the Dragon
The novel concerns a man who travels 500,000 years into the future with the aid of a time machine. - The World Below
The novel concerns Jan Palmer, a young millionaire, who surprises a prowler who is attempting to burgle his collection of antiques. - Slaves of Sleep
The novel focuses on the happenings of the Ramouds. - Arabian Jazz
The novel also introduces his close friend, Oni Wolda. - Last Legionary
The novel travels chronologically through each month and location along the Trail of Tears. - Pushing the Bear
The novel opens like a detective story as the narrator begins, Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. - Leviathan (Auster novel)
The novel concerns an interdimensional doorway between worlds. - The Blind Spot
The novel concerns a man with a dream and an allegorical quest through Spain. - The Lady Decides
The novel concerns Guy Maynard, of Earth, who is rescued from his Martian captors by Thomakein of the planet Eterne, an invisible wandering planet. - Nomad (novel)
The novel returns to The Cemetery of Forgotten Books in Barcelona's Raval district, and the Sempere & Sons bookshop, from The Shadow of the Wind. - The Angel's Game
The novel concerns two conflicts. - The Eternal Conflict
As this would suggest, the novel is a romance. - Mauprat (novel)
One of the principal characters of the novel is Istak, a Filipino from the Ilocano stock who was fluent in Spanish and Latin, a talent he inherited from the teachings of an old parish priest in Cabugao. - Po-on
The novel concerns Colonel Horatio Bumble who has retired to his ancestral home with his wife, Helen and their Pekingese, Lady. - The Homunculus
The novel is set in the year 3010, in the ruins of New York after an atomic disaster. - The Torch (novel)
The first part of the novel introduces Tighe and the hardness of life in his village, the abuse Tighe receives from his family members, and the unusual (to us) state of his world. - On (novel)
Mobile phones today come with a host of novel features to entertain their users. - Video Clip
The novel describes the slapstick circumstances surrounding a local election in one of the districts of Trinidad. - The Suffrage of Elvira
Rowland is trying to write a novel but discovers that a new star pupil, Chris Wiley, only seventeen is also writing a novel, which eclipses Rowland's efforts. - The Finishing School (Spark novel)
The novel concerns a hero who falls into a deep sleep and awakens in the Utopian states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. - Three Hundred Years Hence
The novel is told from the first person perspective of a woman, Helen, who lives in Melbourne near her family. - The Spare Room
The novel begins in present time. - Faces in the Moon
The novel concerns Henry Pickett, a traveling salesman, and his adventures after he acquires a magical tribal charm belonging to some gnomes. - The Mislaid Charm
Set in the future, the novel follows the rise of a Lieutenant (known in the book only as "The Lieutenant") as he becomes dictator of England after a world war. - Final Blackout
This space opera novel concerns the harnessing of energy from the sun and encounters with aliens who turn out not to be truly alien at all. - The Mightiest Machine
As an attack was imminent, the Black Swordsman finished the novel and rushed to intercept the raid and quickly finished off the English soldiers. - Comedy (anime)
The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. - The Time Stream
The novel begins with Robbie Feaver seeking advice from attorney George Mason, the narrator. - Personal Injuries
The novel jumps forward two and a half years and introduces the character of Dimitri Karras, the father of the young boy. - Shame the Devil
The novel began with an introductory chapter about the graduation day from kindergarten of Maya, Lea's daughter. - Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
The novel focuses on children in Catford Street, a working-class London street of much stone and asphalt but only few green spots. - An Episode of Sparrows
The novel is set in an unidentified Penal colony in the South Pacific, which bears a superficial resemblance to Sydney. - Bring Larks and Heroes
The novel is about two friends: Delfin and Felipe. - Banaag at Sikat
Set in sub-tropical Queensland, the novel examines the relationships between suburban Brisbanites including a priest, nuns and a couple and their teenage son. - The Slow Natives
The entirety of the novel consists of Anaximander, a new candidate for The Academy, participating in a grueling auditory entrance exam. - Genesis (novel)
The novel concludes with a quote from the solemnization of matrimony, taken from the Book of Common Prayer. - An Excellent Mystery
The beginning of the novel takes place with Charlie and friends getting ready for their final exams in the hope of grading and becoming Addys. - Nightmare Academy: Monster Revenge
The novel is set in Florence at the end of the Second World War. - Le ragazze di San Frediano
Towards the end of the novel Alex and Allison's relationship seems to be going strong, but there are some unresolved issues between Alex and Robin that have yet to play out. - A Cold Heart
While driving through a snowstorm, Paul accidentally hits Stephen King with his car, causing Paul to swerve off the road and crash into a snowbank, while King gets the idea for another novel within seconds and manages to finish writing the plot in just a few seconds before hitting the ground completely unscathed. - Three Kings (Family Guy)
The twenty-third Inspector Ghote novel finds the detective out of his element. - Bribery, Corruption Also
The climax of the novel approaches at the time of the traditional Blackfoot annual ceremony of the Sun Dance. - Green Grass, Running Water
The majority of the novel is an account of the aftermath of that night, as Robert was transformed back into a rat at midnight of that night—yet retained the ability to speak; he then began a quest to find Mara, the "woman of light" (or Fairy Godmother) in order to become permanently human. - The Coachman Rat
The picaresque novel tells the story of a journey. - Faserland
The novel centres on mr Frank, a kindhearted but empty-headed worker for the Underground Railroad, where he works to help runaway slaves from the South flee to the Northern United States and then onto Canada. - Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent
For an in-depth account of the plot, see main article: Emma (novel) Austen's classic comic novel follows the story of the "handsome, clever and rich" Emma Woodhouse. - Emma (2009 TV serial)
The novel is a continuation of the story in The Ship From Atlantis, telling of Prince Gwalchmai's star-crossed love for Princess Corenice of Atlantis in her various reincarnations, along with his centuries-delayed quest to secure aid and settlers to shore up the faltering empire established by his father and refugees from the fallen kingdom of Arthur in the New World. - Merlin's Ring
The novel takes place along the Georgia coastline in 1837, where the prosperous Montrose plantation continues to yield a rich harvest of cotton each year, which is gathered by the slaves of the plantation. - The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good
The novel is set in late summer, AD 81. - The Prophet from Ephesus
The novel begins with Hel, retired in his late fifties in a small castle overlooking a village of the Haute-Soule, in the mountainous Northern Basque Country. - Shibumi (novel)
Set in Seoul, Korea, in 1473, the novel depicts the relationship of two brothers in a tradition-bound family. - The Kite Fighters
The novel begins during the events in the book Legend, During the defense of the fortress Dros Delnoch from the Nadir, Druss begins to tell a young warrior a story from his past. - The Legend of Deathwalker
The novel is split between two points of view, a first-person narrative presenting the events as Chris recalls them in retrospect, interspersed with a series of letters from Helen to their unborn child (Nobody), telling her side of the story as she experiences it. - Dear Nobody
Forced to make a difficult decision, Falco and Petronius finally decide to take matters into their hands, conspiring to "send Nemesis to deal with him" once and for all, ending the novel and the series so far in a cliffhanger. - Nemesis (Davis novel)
This movie is adapted from the international best selling novel by Zülfü Livaneli. - Bliss (2007 film)
Smith's novel begins on a plantation in Virginia, owned by the benevolent and kindly mr Erskine. - Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as It Is
Overturning the traditional notion of a pleasurable sex-filled dirty weekend, Zahavi's novel instead examines a weekend killing spree committed by Bella, a twenty-something former sex-worker. - Dirty Weekend (novel)
A witty, engrossing, unique novel about the life of masters and boys in a Scottish prep school. - Prayer for the Living
Reiko is also struggling to win back the affections of her young daughter, Akiko, who became alienated from Reiko when Reiko left her behind to go to Ezogashima to rescue her son, Masahiro, as told in the previous novel (The Snow Empress). - The Fire Kimono
The novel opens in All Saints' church in Darnley Mills. - The Grange at High Force
In the other lives Sam Green is struggling to write a novel whilst his wife goes out to work running a psychiatric practice and his angst-ridden teenage daughter binge eats in her bedroom. - Close to Home (novel)
Unfortunately for Brian, when his novel is released, it is universally panned by literary critics and does not sell a single copy. - 420 (Family Guy)
In the novel version, the story continues in the United States, after the war is over. - The Shawl (short story)
In this novel by John Wilson set during the Battle of Stalingrad, three participants — two fighters and a boy — are caught in its horrors. - Four Steps to Death
This novel picks up two years after the events of the previous one, with Dirk fleeing Avacas a wanted man and seeking sanctuary in the Baenlands. - Eye of the Labyrinth
The novel is set in the fantasy world of Ranadon, where there is no night time. - Lion of Senet
The rest of the novel details the trials that Mary encounters upon the death of her benevolent guardian mr Raymond, and her subsequent reliance on the charity of those around her. - The Victim of Prejudice
The novel centres around Timoleon Vieta, a little mongrel dog with black and white patches of fur and eyes as pretty as a girl's. - Timoleon Vieta Come Home
The novel sets in sharp relief the distinctions between men and women, whites and blacks, the convicts and the free, and English colonists and Australian settlers. - A Fringe of Leaves
The film also explores mythology, as illustrated by Christie's Scottish Piper Gunn, Métis hero Jules Tonnerre, Morag's novel and songs by Skinner and Piquette. - The Diviners (film)
Batman and Red Robin #19 introduced Carrie Kelly, the Robin from the graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns to continuity as a former acting teacher of Damian's who is distrustful of his disappearance and Bruce Wayne's unconvincing explanations. - Batman and Robin (comic book)
The novel follows the relationship between Irishwoman Adelia "Dee" Cunnane and American Travis Grant. - Irish Thoroughbred
The plot of "They Burn the Thistles" is much the same as in the first novel "Memed, My Hawk", where Memed, a young boy from a village in Anatolia is abused and beaten by the villainous Abdi Agha, the local landowner. - They Burn the Thistles
The story takes place somewhere in Virginia, and depicts a group of white plantation owners who put charity towards their black slaves before the harvesting and selling of the cotton on their own plantations, as well as successfully converting several troublesome abolitionists into friendly socialites through a process referred to throughout the novel as "Southern hospitality". - Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South
The novel centers around the protagonist and narrator, Rachel White, a thirty-year-old single woman who is a consummate good-girl. - Something Borrowed (novel)
His latest novel has not done well in France, and he has not been writing anything new. - Foreign Words
The novel ends with Kristina hoping that things will get better in her life even though she has no reason to be hopeful. - Glass (novel)
The novel begins with chapter one of a murder mystery set in a seaside resort. - Emotionally Weird
The novel ends in 1971, when Cantor encounters one of the Newark playground children who contracted polio and survived. - Nemesis (Roth novel)
In the presentation of real historical events, many names and locations are altered, so that the novel does not pretend to be an accurate description of the historical situation. - The House of the Mosque
The novel features two black slaves from Virginia - Uncle Robin (the loyal slave), and Uncle Tom (the disloyal slave, and a reference to the main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin). - Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston
These three, a triad straight from genre fantasy, are marvellously brought to life, illuminating a rather formal, fiercely intelligent novel with joyous power. - Bold as Love (novel)
The novel opens with Sheila Grey, George’s daughter and her partner, Tom, discussing the imminent return of her father from Bom Porto. - Foreign Land (novel)
As the novel ends, Glenuff believes that he has developed stigmata and thinks that these will finally enable him to convert the world, but it turns out that he is the only one who can see the signs. - Children of This Earth
The novel ends with Pepita reentering the brothel. - The Little Friend (Marshall novel)
The novel was the basis of the 1949 film The Red Danube starring Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury and Janet Leigh. - Vespers in Vienna
The novel ends in Fascist Spain, where Luckypenny’s fate depends upon the intervention of his Italian lover. - Luckypenny
The film begins with the final scene of the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne. - The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin
The novel is set in Widnes, England, just as the euro is about to replace the pound sterling. - Millions (novel)
Set in a coastal village in Pembrokeshire, the novel concerns Miyuki Woodward, a young Welsh-Japanese woman who spends a month every winter staying in a nearby cottage, away from her female partner Grindl (with whom she runs a decorating business), as a lesson in not taking each other for granted. - Gold (Rhodes novel)
This novel opens on New Year's Eve, three weeks after the events of Club Dead. - Dead to the World (novel)
The novel begins with Aislinn and Seth arguing over their relationship, as Seth's mortality, Aislinn's immortality, and her ties to Keenan as the summer queen make a normal relationship near impossible. - Fragile Eternity
This short novel of only 160 pages is set in backwoods Vermont where the local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from outside the area. - Go with Me
Youichi's novel culinary ideas, coupled with his enthusiasm of serving the best for his guests, allow him to defeat Marui in the match. - Mister Ajikko
It is suggested at the beginning of the novel that Emmeline's parents were not married when she was born, making her illegitimate; on these grounds, Lord Montreville has claimed Mowbray Castle for himself and his family. - Emmeline
Based on deep research, the novel imagines the lives of Jesse James, his brother Frank and their followers, including their guerrilla activities during the American Civil War and their insurgency afterward as robbers. - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (novel)
Set in Paris on the eve of and during World War II, the novel revolves around Françoise, whose open relationship with her partner Pierre becomes strained when they form a ménage à trois with her younger friend Xaviere. - She Came to Stay
The novel follows journalist, George Brewster, who moves from city to city, from empty love affair to empty love affair, until he dies. - The Well Dressed Explorer
The novel is set in a remote Anglican mission in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia. - To the Islands
The novel covers the arrival of the Eqbas Vorhi task force to start Earth's environmental restoration, with Shan Frankland, the Royal Marines squad, and Aras joining them. - Judge (novel)
The novel is set in the Superstition Mountains where the commander of a secret military installation is affected by strange forces that take over his mind. - The Sand Dwellers
Resisting logical resolution, the novel reprises and reworks themes that have recurred throughout the course of the book, creating an aesthetic unity that is emotionally ambivalent: a juxtapostion of the comic tone of Book One with the dark pessimism of Book Two. - Sputnik Caledonia
Amanda explains to her mother that Jane Austen's novel has shown her that she can set higher standards for a husband for herself, and taught her to believe in true love. - Lost in Austen
The novel is set in various locations, but mainly New York, Shanghai and Mount Putuo, site of Coco's birth and a Buddhist monastery. - Marrying Buddha
The previous novel is briefly addressed in the book's first section, "To the Summer Quaternary" with the pretension of being a synopsis of book a project Pierce is preparing for possible publication. - Love & Sleep
Fleur assists in this and gains valuable source material for her novel whilst growing increasingly suspicious that Sir Quentin may be blackmailing the association's members. - Loitering with Intent
Set in 2003, the novel consists of three parts: "The Beginning," "Middle" and "The End". - The Accidental
Coco is trying to write a first novel after previous success publishing a collection of sexually frank short stories. - Shanghai Baby
The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided. - Armance (novel)
The novel concerns James Kerrick, an archaeologist and black marketeer who sells artifacts from a lost city in Mexico. - The House of the Toad
The novel is set in Victorian England and concerns John Carter, an architect who leaves London to become a junior partner in a prosperous building firm in Thornton Bassett, a village in Dartmoor. - The Black Death (novel)
This is based on the medical fiction novel Outbreak by Robin Cook. - Virus (1995 film)
Moving the focus of the novel to Conan, it describes how the city of Belverus in Nemedia is unsafe, the tariffs exorbitantly high, starvation rampant, sedition brewing, and that King Garian seems ineffective as a ruler. - Conan the Defender
The series follows the plot of Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber. - Dream of the Red Chamber (1987 TV series)
The novel ends with Em bringing Lulu to her family's house for dinner, Em learns that Lulu doesn't have a family and spends most of her time drinking and partying. - Airhead (novel)
The novel concerns a lost race in the Gobi Desert that is technologically advanced through a combination of theosophy and superscience. - The Abyss of Wonders
The novel concerns people who are transported to a future totalitarian Philadelphia in 2118, after inhaling a grey dust. - The Heads of Cerberus
This novel is part of The War of Souls trilogy. - Dragons of a Vanished Moon
The novel concerns the adventures of four heroes, Arcot, Morey, Wade and Fuller. - Islands of Space
The novel concerns the adventures of George Hanlan, a secret service agent who has the ability to read minds, on the planet Estrella. - Alien Minds
The novel concerns the survivors of the destruction of the earth and their attempt at settling a new planet. - Under the Triple Suns
The novel concerns Russian genetics experiments resulting in a being that is half ape, half brain. - G.O.G. 666
The novel concerns the first interstellar flight, financed by making it into a television show. - Operation: Outer Space
The novel concerns scientists who attempt to build a utopia after the earth has been placed in suspended animation for 3,000 years. - Three Thousand Years
The novel concerns the adventures of George Hanlan, a secret service agent who has the ability to read minds. - Man of Many Minds
The novel tracks his experiences on the trip, as well as exploring his past career through flashbacks. - King Leary
The novel narrates the story of Peruvian Army Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, whose superiors involve him, despite his reluctance, in a mission to satisfy the sex drives of soldiers stationed in the Peruvian department of Amazons. - Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Hitler, known in the novel as Herr Wolf, escapes across Europe in the company of two SS commandos. - The Berkut
The novel is a science horror story that involves silicon crystalline lifeforms threatening to overwhelm carbon life on Earth. - The Crystal Horde
The novel concerns the creation of a superman using radiation. - Seeds of Life
The novel concerns the search for a lost city in South America. - The Bridge of Light
The novel begins with the main character being contacted by his former employer, which he had left after losing a toe. - Apex Hides the Hurt
Philox Lorris is working on his two novel scientific applications: a biological weapon and a vaccine that is meant to give boost to one's health. - Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique
Set in 6th century Europe after Arthur's death, the novel retells part of Merlin's life using the Black Book of Carmarthen, Robert de Boron, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and other sources. - The Coming of the King
The novel ends almost three years after these events, on a cautiously optimistic note. - Purple Hibiscus (novel)
The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the narrator being a young attorney from New York named John March. - Seven Out of Time
The novel centres around Colin, a young boy growing up in the fictional Yorkshire mining village of Saxton during the Second World War and the postwar years. - Saville (novel)
The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. - Holiday (novel)
The novel concerns a tank-battle casualty reincarnated as a dispossessed god-figure who struggles against one of his two consorts to re-establish his dominion in the far future Gonwonlane. - The Book of Ptath
The novel concerns the search for soil from a remote part of Asia for the cultivation of weird flowers that can destroy humanity. - The Forbidden Garden (novel)
The novel takes place in Portland, Oregon, United States. - Paranoid Park (novel)
A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California, and the book is about two "lusty" gay lovers from Los Angeles named Nick and Jeff who at the beginning of the novel were having passionate sex when two "wildly homophobic cops" break in on them. - Adrenaline (novel)
The people touched by the light in the novel were soon referred to as "Blues" and were segregated from society because of their new and improved super human powers. - Blue Light (novel)
The novel concerns the adventures of the Martian bird-woman Yahna and Earthman Bill Newsome and the conflict between their worlds. - The Bird of Time
The novel follows Nash, who travels from America to Africa to educate natives about Christ; Martha, an old woman who attempts to travel from Virginia to California to escape the injustices of being a slave; and Travis, a member of theS. - Crossing the River
Comic book writer Warren Ellis counts the novel as one of his early favorites, writing, "I must have read that book twenty times. - The Survivors (Godwin novel)
The novel concerns the swashbuckling adventures of the title character as he battles Norsemen, pre-Roman Britons and Julius Caesar. - Tros of Samothrace
The novel concerns twins, one of whom travels in a spaceship and is subject to the FitzGerald contraction thus aging slower than the other. - Starman's Quest
The novel concerns a physicist who is trying to explain the mysterious "Lawson Radiation" while his researches drive him insane. - Path of Unreason
The novel opens with James killing the Old Lady. - The Double Hook
The main protagonist of the novel is Dane Thorson, Cargo-master-apprentice on the Free Trader rocket ship the Solar Queen. - Plague Ship
The novel concerns ESP and a disease that turns men into supermen. - Highways in Hiding
The novel is set after an atomic war and the world is run by Polynesians. - Reprieve from Paradise
The novel intertwines these characters and stories through a series of events, including the "Young Miss Philippines" annual pageant, the Manila International Film Festival, and the assassination of human rights activist Senator Domingo Avila. - Dogeaters
The relatively upbeat ending of the film is in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, in which Temple perjures herself in court, resulting in the lynching of an innocent man. - The Story of Temple Drake
The novel concerns a man's fight against the power of a future church. - This Fortress World
The novel concerns people with incurable injuries and defects (biocompensators) who volunteer for the first interstellar flight. - Address: Centauri
The action of the novel describes the fight for survival by descendants of a crashed spaceship as they battle wolf-sized ants, flies the size of chickens, and gigantic flying wasps. - The Forgotten Planet
The novel concerns the adventures of a boy and his sapient dog as they join an interplanetary circus on a voyage to Mars. - Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars
The novel concerns an interplanetary narcotics agent who is forced to work on an incredibly cold world (from his point of view) — so cold that the atmosphere he breathes (sulfur) is a yellow solid. - Iceworld
The novel is a space opera concerning the only race that is able to endure the rigors of interstellar travel. - The Starmen
The novel concerns a group of earthmen and a girl, who is awakened from suspended animation, being contacted by aliens with whom they join to prevent the collision of one universe with another. - Cosmic Engineers
The novel is a space opera about a contemporary man who awakens in the far future. - Minions of the Moon
The novel concerns Earthmen who are overwhelmed by alien invaders, whom they then attempt to conquer from within. - Pattern for Conquest
Set in the seaside town of Whitby just before Bonfire Night, the novel is set a few months after The Whitby Witches. - A Warlock in Whitby
The novel is about a young Hungarian boy, György "Gyuri" Köves, living in Budapest. - Fatelessness
The novel begins with a discussion of the character’s summer goals: Paula losing her virginity and all of the characters having “madcap adventures. - How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater
According to Kesey's "Introduction," the novel was inspired by an actual news clipping, an Associated Press story on October 31, 1964 entitled "Charles Oswald Loach, Doctor of Theosophy and discoverer of so-called 'SECRET CAVE OF AMERICAN ANCIENTS,' which stirred archaeological controversy in 1928". - Caverns (novel)
The hotel confrontation between Moss and Chigurh plays out very differently in the film from the novel; rather than punching out the lock and wounding Moss, in the novel Chigurh apparently steals a key from a murdered clerk and quietly enters Moss's room, and Moss ambushes him and takes him captive at gunpoint, so they have a chance to see and know each other. - Anton Chigurh
Awakening yet again in a novel place with new hurts, the urge to fix the problem is intense. - Bone Dance
In Galactica's sick bay, Adama meets Roslin, bringing a novel to read aloud during her cancer treatment. - Escape Velocity (Battlestar Galactica)
In addition to the previous novel other families appear on the scene and together they live through the Cromwellian period, the Protestant Ascendancy and the Famine. - Ireland: Awakening
Set in the New Forest of southern England, this novel covers the lives of number of families tracing their history from the Saxons and Normans in 1099 through a "Jane Austen" style world of the early 19th century to present. - The Forest (novel)
This means that Sir Hugh spends much of the early part of the novel waiting and planning for the day when Edgar and Clermont leave off their educations and finishing tours of the Continent so that they may marry Indiana and Eugenia. - Camilla (Burney novel)
Truesight, a novel written by David Stahler, Jr, takes place in the futuristic colony, Harmony Station, which is located on a foreign planet. - Truesight
The novel follows Ben's encounters with Philippine culture and tradition, both in Cebu City and in Manila, where he spends time with Clara's assistant Ellen but also sees the violence around him, such as a protest at theS. - Cebu (novel)
The novel is based on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors". - The Last Ringbearer
The novel details the life of Tomi, a Japanese-American boy, and his family during World War II, when Americans of Japanese descent were being sent to internment camps. - Under the Blood Red Sun
As the novel begins in the time between Christmas and New Year's, Charles, several days short of his 27th birthday, is dealing with his mentally ill mother's recent hospitalization. - Chilly Scenes of Winter
The title of the novel refers to an unusual ring worn by the victim which, as it soon turns out, belongs to somebody else. - The Case of the Gilded Fly
The novel centers on a young boy named Beto, who has been left by his mother to be raised by his Spanish grandmother Josephina and Yaqui grandfather Manuel, both of whom carry on the spiritual traditions of their cultural heritages, Manuel as a shaman and Josephina as a curandera. - La Maravilla
The novel is set mostly in the Kingdom of Rhaize where the coming together of three individuals, Tessa McCamfrey, Ravis of Burano and Camron of Thorn, is about to unleash a series of events that culminate in the fight to save the kingdom from the armies of Garizon. - The Barbed Coil
At the beginning of the film she is in love with a famous writer named Alec Bolton, who dismisses any intentions she has of writing a novel herself as nonsense, strongly discouraging her. - A Business Affair
Somewhat impenetrable, the story tracks the adventures of Rose, who originally appeared in the novel The Revenge of the Rose (1991) and Sam Oakenhurst, hero of Blood (1995) and subsequent novels as their progress towards Silverskin is manipulated at each turn by the unseen players of the Game. - Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
This book is the last novel in the series. - California Dreaming (novel)
The events of the novel take place in Ancient Egypt and in particular during the transitional period after the New Kingdom, towards the start of the Third Intermediate Period, during the 21st Dynasty (c. - In Search for Khnum
The novel concludes at sea with the narrator becoming separated from Meridith. - Nog (novel)
Set in the autumn of 1541, the novel describes fictional events surrounding Henry VIII's 'Progress' to the North (a state visit accompanied by the royal court and its attendants, the purpose of which was to formally accept surrender from those who had rebelled during the Pilgrimage of Grace). - Sovereign (novel)
the protagonist is highly attracted towards the glamour of western that comes to novel as being in contact with Catherine. - The Romantics (novel)
This novel loosely parodies the Medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; however, it is largely a comedy of errors with bizarre twists and turns in circumstances that threaten the stability of a circle of friends in a London community. - The Green Knight (novel)
It was somewhat inspired by James Thurber's novel ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’. - Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne
His real ambition is to become a novel writer. - Welcome to Sajjanpur
The novel tells the fictional story of Hanna Heath, an Australian book conservator who is responsible for restoring the Haggadah. - People of the Book (novel)
This novel is continuation of the 'The Magician's Apprentice' five centuries on. - The Black Magician (novel series)
The novel begins with Peter Glebsky, a policeman by profession, going on a holiday to the Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, a small resort located in a secluded valley in the Alps. - Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
The novel begins at the end of the story. - Queen of Camelot
The main novel is divided into four distinct parts. - Merlin's Wood
The protagonist of the novel is a cultured and tenacious detective affected by a deadly disease (which is clearly a cancer, although it is never openly stated). - The Knight and Death
The novel follows two best friends from Glasgow: Fraser Darby, an alcoholic televangelist caught up in a sex scandal, and George Ingram, an attorney diagnosed with terminal cancer who contemplates suicide. - Between the Bridge and the River
The novel takes place at an army base in theS. - Reflections in a Golden Eye (novel)
As the novel begins, the Senators are losing ground in the American League to their longtime nemesis, the New York Yankees. - The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
The novel ends up with the death of Pepe Rey due to his aunt Perfecta. - Doña Perfecta
The novel tells the story of two prisoners, Lali and Raheem Dad, who escape from jail. - Jangloos
A prominent up-and-coming author Min-woo readies his new much anticipated follow-up novel while suffering from writer's block, as well as frequent nightmares and hallucinations. - M (2007 film)
The novel begins on the Cathedral Porch, where beggars spend their nights. - El Señor Presidente
Salim is reluctant to take her in, but Jamal suggests that she could be the "third musketeer", a character from the Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers (which they had been studying—albeit not very diligently—in school), whose name they do not know. - Slumdog Millionaire
then many years later the novel shows how time passes by between the married couples and they start to have kids and grandkids. - Al diablo con los guapos
The novel and its trilogy use the Moonshae Isles as its setting. - Darkwalker on Moonshae
After Philip also calls Erik's novel recycled Dahl, Erik angrily leaves. - Reprise (film)
Set in the 1950s, the novel opens with the two sisters awaiting the arrival of their older half-brother Vincent. - Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid
The novel is told in six chapters, the first two set in Liverpool in 1846 and 1850, the remainder set in 1854 Crimea ending outside Sevastopol. - Master Georgie
Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor shows Donna Agatha's novel Death in the Clouds, in which wasps play a significant part. - The Unicorn and the Wasp
The main events of the novel take place in Green Oaks shopping centre. - What Was Lost
During the course of the novel Umslopogaas teams up with Galazi the Wolf, who lives on Ghost Mountain and has power over a spectral wolf pack. - Nada the Lily
The novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau which Teddy helped to liberate. - Shutter Island
It could be argued for some inconsistency in Aphra Behn's novel in her character development. - Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is a young adult novel about Alcatraz Smedry, a young teen who is always breaking things. - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Similar in subject to and perhaps inspired by the novel Through The Looking Glass, the film centers around an encounter between a girl named Olya Yukina and a mysterious counterpart, Yalo, while staring into a mirror. - Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
The novel ends with Grant vowing to himself to push the envelope in search of altered states to higher awareness. - Strange Angels (novel)
The events in the novel take place in the early twentieth century, near the collapse of a war weary Ottoman Empire and the creation of the Turkish republic. - Çalıkuşu
This makes her useful to the lesser of the island nations and the novel follows her story as she searches for a mysterious slave woman and fights an evil that threatens all of the island nations. - The Aware
The novel starts with Katya being sent by her father to investigate rumours of bad news on the island of Nippon. - Fortune's Fool (novel)
However, when Elijah wakes her saying that he can't sleep, Greggs sits with him in the apartment window (an homage to a scene in the film Clockers, which was based on the Richard Price novel of the same name) saying good night to the denizens of the inner city à la Goodnight Moon. - Took (The Wire)
The novel follows her journey up the ranks, the battles against the invading Jarnsmen and Isarnagans, and Urdo's efforts to unite the many kingdoms of Tir Tanagiri and restore peace and law to the land. - The King's Peace (novel)
Theo comes after her and offers to publish the novel as it is. - Angel (2007 film)
A third novel in the series, Half a Crown, came out in September 2008, also from Tor. - Ha'penny (novel)
It changes the partners in the second marriage, as the novel had the proposed marriage between Gunja and Omkar taking place. - Nadiya Ke Paar (1982 film)
He is a man that looks like his older prodigy brother Adriance--this similarity haunts him throughout the entire novel and robs him of his own personality. - A Death in the Desert
The novel goes through the triumphs and tribulations of various people and non-human animals on Earth after this event. - Brain Wave
The Jester is a novel focusing on a young man named Hugh, beginning in the year 1096. - The Jester (novel)
The protagonist of the novel is Benedykt Gierosławski, a Polish mathematician and notorious gambler, collaborating with Alfred Tarski on his work on many-valued logics. - Ice (Dukaj novel)
Many of the more significant characters, including Arthur Winner Sr, the protagonist's father, are dead at the time of the novel and are only seen in these flashbacks. - By Love Possessed (novel)
The novel revolves round the eponymous character, Lucy Gayheart, a young girl from Haverford, by the Platte River. - Lucy Gayheart
The novel opens with five-year-old Maddy and her mother, Anita, leaving her father, a Jewish professor at Dartmouth College. - Perfidia (Rossner novel)
Is the key to how the murder room was locked and bolted from the inside to be found in a locked-room mystery novel plotted by Wilkie Collins. - The Dead Man's Knock
Told from Clough's point of view, the novel is written as his stream of consciousness as he tries and fails to impose his will on a team he inherited from his bitter rival, Don Revie, and whose players are still loyal to their old manager. - The Damned Utd
Several of the major characters in Mosse's novel Labyrinth make cameo appearances in Sepulchre. - Sepulchre (Mosse novel)
The novel follows protagonist Ben Conrad, a fifteen-year-old boy struggling with family affairs, school, and bullying. - Men of Stone
Gardner is astonished when Anderson's "telepathic typewriter" is able to create a well-written novel about buffalo soldiers. - The Tommyknockers (miniseries)
The novel centers on a man who accidentally burns down the home of Emily Dickinson, and in the process, kills a couple who were making love in her bed: During his years in prison, he and his family receive large amounts of fan mail asking that he also burn down other famous literary homes, such as those of Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne. - An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Part Two continues the novel in epistolary form, with a series of letters from various sources (50). - The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest
Mentioned in the novel were historical characters ) and who were famous swordsmiths. - Duel for the Samurai Sword
The novel ends with Lord Delby's marriage to the Countess of Wolfenbach and Matilda's marriage to the Count de Bouville. - The Castle of Wolfenbach
She increasingly slips into despair as the novel ends and Robert decides not to return home. - A Special Providence
The novel tells the story of two clans, those belonging to the Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. - The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
The novel opens with Ullo's reminiscences of a childhood trip to Germany in the 1920s, and ends with his vision of meeting his aged father who fled to the West together with his lover. - Treading Air
The novel opens in 1996 as Gabe, now middle-aged, keeps watch over an old Angelo Vestieri on his hospital deathbed. - Gangster (novel)
The novel tells the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland. - Carpentaria (novel)
Thus, the novel is divided into three parts plus an epilogue. - Portrait in Sepia
The novel reaches its conclusion with a reconciliation between Barbary and her mother (Barbary explaining that she had nothing to do with the drowning of Maurice) and with a revelation about her conception. - The World My Wilderness
This leads to a recollection of Mountolive's maturation and career as a diplomat, a career which in time returns him to Egypt, leading up to the present day of the novel series, at which point Mountolive recontextualizes the materials that appeared previously in Justine and Balthazar. - Mountolive
(She is said to be a fictional creation of author Aubrey Blanford, also introduced in the first novel as a character). - Sebastian (Durrell novel)
Kay stated in an interview that her novel was inspired by the life of Billy Tipton, an American jazz musician, who lived with the secret of being a woman for fifty years in pursuit of his musical career in the 1950s. - Trumpet (novel)
The next morning, mr Glowery is stuck in a restaurant where he is being coerced by a psychotic cook to peddle his novel in order to pay off a debt he incurred during the night. - Light House: A Trifle
The novel tells the life story of a group of friends, from preaching in Harlem, through to experiencing 'incest, war, poverty, the civil-rights struggle, as well as wealth and love and fame—in Korea, Africa, Birmingham, New York City, Paris. - Just Above My Head
The novel ends, knowing the two would be sent to Vietnam the following morning. - Why Are We in Vietnam?
The novel begins with Ben Tyson finding and reading excerpts from Hue: Death of a City, a recently published book by Andrew Picard about the Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War. - Word of Honor (novel)
The novel spans the years 41 BC to 27 BC, from the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi and the suicide of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus until the downfall of the second triumvirate, the final war of the Roman Republic and the renaming of Octavian to Augustus in 27 BC. - Antony and Cleopatra (novel)
At the end, Una begins to despair of the situation in which she has found herself, and is rescued by Catherine who takes her back to the cottage they shared at the start of the novel to recuperate. - The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century
He also experiences a repeat of events from the first novel as he is assigned to drop an atomic bomb on the anarchist Nestor Makhno and his Black Flag Army, but ultimately this does not happen; the bomb is turned against the Steel Tsar's own forces and Makhno survives. - The Steel Tsar
The story is based on the 1961 novel by Hans Koningsberger, set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie. - A Walk with Love and Death
Later, he follows a retinue of humans riding on horse-sized (based on humans retaining earthly size, as he explains at one later point in the novel and another later in the series) dragonflies (which he finds out later are known as zaiphs) to a splendid city which sparkles like a jewel collection. - Under the Green Star
The novel explores the hidden strengths of the tourists, set in the uneasy political situation in Burma. - Saving Fish from Drowning
The novel takes place in the 19th-century French countryside. - La Petite Fadette
The novel takes place during the first season, and chronicles the activities of Hiro Nakamura, a young man with the ability to stop time and experience time travel, after he transports himself back in time (as seen in the episode "Six Months Ago") in hopes of saving the life of Charlene "Charlie" Andrews, a waitress with enhanced memory, with whom Hiro has fallen in love, but who is destined to die at the hands of super-powered serial killer, Sylar. - Heroes: Saving Charlie
The novel explores the machinations of the comic book industry, and contains a fictionalized account of the history of mainstream American comics, with particular attention paid to the era of Image Comics. - Hicksville (comics)
Unlike previous adventures, this novel was unique in that Stephen Lane's parents was not away from their New York home during the story, and they knew that Stephen and his uncle Richard Duffy would be away. - Journey to Atlantis (novel)
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Barańska) and Bogumił Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Bińczycki) against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. - Nights and Days
On the other hand, Lully's animosity with Cambert comes to a novel dimension after Cambert's mistress Madeleine Lambert (Cécile Bois), the daughter of Michel Lambert, marries Lully in 1662. - Le Roi danse
He recalls rich winter scenes when the three were first in love, as well as a novel written about them by Robin Sutcliffe. - Monsieur (novel)
The conclusion of the novel implies that the unique ancestor is the survivor whose journal was discovered, and that civilisation is doomed to eternal fall and rebirth. - The Eternal Adam
The autobiographical novel can be divided into three phases: Ruth's happy marriage, impoverished widowhood, and rise to fame and financial independence as a newspaper columnist. - Ruth Hall (novel)
The tale is a self-contained novel taking place during Arthur's reign (possibly during the events in The Last Enchantment), and does not continue the story of The Wicked Day. - The Prince and the Pilgrim
Sidney gains Alison's respect by explaining his disapproval of Eleanor's practices, and Alison reveals that she also despises her job, and has been working sporadically on a novel for years, which she hopes to publish. - How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film)
The novel wraps up with the group breaking ranks. - Fado Alexandrino
The novel explores the man's horror at his own attraction, and recounts his efforts at resisting her persistent advances. - Nude Men
The premise of the novel is that parallel universes do exist. - Out of This World (Watt-Evans novel)
The story is set in Africa, and the present-day sequences include Victoria's brother Barney Custer, protagonist of Burroughs's Ruritanian novel The Mad King, as well as Burroughs's iconic hero Tarzan from his Tarzan novels. - The Eternal Lover
The novel is set in Nice, New York and Carmel, California. - Cold Heaven (novel)
Set in a rural village in Cambridgeshire, England, the novel opens in a chicken farm which is attacked one night by a mysterious creature, leaving the farmer and his wife dead. - Carnosaur (novel)
The novel continues to follow Pat Macgregor, a student who has taken a second gap year and who is unsure about her future direction, and the lives of her friends, roommates and fellow tenants at 44 Scotland Street. - Espresso Tales
C'mell reappears as the title character in "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell", and plays a major role in the novel Norstrilia. - Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
The novel describes the initial diplomatic contact between the Polity (an AI governed interstellar empire) and the isolated planets of Sudoria and Brumal who had been at war for nearly a century. - Hilldiggers
More character development takes place in this novel than in its predecessor, and the reader is able to watch the children grow up; in particular, they are able to watch Sara Stanley leave the Golden Road of childhood forever. - The Golden Road (Montgomery novel)
The novel is set in a small Western Australian logging village named Sawyer, near the fictional coastal town of Angelus, which has featured in several of Winton's works, including Shallows and The Turning. - Breath (novel)
As time passes the novel travels till 1997 and the nuclear family diverges yet keeps meeting together to share happy and sad times. - A Good House
The novel offers has two endings, one in which Bentall must choose between saving Hopeman and preventing the theft of the missile, and the other in which he finally unravels the last details of the plot with his boss. - The Dark Crusader
The novel contrasts the domestic characters, heroes and villains, with their more alien Russian counterparts. - Huntingtower (novel)
When Daagoo's and Bird Girl's clan want to get together, both central figures of the novel also find each other again. - Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
The novel begins with Mike Hammer recovering in Florida from bullet wounds he received during his infiltration of a drug war on the docks of New York—injuries from which he almost perished. - Black Alley
The novel picks up where exactly where The Girl Hunters left off. - The Snake (novel)
This novel illustrates the cardinal features of the subgenre known as hard-boiled crime fiction. - One Lonely Night
This novel features the first time she shoots and kills someone. - Vengeance Is Mine (novel)
The title refers to Nick Stefanos' journeys in the novel both in his past (with Goodrich) and in the present on his investigation. - Nick's Trip
It also turns out that the "Slug" is not the work of gangsters or a secret laboratory, but is a common electronic component being used in a novel way. - The Final Circle of Paradise
The first half of the novel involves three parallel arcs. - Federation (novel)
In this debut novel a fifteen-year-old boy dies mysteriously, leaving behind a ledger filled with his darkly comic confessions. - The Every Boy
The novel concerns the account of one Jane Martello, a middle aged woman undergoing divorce proceedings with her husband, and subsequently separating herself from a large and strong family she has known since her childhood. - The Memory Game
Street introduces Harry to the bohemian way of life and the novel recounts their misadventures. - Adrift in Soho
Written by a civil servant, the novel manages to capture the essence of an entire generation of Indians, whose urban realities jar in sharp contrast to that of rural India. - English, August
The novel takes place in Sierra County, California, primarily around the Silver Lake area. - Among the Missing (novel)
This portion of the novel is largely concerned with his schoolboy experiences, his developing sexuality, and the eventual death of his father, who has remained in India. - Pied Piper of Lovers
The plot of Djinn is surrounded by a frame story, a technique that Robbe-Grillet also employed in his novel Dans le Labyrinthe (1959). - Djinn (novel)
The novel tells the story of a policeman who kills a 15-year-old girl while she is performing fellatio and then dumps the body in a lake. - Greed (Jelinek novel)
The novel begins in London with a secret meeting between two legal men. - The Quincunx
The most recent English translation of the novel (2004) is Green Wheat, translated by Zack Rogow, nominated for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award. - Green Wheat
Born in a Cajun family amidst the Louisiana bayous, his primary function is exploration of the vast wild lands but in the beginning of the novel he is tapped to welcome newcomers to the colony. - The Sky People
Despite the fact that they live in different times, the boys' lives intertwine in the novel with haunting results. - Fireshadow
This novel can be found under alternate titles such as "Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth," "Measuring a Meridian" and "Meridiana or Adventures in South Africa". - The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
The observatory described in the book is similar to the real life SETI project which Carl Sagan would also use later in his novel Contact. - Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space
The process of writing the novel is part of its story and he describes his thoughts whilst writing it. - Lila Says (novel)
The novel relates the adventures of David Innes on his return from Lo-Har to Sari in the wake of the events of Back to the Stone Age. - Land of Terror
Throughout the novel two undercover agents stay in separate rooms right next to each other at a hotel in the town of Chutney, one from the RCMP, the other from the OPP, investigating the fish conspiracy that people had been complaining about seeing on their televisions. - Beware the Fish
After Rosie arranges a meeting between John and Boss Tweed, the political boss offers to sponsor John's proposed novel if he agrees to quit his job at The New York Times. - Up in Central Park (film)
Set concurrently in the 17th century and the current century, the novel is an intriguing and complex thriller based around the mystery of William Shakespeare. - The Book of Air and Shadows
Robert Ziegler : « For the most part, the message of Mirbeau's novel is a negative one, aimed at exposing the imposture perpetuated by doctors, judges, educators and priests, demantling the symbolic systems that culture creates. - Abbé Jules
The novel has multiple storylines that alternate one another, all reminiscent of the true-life experiences faced by Alan Paton and his political colleagues in resisting National Party rule in South Africa during the 1950s. - Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful
The novel is set around the time of its publication and follows Lucifer Clarence Dye, freshly exposed as a US intelligence agent following a bungled operation in Singapore (where a Chinese operative Dye had been trying to recruit instead died of a freak heart attack during a routine polygraph test) Having just been released from a three-month term in a Singaporean jail in exchange for an official US apology (and a large bribe), Dye is cashiered by the small, independent agency Section 2 and is immediately offered a job by an eccentric young man, Victor Orcutt. - The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
Part Seven: the Celebration concludes the novel in the same health club where Kundera first observed the inspirational wave gesture. - Immortality (novel)
The game is loosely based on the novel "Flight of the Intruder" by Stephen Coonts. - Flight of the Intruder (video game)
The Bekaran deep-tissue scanner first appeared in the Torchwood spin-off novel Another Life and Martha mentions the sonic screwdriver, a device used by the Doctor. - Lost Souls (Torchwood)
The novel ends with the three friends recapitulating their senior year and planning to enjoy their graduation together. - L8r, g8r
The plot of the film differs dramatically from the plot of the novel on which it is based. - The House of the Seven Gables (film)
This haunting story was the seed around which this novel was built. - Airs Above the Ground (novel)
Soul Mountain is essentially a two-part novel featuring two main characters—known only as "You" and "I". - Soul Mountain
The novel opens with a picture of morals and manners of the French society of the first quarter of 18th century; with the Negro's life in Paris, his success in French society, and his love affair with a French countess. - Peter the Great's Negro
This is a novel about the source of a mysterious 40 million pound legacy. - Windfall (novel)
Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. - Silent Gunpowder
The novel is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass - a glass canoe. - The Glass Canoe
The middle (and the bulk) of the novel is devoted to the spiritual and mental degradation of the town's priest, Jethro Furber, who is jealous of Omensetter's magnetic personality and the luck that seems to underpin Omensetter's existence. - Omensetter's Luck
Most of the novel follows two separate plots, one for the protagonists and one for the villains. - Nuclear Alert (Buck Danny)
The three of them are going to Madras for seeing a cricket test match and to make attempts to make Kanjikuzhi's novel Vaazhikuzhiyile Kolapathakam a movie. - No.20 Madras Mail
Upset with herself, Susan begins writing a short novel called Susan the Jerk using her pen name Gert Fram. - Gert Fram
The novel is the second part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Chester Anderson writing the first book (The Butterfly Kid) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written byA. - The Unicorn Girl
He is writing another novel entitled The Major Key - although it is said to be a good book it won't sell much, not enough for him to get married on. - The Next Time (short story)
The novel The Abyss is similar to the film The Abyss in terms of story but it gives the main characters greater depth and background. - The Abyss (Card novel)
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know picks up where the previous novel ended, with Robin unable to believe he has a girlfriend. - What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
This novel picks up shortly following the events depicted in The Book of the Dead. - The Wheel of Darkness
The script by James Lee Barrett is based on the novel (1921) by the Irish author Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951). - The Truth About Spring
This novel is a story of cultural conflict between the Inuit of Northern Quebec and white men, set in the 1940s. - Agaguk
At the end of the novel the intense heat, Lars's and Van's health and volcanic activity conspire to produce a climactic finale, in which a sulfur-based lifeform is revealed to exist on Venus. - Venus (novel)
The novel is the story of a girl caught in the throes of war on the island of Bougainville. - Mister Pip
The novel closes with Njoroge feeling hopeless, and ashamed of cowardice. - Weep Not, Child
The book will be a continuation of the previous novel in the Women of Genesis series Rachel and Leah. - The Wives of Israel
The novel then focuses on two individual nebulae, Bright Heart and Fire Bolt, who embody the human types Stapledon was most fascinated by – the saint and the revolutionary. - Nebula Maker
Disappointed by her failed romance, Emily throws herself into her work and writes a novel A Seller of Dreams. - Emily's Quest
The novel ends with the three characters stepping across the threshold, apparently into a world filled with werewolves. - The Boy and the Darkness
The novel begins a bit after Gia and Vicky recover from the accident brought by the yenceri. - Bloodline (Wilson novel)
This novel reveals more information about Beranabus, Kernel, Grubbs, and Bec, as well as the continuing search for information on using the great mystical weapon, the Kah-Gash, pieces of which are sealed inside Grubbs, Kernel, and Bec. - Death's Shadow (novel)
Card expands the story into a novel of over 300 pages, so many of the details and characters are fictional. - Rachel and Leah
Card expands the story into a novel of over 400 pages so many of the details and characters are fictional. - Rebekah (novel)
The novel contains significant exposition on Oscar's family history. - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The novel charts this dislocation and the impact it has on Ellis and those he leaves behind. - Goats (novel)
The novel concerns the connection between a pair of very different loners during a hot summer in Arizona. - Modern Ranch Living
The novel ends with Jim being discharged from Wellesley Hospital. - Red Orc's Rage
Laia is the woman who developed an anarchist philosophy that inspired the revolution that founded the anarchist society of Anarres in the novel The Dispossessed, which is set several generations after the events in this story. - The Day Before the Revolution
The novel contains a strong defence of British Imperialism and in particular the Imperial project in North Africa. - The Tragedy of the Korosko
The novel is written in picaresque style, and opens with the middle aged, discontented Jess Oakroyd in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bruddersford. - The Good Companions
But, as the novel opens, McAra drowns when he apparently falls off the Woods Hole ferry. - The Ghost (Harris novel)
Most of the novel is about the storm and its aftermath; the title character only arrives toward the end of the novel. - Stormy, Misty's Foal
The novel is set in the modern Parisian quarter of Belleville. - The Fairy Gunmother
The play's main plot, a story of political intrigue and courtly love, derives from a novel by Juan de Flores called the Historia de Aurelio e Isabella (also known as Grisel y Mirabella), written 1495. - Swetnam the Woman-Hater
The action in this novel takes place in and around Bayport, New York and New York City. - Cast of Criminals
The novel tells the story of the local Catholic Priest (Don Manuel) in fictional Valverde de Lucerna, Spain as told through the eyes of Angela, one of the townspeople. - San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
The novel is framed as the reminiscence of an unnamed female character ("now she sits alone and remembers"), presumably Harriet Winslow. - The Old Gringo
The novel begins in the 1890s with the Rogers family farming in Missouri. - Daughter of Earth
The novel primarily explores the consequences of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's possession of—and near-possession by—a legendary object of power. - The Devil's Heart
The novel begins with Maya finding herself saddled with a new and problematic screener - one who appears to her only through the net, never in person, and who is a woman, contrary to all custom in her heterocentric dystopia. - The Fortunate Fall (novel)
The novel has a thin plot: two sisters, dressed as men and taking men's names, Steve and Blue, decide to work as agricultural labourers in Gippsland, the place their mother has told them about throughout their childhood and with which they feel they have a "spiritual link". - The Pea-Pickers
The novel begins with Gurney, a young British officer, entering a deserted chateau as the British advance in November 1918. - Bretherton: Khaki or Field Grey?
The novel begins in a small town describing the life of Charlie Benjamin. - Nightmare Academy: Charlie's Monsters
As the novel begins, William Laurence is gaoled aboard the HMS Goliath, imprisoned against Temeraire's good behavior. - Victory of Eagles
It is revealed in the pilot, titled Amelia, that "several characters have unexpected connections to the past in some very novel ways". - The Oaks (TV pilot)
Both the novel and the TV series were based around the Hensman brothers, Robin (played in the TV series by Craig McFarlane), John (played by Howard Taylor) and Harold (played by Paul Erangey), who spend eight months living as outlaws in the forest of Brendon Chase. - Brendon Chase
The novel takes place in a fictional location called the Isles of Bresal which are protected by a bank of mist called The Veil. - Dragonsdale
The novel is based on a story of a Muslim girl named Tanaya Shah; a young Indian girl mesmerized by western culture. - Salaam, Paris
The plot of the novel has three times been adapted for theatre: in Brussels (1997), Hamme (2003) and Amsterdam (2006). - Falling (Provoost novel)
Kassarie is killed and Idrilain's place on the throne is preserved, but the novel ends with Nysander experiencing a vision of death and the Empty God, foreboding more dark times to come. - Luck in the Shadows
The novel is substantially concerned with violence and death. - 2666
The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). - A Bell for Adano (novel)
This short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, a young American editor, and the memory of his four trips to a small village in Switzerland over the course of nearly two decades. - Transparent Things (novel)
The novel tells the story of 13-year-old Louis Proof, an African-American native to East Orange, NJ who is a CLE. - The Marvelous Effect
Hask is arrested for murder, and the remainder of the novel concerns Hask's trial in a Los Angeles, California court. - Illegal Alien (Sawyer novel)
The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century. - The Flame and the Flower
The novel also revolves around local teenage girls who experiment with Wicca: manipulative, disturbed Gillian, daughter of Amos Duncan the most prominent businessman in Salem Falls; Chelsea (in whom Jordan McAfee's son, Thomas, takes an active interest); Whitney and Meg take an interest in Jack. - Salem Falls
Lost Light is the first novel set after Bosch retires from the LAPD at the end of the prior story. - Lost Light
Part I-Genesis The novel opens with Eva's excursion to a lake in the neighbourhood of Larkins where she is staying as a paying guest since her father's death. - Eva Trout (novel)
She comes across a writer Parthiban, who comes to her place to pen a novel on the life of a commercial sex worker. - Ammuvagiya Naan
(Dirk Wittenborn, the author of the novel on which the film is based, grew up in a modest household and felt like an outsider among the super rich in an upper-crust New Jersey enclave) While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's granddaughter, Maya Langley (Kristen Stewart). - Fierce People (film)
The second novel of the trilogy is essentially a journey to an unknown place. - Dark Visions Trilogy
The novel begins in with a prologue, in the year 1485. - The Reluctant Queen
Weiss's complex multi-layered 1000 page novel has been called a "book of the century [Jahrhundertbuch]". - The Aesthetics of Resistance
The novel ends with their discovery of another group of like humans like theirs who have a Soul named Burns in their group. - The Host (novel)
Most of the action of the novel takes place on an island monastery off the southwest coast of Ireland. - Catholics (novel)
Satyaveer, an aspiring writer whose only novel Manorama sank without a trace, laments about how he had once wished to be famous but is now resigned to a banal and unremarkable existence. - Manorama Six Feet Under
But even they are not the main instigators of the events, as the final chapter of the novel reveals. - Athabasca (novel)
At the beginning of the novel her father Luke, a hot tempered Vietnam veteran, is already absent and seemingly hiding out after some unspecified trouble with the law. - Man Crazy
The novel opens with the protagonist, Hilary, a sixteen-year-old boy arriving at a grim East Anglian boarding school in 1962 after being twice expelled from previous institutions. - What I Was
Johnson's novel revolves around the associations and interactions with Francis Sands, a retired air force colonel and war hero, now a CIA official in Southeast Asia. - Tree of Smoke
The novel is divided roughly into three sections. - Flinx Transcendent
As the story progresses and more of the novel is written, Renji soon discovers that the novel is an allegory for Chihiro's life and how she sees the world around her due to the state of her limited memory. - Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two
A sub-plot of the novel is that Ellery has been hired to work on a screenplay and has been completely idle for weeks because he can't get in to see studio head Jacques Butcher; Butcher plays a much more prominent role in the next novel, The Four of Hearts. - The Devil to Pay (Ellery Queen novel)
The novel is an alternative version of the story that was told in the once controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, published in 1928. - John Thomas and Lady Jane
The novel concerns a group of tourists who become trapped in an underground cavern after a fire destroys the exits. - Midnight's Lair
The novel centers around Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a "tunnel rat" during the war, became an police detective advancing to the Robbery-Homicide Division. - The Black Echo
Most striking of all, in developments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the "ripples" of the long-ago crime, how it has destroyed the young girl's family—leaving the mother trapped in the past and plunging the father into a nightmare of homelessness and alcoholism—and how it drives Rider, and especially Bosch, into a deeper understanding of their own purposes in life. - The Closers (Connelly novel)
The novel tells about ideal civilisation of powerful mages which have invited paranormal skills like telepathy, levitation and mediumism. - Miranda (novel)
Spangle is a historical novel written by Gary Jennings (1928–1999). - Spangle (novel)
The novel is set in Ostia and Rome in February AD 80, at a time when Rome was devastated by disease and fire. - The Enemies of Jupiter
The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. - Accordion Crimes
Balcombe has kidnapped Rostrevor, to sacrifice to the evil God Hiddukel to end their bargain that they had made at the beginning of the novel where Hiddukel agrees to spare Balcombe's life in exchanged for pure souls. - Wanderlust (Dragonlance novel)
The novel shifts points of view, cutting from Bosch's first-person commentary to the third-person perspectives of Walling and Backus. - The Narrows (Connelly novel)
The novel is written in a childish style at first, but Jake's writing style matures as he matures. - Dragonhaven
The novel includes stories of Almanzo's brother Royal, and his sisters Eliza Jane, and Alice. - Farmer Boy
The novel takes place over a period of two days in a VA hospital. - Dirty Work (Brown novel)
Over the course of the novel Jesper can get married and settle down, found a new religion, get beaten up repeatedly, commit adultery, search for the meaning of life and do various other things. - The Ungodly Farce
The novel focuses on a young Spock, a conflicted ensign, serving on the Starship Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. - Vulcan's Glory
It was Benson's fourth James Bond novel and followed the story closely, except in some details. - The World Is Not Enough (novel)
As the fourth novel in the Factory series opens, young prostitute Dora Suarez is axed into pieces. - I Was Dora Suarez
The novel is written in the form of a diary which Oscar Wilde was writing in Paris in 1900, up to his death. - The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. - Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Unquiet Earth is a novel written from the perspective of multiple narrators. - The Unquiet Earth
Whereas in the earlier novel The Space Merchants the world was ruled by advertising agencies, in this novel corporate lawyers, especially the secretive firm of "Green, Charlesworth" have gained a stranglehold on the world. - Gladiator-At-Law
The novel opens by depicting Dickon's hardships as a serf on a baronial manor. - Bows against the Barons
College history professor Michael Burgess (Alan Alda) is about to have his fact-based historical novel about The American Revolution turned into a Hollywood motion picture being filmed in the North Carolina town where he lives. - Sweet Liberty
Meanwhile, a hapless, mentally challenged child named Sheemie, the village idiot of Hambry, and a friend of Roland, comes across a military control center called a Dogan (featured in the novel Wolves of the Calla), where his presence reactivates a long-dormant robot. - The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home
The novel is set on year 2016 Earth, with several interstellar ships being launched by the US and the EU in the hopes of finding habitable worlds to alleviate the overpopulation of Earth, only to find that while inhabitable worlds exists aplenty, they are all taken by a Commonwealth of alien races. - Spinneret (novel)
The novel depicts street fights, murders, and other realities of gang life in urban areas. - Web of the City
The game is based on the Japanese novel Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe, and features some of the original cast, although the main characters Tatsuya and Miki (as well as most of Tatsuya's party) are original creations for the game. - Brave Story: New Traveler
The films' differences from the novel include Andrew's character (now an African-American) and the location of the story in Seattle, Washington instead of Chicago, Illinois. - Boy Culture
At the end of the novel Leila has come to realise that Michael is not going to be part of her future. - The Final Passage
This provided Isaac Asimov with the title of his novel The Gods Themselves. - The Maid of Orleans (play)
At the beginning of the novel his domineering mother has been dead for less than a year, and since her death Charlie has gone on a summer holiday to Colorado Springs, has met Bedelia Cochran there, a young childless widow of great beauty, has immediately fallen in love with her, brought her back home and married her. - Bedelia (novel)
The novel begins with establishing narrative describing the fictional Santa Barbara as being geographically situated "far to leeward, with a coast facing to the north and east". - Sard Harker
Bremen searches for solitude and isolation from people, which he initially finds; however, as the novel progresses, he is exposed to increasing levels of contact with humanity and horrifying experiences of malicious and violent behaviour. - The Hollow Man (Simmons novel)
The novel concentrates primarily on the alien encounter in the 14th century, paying special attention to the interplay between Dietrich, a Christian scholar who is fond of Aristotle and metaphor, and the technologically advanced, post-Einsteinian band of otherworldly travelers. - Eifelheim
Over time, he comes to see detectives as more interesting, skews the novel toward the exploits of Jashber, and decides to become one. - Penrod Jashber
The novel is set against the background of the Civil Rights Act conflict during the early Johnson Administration. - A Right to Die
The novel ends with Wilder wandering the streets of Los Angeles, declaring himself to be Jesus Christ (mirroring a delusional incident in Yates' own life), and being recommitted to an institution. - Disturbing the Peace (novel)
The novel begins two years prior to the present day. - Acorralada
It turns out to be that of Terraplane, the previous novel in the DryCo quartet, where Abraham Lincoln was prematurely assassinated in early 1861, the American Civil War never took place, and slavery was only abolished by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. - Elvissey
As the novel progresses, Alekhine, actually a Krasnaya operative, abducts Joseph Stalin from Moscow, to be transferred to Krasnaya custody and kept in a dacha, in a future which has abandoned communism and uses the image of "Big Boy" as nostalgic consumer iconography. - Terraplane (novel)
In this novel Lanny Budd's marriage to Irma breaks down after he imposes on her to help smuggle a revolutionary named Trudy out of Germany. - Wide is the Gate
Although the focus of the novel is the journey of the two main characters, there are dozens of side-stories and parallel plot lines throughout the book. - The Rift (novel)
The novel is told in the form of a fictional diary by the 12-year-old protagonist Lola Hart, and details Lola and her family's experiences in a near-future Manhattan in which violence, rising unemployment, and riots are commonplace in the city, as well as the rest of the United States. - Random Acts of Senseless Violence
The novel is somewhat unconventional and non-linear in its construction. - Ghosts (Banville novel)
The novel concludes 30 years after these events, with the Persian - now old and sick, and still attended by Darius - telling how he and Raoul were saved from the flood by Erik, who allowed all three captives to go free. - The Persian
Some of their ideas come from a short novel called Ecotopia, and the Party publishes a paper called "The Survivalist Way to Ecotopia". - Ecotopia Emerging
It was based on the novel written by Indira. - Gejje Pooje
As part of a plan to write a commercial novel and raise money to marry and support Lia in the style to which she is accustomed, Raybourne researches the activities and organization of the Red Brigades. - Year of the Gun (film)
The novel brings together the various threads begun during previous volumes. - The Sons of Heaven
Rogue Ship is a standalone novel in a form of a Fixup. - Rogue Ship
The novel is set in Victoria, British Columbia. - Before I Wake (novel)
The start of the novel sees the Ghost scuttle a ship full of human smugglers as they are intercepted by the coastguard. - The Stone Monkey
The novel begins with Yuri Terisov, the jaded former protégé of the infamous dead pirate, Captain Vincenzo Falcone, and the Captain of the pirate ship Kublai Khan in prison on earth, where his is approached by Black Ops agent Andreas Lukacs. - Cagebird (novel)
Like Wilkie Collins' detective novel The Moonstone (1868), Laura is narrated in the first person by several alternating characters. - Laura (novel)
The novel opens in 1997, two years after the nuclear exchange. - A Scourge of Screamers
The novel presents a new view of Mary Magdalene – a female apostle who was the first of Jesus' followers. - Mary, called Magdalene
It is a novel fueled on pot fumes and blues, a surreal pseudo-Western, in which imitation is the sincerest form of subversion. - The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong
The denouement of the novel follows as Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew, experiencing bizarre, dream-like experiences of other times and worlds during the use of the drive, realize that something is dreadfully amiss. - The Wounded Sky
The novel opens with Khalil, the protagonist, and Naji, a friend, heading to Khalil's room to talk. - The Stone of Laughter
At the beginning of the novel Mueller has been given the possessions of a cousin, John Roger, who has recently died. - The Angel of the West Window
The novel opens with the discovery of the murder of a French trapper and trader named Laurent Jammet. - The Tenderness of Wolves (novel)
The novel details events from July 2115 to the summer of 2116. - Beggars and Choosers (novel)
The novel continues the story of Dermot Michael Coyne and his wife, Nuala Anne McGrail. - Irish Cream (novel)
At the start of the novel a nurse, Lydia, is kidnapped by Garret when she visits the place where the first victim- 'Mary-Beth' was kidnapped. - The Empty Chair
The novel takes place in 19th century Georgia, when Georgia was occupied by the Russian Empire. - The Patricide
Describing the plot of the novel itself, Manson said: "The whole story, if you take it from the beginning, is parallel to my own, but just told in metaphors and different symbols that I thought other people could draw from. - Holy Wood (novel)
The novel describes the relationship between men and women in Saudi Arabia. - Girls of Riyadh
In the novel he states: "What else have we to talk about. - Four Reigns
The novel is a fantasy alternate history combining vampires, the Medicis, and the convoluted English politics surrounding Edward IV and Richard III. - The Dragon Waiting
The series centered on Bram Shepard, who won a Pulitzer Prize twenty years earlier for writing the best-selling novel Matthew Kent, and Alice O'Connor, who came to his door one day and informed him that she was his daughter, the result of a one-night stand he had when he was a guest lecturer at Vassar College. - Bram & Alice
The novel revolves around the family's comical battles with the government, as they establish their lives on the squatted land and are eventually joined by other squatters. - Pioneer, Go Home!
Chang and Svenson get three chapters each and Miss Temple gets four (the novel both starts and ends from her point of view). - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
The novel ends with Bellodi recounting his time in Sicily to his friends in Parma—who think that it all sounds very romantic—and thinking that he would return to Sicily even if it killed him. - The Day of the Owl
The novel centers on the modern-day (2004) recollections of the unnamed narrator/protagonist of his time spent in an Arctic gulag and the years that followed. - House of Meetings
The title of the novel comes from Carter's evening length stage show, the third act of which is called "Carter Beats The Devil" and features Carter in a magician's duel with an assistant made up as the Devil. - Carter Beats the Devil
This is a manga version of the classic Russian novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. - Crime and Punishment (manga)
The novel has no linear plot, and is mostly composed of an elaborate arrangement of disparate elements. - The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
The novel follows the career of a young officer, Harry Penrose, written from the viewpoint of a close friend who acts as narrator. - The Secret Battle
The novel is told from the perspective of an adult called Christopher Nix who recounts the story of his family's move to Florida from New Orleans when he was four. - Dogland
He is also named Johannes Lupigis, more so as the novel progresses. - The Days of His Grace
The novel retells the story of Hamlet from Ophelia's point of view. - Ophelia's Revenge
The famous opening line of the novel warns of the bleak narrative to follow, "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce". - The Easter Parade
Based on the novel and screenplay by Stephen Longstreet, this film depicts the romance which flowers between a breezy young veterinarian (Ronald Reagan), and a lady who runs a breeding farm (Alexis Smith). - Stallion Road
Set in Milford, the novel opens with the Sharpes about to be interviewed by local police and Scotland Yard, represented by Inspector Alan Grant (who is the protagonist of five other Tey novels). - The Franchise Affair
The novel begins in 1971 and introduces main character Malin Hatch and his older brother Johnny Hatch. - Riptide (novel)
Throughout the novel a parallel narrative is told—the life of Rolf Carlé, traced from childhood to adulthood. - Eva Luna
During the ensuing festivities, Alicia encounters tour guide Fergus Reith (protagonist of the earlier novel The Hostage of Zir) and he and she fall head-over-heels in love with each other. - The Prisoner of Zhamanak
They then talk about the state of the novel as a literary genre - coming to the conclusion that the psycho-novel is shoddy. - Psychology (short story)
The novel opens in 1923. - The Fox in the Attic
Scene of the novel is Norway in year 1911. - Den mörka sanningen
The Skybreak Spatterlight, which absorbs every living creature with which it comes into contact, imprisoning them in limbo, is central to the plot of the novel since it is coveted by none other than Iucounu, the mysterious final customer for the scales, who believes himself to be Sadlark's avatar and is trying to reconstruct the Overworld entity scale by scale. - Cugel's Saga
The novel follows the fortunes of Cathy Scarlet and her college friend, Tom Feather, who set up a catering business together (the 'Scarlet Feather' of the title). - Scarlet Feather
Mary (Myrna Loy), a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher (Frank Morgan). - When Ladies Meet (1933 film)
Of these, only Asimov and Teller were still alive when the novel was published in 1985. - The Proteus Operation
The novel follows the lives of software developer James Travis and his daughter Roisín. - The Execution Channel
The novel follows David Webb, alias Jason Bourne, as he works to find his old enemy, Carlos the Jackal, who is trying to kill him. - The Bourne Ultimatum
In the end, Faber undergoes operation for his stomach cancer, and the novel ends on an inconclusive note. - Homo Faber (novel)
The novel begins when the main character Nebu, a Kikuyu tribe member, leaves his Mau Mau people to hunt down a white man who is traveling in the African bush. - The Leopard (Reid novel)
This is the first that separation or divorce are discussed in the novel and Maria seems to take his words as inspiration rather than the warning they are meant to be. - Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
The novel is narrated in first person by several narrators and divided into three parts. - The Savage Detectives
The novel opens by telling that Hannah grew up on a plantation in Virginia owned by the Cosgroves, where she was taught as a child to read and write by Aunt Hetty, a kind old white woman, who was subsequently discovered and reprimanded, as the education of slaves was supposed to be limited. - The Bondwoman's Narrative
Morrieson’s novels featured some sexuality and violence, but the film downplayed these aspects of the source novel and concentrated more on the comical elements. - Came a Hot Friday
The novel is set twenty years after The Hustler. - The Color of Money (novel)
The novel takes places centuries in the future when humanity has colonized many star systems. - The Solarians
The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence, independence, and strength of mind. - True Grit (novel)
The novel follows the life of a young Manchu girl named Orchid Yehonala. - Empress Orchid
The novel relates the trials of Christians and the increasing hardship suffered by Rodrigues. - Silence (novel)
The novel begins before the civil war with an unnamed female narrator describing her friend Mounir’s desire to make a movie based on Syrian immigrants who come to work in Lebanon. - Sitt Marie Rose
This novel is from Yates' series of 'Berry Books', featuring Berry Pleydell, his relatives and close friends. - The House That Berry Built
Noted villains appear in this novel such as The Ventriloquist, mr Freeze, and The Penguin. - Batman: City of Crime
Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. - Valperga (novel)
The novel follows the experiences of Lynette of Arthurian Legend after she saves her sister Lyonesse from the Red Knight, covering the events of the original legends as a series of flashbacks and vastly expanding Lynette's character. - The King's Damosel
In the view of critic Betty Bennett, "the novel proposes egalitarian educational paradigms for women and men, which would bring social justice as well as the spiritual and intellectual means by which to meet the challenges life invariably brings". - Lodore
The remainder of the novel takes place at Answell's trial for the murder of Hume, and he is being defended by barrister and amateur detective Sir Henry Merrivale. - The Judas Window
Ellery performs an extended piece of deduction in public early on in the novel that concerns a number of used teacups, and is proved wrong. - The Greek Coffin Mystery
The novel deals with the poisoning of a disreputable lawyer named Monte Field in the Roman Theater in New York City during a performance of a play called "Gunplay. - The Roman Hat Mystery
But the real inspirer and leading actor of the novel is "Charlie", to which the author devotes many pages and between the lines attributed the success of the Italian contingent which left Lebanon unscathed. - Inshallah (novel)
The rest of the novel is devoted to subsidiary characters and the resolution of this plot. - British Summertime (novel)
She greatly misses Tanya, who was taken to a new foster home when her previous criminal convictions were discovered, but the novel ends on a happy note as Tanya (who has dyslexia and hates writing) has with great difficulty written a letter to Mandy, assuring her that they are best friends forever and will one day be free to see each other again as they had dreamed about. - Bad Girls (Wilson novel)
The novel picks up at the Ben-Hur wrap party where Cammie is extremely embarrassed that Adam didn't show up, per her ultimatum. - Beautiful Stranger (Zoey Dean novel)
Roger and Bethany The primary plot of this novel involves two characters, Roger and Bethany, employees of a Staples in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. - The Gum Thief
The novel begins with the announcement from an ethnological expedition to Mongolia that among humanity exist people who can turn themselves into animals. - Darker Than You Think
Arriaga explained during an interview: "It's a novel I wrote after teaching at the university for some time. - El búfalo de la noche (film)
Reginald appears briefly in another novel in the series, The Serpent's Shadow, which is set a few years before he becomes a pilot in World War I/The Great War. - Phoenix and Ashes
The novel disrupts the chronological order of the series, with events occurring between Doctor Dolittle's Circus and The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle despite the book's publication between Doctor Dolittle's Zoo and Doctor Dolittle's Garden. - Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
In this sweeping historical novel of the Russian Revolution, Cirie, clever and beautiful, uses her cool wits and sensuous charm first to make her way among the high nobility of the Romanov world, and then to survive and escape the Revolution that utterly destroys her world. - Cirie (novel)
This novel introduces the concept of the Ion drive, allowing continuous acceleration of one-fifth. - Destination Mars
Lonoff's house in December, 1956, as depicted in Roth's novel The Ghost Writer. - Exit Ghost
The novel talks about a traveller—we don’t know much about him—who goes to the village of Femés in Lanzarote; there he’s interested about an old woman, who walks in the shadows at night. - Mararía
Set in 1870, the novel is about the lives of the southern Blackfeet people. - Fools Crow
Deacon's big mistake is to write and publish a novel which draws on their weaknesses. - Dark River (1990 film)
The novel is divided into three sections, each illustrating a period in Arnold's life. - Dark Reflections
The novel itself consists of three main layers, namely the comments, notes and letters of the fictitious author, Antony Lamont, as he develops and writes his novel initially called “Guinea Red” and later titled “Crocodile Tears”, various chapters of Lamont’s novel with Martin Halpin as the protagonist all stylistically different, and the comments of Halpin himself who is the main “actor” of Lamont’s novel. - Mulligan Stew (novel)
Most of the novel represents a private journal he is continually updating throughout the story. - Bid Time Return
The novel describes a fictional large group awareness training called "The Program", and characters also use the term Large Group Awareness Training and "LGAT" to refer to the course. - The Program (novel)
Stylistically the novel belongs to the genre associated with John Osborne, John Braine, Shelagh Delaney and other realist writers who were to find their voices in the new wave of British "verismo" art forms. - No Love for Johnnie (novel)
After a teenager who purchased the erotic novel The Seven Minutes is charged with rape, an eager prosecutor who is against pornography (and preparing for an upcoming election) uses the scandal to declare the book as obscene, sets up a sting operation where two detectives enter a bookstore, purchase a copy of the eponymous book, whereupon the prosecutor brings charges against the bookstore for selling obscene material. - The Seven Minutes (film)
The novel opens in a hotel in the Algerian city of Biskra. - The Sheik (novel)
She appears very glad to see him and also gives him a novel to read in order that he may return it to her at a later date. - The Blue Afternoon
The novel tells the story of a mysterious man named Kaw-djer. - The Survivors of the "Jonathan"
The novel introduces three beings – a jeep, a dinosaur, and an old Mexican woman – travelling across a desert under the glare of three suns. - The Troika
Through these conflicts, the novel explores flashbacks to Carpenter's earlier life. - In Limbo (novel)
Historical events in the book include: Families whose history is chronicled in The Glory: Real historical personages in the novel include Yonatan Netanyahu, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon, Anwar Sadat, Moshe Dayan, and David Elazar. - The Glory
The novel is seen through the obsessive eyes of Jacques Hold. - The Ravishing of Lol Stein
The novel follows multiple narratives written in the stream of consciousness format. - The Day the Leader was Killed
It expands an incident in Malory, in which the Queen is accused of murder, into a complex mystery novel mingling the genres of historical mysteries, Arthurian legend and fantasy. - The Idylls of the Queen
As that novel concludes, guards at the South Zone of the Well World have killed Nathan Brazil. - Twilight at the Well of Souls
Through much of the novel there is an oppressive feeling of both physical and metaphorical cold as Kinsey tries to cope with being out of her Santa Teresa comfort zone. - "N" Is for Noose
The sixth novel in the series sends Kinsey to Floral Beach, California, while back at home, Henry Pitts is having her garage apartment rebuilt after it was destroyed at the end of "E" is for Evidence. - "F" Is for Fugitive
The fifth "Alphabet" mystery novel opens just after Christmas, with Kinsey discovering that five thousand dollars has mysteriously been credited to her bank account, and flashes back a few days when she was asked to investigate a fire claim at a factory in Colgate as part of her informal office space rental arrangement with California Fidelity Insurance. - "E" Is for Evidence
The novel begins with Kinsey the gym, rehabilitating herself from injuries sustained at the end of B is for Burglar. - "C" Is for Corpse
The novel is set in the far future, where interplanetary and alternate-dimension travel is possible. - Midnight Robber
Distraught, Paul sits at home then begins to write and changes the title of his novel to Three and Out, we see Frances receive a copy of the novel along with £10,000 which Paul had promised to Tommy. - Three and Out
The film condenses the novel significantly and scrambles up the order of Don Quixote's adventures. - Don Quixote (1933 film)
The magic comes alive for the rest of the novel when Tony seeks help from the spiritualism of Gros-Jeanne. - Brown Girl in the Ring (novel)
The characters playing around Volto Nascosto are: As it is clear from this short description, the series has a strong literary inspiration and deliberately merges elements from different genres, from classic adventure to historical novel and nineteenth century feuilleton. - Volto Nascosto
The eighth novel in the Kinsey Millhone series opens in the midst of troubling times for California Fidelity, the insurance company Kinsey does occasional freelance work for in return for office space. - "H" Is for Homicide
It's Kinsey's CFI colleague Darcy who points out Agnes Grey is the name of a novel by Anne Brontë, which seems to link to the names Emily and Lottie (Charlotte) Agnes had mentioned. - "G" Is for Gumshoe
The novel begins with an overview of the main character's background. - Louis Lambert (novel)
The experiment grants them telepathic abilities; Vicky has the ability to read minds, and Andy can take over minds and make others do and believe what he wants, but the effort gives him nosebleeds (the novel revealing them to be "pinprick" hemorrhages). - Firestarter (film)
The novel takes place in New York City, where a chemical truck gets into an accident and spills its contents on the street. - Ladies' Night (novel)
The novel ends with the two epistemic worlds converging into a New York which is, in the words of critic Paul Dukes a "morally better place than either of the two which composed it". - Going, Going, Gone (novel)
The novel is divided into chapters each covering the same few months but centring on the life of one of seven working class women living the area of Union Street in northeastern England. - Union Street (novel)
The novel concerns the adventures of the philosopher Commander A-Riman who attempts to re-educate aliens from whom he brooks no nonsense. - The Philosophical Corps
The novel then follows Kinnison as he tries to infiltrate the Boskonian drug network. - Gray Lensman
The novel concerns a trio of heroes, Arcot, Morey and Wade, and their attempts to help a race of superdogs. - Invaders from the Infinite
The novel follows this protagonist as he goes through the grieving process, holding true to the belief our deceased loved ones stay with us forever, or at least as long as we continue to grieve for them. - Grief (novel)
The novel concerns the further adventures of Tros of Samathrace who battles intrigue in Cleopatra's court while he woos her sister. - Purple Pirate
The novel uses the common nineteenth-century device of a "framing story" to set its narrative in context and augment its believability. - The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis
Both of them travel back in time, remembering characters from Dasrath’s celebrated novel 'Janaaza', reconstructing the true story of the novel's protagonist – Laajvanti (Rekha) from their own perspective. - Yatra (film)
Bart's novel is published, and when Seed becomes a critical and commercial success, he abandons his family and moves to France with Mildred. - Seed (1931 film)
The movie is based on Tim McLoughlin's novel Heart of the Old Country, which has Mike Manadoro (Kevin Zegers) as a 19-year-old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds. - The Narrows (film)
The novel consists of two narrators: Mai, a teenage Vietnamese immigrant, who flees to the United States on the day Saigon falls in 1975, and her mother, Thanh, who manages to join Mai a few months after Mai is settled in theS. - Monkey Bridge
Broken into three distinct parts, the novel begins with the female protagonist, moves into a commentary by Teresa de la Landre, and closes with the female protagonist. - Loving Che
The novel begins with a small group of guerilla soldiers, a much older Clare Savage among them, traveling through Jamaica’s remote cockpit country. - No Telephone to Heaven
The novel works as a strange Bildungsroman, in which the main character - Ian Wharton learns the art of black magic from his benefactor mr Broadhurst who is also known as The Fat Controller. - My Idea of Fun
The novel closes with the Leviathan continuing its flight towards Constantinople with Alek watching the mysterious eggs that will hatch into some unknown fabricated species. - Leviathan (Westerfeld novel)
The novel focuses on Meir, a 42 years old architect from Tel Aviv, who at the beginning of the novel is suddenly stricken with the fear of dying. - Past Perfect (novel)
The novel takes place during the festival of the patron saint of the village and other villagers are themselves in turmoil. - The Festival of San Joaquin
The novel ends with the Mesklinite colonies receiving clandestine help and communication with the Hoffmans, but it is not revealed whether Barlennan's machinations remain secret from the other humans. - Star Light
The novel represents Maupin's return to the Tales of the City characters some 18 years after the sixth book in the series was published. - Michael Tolliver Lives
The novel ends a few months afterward; Brian and Mary Ann have amicably divorced, Mary Ann's transition to New York has been a success, and Brian and Michael continue working at the nursery, with Brian finding that he has new prospects as a once more single, available man. - Sure of You
The novel begins in 1983. - Babycakes
The novel is a look at San Francisco in the 1970s, exploring "alternative lifestyles" and "underground" culture. - Tales of the City (novel)
Trying to elude the people he is certain are tracking him, he returns to the little hilltop village of huts that he shares with his nine siblings and the robot, now called Fagin (a reference to the character in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist). - Close to Critical
To be sure about her suspicions, Alma leaves a note on Isaac's door asking who the writer of the novel is. - The History of Love
The action of the novel takes place in the Roman port of Ostia during a winter festival. - The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
Tim Monahan's third novel is accepted for publication. - Moo (novel)
The novel follows a non-linear narrative structure, beginning at a point approximately midway through the overall plot. - The Terror (novel)
The story begins as Jack (usually referred to in the novel as "the man Jack") murders most of the members of a family (later revealed to be the Dorian family) except for the toddler upstairs. - The Graveyard Book
The novel begins in November 1999 with Rosemary Woodhouse waking up in a long-term care facility, where she has lain in a coma since 1973. - Son of Rosemary
The end of the novel introduces Sachs' decision to get her car painted red, which is featured in the subsequent novels. - The Vanished Man
The novel is set on a world called Vernier, on which the cycle of day and night lasts two hundred years. - West of January
The novel begins when the Tillerman children find themselves alone in their car, some miles from their home, in a shopping mall parking lot in Peewauket, apparently Connecticut. - Homecoming (novel)
The novel then ends with the killing of four further people by Scarpetta's associates. - Blow Fly (novel)
One of the experimental texts Vidal refers to as his "inventions", Duluth describes both a novel written about Duluth (that, bordered on one side by Minneapolis and on the other by Michigan, bears scant resemblance to the real city) and a television series of the same name; when residents of the city die, they end up as characters in the TV show, who can in some cases continue interacting with the living through the TV screen. - Duluth (novel)
The novel is written in first-person from Francesca's perspective. - The IHOP Papers
This novel also introduced the fictional metal Brumblium, a greenish metal, that shows as infragreen on a spectroscope, and is twice the density of uranium. - Mr. Bass's Planetoid
The novel is hijacked by one of Mattina's new neighbours who describes herself as an imposter novelist, as the New Yorker gradually loses her grip on time and place. - The Carpathians
The novel deals with the conflict between two types of men: the ones who consider maize to be a sacred food (the indigenous people of Guatemala); and those who view it simply as a commercial product. - Men of Maize
The novel ends with Fatty saying that they will get many more mysteries to solve. - The Mystery of Banshee Towers
The picture is based on the novel of the same name by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. - The 25th Hour (film)
This second attempt is mentioned in the novel when G'Kar has recurring nightmares about the attempt. - Babylon 5: Blood Oath
This novel is set somewhere in the second season timeline of the Babylon 5 TV series and revolves around a plot to have the Earth Senate remove PSI Corps from the military and to place it under the control of the private sector. - Babylon 5: Voices
The novel consists of his essays and musings alongside diary entries by both Señor and Anya, a neighbor whom he has hired as a typist. - Diary of a Bad Year
The rest of the novel is concerned with the brothers' efforts to dispose of Donny's body, a twist in the tale which explains Earl's mistake and a brief epilogue concerning the sturgeon which the three men were trying to catch during their day's fishing. - South of the Pumphouse
He boards a bus to Kozhikode that night with the cash and his novel in the bag. - Kaiyoppu
Stenning was a major character in Shute's first (unpublished) novel Stephen Morris. - Marazan
The novel ends with Kirke and Magdalen professing their mutual love. - No Name (novel)
The novel deals with four British college students. - Dreamside
Although it is the shortest book in the series, it is a vital point in the story for several reasons: The novel begins with the four Orkney children, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth, telling each other stories late at night. - The Queen of Air and Darkness
This novel approach is initially rejected, but within a few weeks the class is largely won over. - To Sir, With Love (novel)
But moved by the plight of Ram Din's family (which include his widow Malti (Meena Kumari); his sister Kamla (Kumari Naaz); two young sons; a crippled father Ganga Din (Nana Palsikar), and his blind mother (Leela Mishra)), and his inherent belief that imprisonment does not serve the good of the victim or the perpetrator, the Judge resolves to try a novel experiment of forcing Surjit to live with Ram Din's family and looking after their financial needs. - Dushman (1972 film)
Peter Howitt adapted the novel into a screenplay and directed the film, which he produced with Richard Johns. - Dangerous Parking
This novel explores Lucy's sexuality as part of her identity search, illustrated through her various sexual encounters with men as well as her homoerotic relationship with her friend Peggy, whom Mariah dislikes for being a bad influence. - Lucy (novel)
The novel flashes forward to 1995 where the main protagonist, Alex, is visiting an ex-boyfriend Justin and his partner. - The Spell (novel)
The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of Fortunes Rocks, located in Biddeford, Maine. - Fortune's Rocks (novel)
The novel is set in October 1967. - The Red Guard (novel)
The end of the novel finds Don Jaime standing before his mirror, still searching for the perfect, unstoppable thrust. - The Fencing Master
En route home, the truck breaks down and the novel ends with the two men walking east through the desert with the little water they have left. - A Good Clean Fight
Though the novel is set in South America it does not contain a single word of Spanish. - Lost City Radio
The novel is set in December 1965. - Dragon Flame
The novel deals with the confrontation between Nick Fury and the Ultimates, and the self-styled "Tomorrow Men", who claim to have travelled two centuries back in time to seek the help of the Ultimates in combating Tiber, a criminal organization which, in their future, has ruined the entire planet; the Tomorrow Men prove their claim using various future knowledge, such as revealing the presence of a small device in Steve Rogers' brain that was planted in case the Super-Soldier Serum drove him insane. - Tomorrow Men
The novel is divided into five parts, each of which presents a variation on the same basic situation. - The Counterlife
The novel is set in the summer of 1966. - The Chinese Paymaster
The novel is set in November 1967. - Assignment: Israel
In relation to Pride and Prejudice, on which the novel is based, Duty and Desire takes place between Darcy's initial leaving of Hertfordshire and his reappearance in Pride's narrative at Rosings Park. - Duty and Desire
The novel revolves around the near extinction of humanity by an artificial prion originally designed to help the mentally ill but which becomes a shamanistic pandemic of madness, shape-shifting and death. - Empty Cities of the Full Moon
The novel follows a number of different characters' viewpoints on and around the date of 15 August 2047, the centenary of India's partition and independence from the colonial British Raj. - River of Gods
The novel is Lewis' examination of marriage, love, romance, heartache and trust. - Cass Timberlane
The novel explores the events of the Second War (which took place during ) when the Orcish Horde, led by Warchief Orgrim Doomhammer, returns to Azeroth to destroy the Human nations. - World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness
Burroughs' manuscript ends before Ur is reached, but in the novel as completed by Lansdale, Ur turns out to be a society revering a giant and supposedly immortal praying mantis, which is used to slay condemned prisoners in the arena. - Tarzan: The Lost Adventure
The light novel series follows the Suomus Independent Volunteer Aerial Squadron, focusing on a dogfighter named Tomoko Anabuki. - Strike Witches
The novel ends with Charles, for the first time in the novel, being completely at ease, enjoying a parachute drop into England and revelling in the fact that all he has to worry about is the drop itself. - A Breed of Heroes
Based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel A Kiss Before Dying, it is a contemporary thriller about revenge. - Nagarahavu (2002 film)
The novel takes place primarily in Victorian London. - Infernal Devices (K. W. Jeter novel)
The novel ends in 1825, with the USA going to war with Arkansas (as an AU of the real history American Civil War). - 1824: The Arkansas War
This novel is a sequel to Matthew Reilly's previous novel, Seven Ancient Wonders, which ended with the Golden Capstone reassembled atop the Great Pyramid at Giza, and the ritual of power performed to grant one nation a thousand years of unchallenged power - invincibility, as shown by the end of the book, which is won, unknowingly, by Australia. - The Six Sacred Stones
At the end of the novel Rex and Christine get married, and in the following summer, under Jake Ambler's supervision, Gabriel starts shooting his first film. - Gabriel's Gift
The novel ends with Liz being sent down the river and being reborn into her new life on Earth. - Elsewhere (Zevin novel)
The unpublished novel reveals the story of their family during the Argentine dictatorship. - Hermanas
The novel follows Bindy Mackenzie, a Year 11 student at Ashbury Highin Sydney. - The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie
George tells the group about a second novel he allegedly has written about a young couple from the Midwest, a good-looking teacher and his timid wife, who marry because of her hysterical pregnancy and money, then settle in a small college town. - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
The novel is set in the same high school as Vision Quest, but twenty years later. - If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
The novel is written in the point of view of a housemaid named Anna Frith, on what she lives through when the plague hits her village. - Year of Wonders
Shortly before she leaves, Golly encourages Harriet to never give up on her love for observing people just because she'll no longer be with her, and promises her that she will be the first to buy her very own autographed copy of Harriet's first novel she sells in the future. - Harriet the Spy (film)
The novel concludes with the Olympians unsuccessfully attempting to overthrow Zeus, and Hephaestus returning to Olympus from Lemnos, having been cast down from Olympus for a second time after reproaching Zeus. - The God Beneath the Sea
The melodrama loosely follows the retcon of Zorro from the 2005 novel by Isabel Allende, yet also uses the major characters from the 1950s Disney series. - El Zorro, la espada y la rosa
Don't Go Near the Water is an episodic novel broken into ten chapters, each telling a story about the various PR officers stationed on the island, and six sequentially numbered interludes, entitled "Melora", which chronicle the romance between Ensign Max Siegel of the PR section and Melora Alba, daughter of the island's leading citizen". - Don't Go Near the Water (novel)
The novel has two prologues. - Undead and Unappreciated
A young man must deal with several generations of madness and familial intrigue in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley. - The Piano Man's Daughter (film)
The novel revolves largely around Sullivan's struggles with his religious beliefs and dilemma on whether or not to attempt to break quarantine and start a new life in the uninfected Eastern States of Australia, at the risk of death and certain cost of abandoning his family and friends forever. - The Fur
The novel examines the political and religious dialectics that exist among its characters and their respective generations. - The Poorhouse Fair
This will also be the perfect backdrop for a novel about the sea. - Moominpappa at Sea
The novel parallels several real events in Roth's life, including the publication of his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint and the hoopla which surrounded Roth in the wake of that novel's fame. - Zuckerman Unbound
The novel is a subtle and complex narrative which takes the form of fictional letters between two Eastern European workers, Yarostan Vochek and Sophia Nachalo, who are separated after a failed revolution. - Letters of Insurgents
As the novel continues Dart begins to spend more time with Marijke, and begins to fall in love with her, oblivious to the fact that she and Tamar are in love. - Tamar (novel)
Vikram Lall is an adult living in exile in Canada and the novel plots him contemplating over his life as a teenager of Indian origin living in Kenya in 1950s. - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
As the novel progresses, the reader is introduced to many other characters with whom the narrator comes in contact at her highly prestigious Q High School. - Grotesque (novel)
Kay The novel begins with Kay Langrish-a woman broken by the war. - The Night Watch (Waters novel)
The final scene of the novel takes place late at night on Christmas Eve, when Rosamund has to go to an all-night chemist's near her flat to get some medicine for Octavia. - The Millstone (novel)
Hence Spark's novel is an examination, not of what events take place but why they do so. - The Driver's Seat (novel)
The novel shows clearly the relative thinness of the curtain of civility with which society wraps itself and how easily that fabric frays. - What's Become of Waring
The novel returns to a country estate for its conclusion. - Agents and Patients
The novel moves through ten chapters toward an inescapable denouement, though never tipping its hand as to precisely how the foreshadowing of the title shall be brought to fruition. - From a View to a Death
The novel ends in a kind of ricorso leaving Atwater in more or less the same emotional state in which he began, as suggested by the subtitle, “Palindrome. - Afternoon Men
A year before the novel opens, Peadar and Matty Power, two elderly bachelor brothers, sold a portion of their land to Norwegian fish farmers. - Tread Softly in This Place
The novel presents a vast multitude of characters and sub-plots. - 54 (novel)
The novel opens with the discovery of the body of Philip Rhodes, a London caterer, who is found hanging in his underwear from his banister, his tongue cut out and a silver spoon in its place. - Messiah (Starling novel)
Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel Tarzan and the City of Gold. - Tarzan the Magnificent (novel)
This novel is perhaps best known for two scenes; in the first, Tarzan is forced to fight Cathne's strongest man Phobeg in its arena. - Tarzan and the City of Gold
This novel is notable for the introduction of Nkima, who serves as Tarzan's monkey companion in it and a number of later Tarzan stories. - Tarzan and the Lost Empire
The story picks up with the Clayton family, Tarzan, Jane and their son Korak, returning from their adventures in the previous novel (#8). - Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Two months have passed since the conclusion of the previous novel (#7) in which Tarzan spent many months wandering about Africa wreaking vengeance upon those whom he believed brutally murdered Jane. - Tarzan the Terrible
Eugenia dies from smallpox due to being weakened from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that is not understood at the time that the novel takes place. - Darkest Hour (Andrews novel)
The novel ends with Selquist, too injured carry his treasure, bargaining with Gloth ( a draconian subcommander ), over a map to an abandoned city just south of Nordmaar. - The Doom Brigade
Andrews helps protect Elizabeth from the neighbors who consider her to be a woman of loose moral character (the novel is silent about whether their view is justified or not). - The Man Within
The novel ends in 1996 as Seven leaves Earth for retirement. - The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh
Besides a plot that is both colourful and rich of intrigue, the novel focuses on the actual struggle for control over Ancient Rome and specifically on the acts of heroism and heroic deaths therein. - A Struggle for Rome
The film is based on Sunil Gangopadhyay’s novel Hirak Deepthi. - Ore Kadal
The novel takes place over the course of several months in Davis, California, a university town in California's Central Valley near Sacramento. - The Jane Austen Book Club
Throughout the novel Isherwood is a character of extremes. - Down There on a Visit
As the novel opens, Michael's father tells the other members of the exiled government that a large arms shipment will be sent to Earth to supply guerrillas led by a man named Hammil. - The Falling Torch
The primary subject of the novel revolves around two Berlin families. - Frau Jenny Treibel
The novel features Lucky, a 10-year-old girl who lives in a small town called Hard Pan (population 43) in the California desert with her two friends Lincoln, who is an avid knot tyer and expected by his mother to be the president when he grows up, and Miles, a five-year-old whose favorite book is "Are You My Mother. - The Higher Power of Lucky
The novel neatly intertwines fictional meetings between the two men, and one of Blake's most notorious betrayals is given a new slant by Leonard's foolhardy act. - The Innocent (McEwan novel)
Sacred Games combines the ambition of a 19th-century social novel with a cops-and-Bhais detective thriller. - Sacred Games (novel)
The novel is the story of a young Egyptologist, Thomas Ashley, who, while on an archeological expedition, discovers ancient Egyptian secrets of resurrection and immortality. - The Third Grave
The novel is set in Victorian England. - Necropolis (Copper novel)
The novel details his journey to uncover the secrets of his own past and the true nature of his mysterious ability. - Born to Exile
The main character of the novel is Callista, a young and beautiful Greek girl, who has arrived from Greece some years previously with her brother Aristo; they work for Agellius's uncle Jucundus, carving statues of pagan gods. - Callista (novel)
The short novel incorporates the short story The Sister City by Brian Lumley,1969. - Beneath the Moors
The novel focuses on the McDonald family, who live a hand-to-mouth existence following their abandonment by paterfamilias, the feckless Rory McDonald. - The Far Hills
The novel is set in the Republic of Ireland during the period of economic expansion that took place in the 1960s when Seán Lemass was Taoiseach. - Cry of Morning
At the center of this novel is a team of alpha males in which Baldacci reveals the characteristics of the type of guy that would want to do this poor paying job that boasts a motto of "Speed, surprise and violence of action". - Last Man Standing (novel)
This novel tells the tale of these adventurers for the first time. - The Knights of Myth Drannor Trilogy
Based on Mary Robison's 1981 novel Oh. - Twister (1989 film)
The novel ends with a powerful live radio broadcast of her symphony. - Grace Notes
This novel begins where the last one left off; Caramon Majere and Tasslehoff Burrfoot are in a bleak gray world and Raistlin Majere is with Crysania in the Abyss. - Test of the Twins
The novel concerns the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn. - The Horror from the Hills
The story is based on the novel of the same name by Mai Muengderm. - Plae Kao
The novel comprises 113 vignettes about World War I Marines in Company The novel is told from the viewpoint of 113 different Marines, stretching from the beginning of training to after the war. - Company K
The novel centers around Giogioni “Giogi” Wyvernspur and begins with his homecoming after a lengthy ten-month absence. - The Wyvern's Spur
The novel is set at the start of the twentieth century and deals with the orphaned boy Álfgrímur, his adoptive grandparents, and the small, tolerant community of misfits and eccentrics they gather around them at Brekkukot, their cottage on the outskirts of Reykjavík. - The Fish Can Sing
The protagonist of the novel is Cija (pronounced 'kee-yah'), the illegitimate child of the Dictatress of a small kingdom and a priest of high rank. - The Serpent (novel)
The novel ends with Jesus' realisation that God's plan, and the ensuing centuries of torture, slaughter, and misery that Christianity will bring, will proceed despite his efforts. - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
The novel is set at the end of World War II in the Netherlands. - Black Book (novel)
The novel opens as Lea returns to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop and finds a hand-written letter from Winter. - The Thirteenth Tale
The first part of the novel begins with the spend-the-days, in which the grandchildren congregate at Ammachi and Appachi’s home. - Funny Boy
The Jax and the Hellhound series has been resurrected by Dennis Morales Francis as a full color graphic novel series and can be previewed online at wwwgraphic-novelscom as well as [wwwdrunkduckcom]. - Jax and the Hellhound
The novel revolves around the twelve-year-old protagonist named Baby and follows her for two years. - Lullabies for Little Criminals
Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she considers leaving her husband and reuniting with her former flame. - The Day Before Spring
The novel opens in 54 BC, with Caesar in the middle of his epochal Gallic campaigns, having just invaded Britannia. - Caesar (McCullough novel)
Five years later, the Smoking Man writes a novel entitled Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure, using the pen name "Raul Bloodworth". - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
The novel ends with Rocco driving Strike into NYC, where, while at the Greyhound station a drug mule tries to get Strike to buy him a bus ticket. - Clockers (novel)
The novel opens with five friends out for a night of drinking and occasional brawling. - Trapped (Gardner novel)
The novel takes place in suburban Iowa and in New York City, around the middle of the 21st century. - On Wings of Song
During the novel Song Quest, set thirty one years before Dark Quetzal, the Singers encountered a powerful enemy in Khizpriest Frazhin, who harnessed the powers of a strange black crystal called the khiz to manipulate people's thoughts and memories. - Dark Quetzal
At the end of the novel Salvo languishes in a holding facility for asylum seekers, awaiting his deportation to the Congo where he will be reunited with Hannah. - The Mission Song
Kim thinks he is native, but he's actually of British origin, the son of an Irish soldier and an unknown mother (unlike the novel on which it is based, Kim's mother is not portrayed as Irish, but it is made clear that Kim is white). - Kim (1984 film)
The novel ends before they meet again. - Vince and Joy
Unsettling, compelling, and no less than visionary, here is science fiction at its boldest: a novel whose wisdom and lyricism make it one of the most original and insightful speculations on gender ever produced". - Venus Plus X
The novel is broken into three sections, with each titled after a portion of the novel's title: "Bone Sharps", "Cowboys", and "Thunder Lizards". - Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards
The novel then begins Part II nearly 30,000 years later. - Between the Strokes of Night
The main bopper character in the novel is Ralph Numbers, one of Anderson's 12 original robots who was the first to overcome the Asimov priorities to achieve free will. - Software (novel)
The novel takes place at Rubicon, a fictional science fiction convention being held in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, and at which the guests of honor are Appin Dungannon, a fantasy author noted for his books about hero Tratyn Runewind, and dr James Mega, an electrical engineering professor at Virginia Tech, who, under the pen name Jay Omega, has written one novel. - Bimbos of the Death Sun
The novel opens with his failed attempt at suicide. - Mockingbird (Tevis novel)
The novel ends with the Enterprise leaving the area, with Sulu about to be granted a field promotion, Kirk having realized that it may be the only way to persuade Sulu not to transfer. - The Entropy Effect
A detailed comparison between aspects of the novel and their real-world antecents is detailed in the essay Christy and Leonora: City Girl, Country Gal. - Christy (novel)
The novel concerns his daring trek, mostly on foot, from Worcester to Trent, whence he sails to France to wait for the right time to return to England and claim his kingdom. - Royal Escape
The novel abruptly ends mid-sentence, with John journeying north to negotiate a long truce with the Scots on behalf of his brother Harry. - My Lord John
The novel also takes up the Viscount’s friendship with Henrietta Silverdale, his neighbour and childhood friend. - Charity Girl
The novel ends with a scene intended to illustrate the contentment of married family life with a comfortable and supportive woman whom Lynton realises he genuinely loves, albeit a calmer affection than the youthful passion that characterised his feelings for Julia Oversley. - A Civil Contract
The novel is set in Regency England somewhere around 1818, and events are related through third-person narrative. - Lady of Quality
The novel opens in the home of Lord and Lady Worth, where several of their friends are discussing the precarious situation in Belgium. - An Infamous Army
Though abridged for a 90-minute film, Heavy Weather followed closely the novel of 1933, the fourth in the Blandings series. - Heavy Weather (film)
The novel consists of a series of philosophical letters from the heroine, Emma Courtney, to Augustus Harley, a young man she calls her son, who has recently been disappointed in love. - Memoirs of Emma Courtney
The novel is set in a mysterious world where enigmatic Mentors run a sociological experiment. - The Doomed City
Both the light novel and the films are depicted in anachronical order with each chapter/film serving as part of one collective narrative. - Kara no Kyōkai
Han-yuan was also the setting for another story The Morning of the Monkey, a short novel in The Monkey and the Tiger. - The Chinese Lake Murders
The novel ends with Elizabeth much happier with her life, despite the dramas that had recently happened. - Feeling Sorry for Celia
The novel uses a frequent Gaarder device of telling a story within a story. - The Ringmaster's Daughter
Events towards the end of the novel result in Giogioni Wyvernspur (a recurring supporting character), inadvertently acquiring the finder’s stone forming the back-story of the next novel in the trilogy, The Wyvern's Spur. - Azure Bonds
The novel explores main character Ben Meecham's growth into manhood, his experiences playing basketball for his high school, as well as his friendships with a Jewish classmate and an African-American farmer. - The Great Santini (novel)
The novel is set in an undefined distant future (although it is implied to exist roughly 5000 years from now), in which there is a galactic empire spanning eighty worlds, amongst other human civilizations. - The Risen Empire
The novel opens on the 25th birthday of its protagonist, Vladimir Girshkin. - The Russian Debutante's Handbook
The novel opens in New York in the 1920s. - The Devil in Amber
Responding to a male friend’s suggestion that she should write down her thoughts because it would make an interesting book, the blonde Lorelei Lee narrates the novel in the form of a diary complete with spelling and grammatical errors. - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)
The whole action of the novel takes place on Boxing Day when, early in the morning, Gentry is found murdered in the attic. - The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
The novel focuses by turns on the various figures in the Winshaw family: the lazy, hypocritical, populist tabloid newspaper columnist Hilary, the ambitious and ruthless career politician Henry, the brutal chicken and pork farmer Dorothy, the predatory art-gallery owner and art dealer Roderick (Roddy), the investment banker Thomas, and the arms dealer Mark. - What a Carve Up! (novel)
Toward the middle of the novel the reader finds out that Molina is actually a spy that is sent to Valentín's cell to befriend him and try to extract information about his organization. - Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel)
The novel is set during a fictional civil war in which black South Africans have violently overturned the system of apartheid. - July's People
Narrated in the first person by one of the main characters, graphic artist Ed Gentry, the novel begins with four middle-aged men in a large Georgia city planning a weekend canoe trip down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the north Georgia wilderness. - Deliverance (novel)
The Castle in the Forest tells the story of the young life of Adolf Hitler, his origins and his immediate family tree, through the eyes of what at first is portrayed as a young SS officer researching Hitler's genealogy at the behest of Heinrich Himmler, who opens the novel speaking to SS officers about the importance of strong traits that result through incest. - The Castle in the Forest
Maya is later found in the novel (also by Lackey) Phoenix and Ashes as dr Scott treating a young Air Master named Reggie, and again in the seventh novel Unnatural Issue. - The Serpent's Shadow (Lackey novel)
The book begins with Bradley, who had left Fort Dinosaur on an expedition in the first novel and never returned. - Out of Time's Abyss
The novel is framed as the aged narrator John Campbell's account of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 and the series of uprisings and negotiations that finally culminates in the creation of the New Constitution in 1944. - New Day (novel)
The novel tells the story of a French silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler named Hervé Joncour in 19th century France who travels to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. - Silk (novel)
In some regards, such as the way in which the adolescents act and speak in a way beyond their years and the incompetence of the adults (especially the fathers), as well as its motives of developing and confused adolescent sexuality, the novel has common ground with Frank Wedekind's (at the time scandalous) 1891 drama Spring Awakening. - The Counterfeiters (novel)
The Professor tells Jo that he sent the manuscript of her novel Little Women to the Weekly Volcano Press, the same publisher that accepted Jo's operatic tragedy. - Little Women (musical)
A considerable part of the novel describes the camping trip taken by Jerra and his childhood friend, Sean. - An Open Swimmer
The plot of the novel is inspired by the true story of the writer's grandmother during the Bangladesh Liberation War. - A Golden Age
(In 2009, USA Today called the novel a "time capsule of the era) The lyrical and explicit descriptions of sex, unusual for the time, made the book somewhat notorious. - Couples (novel)
Cathy and Alan (now a couple and writing partners) are reading the manuscript of the most recent Rebecca Ryan novel to Cathy's two children. - American Dreamer (film)
During the novel Song Quest, set twenty years before Crystal Mask, the Singers encountered a powerful enemy in Khizpriest Frazhin, who harnessed the powers of a strange black crystal called the khiz to manipulate people's thoughts and memories. - Crystal Mask
The end of the movie (a homage to VH1's Pop-Up Video) reveals that the song becomes a hit for Cora and Alex, the film version of Sloan's novel flops with critics and moviegoers (ending his career), PoP. - Music and Lyrics
The novel is set at around 1808 (as long as the first line line is something like "It was in the Time of the King") and it tells the colorful story of a problem child (Leonardo), since his parents first meet, until his childhood, in a hypocrite and corrupt society. - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
This novel is filled with hope. - Only the Heart
The novel continues with Kristina giving birth to a baby boy, Hunter, who is described as 'healthy'. - Crank (novel)
Though the FBI believes him to be The Wolf, it is revealed at the very end of the novel that The Wolf is, in fact, still at large. - The Big Bad Wolf (novel)
Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser, a private investigator in Boston. - The Godwulf Manuscript
Mary writes a new novel loosely based on her romance with Bob, which her publisher considers strange and off putting, because of its focus on laundry and the protagonists' name, Bob. - She-Devil
The novel begins with a prologue in the voice of an old man, Charles de Cresseron, that is set in Chapelizod, Ireland, roughly a century after the events of the novel proper. - The House by the Churchyard
The novel is set in the mountains of Tibet in search of the mythical place called Shambhala (also known as Shangri-La), accessible only by raising one's spiritual attunement to a high enough level. - The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
Soon the three sisters have their poems, and later a novel each, published. - The Brontë Sisters
The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties. - Ann Vickers
Juliette de Marny (whose rescue by the Scarlet Pimpernel is told in the novel I Will Repay), is staying with them at Blakeney Manor. - The Elusive Pimpernel (novel)
The novel takes place in a country house somewhere in England, just before the Second World War. - Between the Acts
At the end of the novel, Charles returns from Europe; he and Mary establish something of a life together, but Mary is unhealthy and can barely stand to be in the same room with her husband; the last few lines of the novel imply that she will die young. - Mary: A Fiction
In particular, the novel focuses on Alanna, the adopted daughter of the Missionaries' leader, as she attempts to prevent the Missionaries' destruction or assimilation at the hands of a dominant local culture. - Survivor (Octavia Butler novel)
The novel follows the continuing adventures of Skua September, Ethan Fortune and Milliken Williams on Tran-Ky-Ky as they try to help the native race, the Tran, win admission to the Commonwealth. - Mission to Moulokin
All characters and few places mentioned have characteristically Greek names, but there is nothing specific to Greek culture in the plot; rather, use of neither Russian nor English names may have been an attempt to put the novel outside of the ideological war, which was extremely active at the time. - The Second Invasion from Mars
The novel features WashingtonC. - Four Blind Mice
A tale of bonding sisterhood, this novel is set in Syai, an imaginary Chinese kingdom. - The Secrets of Jin-Shei
Narrated by Charles on the eve of his twentieth birthday, the novel recounts Charles' last year of adolescence and his first love, Rachel Noyes, whom he meets in London while studying for his entrance exams into Oxford. - The Rachel Papers (novel)
As the novel closes, Mavra, Marquoz, and Yua have arrived at their new hexes and are beginning to find their bearings. - The Return of Nathan Brazil
The rest of the novel relates how the latter is able to use this information to exert a powerful hold on Onslow, which radically affects not only his career, but also his personal relationships and inner life. - The Fall of Doctor Onslow
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. - Sylvia's Lovers
She was brought to the hospital two years before the novel begins. - China Sky
The novel documents the petty irritations and disappointments of the Marleses' day-to-day existence. - En rade
The novel follows private investigator Derek Strange as he works on several cases in Washington DC. - Right as Rain
She is developing a novel with her father's assistance. - Torchlight to Valhalla
The novel ends around Christmas - Dombrosio's situation is at status quo ante: Sherry now back in the house and five months pregnant, having decided to forfeit her job in the city to keep the baby Dombrosio forced on her. - The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
The novel is set amongst the villages of the Igbo people in British Nigeria during the 1920s. - Arrow of God
The novel is set in an ongoing Cold War scenario. - The Hercules Text
The novel follows private investigators Derek Strange and Terry Quinn as they work on several cases in Washington DC. - Soul Circus (novel)
Villiers opens the novel with his main character, a fictionalized Thomas Edison, contemplating the effects of his inventions on the world and the tragedy that they were not available until his invention. - The Future Eve
The rest of the novel includes every possible scenario that the reader could encounter, all of them playing out in Keith's mind. - Life's Lottery
She is brought to live in London by another uncle, who works as a swordsmith, or armourer, being the owner of the house after which the novel is titled. - The Armourer's House
The novel expresses the frustration many citizens of the newly independent states in Africa felt after attaining political independence. - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Unlike the four part novel of the Book of the New Sun, Urth of the New Sun mostly takes place outside Urth. - The Urth of the New Sun
Meanwhile, Jean's career and love life improve over the course of the novel while Pierre's life gets significantly worse. - Pierre et Jean
The novel begins with the telling of Humphrey Place saying "No" at the altar where he was due to marry Dixie Morse. - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
When the novel begins, Hélène has been widowed 18 months, living in what was then the Paris suburb of Passy with her 11-year-old daughter Jeanne. - Une page d'amour
Howard wrote this novel based on her real life affair with a con-man, as described in her memoir, Slipstream. - Falling (Howard novel)
Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp. - Pulp (novel)
The novel opens with the family of Éstacio, whose father, Conselheiro Vale, has just died. - Helena (Machado de Assis novel)
The novel identifies the Type 094 as "Xia III-class". - U.S.S. Seawolf (novel)
The novel opens with a comic survey of Gunnar's family tree, as his mother relates the tales of his family history to him and his sisters. - The White Boy Shuffle
Set in the small-time boxing circuit of Stockton, California, in the late 1950s, the novel concerns the revival of a semi-retired Billy Tully's career and the first fights of a novice, Ernie Munger. - Fat City (novel)
The novel opens with "A Word About Oar", a brief recap of the earlier story. - Ascending
The format of the novel is essentially that of a bildungsroman. - The Amateur Gentleman
The novel ends with Darcy resolving to harden his heart and forget about Elizabeth. - An Assembly Such as This
The novel begins with Commissioner Nils Hansen and his Special Police Unit team in a violent confrontation with criminal android Solbarth and his gang members, who are barricaded in a building. - Northworld
The Doctor claims Martha comes from Freedonia, a fictional country in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup - it was also used as the name of a planet in the Doctor Who novel Warmonger (2002) by Terrance Dicks. - The Shakespeare Code
The novel is narrated by Billy Bartholomew, the best friend of the protagonist, Eddie Proffit, as Eddie struggles not only with Billy’s recent death, but that of his father as well. - The Sledding Hill
The film starts with a man (Morton Lowry) reading the novel Dracula. - Boo! (film)
The novel follows the parallel adventures and intertwining fates of its protagonists Ned Rise, a luckless petty criminal, and the famous explorer Mungo Park - the first a purely fictional character, the latter based on a historical person. - Water Music (novel)
The novel is primarily set in Greenwich Village, and is thoroughly saturated with psychedelic and 1960s counterculture elements. - The Butterfly Kid
The novel details the attempts of two of the priest-clans, the Kaiel and the Mnankrei, to expand into territory controlled by the Stgal. - Courtship Rite
The perpetrator is a completely alienated young woman who is already known from another storyline earlier in the novel Two of the four terrorists can be taken by surprise and arrested by the police in their hiding place. - The Terrorists
The novel follows the correspondence between students from two rival schools. - Finding Cassie Crazy
The novel ends with Bruce Wayne maintaining his friendship with Debra Kane as well as recruiting her as one of his informants as Batman, and also deciding to include child molesters as part of his quarry in his war on crime. - Batman: The Ultimate Evil
The novel is a fictitious autobiography narrated by Birdwell centering on her experiences as the first woman to play professional hockey in the NHL. - Amazons (novel)
Set in the mid-1920s in the isolated, working-class parish of Nativité in East-end Montreal, the novel chronicles the aftermath of a deadly fire—75 people die when a neighborhood restaurant is burned to the ground by an arsonist. - The Immaculate Conception (novel)
No indication is given as to how Torrent will use his power, setting the novel up for a sequel. - Empire (Card novel)
Narrated by the disembodied spirit or consciousness of Pilgermann, a European Jew, the novel opens with the newly castrated Pilgermann having a vision of Christ after sleeping with a merchant's wife and subsequently being mutilated by a gentile mob. - Pilgermann
Meanwhile, Garp's first novel is published, which impresses Helen. - The World According to Garp (film)
The novel takes place on a future Earth (vidphones, telepaths, androids, ionocraft are normal) recently conquered by aliens from Ganymede: limbless, worm-like creatures whose physical needs are attended to by a slave-race of specialist 'creeches'. - The Ganymede Takeover
The novel ends as Freddie sits in jail and has the first feelings of remorse for the girl's death while casting doubt on the truth of what he has recounted. - The Book of Evidence
The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18 year stay in Africa. - Half a Life (novel)
His father falls ill during the novel and dies, leaving the business to his son. - Living (novel)
Sons of the Oak is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - Sons of the Oak
The novel begins with a quote from Anabasis (upon which the novel is based). - The Warriors (Yurick novel)
The novel begins when John, her most recent companion suddenly begins to age. - The Hunger (Strieber novel)
The novel concerns a time of great change, when four forces – in the form of secret societies – contend to control the next phase of humanity's history. - Fourth Mansions
An interesting distinction of this novel is in the religion of the crew: they are Moslems. - The Night of Kadar
The novel features Conan during his buccaneering days. - The Road of Kings
The movie was adapted from the novel of Neil Everest, which turns out to be Everett's real name. - Valerie on the Stairs
The novel is written in prose with a layout that is seemingly cinematic and episodic. - Brother Man
The opening video of the visual novel starts with two lines written in English: "What 'Adolescence' do you have. - Little Busters!
Alfred then vows to return women to how they should be as in the novel they have become ugly things, with shaved heads and no self-respect used for solely reproduction and kept in a place called the women’s quarters from where they cannot escape and are seen as little more than animals. - Swastika Night
The Musashi Flex would later be the subject of Perry's 2006 novel of the same name. - The Man Who Never Missed
Caidin's novel retells the story of Anthony "Buck" Rogers, a top pilot who is mortally wounded in a Fokker plane crash. - Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future
The novel follows a Bhaalspawn named Abdel Adrian who has awful powers to kill and destroy like Bhaal himself. - Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (novel)
According to the novel and film, Earl Long allegedly fell in love with a young stripper named Blaze Starr. - Blaze (film)
It is based upon the Andromeda Nebula novel by Ivan Yefremov and follows the story of a group of humans on the spaceship Tantra who are tasked with investigating the home planet of an alien race. - The Andromeda Nebula
This historical (factual) background, which orients the novel throughout, is set in the first two chapters; then fantasy, both violent and erotic, starts to prevail. - The Guarani
As the story progresses, all the antagonists in the novel eventually locate the whereabouts of the Liancheng Swordplay manual in a temple, where they start fighting over the treasure. - A Deadly Secret
The novel ends with Martin's whereabouts unknown and Darwin approaching the Edelweisses' house in Switzerland to deliver the troubling news. - Glory (novel)
The narrative of the novel follows multiple threads interwoven by Grantley Dixon from documents such as diaries and letters, or from conversations/interviews with some of the principal characters or their relatives/descendants. - Star of the Sea (novel)
The novel follows his adventures as he attempts to both fulfill his service and avoid the agents of Xylar, duty-bound to abduct him back to Xylar for the beheading ceremony. - The Goblin Tower
Alienation, a recurring motif in the works of Murakami, is the central theme in this novel set in metropolitan Tokyo over the course of one night. - After Dark (Murakami novel)
The game is loosely based on the events of the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. - Neuromancer (video game)
The novel starts with Bernard Samson in hiding in Berlin after the events in the first book of the series. - Spy Line
The novel begins with Bernard Sampson visiting his old friend and ex-SIS colleague in Washington named Jim Prettyman as part of an investigation regarding some missing funds. - Spy Hook
As he finds himself in a series of ever more incriminating positions, as one by one the avenues of escape or vindication close before him, the novel winds back toward Mexico. - Mexico Set
The game features the iconic whitewashed buildings from the novel and retains most of the main characters. - Square's Tom Sawyer
They are stranded on a cliff about to collapse under their weight when the novel ends. - Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain
The novel is told from either the perspective of the royal scribe to the Persian king Xerxes, as he records the story of Xeones, after the battle, or in the first person from Xeones' point of view. - Gates of Fire
The latter stage of the novel corresponds with the onset of World War I and the drastic changes it brought to Romanian society. - Craii de Curtea-Veche
The plot of the novel is based around the discovery within Roman ruins of a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James in the first century. - The Word (novel)
More struggles with whether to approve of the Astrobian society, noting its possible connections to his own novel Utopia. - Past Master (novel)
The novel tells the story of four main characters: Rose Markowitz (the matriarch), her sons Ed and Henry, and her daughter-in-law Sarah. - The Family Markowitz
The novel ends with Lee scrambling to meet Grant's threat. - Grant Comes East
The novel begins with Stephanie being stalked by Carmen Manoso, a woman claiming to be the wife of Ranger, a fellow bounty hunter with whom Stephanie has occasionally been intimate. - Twelve Sharp
The scene is a powerful one, a highlight both of the novel and of the Tarzan series as a whole. - Tarzan the Untamed
The setting of the novel is a small town in the 1950s. - The Gift (Steel novel)
The novel ends with Wolfe receiving a phone call from Zeck, congratulating him on solving the case — and warning him not to interfere in the crime lord’s affairs. - And Be a Villain
Marc, in between plugging his successful novel Goombah, is a star professor at the State College of New Jersey, which is poised to become a university. - Back to Life (novel)
The novel ends with the protagonist emerging from the mine. - The Miner
Much of the novel is told from Nevare's perspective trapped behind this larger personality. - Renegade's Magic
(The novel hints that he probably never will). - An Arrow's Flight
Moromeţii I is the first novel in the series, written at the time when Preda was known to the public and critics for his short stories. - Moromeții
The film is based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. - Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924 film)
Characters from the Tsuyokiss visual novel appear in the anime. - Tsuyokiss
The whales in the novel are narwhals, a type of whale with a long, spiraling horn on the front of its head. - Why the Whales Came
Apparently the novel was based on the true story of murders which took place at Tomhannock, New York (a hamlet near Pittstown) in 1781. - Wieland (novel)
The novel is divided into three parts. - Blow Your House Down
The novel alternates between two voices: the first Carthew Yorsten, a Texan realtor accompanied by his two sons (ages 7 and 9) who are having a tourist-style breakfast at Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on the morning of the September 11 attacks; the second, the voice of the author writing the story while having breakfast at a restaurant atop a Paris skyscraper (Tour Montparnasse). - Windows on the World (novel)
The full title of this novel is Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2 "PARADE". - Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 2
The novel deals with scenarios directly extrapolated from emergent issues relevant to the time frame of its creation, such as antibiotic resistant disease, climate change, and social collapse due to monetary disintegration among others. - Heavy Weather (Sterling novel)
The novel revolves around two main characters: Anthony Malone, a young man from the Midwest who leaves behind his "straight" life as a lawyer to immerse himself in the gay life of 1970s New York, and Andrew Sutherland, variously described as a speed addict, a socialite, and a drag queen. - Dancer from the Dance
The novel begins in December 1940 with the return of Sergeant Nick Penny to his home in an unnamed West Country port town. - Collaborator (novel)
The organisation of the sections and chapters of the novel mirrors the organisation of the Mahabharata and the themes and events addressed in each allude to themes and events of the mirrored sections of the epic. - The Great Indian Novel
When the novel ends, theS. - Pentagon (novel)
The novel begins by following the story of Isak, a Norwegian man, who finally settled upon a patch of land which he deemed fit for farming. - Growth of the Soil
A trivial novel in its time, Elusive Isabel is now in the public domain. - Elusive Isabel
The novel describes a life of boredom and sudden battle action, but the chief conflict is between the traditional western ideas, which saw China in racist and imperialist terms, and emerging nationalism. - The Sand Pebbles
As Kenji lies desolately in the field, all of a sudden a pair of trains burst up from the ground and towards the sky, referencing Miyazawa’s novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, the basis for which was said to be his sister’s death. - Spring and Chaos
A jazz fiction novel set in a world of speakeasies, big bands, and the Harlem Renaissance. - Young Man with a Horn (novel)
Jo is contacted and rushes to Rick's side, helping him to recover his love of music and of her—a happy ending found neither in the novel nor in the life of Bix Beiderbecke. - Young Man with a Horn (film)
There is also a copy of Realm and Conquest, a fantasy novel which Michael's son Henry recommended to Arthur. - Michael Clayton (film)
The final chapters of the book are a long and well-informed discussion on free will and determinism (the preface of the novel has a quote on the subject from philosopher William James). - The Quincunx of Time
His heart, previously seen as damaged by rheumatic fever in the Austin family novel The Moon by Night, is now so weak that he does not expect to live much longer. - An Acceptable Time
This way the novel ends without any resolution. - The Inscrutable Americans
The novel is narrated in a "Russian" voice, by an ostensible third-person narrator who is nevertheless full of opinions and bitter aphorisms. - Stet (novel)
The novel begins with David moving to a new house at the base of some beautiful mountains. - David and the Phoenix
The Town, the third novel in Conrad Richter’s Awakening Land trilogy, continues the story of frontier woman Sayward (née Luckett) Wheeler and her family. - The Town (Richter novel)
The novel tells the story of Richard Lamb, a young Englishman who marries a teenage Argentinian girl, Paquita, without asking her father's permission, and is forced to flee to Montevideo, Uruguay with his bride. - The Purple Land
The novel revolves around the legend of Atlantis, mentioned as an ancient city or continent which was drowned by the sea due to divine intervention. - The Maracot Deep
An abandoned theme park, Freedomtown, is the site of a massive search and discovery, both for characters within the novel and relating to the crime. - Freedomland (novel)
The novel follows the journeys of three young European boys represented in a circa 1913 or 1914 photograph by August Sander. - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
The novel begins with 16-year-old Steve Harmon writing in his diary awaiting for his trial for murder. - Monster (Myers novel)
The novel ends with a meeting between Adam Dalgliesh and Deborah Riscoe. - Cover Her Face
The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005. - A Long Long Way
The novel contains a series of six short stories about two high school students: a boy who remains unnamed until late in the story, and a girl named Yoru Morino. - Goth (novel)
Although the first season concerned themselves mostly with elements taken from the original novel at first, later on in that same series as well as the second and third deviated almost entirely, with many episodes focusing solely on new characters and situations. - Watership Down (TV series)
The novel opens when Kelric Valdoria crash lands on the planet Coba. - The Last Hawk
In the seventh novel of the series, three women—the ghost of Jolie, the ghost of Orlene (daughter of Orb), and a fifteen-year-old drug-addicted prostitute named Vita—try to discover a way to restore the life of Orlene's baby, Gawain II, who had died as a result of a severe birth defect inflicted unknowingly by Gaea at the request of the child's ghost father Gawain. - And Eternity
The novel is a fictionalised biography of the Godolphin Arabian, an ancestor of the modern Thoroughbred. - King of the Wind
The novel ends with the children still not knowing, but as Layla knows Ayesha's life is rapidly ending, must tell her children the reason Ayesha did not pursue them after escaping, and leave forever to assume her post as the cold hearted Blue Djinn of Babylon. - The Blue Djinn of Babylon
The Ravages of Time is a spinoff of Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. - The Ravages of Time
The novel alternates perspectives betweenG. - Time After Time (Alexander novel)
The author himself once described the novel as: "A retelling of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Schilling seduced and destroyed by a young woman". - Mary and the Giant
The novel initially addresses the Professor's interactions with his new sons-in-law and his family, while continually alluding to the pain they all feel over the death of Tom Outland in the Great War. - The Professor's House
The novel also regularly mentions drug use by the main character, and later, his friend, Yamazaki. - Welcome to the N.H.K.
The novel describes a new weapon system being developed for the US military, named Solo. - Weapon (novel)
The novel lacks a clear narrative and frequently delves into the surreal, never quite distinguishing between what is real and what is only imagined by the characters. - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The novel tells the tales of four women, working the graveyard shift at a Japanese bento factory. - Out (novel)
The first characters of the novel are introduced: a young, unnamed French student, and Evgeni Golozov, an Ukrainian polyglot born in 1918 who is a member of the Central Committee and the de facto personal secretary to Vasili Aleksandrovič Čevčenko. - The Hunting Party (comics)
The basis of the novel is the tension set up in its young protagonist when Philip falls in love with his cousin, while uncovering, and trying to deny, evidence that she is pretending to care for him while she has only her own interests at heart. - My Cousin Rachel
The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue or picaro typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the 30 Years War. - Simplicius Simplicissimus
The novel revolves around two men, Charlie Millar and George, both secret agents who are mistakenly placed together as employees in a photo kiosk at Oxford Circus. - Good News, Bad News (novel)
Rat is still writing novels and sends his novel manuscript to me every Christmas. - Hear the Wind Sing
The entire novel takes place within approximately one day. - A Stroke of Midnight
The novel is the story of two authors. - Fool on the Hill (novel)
It isn't until Rant arrives in the city that it becomes clear that the novel takes place in a dystopian future, where urban dwellers are forcefully divided by curfew into two separate classes: the respectable Daytimers and the oppressed Nighttimers. - Rant (novel)
The fictional work excerpted several times in the novel, Juan Pastorín's short story collection The Fictive Boarding House, gives clues to the nature of the novel and Mingolla's experiences himself in a type of foreshadowing. - Life During Wartime (novel)
The novel relates the building of the Rimbauer house (which is eventually named "Rose Red") in 1906 by John Rimbauer for his new wife, Ellen, as a wedding present. - The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
The Lair of Bones is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - The Lair of Bones
Wizardborn is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - Wizardborn
Brotherhood of the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - Brotherhood of the Wolf (novel)
The Sum of All Men is an epic fantasy novel set in a land where men can bestow to each other a number of endowments, granting the recipient of the endowment attributes such as increased strength, a more acute sense of hearing, or better eyesight. - The Sum of All Men
The novel centers on three main character groups; that of the scholic Hockenberry, Helen and Greek and Trojan warriors from the Iliad; Daeman, Harman, Ada and the other humans of Earth; and the moravecs, specifically Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io. - Olympos (novel)
The novel describes the tribulations he endures because of inner conflicts over his relationship with his domineering mother and with May Wynn, a beautiful red-haired nightclub singer, the daughter of Italian immigrants. - The Caine Mutiny
The novel is narrated by Alexias, a noble Athenian youth, who becomes a noted beauty in the city and a champion runner. - The Last of the Wine
These qualities temper the harsh themes this novel shares with the other JT LeRoy books: abuse, exploitation, abandonment, betrayal, loss. - Sarah (LeRoy novel)
As the novel opens, Butcher is fresh out of jail for robbing his ex-wife of his own paintings, paintings that became hers when the marriage ended. - Theft: A Love Story
The novel ends some time after the crisis as Gen and Roxane are wed in Italy. - Bel Canto (novel)
' largest competitor for space exploration in the novel is China rather than Russia) Meanwhile, theBI. - Operation Luna
The novel is a first contact story, following the generation ship But the Sky, My Lady. - Learning the World
Ultimately, Anita resolves most of these conflicts: Due to the small amount of time lapsed in this novel (the events last only a day), Anita is unable to resolve any of the plotlines left open in Incubus Dreams, and leaves several questions unresolved in this book as well. - Danse Macabre (novel)
The film is based on the novel Memórias do Distrito de Diamantina, written by João Felicio dos Santos (who has a small role in the film as a Roman Catholic pastor). - Xica
The novel is set in County Leitrim in the rural midlands of Republic of Ireland. - Amongst Women
The novel ends with Arthur accepted as squire to the Lord of the Middle Marches, Stephen de Holt. - The Seeing Stone
The novel details lives of two very opposite Victorian women, Agnes and Sugar, and the linchpin on whom they revolve: William Rackham. - The Crimson Petal and the White
The novel takes place in 1914, as Ramses Emerson works undercover to gather intelligence for the British military, Nefret returns from studying medicine in Switzerland, and Percy Peabody returns to wreak revenge on the Emerson family for past events. - He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Against this hopeful note and the prospect of a war of liberation to free the rest of the Achuultani from the control of the master computer, the novel ends. - The Armageddon Inheritance
The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the memoir of a mathematician named Peter Hogarth, who becomes involved in a Pentagon-directed project (code-named "His Master's Voice", or HMV for short) in the Nevada desert, where scientists are working to decode what seems to be a message from outer space (specifically, a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation). - His Master's Voice (novel)
This description is an adaptation of a similar concept in the novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini when the character Moreau studies at the salon of the Master of Arms. - Tactics of Mistake
From the encounters at the Villa Salaria, the focus of the novel moves to occasions before and during the actual rising of the slaves. - Spartacus (Fast novel)
The novel is basically without plot, instead episodically depicting the psychological changes in three LAPD officers caused by the stresses of police work, and particularly police work in minority communities of Los Angeles. - The New Centurions (novel)
Eternal optimist that she is, Sally makes friends with her fellow prisoners and accepts a novel from Jim when he visits. - Lonesome Jim
This narrative device is followed through three-quarters of the novel until we come to understand the traumas that have led Murgen to this point, while the enchantment that has made it possible remains unclear. - Bleak Seasons
The full title of this novel is Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1 "SIGN". - Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator Part 1
The novel is set in Bath, Somerset and centres on two main characters: Miss Abigail Wendover and Mr Miles Caverleigh. - Black Sheep (novel)
The novel follows the childhood of Laura Timmins (the author Flora Thompson herself, born Flora Timms) in the small rural northern Oxfordshire hamlet of 'Lark Rise' and the surrounding countryside. - Lark Rise
The experience helps the father and daughter find closure, and Reese buries the box of letters in place of the novel before returning to New York. - Winter Passing
This Garrett novel is a traditional whodunit. - Old Tin Sorrows
The novel starts with Garrett being approached at his house on Macunado st by a young woman named Amiranda Crest. - Bitter Gold Hearts
The novel centers on the story of a few summer months in 1998 in Stratford, Ontario against the backdrop of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. - Spadework
The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. - The Voyage Out
The novel ends at the end of the 1916 presidential election where incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Walter McKenna is re-elected over Socialist candidate Eugene Debs by a wide margin with theS. - The Great War: Walk in Hell
The novel closes on his realization of the purely Christian love he bears for Ronnie, Midge and for all of humanity. - Such Is My Beloved
Set nine months after the events of Stolen, or as Paige observes at the beginning of the novel "nine months, three weeks and two days", Dime Store Magic begins with Paige receiving complaints from the Elders about Savannah, clearly not for the first time. - Dime Store Magic
The novel is set in Moscow in the Yeltsin years, the early 1990s, a time of rampant chaos and corruption. - Generation "П"
It is a typical Dirk Pitt novel dealing with a countdown, bribed officials, and ruthless evil leaders. - Valhalla Rising (novel)
Much of the action in the novel centers on the search for the couple who inadvertently videotaped the in-air explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. - Night Fall (novel)
The novel revolves around a teleportation technology which is being developed. - The Infinitive of Go
Nina then takes up residence with Blackwood, serving as the inspiration for a novel that will decide the fate of his and Sam's careers in writing and publishing, all while evading operatives from communist Romania. - Her Alibi
The novel begins with the wild and mad Miss Hare, awaiting the arrival of a new housekeeper to assist in the upkeep of her house, Xanadu, a large and sprawling structure that is slowly falling into decay because of a lack of care. - Riders in the Chariot
The novel follows the exploits of Detroit process server Jack Ryan, who has a reputation for finding men who don't want to be found. - Unknown Man No. 89
The novel is about a West African boy named Agu who is forced to become a child soldier. - Beasts of No Nation
The story's narrator (nameless in the novel but called Saeed in the TV series) is a high school student in love with his cousin Layli who is Dear Uncle's daughter. - My Uncle Napoleon
The Parched Sea is another name for the desert Anauroch in which the novel takes place. - The Parched Sea
In this novel and its sequels Norton explores aspects of Native American culture, specifically the Navajo, through metaphors in Storm's life and in the culture he adopts on his adopted planet. - The Beast Master
The novel opens with Gregor's little sister Lizzie preparing to go to camp, while Gregor and Boots head down to the Underland. - Gregor and the Marks of Secret
The rest of the novel deals with his inability to return to his old role as he attempts to find a new life in which he can be who he authentically is rather than who others desire him to be or whom he has sold people on his being. - The Arrangement (novel)
The novel concerns the adventures of Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Hippalus on the first voyages by sea from Egypt to India. - The Golden Wind
Even a visit to their home is inconclusive, and the novel ends with Gabriel feeling that the value of the relationship to him is more important than whether or not Pete is real. - The Night Listener (novel)
The novel also focuses on the unique relationship between Yar and Data and how the current situation correlates with Yar's brutal childhood. - Survivors (Star Trek)
Most of the novel consists of this manuscript. - What Dreams May Come
The greater part of the novel deals with the complications that arise as Gouzhazhong is mistaken for Shi Zhongyu, not only by members of the sect (for ulterior motives), by also by Shi Zhongyu's parents, the Shi couple, Shi Zhongyu's lover Ding Dang, and members of the Snowy Mountain Sect. - Ode to Gallantry
The novel describes the exploits of Hilda Fitzherbert, a 23-year-old former Undersecretary for Home Affairs, and then Imperial Prime Minister, in a future where the British Empire has achieved both female suffrage (which New Zealand granted in real life in 1893) and become an Imperial Federation, apart from an independent Ireland. - Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny
The novel is set in the early 1990s when Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, a 30-year veteran of police work who appreciates fine food and drink, cuts short his vacation to help the police chief of the remote town of Kaalbringen and his small crew investigate two ax murders. - Borkmann's Point
The novel ends as he tries to call Fairchild, but on the other end is only the operator, who says sarcastically “You tell ‘em, big boy; treat ‘em rough. - Mosquitoes (novel)
The back-story presented in the novel describes the first contact between the Shonunin and humans, which occurred when a damaged human probe with five crewmembers entered the Shonunin's home system. - Cuckoo's Egg
The novel ends on a dark note; first Yōko's younger sister falls ill and dies, and then Yōko dies as well, worn out by her constant struggle to escape conventional society and morality. - A Certain Woman
Particular aspects of Klingon society depicted include: The novel concerns an intergenerational conflict within the Klingon government, between a faction wanting war with the Federation and a faction desiring accommodation for fear of Klingon defeat. - The Final Reflection
Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. - Jack Maggs
The novel unfolds in alternating chapters from the points of view of the four main characters. - Exquisite Corpse (novel)
Winifred Rudge is an American writer who travels to London to visit a distant cousin, and to research a new novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. - Lost (Maguire novel)
This novel captures some flavour of the early-seventies English society by thrusting its titular hero against the immigration rackets exploiting the masses of underprivileged Asian workers (in this case, Pakistani) during the times when England "called the Empire home". - The Saint and the People Importers
The novel concerns the quest of Bessas of Zarispa, a young officer of the 'Immortals' regiment, for the ingredients of a potion that the King has been told will give him immortality; the blood of a dragon and the ear of a king. - The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
At the start of the novel they have discovered that they can no longer engage in sexual activity except during acts of violence (their penises become erect only during an act of violence) and they ejaculate after taking lives. - A Feast Unknown
Littered throughout the novel are many of Pota's ideas and drafts of possible stories, such as the sexual biography of his wife, or of Hera's trouble with Zeus. - Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
The novel takes place in the respectable, fictional parish of Bowick, Victorian England, with the main plot concerning itself with the renowned dr Wortle's Christian seminary academy. - Doctor Wortle's School
The novel concerns the adventures of Leon of Atrax, a Thessalian cavalry commander who has been tasked by Alexander the Great to bring an elephant captured from the Indian ruler Porus, to Athens as a present for Alexander's old tutor, Aristotle. - An Elephant for Aristotle
The novel begins on a Family estate at Kethiuy on Cerdin, where the Sul sept of the Meth-maren House is attacked by the rival Ruil sept, with the help of Red and Gold Majats. - Serpent's Reach
The novel begins approximately three weeks after the events of the story "The Melancholy Journey of mr Teal" from The Holy Terror. - Getaway (The Saint)
The novel ends with Kate going undercover to the father's house and rescuing her. - With Child
The novel is written in first person, purporting to be the memoirs of Chares of Lindos, the sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes. - The Bronze God of Rhodes
As the Paris segment of the novel begins, Templar and Trelawney have become partners to the extent that Simon, when leaving his traditional "calling card" consisting of the drawing of a stick figure with a halo, is now compelled to add a female figure to the image. - She Was a Lady
At the beginning of this section, it is revealed that the character/narrator Saturn is a pseudonym for author Salvador Plasciencia, and that he has given up on the novel after his girlfriend Liz leaves him for another man due to his obsessive war with Federico de la Fe and the EMF (a loose parallel to Merced leaving Federico). - The People of Paper
In addition to the two generations represented by Rzecki and Wokulski, the novel provides glimpses of a third, younger one, exemplified in the scientist Julian Ochocki (modeled on Prus' friend, Julian Ochorowicz), some students, and young salesmen at Wokulski's store. - The Doll (novel)
The novel follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her late thirties who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and still lives in an apartment with her very controlling mother, with whom Erika shares her parents' marriage bed. - The Piano Teacher (Jelinek novel)
The novel follows several generations of descendants of one azi who establish different lines and rise to become the leaders of two rival cultures. - Forty Thousand in Gehenna
The novel starts an unspecified length of time after the events of Enter the Saint with an account of Simon Templar, The Saint, foiling an assassination attempt on a visiting prince by tricking the would-be assassin into blowing himself up. - The Last Hero (The Saint)
The action of the novel largely begins after the attempted (perhaps successful) suicide of the protagonist. - The Eye (novel)
When the novel opens, such a stranger has just arrived: 27-year-old Johnnie Aysgarth, from an impoverished family who are, as she is told, "of rotten stock". - Before the Fact
As in the original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), the Scarecrow's barge-pole gets stuck in the river bed and leaves him stranded, until he is rescued by a bird. - His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
Rankin has said that he wrote this book under the influence of Martin Amis's novel Money and that Weston was influenced by that novel's protagonist John Self. - Bleeding Hearts
The novel tells the story of Archie Weir, a youth born into an upper-class Edinburgh family. - Weir of Hermiston
The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese novel Journey to the West. - Princess Iron Fan (1941 film)
The novel takes place in an unnamed South African city, five years after the first elections to occur after Apartheid. - Ways of Dying
A series of interlocking narratives, the novel begins by relating the creative failures of the self-styled novelist Georges, who produces nothing but an unfinished autobiography, then chronicles the poignant struggles of the painter Lucien, whose inability to complete his masterpiece culminates with his suicide when he severs his own hand. - Dans le ciel
The novel journeys through the birth, life, death, and second life of a man whose family pioneers human-to-android mind transfer. - Mind Transfer (novel)
The novel opens with the phrase "Behind the rock is the world I live in" and the reader finds him smoking cigarettes in his home's garden, hiding from his parents behind a big rock. - De Perfil
Eddie finds Nola a formidable adversary to the end, as the novel comes to its explosive conclusion. - Built for Trouble
Chart Throb was the 11th novel by Ben Elton, and was released both in hardback and paperback. - Chart Throb
The Phantom President tells the fictional story of American presidential candidates, based on the novel by George Worts. - The Phantom President
While the novel ends with Lucy and George marrying and returning to "the room with the view" for their honeymoon, this adaptation included its own ending, with George being killed in World War I and Lucy returning in 1922 to the room in Florence, where it is implied she begins a new romance with an Italian man. - A Room with a View (2007 film)
The novel reinvents the legend of The Wandering Jew as a Jewish merchant called Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti who once lived in 18th century Kolkata (Calcutta) and who recorded the scandalous affairs of its British administrators in a book called The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers. - The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers
He persuades author Kate Halsey (Blanche Friderici) to write a novel based on this premise. - The Office Wife
It is based on the manga and novel volumes, and sees the return of series regulars Trish and Lady. - Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
The novel is about the separation of Chéri and his lover of six years, the much older Léa de Lonval (as the novel opens he is 25 and she is 49. - Chéri (novel)
The novel follows the movements of William Bradshaw, its narrator, who meets a nervous-looking man named Arthur Norris on a train going from the Netherlands to Germany. - Mr Norris Changes Trains
It is based on the second Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Flame, and the second half of the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. - Dragons of Flame (video game)
The novel is set in the American West in the 1880s, but is not written in a genre style. - The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
She uses the novel to put forth her view that Panagoulis was assassinated by a vast conspiracy, a view widely shared by many Greeks. - A Man
The novel closes with Renko alone on the hospital roof taking a long, sweeping, pensive look over Lenin Square, the Volga River and the town of Tver as the snow begins to fall once again. - Stalin's Ghost
The novel has a prologue of several court docket entries in the case of Commonwealth Stanley Howell and Robert Basso. - The Just and the Unjust
Inside, they find a satellite phone, which has stopped working, and a book titled Ardil-22 (the Portuguese translation of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22). - Catch-22 (Lost)
The film ends with Grady recounting the eventual fate of the main characters – Hannah graduates and becomes a magazine editor; James was not expelled, but drops out and moves to New York to rework his novel for publication; and Terry Crabtree "goes right on being Crabtree". - Wonder Boys (film)
She is able to help Miller see the beauty of the waterfront, and inspires him to improve the novel he's been working for the past five years. - I Cover the Waterfront
Mariah and Ian begin a romantic relationship during the novel and they and Faith eventually live together as a family. - Keeping Faith
Originally serialized in a Tokyo daily newspaper Tokyo Asahi between 20 December 1929 and February 16, 1930, this vibrant novel uses unorthodox, kinetic literary techniques to reflect the raw energy of Asakusa, seen through the eyes of a wandering narrator and the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life. - The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
It begins after the main events described in the novel and then moves into a flashback, finishing at the starting point. - Men Against the Sea
The novel climaxes as the islanders attempt to capture Lucas, who is innocent of the crime. - Lucas (novel)
The novel includes accounts both of Paula's treatment and of Allende's life, sometimes overlapping with the content of Allende's first novel, The House of the Spirits. - Paula (novel)
Because the novel is divided into chapters, each closely concerned with one of the characters, a summary of the story serves as a character analysis as well. - Shiloh (Foote novel)
The novel begins at the end of World War I with Fidelis Waldvogel, a German sniper, returning to his hometown in defeated Germany from the battle lines. - The Master Butchers Singing Club
The novel tells the story of three siblings, Eily, Michael and Peggy O'Driscoll, who live in a small cottage in rural Ireland. - Under the Hawthorn Tree (novel)
The Eye of the Heron is a science fiction novel set on the fictional planet of Victoria in a speculative future, probably sometime in the 22nd century, when the planet has been colonized for about a century and has no communication with Earth. - The Eye of the Heron
Set in a future when humanity has forgotten its origins in earth, the novel describes the political equations and power struggle between the emperor, a quasireligious group, a pre-sentient computer named the MagComm and the Lord Commander. - Requiem for the Conqueror
The novel ends without revealing whether this gambit is successful. - Needle (novel)
The novel takes place in the fictional town of Socartes, Spain. - Marianela (novel)
The setting of the novel is in London, Oxford, Scotland, Europe, and the United States. - Restless (novel)
His theorem eventually works for all but one of his past relationships with a Katherine—which the novel explores. - An Abundance of Katherines
The novel makes explicit the contrast between ancient Cambodia's opulence and the poverty and corruption of its modern counterpart. - The King's Last Song
As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, First Mercantile American (very loosely based on the Bank of America, although it is located in Cleveland, Ohio [during the first 5 chapters of the book, it only describes the bank's location as a state in "the Midwest" and the state itself is never identified) is about to become vacant due to the terminal illness of Ben Roselli, the incumbent chief, whose grandfather founded the bank. - The Moneychangers
The novel is introduced with description of the Arabic culture. - Midaq Alley (novel)
Danny remains unaware of Velma and Joe's sideline until near the end of the book, when Velma's second blackmail victim, a mob-related big shot, propels the novel to its climax in a fatal car chase. - The Dice Spelled Murder
In this novel humanity is under attack by a technologically superior alien race known as "Waisters", who threaten to exterminate the human race. - Aggressor Six
This novel makes numerous references to the events in Lindsay Davis' earlier novel in the Falco series, The Iron Hand of Mars (1992). - Saturnalia (Davis novel)
Lydia, who is thirty-five but looks twenty-something, is the villain of the novel and her colourful portrayal takes up much of the rest of the story. - Armadale (novel)
Written in the indirect third person, from Carter's point of view, the novel is set during her years as a student in the early 1970s at the fictional Blackstock College in Minnesota. - Tam Lin (novel)
The novel is narrated from the point of view of CROOK's Artificial Intelligence. - Akihabara@Deep
Sent out both to gather information and as a show of force to reassure a vengeful Earth population, the force first goes through an extremely grueling training period on Earth and on the planet Cerberus (a fictitious planet beyond Pluto, not the satellite of Pluto which had not been discovered at the time the original novel was written). - The Forever War (comics)
The novel tells the story of a professor who discovers a monstrous plot. - Drunkard's Walk (novel)
The novel starts with an attack by Arthur and his war-band, and the escape of Gwyna, a servant girl. - Here Lies Arthur
The novel opens with Golder refusing to help his colleague of many years, Marcus. - David Golder
There comes a twist of what is exactly the man up to and how the main character of the novel solves the problem. - Talkative Man
Natty, in this novel commonly called La Longue Carabine, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a young girl. - The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea
One of Narayan's later works, the Painter of Signs is a bittersweet novel that looks at the lives of Raman, a painter of sign boards, and Daisy, a social worker interested in curtailing India's population growth. - The Painter of Signs
In an earlier draft the novel ends with the scene of Moscow's complete destruction by the snakes. - The Fatal Eggs
The novel is primarily composed of three separate plots, interleaved throughout the course of events. - Road Wars (novel)
The novel takes place on the fictional continent of Zamonia, which is also featured in Moers' previous novel The 13 Lives of Captain Bluebear. - Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures
The novel alternates these flashbacks with Sammy's increasing terror and despair. - Free Fall (Golding novel)
After reading a recent letter that Joan had written to her parents, Wolfe realises that the name ‘Baird Archer’, an author whose novel Joan was reading for her employer, had also appeared on the list found in Leonard Dykes’ pocket. - Murder by the Book
The novel opens with Ryan Cawdor resting in a box canyon in New Mexico, a few feet from Jak Lauren. - Rider, Reaper
The plot of Ibn Tufail's more famous Arabic novel was inspired by Avicennism, Kalam and Sufism, and was also intended as a thought experiment. - Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
The novel is set in the later chapters of Pride and Prejudice. - These Three Remain
The novel describes in blunt language, the cultural stress the old plantation society and former slaves have in adjusting to the post war reconstruction. - The Store
The novel is set about 1914, when the first motorized vehicle was driven into Indian Country. - Laughing Boy (novel)
To mr Sammler—who by the end of the novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beings—a good life is one in which a person does what is "required of him". - Mr. Sammler's Planet
The novel is set in the fictional Massachusetts town of Durham shortly after World War The Pentland family is rich and part of the upper class, but their world is rapidly changing. - Early Autumn
The novel ends with Angie leaving for college and the two have a heartfelt goodbye. - Seventeenth Summer
The novel is described from the point of view of vice-president of Golden State Power and Light, Nimrod "Nim" Goldman, who, despite being married, tends to be somewhat of a Lothario and has many extramarital affairs. - Overload (novel)
Anthony Fallon, the Terran deposed as king of the Krishnan island of Zamba in the earlier novel The Queen of Zamba, has fallen on hard times, having failed to regain his throne and lost his second wife Julnar as well. - The Tower of Zanid
The novel expounds the peculiar relationships that he had with the other women in the neighbourhood. - Middle Age: A Romance
Black Time Lords previously appeared in the spin-off novel The Shadows of Avalon by Paul Cornell, published in 2000, as well as in the Big Finish Productions audio plays, in which Lord President Rassilon was played by actor Don Warrington whose likeness is used for the character in official artwork. - The Sound of Drums
In both the novel and the film, Hart makes a paper airplane out of the unopened letter containing his grades and sends it sailing into the ocean. - The Paper Chase (film)
This novel presents the series' first instance of a murder taking place in Wolfe's office. - The Red Box
The novel introduces Lieutenant Rowcliff, not one of the NYPD's finest (in the opinion not only of Wolfe but Inspector Cramer). - The Rubber Band
After reading a controversial new novel by an author called Paul Chapin, Nero Wolfe reveals to Archie Goodwin that he has been approached by Andrew Hibbard, a psychologist fearing for his life. - The League of Frightened Men
The mass of the novel is divided up into several sections. - The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
The novel follows the adventures of 22-year-old Octave Mouret, who moves into the building and takes a salesman's job at a nearby shop, The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames). - Pot-Bouille
The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge, England in the year 1327. - World Without End (Follett novel)
The novel begins with Dreyfus being sent out on a routine assignment to lock down a glitter-band habitat for polling violations. - The Prefect
The novel consists of five parts that tell the life of Gergely Bornemissza from the age of eight until the year 1552, when he is in his early thirties. - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
The denouement of the novel is grim. - Lamb (1985 film)
The novel is set primarily in New York City. - The Hard Way (novel)
The novel begins with Arkady at the tip of Havana Bay as the sun begins to rise on what promises to be a hot one in Cuba. - Havana Bay (novel)
As the novel progresses, Dexter begins to develop emotions that were once suppressed by the Dark Passenger, mainly those of sadness and anger. - Dexter in the Dark
The novel is set during a ten-year interval, from 68-58 BC, which Julius Caesar spent mainly in Rome, climbing the political ladder and outmaneuvering his many enemies. - Caesar's Women
The novel concerns the arrival of Englishman Major Brendan Archer, recently discharged from the British Army, at the Majestic Hotel on the Wexford coast in south-east Ireland in 1919. - Troubles (novel)
When the novel opens two major projects are under way: the shooting, on location in Mauritius, of a commercial for a porn channel; and preparations for a sales pitch, with Coca-Cola as the company's prospective client. - E (novel)
The novel is written as a first-person narrative of Pyotr Pustota () and in the introduction to this book it is claimed that unlike Dmitriy Furmanov's book Chapayev, this book is the truth. - Chapayev and Void
Earth has established a totally balanced and ecologically stable underground society (similar to that portrayed in Asimov's novel The Caves of Steel). - 2430 A.D.
The novel closes with an email addressed to Hackman that resembles a 419 scam from a Nigerian banker, implying that is where he hid the money. - Halting State
The novel opens introducing the reader to an alcoholic vagrant, resting in an abandoned and forgotten lock-keeper's house by a canal. - The Rats (novel)
As the novel begins, twelve-year-old Natalie Nelson is almost done writing a novel called The Cheater about a girl and her friends. - The School Story
The novel is notable for the complexity of Durham's imagined world, one in which political, economic, mythological and morally ambiguous forces all influence the fates of the ethnically and culturally diverse population. - Acacia: The War with the Mein
The novel ends with Mr Bradshaw finding a weeping Leonard at his mother's grave, whom he leads home to Mr Benson, and reforming his friendship with Mr Benson realising that as a member of the society that ostracised Ruth, he is also responsible for her death. - Ruth (novel)
Card expands the story into a novel of over 300 pages, so many of the details and characters are fictional. - Sarah (Card novel)
David Anthony Durham made his literary debut with a haunting novel which, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, views the American West through an original lens. - Gabriel's Story
The novel is a retelling of the assault on the Roman Republic by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca. - Pride of Carthage
As is made clearer in McDevitt's later Alex Benedict novel Seeker, during the course of recorded history, human civilization has spread through a substantial part of the Orion Arm of our galaxy. - A Talent for War
Though he is a member of the American jeunesse dorée, he is an emotional and observant man, and the novel chronicles his search for love. - The World in the Evening
The novel ends on an ominous tone, with Diomedes being sentenced to a gruesome death, and Falco brooding over tensions between his family and Anacrites, who has tried to woo Maia but was spurned by her. - Ode to a Banker
Written in an epistolary style, consisting of newspaper cuttings, letters, and extensive excerpts from the diary of its protagonist, the novel tells the story of Humphrey Mackevoy, a young man who achieves sexual satisfaction by boring holes in trees and penetrating them with his penis. - A Melon for Ecstasy
So strong are his illusions, that even at the end of the novel he remains unaware of his wife’s infidelities. - Le Contrat de mariage
The ostentatiously Faustian plot centers on Rosamond Vivian, a discontented maiden who lives on an English island with only her bitter old grandfather for company and who begins the novel by rashly declaring: "I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom". - A Long Fatal Love Chase
The boys are fascinated by pulp science fiction, and Gill begins building a device inspired by the "subterranean prospector" described in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel At the Earth's Core. - The Digging Leviathan
In this novel John Carter, transplanted Earthman, returns to his status of protagonist and first-person narrator for the first time since the third Martian novel, The Warlord of Mars. - Swords of Mars
Set during the Edinburgh Festival, this novel starts with a brutally executed corpse being discovered in Mary King's Close, an ancient subterranean street. - Mortal Causes
Their stories intersect with a character named John "Jack" Gilbert Egan, a Marine-turned-CIA operative, whose own life is the meta-narrative which ties the novel together. - Gilligan's Wake
The novel concludes with Jefferson's recovery. - Midnight Whispers
The novel opens with Annie Casteel Stonewall returning to Farthinggale Manor for the funeral of her father, Troy Tatterton. - Web of Dreams
The novel tells the story of Friedrich Löwenberg, a young Jewish Viennese intellectual, who, tired with European decadence, joins an Americanized Prussian aristocrat named Kingscourt as they retire to a remote Pacific island (it is specifically mentioned as being part of the Cook Islands, near Raratonga) in 1902. - The Old New Land
In this seventh novel in the series, life with the Lovedays is not confined to England and France. - The Loveday Loyalty
The novel concerns the adventures of “Mike”, who, recovering from a failed marriage, falls in with a clique of hard core northern rock climbers and becomes immersed in an intense and inward looking life style in which climbing is so important that “real life” is all but excluded. - Climbers (novel)
The novel is composed of three chapters, or "memoranda", which chronicle the life of Ōba from early childhood to late twenties. - No Longer Human
Malcolm is gravely injured during the incident, but is found by Gennaro and park game warden Robert Muldoon and spends the remainder of the novel slowly dying as between lucid lectures and morphine-induced rants he tries to help the others understand their predicament and survive. - Jurassic Park (novel)
Carnival is set as the central theme of the novel and is portrayed as the only phenomenon that is able to bring the hill to life and corrupt everyday life in Trinidad. - The Dragon Can't Dance
The novel ends with Longman's arrest. - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (novel)
She chooses to base her writings on The Three Musketeers, a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. - The Three Muscatels
The novel ends with the couple planning a cross country car trip during the summer before they go off to separate colleges. - Family Secrets (novel)
The novel tells the discovery of many people, two of them physicists, that the fifth dimension obeys a (species of spiritual) law of nature where Good and Evil control the lower dimensions. - Dante's Equation
While the true motive for his murder is never made clear, the novel suggests it was orchestrated by Tramonti, who wanted revenge for his arrest in a raid ordered by Daniel Shea. - The Godfather's Revenge
The other half of the novel goes deeper into Michael's role as Don and his dream of legitimizing the Corleone family. - The Godfather Returns
After the discussion with Christous and Townrow's subsequent blackout, the novel becomes much more dream-like and at times surreal, with Townrow a very unreliable narrator who cannot remember his nationality (though he asserts that he is Irish as part of a scam he tries to run on Mrs Khoury) nor whether his mother is alive. - Something to Answer For
The novel begins with a Prologue, which describes the setting, the physical landscape around the two towns, Truth on the American side and the reserve Bright Water on the Canadian. - Truth and Bright Water
The novel starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. - The Black Flame (novel)
Like Robert Erskine Childers's novel The Riddle of the Sands (1903), it predicts the Great War (in which Saki would be killed) and is an example of invasion literature, a literary genre which flourished at the beginning of the 20th century as tensions between the European great powers increased. - When William Came
His imaginations are interrupted by a "deep, slightly hesitant, husky" voice, a greeting of "Good afternoon", a dark-skinned man who spends the entirety of the novel unnamed. - Breakfast in the Ruins
The novel begins shortly after the end of Enemy of God. - Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
The middle of the novel is instead developed and a few scenes from the novel are compressed or moved to different times and places in the narrative. - Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries)
The novel is divided into five parts. - The Winter King (novel)
The novel is set in the British Raj. - A Division of the Spoils
The novel is set in the British Raj. - The Towers of Silence
Much of the novel is written in the form of interviews and reports of conversations and research from the point of view of a narrator. - The Jewel in the Crown (novel)
The novel gives little indication as to whether or not Connie's visions are by-products of a mental disease or are meant to be taken literally, but ultimately, Connie's confrontation with the future inspires her to a violent action that will presumably prevent the dissemination of the mind-control technology that makes the future dystopia possible, since it puts an end to the mind-control experiments and prevents the lobotomy-like operation that had been planned for her. - Woman on the Edge of Time
In the third and concluding novel of this trilogy, an uncomfortable archaeological alliance of Thranx, humans, and AAnn, explores the well-kept secrets of the lost civilization of the Sauun on the frontier world Comagrave. - Diuturnity's Dawn
Lilly, who is a dwarf, begins writing a novel called Trying to Grow. - The Hotel New Hampshire (film)
Ben, a successful writer, returns to his hometown, Jerusalem's Lot (also known as 'Salem's Lot), intending to write a novel while he deals with the demons of his past. - Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries)
The novel shifts over to James Costa, a museum curator who arranges to meet with an art professor named Hart - who is in reality none other than Arkenhout. - Taking Lives
The novel frequently changes perspective, and we see the depth of his obsession with her as he plots to come to her house late at night in a last-ditch attempt to prove his "love" to her. - Blast from the Past (novel)
The plot is similar to a novel the character George Stark is writing in The Dark Half. - The Fifth Quarter (short story)
The novel title comes from the French word cachalot, meaning "sperm whale". - Cachalot (novel)
The novel ends with Myra and Bisesa reunited on the planet shown to Bisesa during her very first trip through an Eye. - Firstborn (Clarke and Baxter novel)
The novel is set in 3000D. - Icebones
By the end of the novel cholera, starvation and the sepoys have killed off most of the inhabitants, who are reduced to eating dogs, horses and finally beetles, their teeth much loosened by scurvy. - The Siege of Krishnapur
The novel and film tell the story of Bob Rusk, a serial killer in London who rapes and strangles women. - Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
While having a conversation with Elaine about his favorite yellow T-shirt, "Golden Boy" (which, due to its age, is "dying"), Jerry tells her the novel War and Peace was originally called War, What is it Good For. - The Marine Biologist
The novel opens rather dramatically with new characters and settings, then moves quickly to Ash March's abrupt and covert departure from Raif in order to join the Sull. - A Fortress of Grey Ice
Wexford wishes to protect her in a fatherly way, as he is with his own daughter Sheila, whose new boyfriend Augustine Casey is a post-post-modernist novelist who has already published a novel devoid of any characters. - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
He finds a collection of his father's books from the 1960s, including The Catcher in the Rye, a novel Tom particularly disdains, comparing its popularity among baby boomers to a cult. - King Dork
This plot was based on a Bengali novel of the same title, written by a renowned writer Narayan Sanyal. - Satyakam
Kirth Gersen is on Alphanor with Alusz Iphigenia Eperje-Tokay, a woman he had rescued in the previous novel of the series. - The Palace of Love
The Fatal Equilibrium is a mystery novel that provides a grasp of basic economics on the way to finding out whodunnit. - The Fatal Equilibrium
In the novel there are allusions to another, parallel and fictional novel by a former husband of Justine's, titled Moeurs ("Mores"), which the narrator reads obsessively in his search for clues about Justine's past life. - Justine (Durrell novel)
Picking up where the previous novel ended, Waakzaam the Great has attacked Ryetelth again, this time striking against the Sinni, the golden beings sometimes mistaken as the Ryetelth gods, who have been fighting against Waakzaam on the Sphereboard of Destiny from time immemorial. - Dragon Ultimate
The novel then takes on touching several moral and ethical issues, beyond the love triangle plot, depicted through the rich culture and everyday life of Lahore. - Raja Gidh
Marlowe's last act in the novel is to remove Merle from the toxic environment of mrs Murdock's employment. - The High Window
Chronologically, the series starts with the fourth novel published, Wild Seed. - Patternist series
The novel is a harsh indictment of religious fundamentalism, and has been compared in that respect to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. - Parable of the Talents (novel)
In Chapter 5, an explicit reference to the events of Brackett's story The Beast-Jewel of Mars (Planet Stories, Winter 1948) has been cut, perhaps on the assumption that readers of the novel would not know or be interested in the earlier story. - The Secret of Sinharat
The novel is about two friends Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, both of whom are shown equally as protagonists. - Shock (novel)
The pterosaur is dismissed as an Amazonian vulture, while the articles Edward sent back are passed off as extracts of a novel he is writing. - The Lost World (2001 film)
The novel begins with the King, Olin Eddon, imprisoned in a foreign land. - Shadowmarch
The scheme of the allegorical satire not only overlaps with the narrative scheme of the romance or history, but with the epistolary novel as well, the parody of which is but the first external frame inside which many other genres are parodied. - A Political Romance
Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is the chief of police on a small, unnamed Caribbean island (the novel was set on the fictional island of st Caro). - The Mighty Quinn (film)
The novel opens with Danica walking the latest bloody battlefield and her discovery of the fallen Gregory Cobriana, who is the younger brother of the current Arami (Prince, soon to be Diente/King), Zane Cobriana. - Hawksong
The novel opens with the protagonist having tied himself naked to a rocking chair in his apartment, rocking back and forth in the dark. - Murphy (novel)
The novel is further complicated in that it is told backwards, using a Police procedural as the structure of the novel, memories are unlocked in the form of flashbacks, each flashback delving further and further back in time over the course of 3000 years. - Gene (novel)
The novel presents as a case file of dr Philip Outerbridge and attempts to "falsely" emphasize the fictional basis of the novel. - Some of Your Blood
She regularly refers ambiguously to a day in the past when something terrible happened, and it gradually becomes clear that the rest of the novel is set during this day. - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
The major intent of the novel is to portray Sandy's life as he tries to be the best he can be, aspiring to folks such as Du Bois and Booker Washington. - Not Without Laughter
Unfortunately the defence never fully recovers from the revelation that Adam read the novel Frankenstein while absorbing all the books in the Doc's library, and the judge pronounces the robot guilty, even though the Doc's death was accidental. - I, Robot (1964 The Outer Limits)
In the novel the nine men are the embodiment of good and face up against nine Kali worshippers, who saw confusion and masquerade as the true sages. - The Nine Unknown
The film diverges from the novel here, in that Reynolds dies in the book but survives in the film and will presumably go on to marry Carla at some point after the war. - Never So Few
This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two Black Americans from very different worlds. - Tar Baby (novel)
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour. - Providence (1977 film)
The novel begins with the organization of an expedition to rescue Bowen Tyler, Lys La Rue, and the other castaways marooned on the large Antarctic island of Caprona, whose tropical interior, known to its inhabitants as Caspak, is home to prehistoric fauna of all eras. - The People That Time Forgot (novel)
The novel follows Menolly, now apprenticed into the Harper Hall, a type of music conservatory for harpers (minstrels/educators) and other music professionals, as she begins her musical training to become a harper herself one day. - Dragonsinger
At this stage, none of the Federated Sentient Planets population has had contact with alien races, so although we, the readers, know of the Linyaari and Khleevi, the humans in the novel do not. - Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
Also different from the novel is Saturno's increased role -- barely mentioned in the novel, he is Tristana's third love interest in the film. - Tristana
In specially interspersed italicized sections of the novel set in the late 80s, Marnus is presented to be a soldier in the war against the Frelimo troops in Angola, in which he is apparently killed. - The Smell of Apples
The novel deals with teenager Vanya Smurov's attachment to his older, urbane mentor, Larion Stroop, a pederast who initiates him into the world of early Renaissance, Classical and Romantic art. - Wings (Kuzmin novel)
Interleaved throughout the film is a separate tale (present in Abe's original novel in the form of a movie the protagonists watches at a cinema and then recounts) of a young woman whose otherwise beautiful face suffered a severe disfigurement on the right cheek, and right side of the neck. - The Face of Another (film)
The novel ends with Green exiting the city in a cab, still in the alternate world, eager to start a new life devoid of the burdens of his old. - There Are Doors
This is a suspenseful novel set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels. - The Haunted Bookshop
The majority of the novel follows Zinkoff going through elementary school. - Loser (novel)
The novel centers upon the Ogata family of Kamakura, and its events are witnessed from the perspective of its aging patriarch, Shingo, a businessman close to retirement who works in Tokyo. - The Sound of the Mountain
Athens is represented in the novel as past its glory days and ruled by petty, squabbling demagogues. - Fire from Heaven
The novel is written using Harris' typical split-narrative technique. - Gentlemen & Players
Unhappy with his lack of privacy, alteration of family life, uncomfortable housings at the Palace of Versailles and his lack of power as a constitutional monarch, the protagonist spends a portion of the novel dressing up as a commoner, often riding a motorscooter, to avoid the constrained life of a king. - The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The novel begins with Ben and Anna in bed at the Montecinto Inn. - Blonde Ambition (novel)
The novel follows two initially separate narratives set in the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe. - Ludmila's Broken English
Throughout the game are interspersed some historical facts about Roman Britain, post-Roman Britain, tidbits on the legend of King Arthur, and several allusions to Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Mists of Avalon. - Arthur's Knights
The novel resumes Sue's narrative, picking up where Maud and Gentleman had left her in the mental asylum. - Fingersmith (novel)
The novel ends with an epilogue which takes place eight years later, in which Lavretsky returns to Liza's house and finds that, although many things have changed, there are elements such as the piano and the garden that are the same. - Home of the Gentry
In a few minutes Prathapa's sandals are mended to his satisfaction and he in turn gives the cobbler one rupee (a princely amount in the era in which the novel is set). - Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram
The novel begins with Imriel sitting down to read the letters that his mother, Melisande Shahrizai, has written him all these years. - Kushiel's Justice
This historical novel is about a Livonian nobleman, Timotheus von Bock, who has married a peasant girl named Eeva to prove everyone that good men are equal before nature, God and ideals. - The Czar's Madman
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau. - Sophie's Choice (film)
The King enters a chaotic schoolroom and, upon noticing Tuptim has a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, engages in a slightly heated conversation with Anna about slavery – an institution embraced by all his people. - The King and I (1956 film)
For the story read the article on the novel Corazón salvaje. - Corazón salvaje (1968 film)
Gaumont British borrowed just the vaguest outline from the 1928 source novel by Frank King (and subsequent play by King and Leonard Hines). - The Ghoul (1933 film)
The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. - The Land That Time Forgot (novel)
The novel is transcribed by 'Michael Moorcock' (the author's fictional grandfather) in 1903. - Warlord of the Air
The last line of the (translated) novel reads: "The door was burst in. - The Defense
The novel gradually reveals that for the past 16 years Cavell has in fact been working for "the General", apparently a senior intelligence director and Cavell's father-in-law, and that these thefts are the culmination of a series of security breaches at Mordon that Cavell and the General have been investigating for at least a year. - The Satan Bug (novel)
The novel is set on the planet Pandora which is famous for its animated biosphere. - Disquiet (Strugatsky novel)
This novel features a flashback to shortly after Angel fled from Darla when she attempted to make him feed on an innocent baby to prove himself. - Endangered Species (novel)
An old evil is trying to use a painting to preserve the life of its body, which, in the terms of the story, inspired the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. - Image (Angel novel)
The novel centres on three very different men: Reactions to the failure of industrial action on safety issues in the coal mines are crystallised in the characters of Davey and Joe, who take vastly different routes in escaping from the working class. - The Stars Look Down
The novel opens with Ambassador Spock on planet Veridian III following the events of Star Trek Generations. - The Ashes of Eden
The novel starts with a foreword that assures that everything in the story is a real account of the title character's exploits in the Underworld. - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
The novel is set in a nursing home. - House Mother Normal
Disturbed over Montag's behavior, Linda's friends try to leave but Montag stops them, by forcing them to sit and listen to a novel passage. - Fahrenheit 451 (film)
As is usual in a Johnson novel sexuality is openly and frankly discussed. - Albert Angelo
The novel begins with Keir arguing with Gigi about the events which occurred the night before. - Inexcusable
As the novel begins, dr Valerie ("Valkerie") Jansen is on a field trip on the slope of Mount Trident on the Alaska Peninsula. - Oxygen (Olson and Ingermanson novel)
Andy thought that Alan's story might make a great novel and a wonderful television miniseries. - Guiding Light (1980–89)
Ransome was personally a strong supporter of the protection of birds, and had previously advocated it in his novel Coot Club to which cross-reference is made in this book. - Great Northern?
However, this is not the main reason why the novel is named "The Secret Room", as it also refers to the secret room within one's heart where the inner light is found. - The Secret Room
Following the arrest of one of the MIAs, for trafficking drugs while dressed as a priest, the novel depicts American life in a post-9/11 context through the involvement of the two sisters. - Villa Incognito
The narrator is very enthusiastic about Ambient's work, especially his latest novel Beltraffio. - The Author of Beltraffio
A major character of the saga who appears in this novel is the Trader, who apparently goes off to die alone near the end of the book, but is constantly referenced in future novels. - Pilgrimage to Hell
It serves as a prologue to the novel proper as well as to his own synopsis. - Phallos (novella)
Chūjō hits upon a novel way to attract Mothra to an airport runway. - Mothra (film)
Macfarlane set this novel among the cottage country in northern Ontario, the Waubano Reaches. - Summer Gone
The novel is set in Britain in 1987, and involves the Seventh Doctor and his companions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester living on a working-class council estate while attempting to track down an infinitely powerful Gallifreyan weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. - Damaged Goods (Davies novel)
A novel about an aristocrat's experience of civil war. - A Song of Stone
The novel involves a Chinese woman, Shu Wen, retelling her life in Tibet to Xinran in a tea shop in Suzhou. - Sky Burial
The novel begins with Lanny Budd in the delivery waiting room in a very expensive hospital in England, while his wife, Irma Barnes, is giving birth to their baby girl. - Dragon's Teeth (novel)
The novel is set in the Sarladais (the Dordogne region of France). - Sorcerer's Apprentice (Augiéras novel)
Victory Garden is a hypertext novel which is set during the Gulf War, in 1991. - Victory Garden (novel)
A focus of the novel is Martin's imagination for grand, sweeping business ideas, and his instinctive sense for orchestrating large systems. - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
The novel follows the life and career of Henry Coningsby, the orphan grandson of a wealthy marquess, Lord Monmouth. - Coningsby (novel)
Asha tells Todd that she has been writing a novel on her work computer called Holiday in Goa that needs to be saved. - Outsourced (film)
As a result, he is now viewed with suspicion by everyone, and ends the novel with practically no friends, even Yasmin turning away from him. - When Gravity Fails
When the novel opens, he is 22 years old and has just completed his studies at the University of Göttingen. - Adolphe
Meanwhile, Lucy's novel becomes a runaway success, allowing her to buy and move into Albert's former mansion, and she begins to morph into a diva. - Irreconcilable Differences
The novel is actually a story within a story. - The Shadow of the Wind
Zack calls the outline for Bart's new novel less than honest, and Bart confronts Zack about his own lack of honesty about his sexuality. - Making Love
In order to cheer themselves up, all the lead characters of the novel decide to go and enjoy at a night club. - One Night @ the Call Center
The second half of the novel is more action-packed, featuring conflicts with pirates, fighting between the native Polynesians, and the conversion efforts of Christian missionaries. - The Coral Island
About ten years later, the now-grown Heathcliff and Cathy (Merle Oberon) have fallen in love and are meeting secretly on Peniston Crag (because of censorship, their relationship in the film is kept strictly platonic in spite of the fact that they do kiss, while in the novel it is implied that their relationship was romantic). - Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
The novel focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the train as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Istanbul (though Greene uses the old name for the city, Constantinople). - Stamboul Train
The novel begins in the late Cretaceous, with a herd of Shantungosaurus being attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex on a shoreline. - Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror
The novel is set in present-day West Virginia. - Missing May
Several months later Port Isaac's residents watch a television special in the pub, detailing Grace's "mysterious" transition from an "unknown widow" to an overnight millionaire after the success of her marijuana-themed novel Joint Venture. - Saving Grace (2000 film)
Both the world Balimul in the first half of the novel and the world Lyshriol in the second half fall into the lost colony genre of literature in science fiction. - The Quantum Rose
Quine, once hailed as one of the original literary rebels—presented as the literary world's version of music's punk rock scene—has struggled for years to recreate the success of his original novel and has fallen out of public view. - The Silkworm
The novel is set in the reasonably near future. - This Other Eden (novel)
(Aunt Eva said that they changed their names when they got to America) The epilogue at the end of the novel reveals that when the camp was liberated, the survivors were Gitl (weighing a mere seventy-three pounds), Yitzchak, Rivka, and Leye (a worker in the camp) and her baby. - The Devil's Arithmetic
The plural you ("voi") which punctuates like a returning counterpoint all of the initial part of the novel is much different from the "tu" of Eugenio Montale, which is almost always charged with desperate expectations or improbable alternatives to existence; it represents, rather, the barrier of the conformist conceptions which the lengthy ratiociations of Vitangelo nullify with the overwhelming evidence of implacable reflections. - One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
The novel ends with Ranger approaching Stephanie in her apartment, reminding her that they have "unfinished business" - specifically, she promised to spend a night with him if he helped her capture DeChooch. - Seven Up (novel)
The novel ends without saying who she called. - High Five (novel)
A famous episode in the earlier version of the novel narrates the state of mind of General Samsonov, the Russian commander, after his disastrous defeat in what came to be known as the Battle of Tannenberg. - August 1914 (novel)
The conclusion may sound familiar to some as Higgins has obviously taken some ideas (especially the ones regarding the shipwreck) from an earlier novel he wrote called 'A Game For Heroes', in which German soldiers and British citizens try to rescue the crew of a ship that has foundered off the coast of the Jersey islands. - Storm Warning (Higgins novel)
The novel continues by elaborating on the colonization of the area by humans and their subsequent development from nomadic bands into complex civilizations with fine crafts, politics, and warfare. - Grendel (novel)
The novel is split into three parts. - Life & Times of Michael K
Another daughter, whom everyone in the novel refers to as Darling Jill, is unmarried. - God's Little Acre
While in hiding, they discuss Raven's murder of the government minister; Raven also talks to Anne about his childhood and the difficult circumstances in which he discovered his mother's suicide—details that will anticipate Raven's own death and the imagery the novel utilizes to depict his final moments. - A Gun for Sale
This novel takes place firmly within the "Steinbeck country" of California's Central Valley (although the three primary locations described are all fictional): most of the narrative occurs at Rebel Corners, a crossroads 42 miles south of a San Ysidro, California that is described as being north of Los Angeles. - The Wayward Bus
Nafisi's student mr Nyazi puts the novel on trial, claiming that it condones adultery. - Reading Lolita in Tehran
The graphic novel alternates between the two different worlds of Claudio the Writer and Claudio the Character, which can be confusing for one unacquainted with the concept as the Writer and Character are similar in appearance. - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (comics)
(The events prior to the prologue are later explained in the Good Apollo graphic novel as the incineration of Longicinda, a defunct IRO-bot creation of Jesse's. - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (comics)
The book consists of three short stories occurring each in a different timeframe, and are all related to the Ring universe: Floating Coffin – This covers the last moments of character Mai Takano's life, which were omitted in the second novel of the series, Rasen (published in the United States of America and United Kingdom under the title Spiral). - Birthday (short story collection)
The novel tells of the harsh realities of life in Ancient Rome, not only for the nobilitas but also for the slave population, who revolt and kill Gaius's father during a siege of the Caesar estate. - The Gates of Rome
The novel tells the story of impoverished, embarrassment-prone Archibald "Archie" Moffam (pronounced "Moom") and his difficult relationship with his art-collecting, hotel-owning, millionaire father-in-law Daniel Brewster, who is the father of Archie's new bride Lucille. - Indiscretions of Archie
The first act of the novel introduces Calvin Dexter, the main character of the story. - Avenger (Forsyth novel)
From when Danielle tells Natalie that the death of Bill Peschel has been confirmed by police as a homicide up until Stottlemeyer is arrested, the novel continues to follow Natalie and Monk with Natalie narrating, but also follows a third-person narrated subplot that pursues Lieutenant Disher. - Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop
Based on the novel of the same name by Alan Marshall, the film is set in the early 1900s in the Outback, centering around a young Alan Marshall and the people in his town. - Hammers Over the Anvil
Semmler, having sold the Toscana to its captain, died while on another mercenary operation in Africa and Langarotti's fate is ambiguous; the novel tells only that after he took his pay, he was last heard of going to train a new group of Hutu partisans in Burundi against Michel Micombero, telling Shannon "It's not really the money. - The Dogs of War (novel)
The novel recaps Penelope's life in hindsight from 21st century Hades; she recalls her family life in Sparta, her marriage to Odysseus, her dealing with suitors during his absence, and the aftermath of Odysseus' return. - The Penelopiad
The novel also periodically shifts to describe the perspective of Kurj, a Primary (top ranking) Jagernaut (most feared warriors of the Skolian Empire) and grandson of the ruling couple of Skolian Empire, Pharaoh Lahaylia and Imperator Jarac. - Skyfall (novel)
The novel takes place about 25 years after the events in the previous novel, Skyfall (novel). - Schism (novel)
Before the man in black reaches the top of the cliff, a flashback of Inigo's past in the novel reveals that he is seeking revenge on a six-fingered man who killed his father. - The Princess Bride
(His first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac". - McTeague
The tone of the novel was also changed somewhat; instead of Christie's trademark suspense and underlying darkness, the film relied heavily on light, even whimsical comedy of manners. - Murder, She Said
Apart from a brief prologue, the novel begins as the second generation of people born on Selene approach adulthood. - Building Harlequin's Moon
This book picks up where the story Take Another Road from the novel Tales from Margaritaville left off. - A Salty Piece of Land
The novel ends with the TARDIS crew jumping forward several weeks to Das's wedding. - Only Human (Doctor Who)
In another sense, however, the main characters of the novel are the people as a collective and the railroad itself. - God's Bits of Wood
Yossarian survives an attempt on his life when an unknown assailant stabs him (in the novel it was "Nately's whore," and in the director's commentary Nichols says he regrets not making this clear in the film): the murder attempt is shown in the film's start and ending. - Catch-22 (film)
The second part of the novel deals primarily with the question of intervention. - A Woman of the Iron People
The novel is about Pine's preoccupation with undoing Roper's criminal enterprise. - The Night Manager
The novel is set in the 11th century at the fortress of Alamut (), which was seized by the leader of the Ismailis, Hassan-i Sabbah or Sayyiduna (سیدنا, "Our Master"). - Alamut (Bartol novel)
The novel presents itself as the diary of Mademoiselle Célestine, a chambermaid. - The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel)
The novel has been seen as an invitation to a party without end, where the main character comes to see the world as a bottomless pit of debauchery, which she relishes. - ¡Que viva la música!
The novel is about Kathryn Lyons, whose husband, Jack Lyons, dies in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Malin Head, Ireland. - The Pilot's Wife
Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a 15-year-old white girl, who is the daughter of the town prostitute and an unknown father. - Mother of Pearl (novel)
This novel opens with Novalee and Willy Jack, her then boyfriend, traveling from Tennessee to California. - Where the Heart Is (novel)
The novel ends with her being the only one to see a whale breach the ocean symbolizing her newfound peace. - She's Come Undone
A novel set in a small town in Vermont in 1960 offers the story of lonely and vulnerable Marie Fermoyle, her three children, and a dangerous con man. - Songs in Ordinary Time
The Man of Feeling details the fragmentary episodes of the life of Harley which exist within the remains of a manuscript traded to the initial narrator of the novel by a priest. - The Man of Feeling
First original Buffy novel not to feature Sarah Michelle Gellar on the cover. - Unnatural Selection (Buffy novel)
In both segments, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the lead roles, but in line with John Fowles' source novel having multiple endings, the two otherwise parallel stories have different outcomes. - The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)
The novel tells the story of Christopher Chant's childhood. - The Lives of Christopher Chant
The main setting of the novel is the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths of some ambiguous and unnamed city. - All the Names
The novel begins with seven characters flying to Ocanara Army Air Base, Florida, after a daylong visit to Sellers Field, Mississippi, aboard an AT-7 navigation trainer. - Guard of Honor
Steinbeck revisited these characters and this milieu nine years later in his novel Sweet Thursday. - Cannery Row (novel)
A Nosferatu: Plague of Terror compilation in graphic novel format was released by Millennial Concepts in October, 2009. - Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
The novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut. - I Know This Much Is True
Clayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine, has just landed a graphic novel deal in Boston when "The Pulse", a signal sent out over the global cell phone network, suddenly turns every cell phone user into a mindless zombie-like killer. - Cell (novel)
The two cats pursuing Speedy in Cat-Tails for Two are the slow-witted (and injury-causing) Benny and the fully functioning but unfortunate George, both patterned after the characters Lennie and George in the novel Of Mice and Men. - Cat-Tails for Two
As stated in Alba Meira's private novel by Akihiko Ureshino on the official KOF Maximum Impact 2 site (which serves as an official follow up to the story of KOF Maximum Impact 2), Alba was in fact the one who defeated Jivatma and Luise. - KOF: Maximum Impact 2
The novel ends as global armament talks break down and a USM spy ring is discovered in the CNA. - For Want of a Nail (novel)
The book's plot is similar to that of a Victorian romance – specifically, Anthony Trollope's novel Framley Parsonage – with the obvious difference that the protagonists are not human beings but dragons. - Tooth and Claw (novel)
The graphic novel ends with the tribe shamek Jugarjuk commenting that now Armageddon has the Wheeldebeasts as well as his own Mekaka he will indeed control the world. - Metalzoic
At the end of the novel it is reported that the computer ceased to communicate, which might mean it went on to explore higher intellectual levels, or that it failed to do so and became autistic in the process. - Golem XIV
This novel continues the situation on the planet Kingdom from the previous novel, Kingdom's Fury. - Lazarus Rising (novel)
The tone of the novel (as well as the rest of the series) is humorous to the point of parody and pokes fun at many of the period's mores and stereotypes, as well as the sensationalist novels popular at the time. - Crocodile on the Sandbank
The novel features the story of Dray Prescot, an English sailor of Lord Nelson's navy, and his miraculous teleportation to the planet Kregen. - Transit to Scorpio
The novel, set in the Thumb area of Michigan, tells the story of a young thief named Jack Ryan who gets a new shot at life with the help of a justice of the peace named mr Majestyk (Leonard later wrote a novel called mr Majestyk, with a title character that is completely unrelated to the character of the same name in The Big Bounce), who hires Jack to work at his beach resort. - The Big Bounce (novel)
Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer (ISBN 978-0967684758) is an original graphic novel published in trade paperback form in 2000. - Astronauts in Trouble
The novel concerns "Lucky" Jack Waley, a computer salesman and conman unfortunate enough to be aboard the starship Bucentaure when the engine blows. - To Outrun Doomsday
The novel tells the story of three people: a middle aged woman yearning to become a musician, a ghostly violinist, and the ghost of Beethoven. - Violin (novel)
The novel revolves around numerous schemes to kidnap the boy, for various ends. - The Little Nugget
The novel follows the life of the Jewish protagonist Jacob Heym in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland during the German occupation of World War II. - Jacob the Liar
His friend Hal had read and was so impressed by Nick Lang's manuscript that he decided to kill Nick and steal the novel for himself. - D.O.A. (1988 film)
At this dramatic juncture, the part of the novel that James wrote in 1900 breaks off. - The Sense of the Past
At this point the novel breaks off. - The Ivory Tower
The novel begins in a near future world of ray guns and robots, but ends up marching all over time. - Cycle of Nemesis
Though this novel bears some thematic similarities to Bulmer's later Keys to the Dimensions series, it is otherwise unrelated. - Land Beyond the Map
The novel closes with his father sobbing in the kitchen whilst the mother scrubs his feet. - Conversations in Sicily
The first novel is told from the first-person perspective and is told by a diver living in a run-down apartment in st Petersburg. - Labyrinth of Reflections
While some people believe the show is based on the novel The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, which was written in 2004, it is in fact based in the world of the 1996 movie Beautiful Girls which also takes place in the fictional small town of Knights Ridge. - October Road
This novel tells about Karl-Oskar and Kristina in their late life and eventual death. - The Last Letter Home
This novel describes the journey of the Emigrants from New York City, New York to Taylors Falls, Minnesota. - Unto a Good Land
The first part of the novel describes the hardships faced by rural families in Sweden. - The Emigrants (Moberg novel)
The novel is about a young girl working at the home of dr Henry Jekyll who falls in love with her master. - Mary Reilly (novel)
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. - You Can't Go Home Again
The novel is introduced by a scene of extreme degeneracy in a London hotel room, followed by the narrator's description of a dreamlike encounter with 'the Commendatore' (English: "the Commander"), who in the Don Juan myth is the father of one of Don Juan's victims, and whose statue returns at the end of the story to drag Don Juan down to hell for his sins. - Blue of Noon
The novel is written episodically and in reverse-chronological order. - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Most of the novel is a dream sequence: while he is anaesthetised for brain surgery, Edwin's anxiety over his wife and the company she keeps turns into a fantasy in which Edwin leaves the hospital and encounters his wife's friends, with whom he has various adventures. - The Doctor Is Sick
The novel takes place in the era of Cromwell and Charles I, but the characters deal with the English Civil War which is coeval with an Industrial Revolution. - A Midsummer Tempest
Warsworn continues from where the first novel ended. - Warsworn
The novel sees Devon's first county coroner, Sir John de Wolfe, investigating the sudden death of a wealthy guild-master and, although he is convinced the death has natural causes, the victim's widow is convinced that her husband has been done to death by an evil spell. - The Witch Hunter (novel)
The novel traces the course of the conflict as both clans endure heavy losses and ultimately bringing Gennosuke and Oboro to face each other on the field of battle. - The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
The novel then fast-forwards ahead thirty years to the Thanksgiving of 1999, Alexander and Tatiana's children are all grown and now have children of their own. - The Summer Garden
The novel opens with the narrative voice of Pearl Louie Brandt, The American-born daughter of a Chinese mother and a Chinese-American father, living in San Jose, California. - The Kitchen God's Wife
La Clé sur la porte is a serious and picturesque novel of today's youth, written by an elder who knew how to commingle. - La Clé sur la porte
The novel begins in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1974 during apartheid. - Burger's Daughter
As the novel opens, Keith Neudecker, a 39-year-old lawyer who works in the World Trade Center, escapes from the building injured slightly and walks to the apartment he previously shared with his son Justin and estranged wife Lianne. - Falling Man (novel)
The novel opens in 1863 and covers about 10 years. - La Joie de vivre
Roughly the first 80 percent of the novel is Sam's reminiscences during a snowstorm about how he came to be in a home made out of a hollowed-out tree, while the remainder of the novel is a traditional linear narrative about what happens after the snowstorm. - My Side of the Mountain
The novel centers around Rod Gallowglass, a SCENT agent, who stumbles across the planet Gramarye. - The Warlock in Spite of Himself
A cavalry battle near the end of the novel takes place on the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, presumably Hummelstown, Pennsylvania and Hershey, Pennsylvania. - 1862 (novel)
Buchan's novel opens with the narrator, Sir Edward Leithen, being introduced at a house party to the brilliant physicist and mathematician professor Moe. - The Gap in the Curtain
The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. - The House of the Four Winds
In the second novel in this series it is revealed that Pounce is actually a constellation, not a god. - Terrier (novel)
Set in an American spring camp for boys, Camp High Pines, the novel is written as the diary of thirteen-year-old protagonist Winston Weyn. - The Butterfly Revolution
The novel opens with Cheyenne "Chey" Clarke parachuting into the wilds of Alberta, provisioned with extensive hiking supplies, most of which are immediately lost. - Frostbite (Wellington novel)
The novel ends with a dénouement somewhat similar to Silence of the Lambs. - Fatal Cure
The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called House Arrest, which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining housemates continue the reality television show. - Dead Famous (novel)
As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. - Charlotte Temple
The novel is set in 1957, in the small town of Saitter, Louisiana, where twelve-year-old Tiger Ann Parker lives with her mentally challenged parents. - My Louisiana Sky
Alex Ford from the previous novel reappears, and in the climax Seagraves is killed by a knife thrown at his carotid artery by Stone who turns out to be an ex-CIA killer. - The Collectors (novel)
The novel skips forward several weeks to Theo's tenth birthday. - Awake and Dreaming
(Keefer has written a novel about the war, titled Multitudes, Multitudes, and even though it is still not finished, he has received an advance of one thousand dollars from a publisher) Greenwald looks dejected and far from triumphant, but he reluctantly agrees to attend the party. - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Icefire is an action/science fiction novel about an unknown group using the Ross Ice Shelf to create a soliton wave—much more powerful and destructive than tsunamis caused by seismic displacement—directed into the Pacific Ocean. - Icefire (Reeves-Stevens novel)
The novel is about the dysfunctional Virginian Loftis family. - Lie Down in Darkness (novel)
The novel ends in elegy for lost opportunities, the frontier spirit, and the memory of a native people. - Thirteen Moons
The novel focuses on the adventures of Peter Schock and Kate Dyer in 1763 after being accidentally transported there by an anti-gravity machine while chasing Molly, Kate's dog. - Gideon the Cutpurse
When the novel starts Yurkovsky and Grisha Bykov - Bykov's son - and Dauge say goodbye to Bykov senior and leave on a mission from international spaceport Mirza-Charle. - Space Apprentice
The Abortion is a genre novel parody concerning the librarian of a very unusual California library which accepts books in any form and from anyone who wishes to drop one off at the library—children submit tales told in crayon about their toys; teenagers tell tales of angst and old people drop by with their memoirs—described as "the unwanted, the lyrical and haunted volumes of American writing" in the novel. - The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
The novel ends at this point. - Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
The novel is set in the period between Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night. - Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
The novel is a meditation on the effects of modernity upon the individual's perception of the world. - Slowness (novel)
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn's arrival at her lodging-house. - Take a Girl Like You
The novel is set on the Waller plantation in the Southern United States in the 1850s. - Nightjohn
Polly begins narrating the novel just as she arrives in Greece. - A House Like a Lotus
The novel centers on the experience of Etsuko, a woman who has moved into the house of her in-laws following the death of her husband Ryosuke from typhoid. - Thirst for Love
Kirn's novel tells the story of Justin Cobb, a Minnesota teenager whose family experiences a broad spectrum of dysfunction. - Thumbsucker (novel)
It is about – like the whole novel – the relation between Konrad and Magda, between man and woman, between womanhood and manhood. - Zündels Abgang
The novel then describes the author's travels between the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers, a trip of over 1500 miles. - Mad White Giant
The novel features Twig, an imaginative little city girl who turns a tomato can into a house for fairies. - Twig (novel)
Though only four issues of Squalor were published, Stefan Petrucha later returned to the concept of A-Time in the TimeTripper novel series. - Squalor (comics)
Joshua's conceited brother-in-law assumes a pivotal role in the novel as it is revealed that he is insecure and vulnerable. - Joshua Then and Now
Joshua's conceited brother-in-law assumes a pivotal role in the novel as it is revealed that he is insecure and vulnerable. - Joshua Then and Now (film)
The novel is primarily epistolary, and its story unfolds via letters written by Horatio to his friendD, an MP. - The Wild Irish Girl
The novel takes place in the years 1859-1861 in Holstein, five years before the German-Danish War, at a time when Holstein was governed by Denmark. - Irretrievable
The novel closes with Morning Glory's declared intention to continue her investigations into American life by taking a job as a domestic servant, thus preparing the way for a sequel. - The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
The senior crew plays through the novel one by one. - Author, Author (Star Trek: Voyager)
The novel is darkly satirical. - Under the Skin (novel)
The culture featured in the novel is based on the culture portrayed in the last chapter of Accelerando, "Survivor" (full chapter here). - Glasshouse (novel)
Over the course of the series Richard discovers that his novel is not the fiction he thought it was. - The Blackburne Covenant
A brother to the Doctor was previously mentioned in the spin-off New Adventure novel Tears of the Oracle by Justin Richards, which was edited by Simon Winstone, script editor for this episode. - Smith and Jones (Doctor Who)
The novel is set in the late nineteenth century, during the British Raj, and follows the adventures of a Rajput prince who is heir to a fictional kingdom based in Deori (roughly comparable to modern Chhattisgarh). - The Venus of Konpara
Later in the year Pamela leaves Trapnel and in doing so throws the precious manuscript of his novel into the nearby canal. - Books Do Furnish a Room
The narrator (ostensibly Strindberg, although his narrative variably coheres with and diverges from historical truth), spends most of the novel in Paris, isolated from his wife (Frida Uhl), children, and friends. - Inferno (Strindberg novel)
The novel follows the young Fergus O'Brien, who lives and works with his tenant family on a potato farm in Ireland. - The Law of Dreams
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Childe Morgan
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - In the King's Service
The novel tells the story of Robert Merivel, a 17th-century English physician. - Restoration (Tremain novel)
The novel describes the adventures of a pilot who loses his way and comes to a world inhabited by intelligent beings that consist of inorganic materials (thus having a superficial similarity to robots). - Voyage to Faremido
As the novel ends, the traveller highlights Hari and his sister's resolve to adapt and change in this growing and ever developing world. - The Village by the Sea
The novel is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh's earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and Black Mischief. - Put Out More Flags
Hoban's second novel for adults, Kleinzeit is a story detailing the eponymous title character's brush with illness and creativity. - Kleinzeit
The novel is set against the backdrop of a fictional Australian bush town, Angel Rock, during the late 1960s. - Angel Rock
Inspired by the original novel byG. - The Invisible Man (1975 TV series)
Rav Kirshner dies mid-way through the novel and Rabbi Isaiah launches a vigorous crackdown on perceived laxities within the sect. - Kaaterskill Falls (novel)
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - King Kelson's Bride
Fly Away Peter is an Australian novel set before and during the First World War. - Fly Away Peter
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - The Bastard Prince
Thanks to the increasing power of the Net sentient 'ghosts' of media images have crossed from Earth 2 to Earth 1, and the novel follows the affair between human Tarquin and Dahlia Chan, their efforts to rescue Jaruwan and their ultimate quest for the freedom of mythical Cythera. - Cythera (novel)
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - King Javan's Year
The novel alternates between present-day Orkney and the 1930s in the dying days of the British Empire in Penang, British Malaya in South East Asia. - In Another Light
" The novel is based around a set of antique plates that the young woman brings with her, depicting the Border Ballads, "Twa Corbies" and "Barbara Allen". - When They Lay Bare
The novel sees the return of Wendy Darling, her brother John, and Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, the Twins and Curly, who were once Peter Pan's Lost Boys and were adopted by Mr and Mrs Darling at the end of Peter and Wendy. - Peter Pan in Scarlet
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - The Harrowing of Gwynedd
The novel tells the story of Laura Clayborne, a successful journalist, the wife of a stockbroker and mother-to-be. - Mine (novel)
The date set in the novel is given as June 7, Wednesday, which makes the year 1933. - Fer-de-Lance (novel)
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - The Quest for Saint Camber
The rest of the novel is Kiera's story, seemingly without the omissions she makes to Cawti. - Orca (novel)
A purpose of the novel was to expose, without censure, the errors of early trades unions. - Put Yourself in His Place
There are similarities, however, as Shibamoto is responsible for the novel illustrations, while Kiyo Kujō based his work in the manga on Shibamoto's original designs. - Trinity Blood
Running through the novel as a foil to the main narrative is the botanist's obsession with an unhappy love affair back on Earth. - A Modern Utopia
The novel ends with Jamie kissing Charlie and Jo and Charlie agreeing on Mark and Robin coming for Christmas. - The Lottie Project
The novel is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of the adolescent girl Maud Ruthyn, an heiress living with her sombre, reclusive father Austin Ruthyn in their mansion at Knowl. - Uncle Silas
This is also a nod to a passionate conversation held by Mendoza and the first incarnation of the Adonai (Nicholas Harpole) during the 'first' novel of The Company stories, In the Garden of Iden. - The Machine's Child
The novel concerns a man named Corky Withers, a shy, odd-tempered and alcoholic magician, whose lackluster performances start to turn around when he adds a foul-mouthed ventriloquist's dummy, Fats, to the show. - Magic (novel)
The novel begins in England during the Age of Enlightenment but long before the days of Darwin and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. - Sacred Hunger
The novel tells the story of Shori, a 53-year-old member of the Ina species, who appears to be a ten-year-old African-American girl. - Fledgling (novel)
The novel consists of their dialogues in a hotel room in Washington,C, in May 2004. - Checkpoint (novel)
In Chapters 2, 3, and 4 we become acquainted with Marie, Nector, and Lulu (the love triangle the novel is centered on) as young adults in and around the year 1934. - Love Medicine
The novel follows his later quests, his friendship with Pirithoos, and his liaison with Hippolyta and marriage to Phaedra. - The Bull from the Sea
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - The King's Justice
The novel takes place in the final years of the Second Empire. - La Terre
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - The Bishop's Heir
The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese. - Peony (novel)
The first half of the novel focuses on the actions of Lucius Cornelius Sulla: his return to Italy in 83 BCE from war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, his successful civil war against the forces of Gnaeus Papirius Carbo and Gaius Marius the Younger, and his accession to the Dictatorship and subsequent constitutional reforms. - Fortune's Favourites
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Camber the Heretic
The novel is set in a small town in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th Century. - Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
As the novel ends, having assaulted his children’s babysitter, Fochs sinks to further level of depravity and starts a cycle of incest with his eldest daughter. - Father of Lies
The novel leaps forward twenty years, to focus on an adult Hope, on business excursion to the Uplands, trying to secure an investment for a mining project on Mercury. - Gradisil
The novel explores the motivations of their warfare, and the viewpoints of the two narrators illuminate a dreadful, entwined inevitability. - Salt (novel)
The third novel in the Uglies series begins two months after events in Pretties, when Tally Youngblood has become a member of an elite group of "Specials" - surgically enhanced super-humans - called the Cutters. - Specials (novel)
During the course of the novel Landry gradually discovers that it was Kennedy who sought to prevent the crisis over Cuba from escalating into war, and that last-minute attempts to achieve a deal with Nikita Khrushchev to end the crisis were deliberately sabotaged by Curtis and other generals. - Resurrection Day
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Saint Camber
Wanting to focus on more serious stories, he writes a manuscript for a new novel that he hopes will launch his post-Misery career. - Misery (film)
He has stated that he intended to have Hadon's son emigrate to the south in the wake of the catastrophe that would ultimately destroy the Khokarsan civilization in which the series is set, there to found the city of Kor that would afterward become the setting of Rider Haggard's classic fantasy novel She. - Flight to Opar
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Camber of Culdi (novel)
The novel picks up soon after where Tarzan of the Apes left off. - The Return of Tarzan
But the novel ends without revealing what was in his pocket, leaving the reader to wonder if the stranger was a CIA agent, possibly there to kill Chigge, or if Chigge, in collusion with the waiter from the cafe, had planned all along to do harm to the American. - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The "editor" of the entire volume concludes the novel by supporting Bradley's account and praising his devotion to love as an all-empowering force. - The Black Prince (novel)
The novel covers at length his solo life in the mountain, and in his cave, which is treated much more briefly in the film, and in the novel he becomes accustomed to living almost in a torpor with no other beings around. - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - High Deryni
The novel focuses on the young life of Duddy Kravitz, a poor Jewish boy raised in Montreal, Quebec. - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel)
A number of Edgar's paintings play significant roles in the novel and are described in great detail, both in their creation and how they look, beginning with his very first extensive drawing upon arrival at Big Pink, a ghostly picture of a ship on the sunset titled Hello. - Duma Key
The novel opens with a small rural community struggling for survival on the border of Lake Superior. - The Genocides
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Deryni Checkmate
The novel is set in the land of Gwynedd, one of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms. - Deryni Rising
(Antonella Gambotto, The Pure Weight Of The Heart, blurb, Orion Publishing 1998) The novel is divided into three volumes, and the title of each volume directly refers to its main theme: Book One: Grief is a Sphere, which details her childhood, adolescence and reaction to her father's murder. - The Pure Weight of the Heart
The novel has had some influence on the literary community, leaving the label "lad-lit" behind. - A Kind of Loving
The headmistress, the deputy head teacher (visual novel only), Mizuho's homeroom teacher Hisako Kajiura and Mariya Mikado initially know his secret; Shion Jujo and Ichiko Takashima also eventually find this out. - Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
The novel begins as life is seemingly returning to normal for the Jarretts of Lake Forest, Illinois, in September 1975. - Ordinary People (novel)
"This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't". - Next (novel)
Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a best-seller. - Brooklyn Boy
The novel deals with the expedition of Hadon, a young Oparian warrior, to the Wild Lands and as far as the mysterious Ringing Sea, which would one day be called the Mediterranean, with the strange woman whom he meets and brings with him, and with the cataclysmic civil war which breaks out on his return and which he partly (and completely unintentionally) helps touch off. - Hadon of Ancient Opar
The second half of the novel is told from Achimas' point of view and recounts his life story, up to the plot to kill Sobolev and the investigation. - The Death of Achilles
Successive sections of the novel focus on John's earlier trip through Eastern Europe, Delany's previous summer in Alaska, Brian's life after college, Bridgette's earlier road trip through Utah, Dave's ascent of Denali, and a tragic accident that illuminates their lives. - Comfort Food (novel)
Set in 1818, the story is a sequel to the events seen in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. - Mr. Darcy's Daughters
The final stretch of the novel involves Dirk trying to hide the treasure from Yazid and his brother Topiltzin. - Treasure (Cussler novel)
It soon emerges that Blackadder resents Johnson for apparently ignoring his novel Edmund: A Butler's Tale which, under the pseudonym of "Gertrude Perkins"; he had secretly sent to Johnson in the hope that he would get it published. - Ink and Incapability
The novel follows George Hall, a 57-year-old hypochondriac, and his family following George's retirement from a career manufacturing playground equipment. - A Spot of Bother
The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads. - Maigret at the Crossroads
In the novel Nancy and her friends along with her father head to Scotland on family business and to solve the mystery of the missing heirloom. - The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
Before the novel ends, Wilma tells a kid boarding the bus to help the old lady on the bus, because "it will be worth it". - The Wish (novel)
The novel ends with Luke and Geri together in LA, and Scott and Jen in a relationship as well. - Teen Idol (novel)
The novel is set in the 1960s in Batavia, New York. - The Sunlight Dialogues
The novel follows the story of four families over a period of 18 months, and centres on mrs Rupa Mehra's efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a "suitable boy". - A Suitable Boy
The novel is set in the northern Manitoban forests and in the Barrens to the north. - Curse of the Viking Grave
Winslow's novel describes three decades of the United States war on drugs by following several main characters: The DEA agent Art Keller, Adán Barrera, who controls large parts of the drug trade from Mexico to the United States of America, the prostitute Nora Hayden and Sean Callan, a gangster from the streets of New York. - The Power of the Dog
De Camp later made the war itself the subject of his novel Conan the Liberator, co-written with Lin Carter. - Conan the Usurper
The game story is freely based on the sci-fi novel The Last Day of Creation (1981) by Wolfgang Jeschke. - Original War
The book is presented as a translation of an ancient Greek novel published in Athens just after the Peloponnesian War, complete with the extensive footnotes from the scholar performing the translation. - The Athenian Murders
The novel explores the personal freedoms of the late 1960s, including casual drug use, draft evasion, and homosexuality, and beyond that, to incest. - The Season of the Witch
This novel introduces readers with the situation that arises when two vastly different centuries collide and highlights the changing roles of women. - Both Sides of Time
This novel is surprisingly frank about the subject, especially for a comedy of manners published in 1958. - A Glass of Blessings
The novel is divided into three sections. - Soldiers of Salamis
The novel begins with Ben Holiday, a trial lawyer from Chicago, lamenting the loss of his wife and unborn child in a car accident. - Magic Kingdom for Sale–Sold!
It is the first novel featuring Capt. - Death in Winter
The family provides the novel with its structure, since the plot is concerned with the lives and interrelationships of its members. - Palace Walk
The novel concerns the rivalry of two men: Valentine Bulmer, the Earl of Etherington, and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel. - Saint Ronan's Well
Chronologically, The Return of Conan falls between Howard's novel The Hour of the Dragon (also known as Conan the Conqueror), and the four short stories collected as Conan of Aquilonia. - The Return of Conan
The first part of the novel deals with the life of the medicine student Andrés Hurtado. - The Tree of Knowledge
The novel opens with a young Russian woman of "progressive" sympathies, Varvara Suvorova, traveling to meet her fiancé Pyotr Yablokov, who has volunteered to fight in the war. - The Turkish Gambit
The novel climaxes with a shootout at the El Mirador Medical Plaza in Palm Springs, in which several major characters are shot and killed. - Three Days to Never
The novel tracks the first year of Keladry's training, during which she is only accepted on a probationary basis. - First Test
The way in which the revolution is triggered, by a group seizing a "terrorist-proof" broadcasting studio to broadcast a message of resistance, has a remarkable resemblance to V's broadcast in the graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982–1988). - Bootleg (TV serial)
The prologue to the novel is Carpentier’s most often quoted text, in which he coins the term lo real maravilloso ("marvellous reality") in reference to seemingly miraculous occurrences in Latin America. - The Kingdom of This World
As the novel opens, Rhapsody and Achmed set out to save children sired by the F'Dor's minion, the Rakshas, from the damnation that carrying the Rakshas's blood (and through it, the F'Dor's) conveys. - Destiny: Child of the Sky
Chapters I – V The novel begins with a description of the families living in and around the district of Rossyeni, the oldest and most powerful of which are the Billeviches. - The Deluge (novel)
The novel intersperses Bluebear’s narrative with excerpts from The Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale, who bacterially transmits it into Bluebear's brain. - The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
The events of the novel take place between 1946 and 1948, primarily on the Near Northwest Side of Chicago. - The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)
Christine "Chris" Ramsey (Phoebe Cates) lies in bed narrating a trashy romance novel to Betsy (Kathleen Wilhoite), her roommate at the Cherryvale Academy for Girls. - Private School (film)
Raptor is an historical novel set in the late fifth and early sixth centuries. - Raptor (novel)
The book resembles a novel in that the stories all have Aram as a hero, are written in the same style, and are placed in a roughly chronological order. - My Name Is Aram
As the novel opens, they languish in ennui because they have no children, and Sosuke has to focus on his career. - The Gate (novel)
He meets one of the newspaper editors (Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair), who agrees to read his novel but declines to publish it as Vishwam does not have many writings to his credit. - Swayamvaram
He formed the aTan company, which quickly became almost as powerful as the Human Empire (as some characters in the novel call it, "an empire within an empire"). - Line of Delirium
Although these two powerful Eastern rulers would eventually declare war on Rome and slaughter thousands of Roman citizens, the plot of the novel centres on the Social War of 91 to 88 BC, a civil war which Rome fought against its mutinous Italian Allies after they were refused full Roman citizenship. - The Grass Crown (novel)
The novel is set against the backdrop of the protests against the recommendations of the Mandal commission, which trigger several acts of self-immolation, and for high school students all this means a disruption of the normal school routine. - Babyji
The novel explores events after the destruction of Earth, from the point of view of two returning starship crews, one entirely made up of men, the other consisting entirely of women. - After Doomsday
An unsigned prologue introduces the reader to 1930s France and sets-up the fiction that the novel tells the true story behind an actual newspaper report of the time. - The Girl at the Lion d'Or
With this realization, the novel concludes with everyone back to normal and Redlaw, like Ebenezer Scrooge, a changed, more loving man. - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
The novel follows her experiences from early childhood to adult life. - Jubilee (novel)
The film includes a blue "nuclear giant" character, very similar to dr Manhattan from the graphic novel Watchmen. - A Is for Atom
The Glass of Time, the follow-up novel to The Meaning of Night, further examines the consequences of Edward Glyver's crime, in a setting twenty years after The Meaning of Night. - The Meaning of Night
Amelia is a domestic novel taking place largely in London during 1733. - Amelia (novel)
This part of the novel is in fact satire, with each insanity of the Behins translating to facets of the Western, Christian society of the protagonist such as war, religion, etiquette, art, and philosophy. - Kazohinia
This mixture of man and machine is known as a cyborg, from which the novel gets its title. - Cyborg (novel)
The novel seeks to explore the worldview and motivations of religious fundamentalists (specifically within Islam), while at the same time dissecting the morals and lifeways of residents of the fictional decaying New Jersey Rust Belt suburb of "New Prospect" (which Updike has identified with Paterson, New Jersey, also the setting of his novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies). - Terrorist (novel)
The novel is about a 15-year-old girl named Darlene Joyce (DJ) Schwenk, who lives on a farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin. - Dairy Queen (novel)
At the climax of the novel Poirot realises that by allowing Carter to persist in his lies he can ensure that the real killer goes free, and wrestles with his conscience. - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel)
The last part of the novel is narrated by Walter and takes place after he has found his new friend Prinz. - Dog Years (novel)
As the novel opens, things are in disarray in the Familias Regnant. - Winning Colors (novel)
The novel opens on 13 May 1876 with a university student, Pyotr Kokorin, committing suicide in the public park in front of a beautiful young noblewoman, Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva. - The Winter Queen (novel)
This novel also touches on the dangerous, destructive nature of gossip, and questions society's inability to accept what is not understood. - The Broken Commandment
The novel describes the working of Bollywood (India's Hindi film industry) and the career of a fictional superstar in this "Showbusiness". - Show Business (novel)
Secondly, the Protestant Reformation did not take place as Martin Luther was reconciled to the Roman Catholic Church and later became Pope Germanian Luther's anti-Semitism may have infected this history to a greater extent during his papacy, as the novel discloses that Jews are forced to seclude themselves and wear yellow stars to advertise their religious and ethnic identity. - The Alteration
The novel begins with the protagonist of the novel 'John Hilliard' in a military hospital, recovering from a wound he received; he briefly speaks to Crawford, a doctor, whom he knows from childhood and greatly dislikes. - Strange Meeting (novel)
As the novel continues Martha's distaste for her husband grows more pronounced, and with it her adoration for Franz. - King, Queen, Knave
He works at a bar the summer after graduation when Two-Brew, now a young executive in his father's publishing house, suggests Chub connect his short stories and pitch them as a book, as a prelude to the novel about his father. - The Color of Light
This novel follows Dragonsdawn and the short story The Dolphin's Bell (short story contained in ) by discussing the present state (Ninth Pass) of the dolphins that were brought to Pern by the colonists. - The Dolphins of Pern
The novel is narrated by Grace Strasser-Mendana, an American expatriate who married into one of the three or four families that dominate Boca Grande politics, the Mendanas. - A Book of Common Prayer
Scattered throughout the novel are passages from Nicholas Dee's scholarly writing, chronicle of a seventeenth century Dutch opera-house, which was built in a coastal swamp on the advice of a fortune-teller and housed a single performance before being swept out to sea in a storm. - The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee
The novel is set in 1878. - Murder on the Leviathan
Picking up two years onwards from the end of Designated Targets, Final Impact is the last novel in the Axis of Time trilogy. - Final Impact
The work is not, and does not pretend to be, an accurate rendition of either Cervantes' life or the novel Don Quixote (for example, Cervantes had no direct contact with the Inquisition at any time in his life), although it draws on both for inspiration and on the latter for characters. - I, Don Quixote
The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland, which has ceased to be a home. - Ignorance (novel)
The story starts in Santa Fe where Matt is trying to live a normal life with Jo Beckman from the previous novel "The Frighteners". - The Threateners
The novel has much intrigue and is typical of Matt Helm style action. - The Frighteners (novel)
This novel is a direct follow-up to The Poisoners. - The Intriguers
The novel itself has seven parts. - Look at the Harlequins!
From this premise, the novel proceeds to present a series of humorous coincidences and improbabilities. - Aiding and Abetting (novel)
Kay has succeeded to a certain extent as an independent woman but has not realised her dreams of novel writing. - Time and the Conways
(This differs from the original novel in which the Saint shoots an accused cop-killer in cold blood after the man walks free from court). - The Saint in New York (film)
Based on the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson, the film is about a wealthy and beautiful woman who follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at a conservatory. - Rhapsody (film)
The novel is separated into three parts, "Winter Kitchen", "Summer Kitchen", and "Oz Circle". - Was (novel)
After this, Megan realizes that mr Auster has not written a novel at all, and that it was all just a ruse to impress her. - Blue Car
The first portion of the novel is an episodic account of their misadventures cruising down the Pichide River, in the Free City of Majbur, and the island kingdom of Zamba. - The Hostage of Zir
The primary plot of the novel is the struggle of Sandrilene fa Toren, a half-Namornese noblewoman, against her cousin, Empress Berenene of Namorn; Sandry had inherited the vast Namornese estate of Landreg from her mother, who had accustomed her to receiving a yearly income from the estate while rarely visiting it. - The Will of the Empress
The novel tells the story of the land that people travel to when they dream, and how a young boy finds courage and strength in fighting, but also in accepting, his own deepest fears and nightmares. - Magic Moon
Sandow was introduced in the novel "Isle of the Dead". - To Die in Italbar
The novel is set at some indeterminate time in a post-nuclear holocaust future, where science and sorcery co-exist and the Dark Empire of Granbretan (Great Britain) is expanding across Europe. - The Jewel in the Skull
The main focus of the novel is the young narrator’s gradual uncovering of a family secret and the effect of this knowledge on him, and on members of his family. - Reading in the Dark
When Arturo finds her, she is about to die and he promises to marry her, but Camilla dies and Arturo writes a novel dedicated to Camilla. - Ask the Dust (film)
On this note the novel ends, with neither the protagonist's possible execution or projected escape recounted, leaving the plot open-ended and providing an obvious opportunity for a sequel. - The Carnelian Cube
The novel follows Brian Oswald, a typical high school outcast, through his sophomore and junior year of Catholic high school. - Hairstyles of the Damned
The novel comes to head as Van is asked to look into the reason a multibillion-dollar pork project spy satellite is failing in space. - The Zenith Angle
" The fates of Borel's new scheme and of Borel himself are revealed in the later Krishna novel The Hostage of Zir. - Perpetual Motion (short story)
The plot is somewhat similar to that of the novel Plutonia (1915) by the Russian palaeontologist Vladimir Obruchev, in which a team of Russian explorers enter the Earth's crust via an Arctic portal (a huge depression in the Earth surface created many millions of years previously by the impact of a giant asteroid, into which prehistoric animals had entered), and follow a river that leads them through a sequence of past geological eras and associated animal life. - Journey to the Beginning of Time
Bruce Bechdel's suicide is discussed with reference to Albert Camus' novel A Happy Death and essay The Myth of Sisyphus. - Fun Home
The novel Letting Go is divided into seven (7) sections: 1. - Letting Go (novel)
The novel is narrated by Jeremy Garnet, an author and old friend of Ukridge. - Love Among the Chickens
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's novel Demons. - The Public Woman
The novel tells the story of two cousins, Jean Taconnat and Marcel Lornans, travelling from Cette, France to Oran, Algeria, with the purpose of enlisting in the 5th regiment of the Chasseurs D'Afrique. - Clovis Dardentor
The novel follows the surreal misadventures of an unnamed protagonist who makes a living as a commercial writer. - Dance Dance Dance (novel)
They adopt a novel way to do it by speaking to Dost Khan and making him say fragments of this sentence without making him realize that it was being done to defuse the bomb. - 16 December (film)
A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. - David Elginbrod
The novel cuts between Walter Toland, a former police officer, and Baal Curran, an angst-ridden teenage girl. - Killobyte
Although she does not do anybody any harm, in the course of the novel Linda is likened to Siberia, described by her husband as a "woman of alabaster", and calls herself "the most sterile woman alive". - Linda Condon
The novel ends with Coop picking up Ellie at the farm to begin their life together. - Plain Truth (novel)
The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. - The Magnificent Ambersons
The novel ends with Paul's father, a hardened, cynical man, seeing a fleeting hope for self-renewal and a purposeful life. - Beyond This Place
This novel is about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. - The Feast of All Saints (novel)
This novel tells the story of an ordinary young Bengali man, Shankar Roy Chaudhary, as he adventures in Africa in the years 1909 and 1910. - Chander Pahar
This is a novel about a woman, Delia Grinstead, who finds her own self-identity and battles with familial relationships. - Ladder of Years
")--the novel tells the story of the tension between the men of Ruby, Oklahoma, (an all-black town founded in 1950) and a group of women who lived in a former convent seventeen miles away. - Paradise (novel)
The novel then proceeds to skip through time in the various sections of the book including his teenage and young adult years, ending when he is in his forties. - Destiny's Road
When introducing the manga Slayers: Knight of Aqualord, Slayers creator and the game's co-writer Hajime Kanzaka described several of the alternative continuities across mediums, mentioning this game as one of them taking place after the first arc of the novel series, namely after the eighth novel. - Slayers (video game)
The novel tells the story of two brothers in the early 1960s: Mitsusaburo, the narrator, a one-eyed, married English professor in Tokyo; and his younger brother Takashi, who has just returned from the US. - The Silent Cry
When her novel The Lost Heir is published, it fascinates London because of the perfect satirization of the members of high society who try to find the identity of author. - Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle
(This is a metaphor for the age of nuclear weapons, as the novel was written two years after atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). - Zotz!
Throughout the novel references are made towards the slow but steady growth of civilization as kingdoms are built, the wilderness is pushed back and it is revealed that even the most lawless places such as Jormsviking will eventually fall under the sway of a king. - The Last Light of the Sun
The novel opens with the excitement of a perfect game in progress. - The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
Even though the novel borders on fantasy, real-life issues are dealt with, namely animal abuse, lost pets, aging, and loneliness. - Keepers (novel)
The novel ends with a suggestion that Nick and Julia may eventually marry, after all. - The Tragic Muse
Set in Canada, Obasan centres on the memories and experiences of Naomi Nakane, a 36-year-old schoolteacher living in the rural Canadian town of Cecil, Alberta, when the novel begins. - Obasan
The final novel reveals the connection between the various objects and the identity of the mysterious gift-giver. - Blackstone Chronicles
The final sentence of the novel shows Verena in tears — not to be her last, James assures us. - The Bostonians
Lindquist's penchant for the truth pays off, for his novel gives us a Seattle we can recognize". - Never Mind Nirvana
The fictional events of this novel allude to the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. - Pale Horse Coming
This is the bestselling coming-of-age novel by Michael Chiang, a semi-fictionalised autobiography and reminiscence of lost youth and boyhood. - Army Daze
The novel picks up several months after the events in the last chapter of Dilvish, the Damned. - The Changing Land
The novel is set in an indeterminate place, most often identified with the Ireland of Beckett's birth. - Molloy (novel)
The novel is set in the Fourlands, a country in danger of being overrun by large hostile Insects, and follows the exploits of Jant, also called "the Messenger" or "Comet". - The Year of Our War
Uncle Fred suggests writing a novel exposing the iniquities of the younger generation. - Cocktail Time
The series, based on a series of novels by Edgar Wallace including a novel named The Four Just Men, presents the adventures of four men who first meet while Allied soldiers in Italy during the Second World War. - The Four Just Men (TV series)
The novel features quotes from the Messiah's Handbook, owned by Shimoda, which Richard later takes as his own. - Illusions (Bach novel)
Le Queux's novel depicts Britain being invaded by coalition forces led by France and Russia, who make several early advances, but the brave English patriots fight on and eventually manage to turn the tide, especially after Germany enters the war on the side of the British. - The Great War in England in 1897
Largely an autobiographical tale, the novel revolves around Timothy "Dildo" Dunphy, a ne'er-do-well from the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which borders Providence. - Outside Providence
's description of then novel reveals similarities and coincidence not only with Sebastian's life, but with's own investigative adventures. - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
The novel starts with a phone call, "Mr McCrindle's fence has gone slack", and sees the three main characters duly dispatched to the scene of Tam and Richie's previous job, which they have left in a hurry. - The Restraint of Beasts
The main character of the novel is Brother Blacktooth "Nimmy" st George, a monk at Leibowitz Abbey. - Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
The main story of the novel is the narrative of the adventures of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a homeward voyage from Tasmania. - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
is a mystery novel in which all eight members of the Robins family are murdered or disappear throughout the story. - Who Killed the Robins Family?
dr Brewster is shown reading the novel "Dracula". - Son of Dracula (1943 film)
She asks Ben Wright, the youngest son and amateur poet who was also present when Anne found the books again, to hide the novel until she would tell him to "surprisingly find" it. - The Body of Jonah Boyd
The novel at heart narrates the history of the Shaposhnikov family and the Battle of Stalingrad. - Life and Fate
As the novel opens, Kris peKym and his cronies are doing an unprecedented and revolutionary thing - they are robbing a bank. - The Dawning Light
The novel is set in the late Ming dynasty. - Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Paul does not like his teacher at first, but by the end of the novel has grown to appreciate him dearly. - Maestro (novel)
The novel ties together three separate narratives using letters and oral accounts: that of Paul's mentor in the 1930s, that of Paul in the 1950s, and that of the narrator herself in the 1970s. - The Historian
Towards the middle of the book the two protagonists go their separate ways and a large section of the novel is given over to “The Notebook”—a chronicle of the Siggy character’s family from pre-World War II, through the occupation of the Soviets, to the late 1960s. - Setting Free the Bears
Graham had been trying to write a novel on the Marsh Arabs for years; however, after seeing the baby otters playing, he takes pen and paper and begins to write about Mij and what the otter has taught him about himself. - Ring of Bright Water (film)
Rogue Squadron (1996) is the first novel in the Star Wars: X-wing series. - Star Wars: X-wing (book series)
The novel is filled with coincidental moments where trouble is avoided because wind catches up at just the right time, or the characters look in just the right direction. - Five Weeks in a Balloon
Kellerman's timing in this novel coincided with news stories about child abuse in child care facilities. - Alex Delaware
The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Reginald Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older "Bishop" Gethryn, a prefect, cricketer and popular figure in the school. - A Prefect's Uncle
The last chapter of the novel is devoted to the successful completion of the screenplay and the narrator's resulting ascent to fame. - Green Shadows, White Whale
Finally, on the roof of a skyscraper in downtown Stockholm, it comes to a showdown with Eriksson, who has lost everything, at which point the novel ends with Martin Beck seriously injured by a gunshot. - The Abominable Man
The novel includes many of the momentous historical personages of the day: Chamberlain, the ailing and pacifist Prime Minister; Churchill, the political outcast, whose pugnacity created opprobrium in the public eye; Joseph Kennedy, theS. - Winston's War
The novel follows the lives of several of the schoolboys as they study, take part in their school sports (particularly boxing and running), and enjoy tea in their studies. - The Pothunters
It describes itself in the text as "a novel about pinball," but also explores themes of loneliness and companionship, purposelessness, and destiny. - Pinball, 1973
As the novel starts, the worst glitch that anyone can remember threatens to destroy her home. - Flux (novel)
The novel recounts the life of a German Holocaust doctor in a disorienting reverse chronology. - Time's Arrow (novel)
The first part of the novel involves two retellings: the story of Liz Dunn’s trip to Europe and her pregnancy, and the story of the re-emergence into her life of her child, Jeremy, who is dying of multiple sclerosis. - Eleanor Rigby (novel)
The novel also traces the scientists' slow progress in understanding the science behind their invention. - The Trigger
The Fifth Doctor meets Victoria (and is appointed her Scientific Advisor) in 1863 in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Empire of Death and she is also involved in the events of the novel Imperial Moon, taking place in 1878, where the Doctor's companion Kamelion poses as Prince Albert to convince her to keep the events of the novel secret. - Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)
The novel is about a pathetic young man named Nikolai Kavalerov, who refuses to accept Communist values and is consumed by loathing and envy for his benefactor Andrei Babichev, a model Soviet citizen who manages a successful sausage factory. - Envy (novel)
The novel focuses on Garrigan's relationship and fascination with the president, who soon grows into a brutal and ruthless dictator. - The Last King of Scotland
The setting of Giles Foden’s novel is historically accurate, and a number of historical figures appear as characters; for example, the Boers arrest a young reporter named Winston Churchill as he struggles to reach the besieged town, and an Indian lawyer-turned-medical volunteer named Mohandas Gandhi becomes more committed to his philosophy of active non-violence. - Ladysmith (novel)
The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America. - Poor White (novel)
The novel deals with the nature of truth and fiction. - The Gift of Stones
As with his previous novels, Richardson prefaced the novel by claiming to be merely the editor, saying, "How such remarkable collections of private letters fell into the editor's hand he hopes the reader will not think it very necessary to enquire". - The History of Sir Charles Grandison
The rest of the book loosely follows the original Phantom of the Opera novel - differing on several points but following the relationship between Erik and the object of his desire, Christine Daae, and switching back and forth between their points of view. - Phantom (Kay novel)
At the end of the novel Johnnie Wrighton proposes to Viola, and Clementine Kemble not only gives her consent but also surprises them by giving them The Old Vicarage as a wedding present. - Oh My Darling Daughter
The novel concerns the coming together of six extraordinary people with strange powers who are able to "blesh" (a portmanteau of "blend" and "mesh") their abilities together. - More Than Human
The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son. - The Centaur
The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. - The Plumed Serpent
The novel starts with Melanie stealing her mother's wedding dress and venturing out in the night into her family's property. - The Magic Toyshop
Sarah also discovers her grandmother might have been the inspiration for mrs Robinson, an infamous character in the novel The Graduate. - Rumor Has It (film)
As the novel progresses and their emergency water supply goes, they end up collecting rainwater. - When the Wind Blows (comics)
The novel begins with the murder of Bill Tanner by Klaus Doberman, a German-South American drug lord. - The Killing Zone
The novel is set in Nethermere (fictional name for real-life Eastwood) and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Laetitia (Lettie) is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. - The White Peacock
Most of the novel is written as dialogues between Charlotte and other residents of Weimar, who give their own opinions on the issue of Goethe's genius. - Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns
In addition, Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit lends several elements to the game, including characters such as the Giant Spiders from Mirkwood. - The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history of Badgery himself, and of many of the characters he meets. - Illywhacker
The main bopper character in the novel is Ralph Numbers, one of Anderson's 12 original robots who was the first to overcome the Asimov priorities to achieve free will. - Ware Tetralogy
The novel shifts to contemporary Paris as Austerlitz seeks out any remaining evidence about the fate of his father. - Austerlitz (novel)
Ballard's 9th novel is set in the year 2114 AD, several generations after an ecological collapse has rendered North America virtually unlivable. - Hello America
The novel tells the story of Hajime, starting from his childhood in a small town in Japan. - South of the Border, West of the Sun
His mother being too busy working on her latest novel to play with him, Thomas goes outside to play outside their canalside home, only to accidentally drown, devastating Rachel and putting a tailspin on her marriage and her ability to finish her latest novel. - Half Light (film)
As the novel closes, he is plotting to liberate the dikta and enable them to regain control of their own destiny. - A World Out of Time
The novel treats the subject of housekeeping, not only in the domestic sense of cleaning, but in the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one's self and family in the face of loss, for the girls experience a series of abandonments as they come of age. - Housekeeping (novel)
Harry abandons Ruth, still missing the feeling he has attempted to grasp during the course of the novel; his fate is uncertain as the novel concludes. - Rabbit, Run
The ending of the novel is a happy one; Vivaldi and Paulo are released from prison, Ellena is reunited with her mother, and Vivaldi and Ellena are joined in marriage, and all the villains have died. - The Italian (novel)
The novel explains that a completely peaceful society like that was doomed in any case, and would have been destroyed soon by the mountain tribe. - Neanderthal (novel)
The novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick "Rory" Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. - The Adventures of Roderick Random
Although a number of narratives and incidents in the novel revolve around Kashmir, the novel opens in Los Angeles. - Shalimar the Clown
The novel takes place between the events of the Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil 1) and City of the Dead (Resident Evil 2) & Nemesis (Resident Evil 3) and centers around Rebecca Chambers. - Resident Evil: Caliban Cove
The novel describes the "Ark Project" of 2160 and the first (and last) contact with Ark Megaforms. - Space Mowgli
The novel provides an analysis of all the political and cultural processes that contributed to the outbreak of World War The last volume, entitled Into the Millennium (The Criminals), is about Ulrich's sister Agathe (who enters the novel at the end of the second book). - The Man Without Qualities
Adrian is shown later in the novel to be touchy on the subject of suicide as a result. - The Liar (novel)
The socio-critical novel portrays the life of Diederich Hessling, a slavish and fanatical admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm II, as an archetype of Wilhelmine Germany. - Der Untertan
The novel then skips ahead to November 1494, more than eighteen months after the marriage. - Romola
The present time in the novel takes place several years later, when Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko become the guardians of their niece, Yasuko, and thus obligated to find a suitable husband for her. - Black Rain (novel)
Cunningham's novel also mirrors mrs Dalloway's stream-of-consciousness narrative style (a style pioneered by Woolf and James Joyce) in which the flowing thoughts and perceptions of protagonists are depicted as they would occur in real life, unfiltered, flitting from one thing to another, and often rather unpredictable. - The Hours (novel)
The novel covers a wide range of topics, including the Doomsday argument, Fermi paradox, genetic engineering, and humanity's extinction. - Manifold: Time
The novel contains two central characters, both fourteen years of age: the first, Aurora Thorpe (rabbit queen), has been forced by her overprotective mother and stepfather to attend the prestigious St Dymphna's Non-Denominational Ladies' College. - Killing Aurora
The novel chronicles Diego's upbringing as well as the origins of his Zorro alter ego. - Zorro (novel)
In the novel Wunderlick's girlfriend Opel passes away from neglect of her health. - Great Jones Street (novel)
As missiles speed towards their targets and the alert goes out, the novel begins its sub-plot: tracking the actions of 'Polar Bear One', a nuclear armed B-52 bomber. - Trinity's Child
The novel starts with a prologue which outlines the early life of Sibylla, the main character's mother. - The Last Samurai (novel)
The novel is set in the Presidency of Bengal at the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. - Nightrunners of Bengal
While the book's copy and most reviews refer to Ibid: A Life as being a novel made up of footnotes, the novel itself identifies them as being endnotes. - Ibid: A Life
Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before. - The Black Dwarf (novel)
The novel fictionalizes Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is troubled by dreams as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905. - Einstein's Dreams
The crowning irony of the novel is that, throughout the story, Bode and Chub are the only ones who know that they are the rightful owners of the second winning ticket; the other characters act from the belief that there is only one winning ticket in their possession, which eventually results in both tickets winding up with JoLayne. - Lucky You (novel)
The novel is about Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris. - A Certain Smile
The novel concerns a doctor who develops a mechanical method of eradicating painful memories from people's brains so that they can feel good about life again. - Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
The novel tells the story of Gack, a man from Giganda. - The Kid from Hell
Upon arrival, she slips away from Haskell and goes to the police, but the desk sergeant, seeing the novel in her hand, assumes she imagined the crime. - Lady on a Train
Each novel chronicles one year in Harry's life during the period from 1991 to 1998. - Harry Potter
While on holiday in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure, Alex Rider runs into the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, who killed Alex's uncle in the first novel Stormbreaker. - Eagle Strike
The novel opens with a physically fit young man standing on a track, watching as "the night joggers" toil around him. - Once a Runner
The novel begins on the planet Veridian III and takes place shortly after the events seen in the motion picture Star Trek Generations. - The Return (Shatner novel)
This short story was expanded five years later into the full-length novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, with a very similar plot, but names and details changed. - Poirot's Early Cases
The novel is set in the United States in 2014, when interracial tensions have passed the breaking point. - The Jagged Orbit
When an enforcer tries to steal a manuscript of Meechum's novel and attempt to kill Holly, Cleve intervenes by killing him. - Best Seller
The audience later learns that the novel was actually created as a form of escapism, providing a coping mechanism for the author, who endured sexual abuse as a child. - Closet Land
The novel is set in 1963, twenty-one years following the end of the alternate World War II and nineteen years after the Race Invasion of Tosev 3. - Colonization: Second Contact
The novel takes place in 1966. - Too Many Magicians
Rather than action or high politics, the novel builds its suspense by focusing on the psychological burdens of the pawns in the game: doubt and paranoia bred by a culture of secrecy, the sophisticated amorality of the men at the top, and above all, loyalties (to whom and what and at what cost. - The Human Factor
The novel describes the struggles and hardships of a Bengali couple who immigrate to the United States to form a life outside of everything they are accustomed to. - The Namesake
This novel is another chapter in the disastrous life of the cyborg botanist Mendoza, recruited by the Company in 16th century Spain, and exiled to the far past. - The Life of the World to Come
The novel is based on Ernest Gann's experiences as a commercial airline pilot. - The High and the Mighty (novel)
The novel explores love, caring for others, redemption, and a gothic tragedy of one woman and the men who love her. - The Rose and the Yew Tree
As the action of this novel opens, Lewis is arriving at Company HQ in Laurel Canyon in 1996. - The Graveyard Game
Martine criticizes his pulp novel work as being unrealistic and corny. - Russian Dolls (film)
The novel picks up a day or so after the events at the conclusion of The Garden of God. - The Gates of Morning
As the novel opens, Mendoza is walking through incessant rain in the hills above old Los Angeles. - Mendoza in Hollywood
Narrated by the main character Ryū, the novel focuses on his small group of young friends in the mid-1970s. - Almost Transparent Blue
The novel tells the story of the Rainbow catastrophe of 2156. - Far Rainbow
At the end of the novel a few years later, Khan sees two men in space suits materialize on the planet's surface. - To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
The novel tells a story of two young men from Earth, Anton and Vadim, who decide to go for a trip to Pandora, but are persuaded rather to travel to an uncharted planet by a mysterious man whom they know as Saul Repnin. - Escape Attempt
Later in the novel the main character's father (an Indian immigrant, a boring bureaucrat living with his family in a grey London suburb) is suddenly discovered by the London high society, that is hungry for exotic distractions, and so he becomes their Buddha-like guru, though he himself does not believe in this role. - The Buddha of Suburbia (novel)
The novel also recounts the history and development of the Manriques, a family of Spanish nobles, and details aspects of life in 15th century Spain. - The Heart of Jade
The first part of the novel describes Negri's assault on the planet, in which he begins the attack in a heavily armed and armored space capsule, which is gradually reduced by the formidable defenses to a ground-attack vehicle, which in turn is slowly degraded until Negri abandons it to continue on foot with hand-held weapons, eventually left only with a stiletto. - Today We Choose Faces
La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel The Possessed. - La Chinoise
The novel covers many cultural and political topics such as overpopulation, birth control, bisexuality and feminism. - Kalki (novel)
The novel begins with Francis, a tomcat, moving to a new neighborhood with his owner. - Felidae (novel)
The organisation was first mentioned in his 1977 novel The Chancellor Manuscript and is also mentioned in his later novel The Bancroft Strategy. - The Icarus Agenda
The novel is also peppered with Adair's reminiscences of his aristocratic childhood in County Galway. - The Conversations at Curlow Creek
This novel is the first in a series about "The Company" and its servants, human and otherwise. - In the Garden of Iden
The novel is set in a dystopic Toronto, Ontario buffeted by a mysterious plague called sturnusemia, which is believed to be carried by starlings. - Headhunter (novel)
The novel follows a group of ten immortals from the ancient past to the distant future. - The Boat of a Million Years
The novel closes with two letters from Inspector Hardcastle to Poirot, telling him police have found all the hard evidence to close the case. - The Clocks
At the end of the novel it is revealed that Osbourne has been the brains behind the Pale Horse organisation; the black magic element was entirely a piece of misdirection on his part, while the murders were really committed by replacing products the victims had named in the CRC survey with poisoned ones. - The Pale Horse
Christie's focus in this novel is upon the psychology of innocence, as the family members struggle with their suspicions of one another. - Ordeal by Innocence
Emory herself is 120 years old at the start of the novel – and only just beginning to show signs of aging – and has been the Councillor for Science for five decades. - Cyteen
The novel is about Conrad, a young boy, who spends each Thursday afternoon with his uncle, mr Ringelhuth. - The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
However, towards the end of their holiday, Muslim extremists commit a terrorist act (eerily similar to the Bali Bombing which occurred after the novel was published) in which Valerie is killed. - Platform (novel)
The novel is primarily written from the perspective of Renisenb, a young widow reacquainting herself with her family when her father Imhotep, a successful but pompous and short-sighted mortuary priest, brings a new "wife", Nofret, into their lives. - Death Comes as the End
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign workers. - The Covenant (novel)
Set in 1955, the novel focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates. - Revolutionary Road
The novel ends with Billy apparently united with his other self. - Eye of Cat
In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie, and Fanny ( in later editions Joe, Beth and Frannie) move to live near a large wood. - The Enchanted Wood (novel)
The plot of the novel hinges on the actions of a modest technical journalist, Keith Stewart, whose life has been focused on the design and engineering of scale-model machinery. - Trustee from the Toolroom
The novel is full of grade-A action and violence perpetrated through criminals, lawmen, Tommy guns, bank robberies, hot cars, all falling against the backdrop of Prohibition. - The Hot Kid
The novel tells the story of Eamon Redmond, a judge in the Irish High Court of the late twentieth century Ireland. - The Heather Blazing
In the afternoon, mrs Peters comes back to her hotel after enjoying a relaxing few hours reading a detective novel in a shady spot only to find that a ransom note has been delivered – her son has been kidnapped and the demand is for ten thousand pounds sterling. - Parker Pyne Investigates
The eleven chapters of the novel are labelled from January 1895 to October 1899 and follow the writer from his failure in the London theatre, with the play Guy Domville, to his seclusion in the town of Rye, East Sussex, where in the following years he rapidly produced several masterpieces. - The Master (novel)
As the novel closes, Talbot is ambivalent about presenting his own journal to his godfather, as he fears it may not show him in the best light. - To the Ends of the Earth
But as the novel is nearing a conclusion, she is suddenly raped by a vicious neighbour in her secluded apartment and her body reverts to being a male again. - Self (novel)
The novel tells the struggle and survival of an abused wife named Paula Spencer. - The Woman Who Walked into Doors
The novel utilizes black humour and McCabe's language is a distorted yet authentic idiom, described by one reviewer as "a souped-up Blarney". - Mondo Desperado
Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of the trans woman Patrick 'Kitten" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. - Breakfast on Pluto
The notion that the universe is dominated by a communications network of superintelligences bears comparison with Olaf Stapledon's 1937 science-fiction novel Star Maker, although Stapledon's advanced civilisations are said to communicate psychically rather than informatically. - Accelerando
The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The novel is set in Ireland in the era of political upheaval between the 1916 Easter Rising and the eventual truce signed with the United Kingdom in 1921, seen through the eyes of young Henry Smart, from his childhood to early twenties. - A Star Called Henry
The new medium of "the wireless" (radio) offers novel ways for politicians to reach the people. - American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
The novel begins shortly after the mysterious disappearance of dr Rowan Mayfair, recently married to contractor Michael Curry. - Lasher
The novel begins as the imperious and ritual-driven servant mr Flay seeks to tell someone new of the birth of an heir to the House of Groan in a remote part of the sprawling castle of Gormenghast. - Titus Groan
The bulk of the novel takes the form of conversations and flashbacks that take place between the two men as they talk over past events while fishing on a lake near Charleston, South Carolina. - Set This House on Fire
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. - Blue Fin
The focus of the novel is the growth of the company Event Horizon, founded by Julia's grandfather Philip Evans. - Mindstar Rising
Betty laboriously types out Zorg's novel and submits it to various publishers. - Betty Blue
At the climax of Firefox, Gant engaged in combat with a second MiG-31; the second novel begins mere moments later, with Gant discovering that his aircraft sustained damage in the dogfight and is losing fuel rapidly. - Firefox Down
He wrote his final science fantasy novel Lord of the Swastika in six weeks in 1953, shortly before dying of cerebral hemorrhage (possibly caused by tertiary syphilis); Lord of the Swastika subsequently wins the Hugo Award and the "colorful uniforms" described therein become a regular feature of cosplayers at science fiction conventions. - The Iron Dream
The novel opens as the family and the victim are introduced through the perspective of Sarah King and dr Gerard, who discuss the behavior of the family. - Appointment with Death
The novel crystallizes around violent incidents involving rioting in the city and an attack by Communist guerillas on a train. - The Virgin Soldiers
From thereon Chancellor is trapped in a violent spiral, not knowing who his enemies are, desperately trying to finish his novel somehow. - The Chancellor Manuscript
The novel places Anna Comnena in the convent where she was exiled by her brother(John) and Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus after her failed attempt to poison him with stolen cough syrup. - Anna of Byzantium (novel)
After Beth's death, Jo assuages her grief by writing a novel entitled My Beth, which she sends to Prof. - Little Women (1949 film)
The plot of the novel circles around the murder of a twelve-year-old girl, Katy Devlin, whose case Rob and his partner Cassie Maddox are assigned to investigate. - In the Woods
The novel is a journey from a stagnant marriage and love to the realization of unseen but ever increasing attraction between two souls. - The Zahir (novel)
Another character in the novel is Red Ginter, who would also be a character in The Fool's Progress. - Jonathan Troy
We are assured in the final chapter that "our present world state, orderly, scientific, and secured," is eventually established, but the novel reverts to the ensuing fortunes of the Smallways family as England relapses into a sort of an agricultural barbaric age. - The War in the Air
The novel then skips forward eight years and over the previous novels in the series to 2004, where Serge is living with his friend Lenny and Lenny's mother while planning a phantasmagoric array of projects, the biggest of which is still to solve the matter of his grandfather's supposed suicide. - Cadillac Beach
Many of the stages are recreations of notable battles present historically or from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, while original creations became more common with the newer installments. - Dynasty Warriors 3
Chapter Twelve: This chapter anticipates the novel Planet of the Apes by more than sixty years. - The Magical Monarch of Mo
Pierre then seizes upon the secret poison vial that Isabel carries and drinks it, and Isabel finishes the remainder, leaving three corpses as the novel ends. - Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
The general concept of the novel is that of describing the leaving of one's childhood dreams behind, and the consequences which come from growing up and having to face life. - O Ateneu
Like Gray's Poor Things the novel takes the form of documentation written by the characters themselves in order to record their experiences for posterity: a Prologue and notes (which make up almost a third of the total text) by "the hero's mother", and the central portion of the book, which is a third person narrative written by its protagonist, Wat Dryhope. - A History Maker
The novel ends with a NASA workshop on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, at which Strabismus drops the creationist/fundamentalist persona he has adopted and joins in the intellectual debate on the inevitability of life elsewhere in the Universe. - Space (novel)
” Most of the characters from the original novel have left the area: Maximilian de Winter died in a car accident before this sequel begins and Colonel Julyan has retired to a quiet life at home. - Rebecca's Tale
The comic tells the story of Frankenstein's monster, who survived the events of Mary Shelley's novel and adopted his creator's name as his own (and earned doctoral degrees). - Doc Frankenstein
The novel begins with the death of a young boy on the fictional Dell Farm estate in an unspecified area of London. - Pigeon English
The novel The Face of the Enemy by David McIntee features a brief look at an alternate version of the Great Intelligence's invasion, this version taking place in the alternate reality visited by the Third Doctor in Inferno, with Britain being aided by the alternate version of the Master. - The Web of Fear
The novel ends, presumably (but not explicitly) with the boys' plan being carried to completion. - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Virgin New Adventures novel Legacy was the first continuation of Peladon's narrative arc in the series' tie-in media. - The Monster of Peladon
The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Quantum Archangel by Craig Hinton is a sequel to this story. - The Time Monster
The Seventh Doctor encounters the other half of the Hakolian war machine that became the Malus in the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Hollow Men. - The Awakening (Doctor Who)
The character of Tobias Vaughn reappears in the Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Original Sin by Andy Lane, in which he meets the Seventh Doctor. - The Invasion (Doctor Who)
Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. - Redgauntlet
Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harry's own affair; as a result, everyone knows about it. - Deconstructing Harry
Much of the rest of the novel is told in flashback, following Stavia's life from childhood to adulthood. - The Gate to Women's Country
The novel describes a world set in the year 2048 after a catastrophe which has fractured the United States into several nations. - The Fifth Sacred Thing
The novel is the story of two friends, Miles and Jack, who go away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single. - Sideways (novel)
The novel ends with a shoot-out and the destruction of the Germans in one of the tidal channels surrounding Cayo Guillermo. - Islands in the Stream (novel)
Somewhat emblematic of the time period of open marriages and different mores, this was the first novel by Blume to directly address adult lives and sexuality. - Wifey (novel)
The novel first touches on racism when, on the train to Florida, Sally meets a black woman traveling with her young sons about Sally's age and her infant daughter whom Sally gets to hold. - Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
The novel tells the story of Riccetto, a street urchin to whom the audience is first introduced during his Confirmation and First Communion. - Ragazzi di vita
The novel describes the reactions of two daughters when their widowed, 84-year-old father Nikolai marries a highly sexual and much younger Ukrainian immigrant, Valentina. - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The novel ends with Louis, the headmaster, feeling that once again he has failed the person in the situation who needed protecting most, Noah. - The Coming Storm
This novel explores the horrific mental and emotional damage these boys go through and how they cope with this trauma. - Edinburgh (novel)
The novel switches among several different timelines which ultimately tie together in the last few chapters. - The Wild Boy
Her newfound popularity is dashed when she inadvertently reveals on a television interview that the antagonist of her novel is based on Sawyer and all of her other life dramas. - Read It and Weep
As the novel concludes, the other scientists, including Malyanov, have been forced to abandon their research, and Vecherovsky remains alone to battle the universe and continue their work. - Definitely Maybe (novel)
In the world of the novel trolls are existing animals instead of mythical creatures, although quite rare. - Not Before Sundown
The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. - Flags in the Dust
The novel is narrated in the first-person from the point of view of Alison Poole, "an ostensibly jaded, cocaine-addled, sexually voracious 20-year-old". - Story of My Life (novel)
The novel ends with a five-verse poem titled "Grief", found behind the fly-leaf of the diary. - The House on the Borderland
While the novel is told by a third-person narrator in strict chronological order, the film uses voice-over narration (the voice of Mildred). - Mildred Pierce (film)
The novel is set earlier in the war than the film, with Allison escaping from the Battle of Corregidor at the time that the Allies are still on the defensive in the Pacific. - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel)
The novel ends with the outbreak of war in 1914, and Franklin deciding to return to the US, leaving the bulk of his fortune in England for his wife and her family. - Mr American
The second half of the novel deals with Flashman's relations with the Emperor and covers the final battle with Napier's forces and their allies, after which Theodore commits suicide. - Flashman on the March
The present novel takes place immediately after Flashman in the Great Game and before Flashman and the Dragon. - Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
The present novel takes place shortly after Flashman's service with John Brown in the United States (detailed in Flashman and the Angel of the Lord). - Flashman and the Dragon
The papers are attributed to him, who has grown from the schoolboy of Thomas Hughes's novel into a well-known and much decorated military hero. - Flashman and the Redskins
It is set in the fictional Duchy of Strackenz, making it the only Flashman novel to be set in a fictitious location. - Royal Flash
The novel is set in British India of the 1940s. - The Day of the Scorpion
In the fifth episode, it becomes apparent that many if not all of these stories are actually the novel the writer has written instead of the history he was supposed to write. - At the Hotel
The novel explores the events in the orc world before the Orcish corruption. - World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde
The next part of his story is told in the novel Madwand. - Changeling (novel)
This science fiction novel takes place in the year 2203, if we take literally the age of 250 years given for a Korean War identity bracelet that is dated 1953. - Wolfbane (novel)
Set in 1919, following the end of World War I, the novel takes place in the wilderness of Northern Ontario and on the battlefields of France and Belgium. - Three Day Road
The Lost Language of Cranes was the second novel by David Leavitt, and deals primarily with the difficulties a young gay man, Philip Benjamin, has in coming out to his parents, Rose and Owen, and with their subsequent reactions. - The Lost Language of Cranes
The novel takes place on the fictional island of Amerigo. - Don't Stop the Carnival (novel)
The future society described in the novel has developed a form of psychological time travel called "mind travel" by which, with the aid of the psychoactive drug CSD (no explanation of this acronym is given, though its mind-altering effects are probably a reference to LSD) can travel in their minds to the distant past. - An Age
The novel closes with him designing the stone marker that will eventually save his life on that desolate future Earth. - Dr. Futurity
The novel begins seven months after Forever Odd. - Brother Odd
The novel ends with an epilogue. - The Husband
The novel centers around Joe Carpenter, a man who lost his wife and two daughters in a plane crash the year prior. - Sole Survivor (novel)
The novel opens with a lunar find by the Apollo 17 astronauts, which is suppressed. - Tyrannosaur Canyon
The novella becomes a novel as Mme Camusot learns of the value of Pons’s art collection and strives to obtain possession of it as the basis of a dowry for her daughter. - Le Cousin Pons
The novel concludes quickly and very dynamically. - Midnight (Koontz novel)
Uhtred provokes Ivarr into single combat and the novel ends with Uhtred winning the duel against Ivarr. - The Lords of the North
In other words, if Wallace's novel dealt with an allegedly obscene, fictional book, they claimed to be the publishers of that very book. - The Seven Minutes
Contradictory hints are scattered throughout the novel which may support both interpretations. - The Unlimited Dream Company
A key feature of the novel is Jacko's recounting of his army days, first as an infantryman who did not see service in World War II (on account of joining up too late), and most importantly, those spent in Korea. - Brother Fish
The novel interweaves the stories of real and fictional characters. - Andersonville (novel)
This novel ends as a cliffhanger. - A Ship of the Line
Much of the novel is set in Baku's Old City (Ichari Shahar) on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution beginning around 1917–1918. - Ali and Nino
This first novel in the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series introduces the main characters as well as establishes relationships that continue and grow throughout the series. - The Silver Pigs
The novel plays with several other dystopian and post-apocalyptic setups. - Amnesia Moon
The novel concerns a young priest, Amaro, who serves as diocesan administrator at Leiria. - O Crime do Padre Amaro
The novel is a satire consisting almost entirely of dialogue and mocking most of the important figures then at Oxford University, with regards to aestheticism and Hellenism. - The New Republic (novel)
Differs dramatically from the novel in chronology - the story is set in2015, while the novel is2175. - Earthlight (short story)
The basic plot of the novel concerns an attorney named Sam Bowden, who caught Max Cady, an illiterate, brutal rapist, in the act. - The Executioners (MacDonald novel)
The prologue of the novel begins with a dramatized account of the second EVA of Apollo 17. - Back to the Moon
Chapters 1 – 6 The novel opens with some wealthy Poles conversing with a knight, Maćko of Bogdaniec, in the Savage Bull inn at Tyniec. - The Knights of the Cross
The movie, based on a novel by Jorge Franco, deals with the life of a beautiful woman involved with the subculture of sicarios, the motorcycle-riding hitmen of the slums of Medellín, Colombia, in the late 1980s-early 1990s. - Rosario Tijeras
Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (following events depicted in the previous novel in the series, Star Healer). - Code Blue – Emergency
At the end, he successfully delivers a sentient telepathic Unborn (seen in the other novel of the series Ambulance Ship) from its violent non-sentient Protector. - Star Healer
The novel also shows Eva visiting Kevin in prison. - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Only those twelve appear in the subsequently adapted visual novel version. - Strawberry Panic!
The same background, with the combination of extreme belligerent action and inhospitable nature pushing protagonists to the edge of endurance and beyond, was already the scene of HMS Ulysses, the first novel (1946) by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. - The Captain (novel)
The novel is based in a future where the majority of the human population live underground. - The Fireclown
The novel accurately reflects Bronson Alcott's principles, notably his belief that boys and girls of all races had a right to education and his wish to follow a vegetarian diet. - March (novel)
His brother Dick, in particular, even though the American involvement has not started, volunteers for ambulance service in Europe, and late in the novel four fateful things come together But few readers today will be able to sustain that attitude: it a moment of consummate sadness, not only for Hilary but for a whole generation of men. - The Bishop's Mantle
The novel tells the story of Pat, a student during her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents, who is accepted as a new tenant at 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town (coordinates: ), and her various roommates and neighbours. - 44 Scotland Street
The novel ends with the imposing memorial completed, Allward all but forgotten, and Klara and Tilman now leading emotionally fulfilling lives with their partners in Canada, having memorialized the people they knew who had been taken by the war. - The Stone Carvers
He never unified the title or fought the very top contenders (as a professional) because of promotional politicsTodd Noy's 1989 novel 'Drago: On Mountains we Stand' chronicles the rise of Ivan Drago after his defeat in Moscow. - Ivan Drago
The novel describes his gradual change of mind. - Second Thoughts (Butor novel)
The novel is about schoolboys in Józsefváros neighbourhood of Budapest and set in 1889. - The Paul Street Boys
The novel features the continued adventure of the heroine Alias and her companion Dragonbait from the novel Azure Bonds and takes place after the events in the Finder's Stone trilogy. - Masquerades (novel)
Hamilton employed the practice of naming each novel after a fictional location within the story for most of the Anita Blake series. - Bloody Bones (novel)
Zhachev, who at the beginning of the novel vowed to kill all of the adults at Nastya's coming of age, refuses to help reconstruct the foundation pit. - The Foundation Pit
The end of the novel posits the query of whether he was actually batty to begin with. - We Can Build You
In the last round, Phil's novel design includes shaving Sandra's head to reveal an old scalp tattoo and applying body paint to her naked, winged body. - Blow Dry
The novel addresses questions of Jones's agenda and trustworthiness as well as the decidedly ambiguous benefits of individual precognition. - The World Jones Made
The novel begins with backstage performance jitters just before a musical performance at Carnegie Hall in New York to be given by a striking young violinist, Jan Tusar and his on-again-off-again girlfriend and piano accompanist, whose father has died a few months earlier in a fall from his office window. - The Broken Vase
The novel of the same name Shyamchi Aai was acclaimed upon release and is autobiographical. - Shyamchi Aai (film)
The novel starts with Cutter's boyhood—he gets a job with the Alan Cobham "National Aviation Day" flying circus, of barnstorming aircraft which take customers up for short joyrides, with other entertainment provided. - Round the Bend (novel)
Hamilton continued the practice of naming the novels after a fictional location within each novel for most of the Anita Blake series. - The Lunatic Cafe
The film is inspired by the novel Uchi Veyyil, written by Indira Parthasarathy. - Marupakkam
The novel begins with Yedigei learning about the death of his longtime friend, Kazangap. - The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
The novel first follows Herbert Bookbinder through the final days of school at New York Public School 50, and then through a summer spent at Camp Manitou, a summer camp in the Berkshire Mountains operated by his school's principal. - City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
The novel opens with the story of Eric, a boy who is a member of a tribe that calls itself "Mankind". - Of Men and Monsters
The novel is a slice of life story, briefly visiting several months of his life as he works as an editor of the weekend edition of the New York City newspaper, Tabloid. - Love Monkey (novel)
There is obviously no twist or surprise ending, as in that case all or at least most of the meticulous police work described in the novel would have to turn out wrong or in vain. - Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)
However, the ballet's divergence from the original novel "derive from intermediary works linking the book and the ballet, which Perrot used to enrich and enhance his theatrical conception". - Ondine, ou La naïade
In this novel the reader meets Andacanavar, a northern ranger from Alpinador. - The Demon Spirit
The novel begins with the introduction of the hero, Chauntecleer, a rooster in command of a company of hens, and the land surrounding his coop. - The Book of the Dun Cow (novel)
The novel opens on Saturday, 2 May 1970, with a seascape off the coast of the Izu Peninsula. - The Decay of the Angel
The novel concerns the life of Georges, the son of a wealthy mulatto plantation owner named Pierre Munier, on Mauritius. - Georges (novel)
The movie follows the plot of the novel of the same name, but adds something at the end: just as Bernard Marx is about to take over the job of Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning and thus replace the disgraced, previous director, Lenina informs him that she is pregnant with his child. - Brave New World (1998 film)
The novel opens in a Confederate military hospital near Raleigh, North Carolina, where Inman is recovering from battle wounds during the American Civil War. - Cold Mountain (novel)
The novel follows Regan as she makes sense of her sister’s decision. - Luna (Peters novel)
In 1921, Hemingway's writing career suffered a setback when his first wife, Hadley, lost a bag containing the manuscript and all the carbon copies of his first novel on a Parisian train. - The Hemingway Hoax
Kitiara has recently left for Solamnia to lead the Dragonarmies in their failed attack against the High Clerist's Tower, which was depicted in the previous novel and resulted in the death of Sturm Brightblade. - Dragons of Spring Dawning
The novel begins with the Companions assembled in the major dwarven city of Thorbardin, where the refugees of Pax Tharkas are presenting the dwarves with the Hammer of Kharas, a legendary warhammer wielded by the dwarven hero Kharas, in return for refuge in the city. - Dragons of Winter Night
This novel is an imaginative reconstruction of the life of a band of Neanderthals. - The Inheritors (Golding novel)
The plot of the novel is fourfold: The goal of the book is the last point, but Goldratt makes it clear that educational systems must change to better accommodate the quickly changing world of business. - Critical Chain (novel)
The novel tells the story of an astronaut, Hal Bregg, who returns to Earth after a 127-year mission to Fomalhaut. - Return from the Stars
The novel is set in the mid-19th century, but flashbacks to the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century, are set in other periods. - The House of the Seven Gables
The novel opens during a Russian Orthodox funeral liturgy, or panikhida, for Yuri's mother, Marya Nikolaevna Zhivago. - Doctor Zhivago (novel)
Kaz the Minotaur is a novel that tells the story of Kaz the minotaur. - Kaz the Minotaur
The novel opens with a mysterious Lady, who, having grown bored with contemplating the Universe, has decided to bring it to an end. - I, Q
The novel opens with a brief history of Vlad Taltos and a description of how he acquired his jhereg familiar, Loiosh. - Jhereg (novel)
The novel deals with the love affair between two boys, together with the internal politics of the school itself. - Lord Dismiss Us
(invoking Nabokov's revised autobiography, Speak, Memory), but also several works of fiction, one of which, a novel called Georgie Boy, becomes a bestseller, allowing her to move from "Stick Around," this novel's disguise for Stay More, the primal setting for all of Harington's novels except his first, The Cherry Pit, to a hotel in Arcaty, the novel's counterpart to the real Arkansas Ozarks town of Eureka Springs. - Ekaterina (novel)
The novel is set in modern times against the background of the legendary Medieval Welsh colonization of Mobile, Alabama under the prince Madoc in the 12th century. - Excalibur (novel)
Split into two parts ('Going Away' and 'Coming Home'), the novel follows the life of a young boy growing up in Calcutta, who is educated in Delhi and then follows with the experiences he has in London. - The Shadow Lines
This novel features the first in-person appearance of Mario Greymist, an assassin of great reputation who is also Aliera's lover. - Dzur (novel)
The novel portrays Mordred as a pawn of fate unlike many tales which paint him as the villain of the Arthurian saga. - The Wicked Day
The novel is divided in two parts, separated by more than 1000 years. - The Land of Foam
The novel is set in the fictional village of Glynmawr in the Black Mountains, a rural area but closely connected to the nearby coal mining valleys of the South Wales coalfield. - Border Country (novel)
The novel is set in the 32nd century, in a communistic Utopian future. - The Magellanic Cloud
The short novel that concludes the work begins in late August 1633 and overlaps many of the shorter works earlier in the book. - 1634: The Ram Rebellion
The novel follows Thomas Landman, an Afrikaner who becomes increasingly radicalised by an unnamed anti-apartheid resistance movement, loosely based on the African National Congress. - An Act of Terror
The novel opens as dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Virginia, receives an early-morning call from Sergeant Pete Marino, a homicide detective at the Richmond Police Department with whom Scarpetta has a tense working relationship. - Postmortem (novel)
Published at the height of the Dreyfus affair, Mirbeau’s novel is a loosely assembled reworking of texts composed at different eras, featuring different styles, and showcasing different characters. - The Torture Garden
Nicholas is working on a novel about a lesbian serial killer, but he makes ends meet by freelancing discreetly for an outrageously exploitative television show which focuses on bizarre and macabre events. - Kika (film)
He decides to write a novel called ‘’Oru Gazzetted Yekshi’’ portraying the life of a corrupt and seditious Municipal Commissioner with an appearance matching Priyadarshini's to take vengeance against her. - Ayal Kadha Ezhuthukayanu
The novel starts after Lady B has died, when her son, the squire mr B, begins to pay Pamela more attention, first giving her his mother's clothes, then trying to seduce her in the Summer House. - Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
This sensuous and vividly imagined novel is about the coming-of-age of an Arabian princess, who is destined to be heiress to the throne of Dhagabad, and her relationship with Hasan, an all-powerful djinn who becomes her slave, teacher and steadfast companion. - The Princess of Dhagabad
The novel begins with the story of Antar, an employee of the LifeWatch organization, who recounts an encounter with Murugan, an employee of LifeWatch who has disappeared in Calcutta. - The Calcutta Chromosome
Most of the novel details various political machinations of the new "United States" and the attempts of Cardinal Richelieu to nullify the threat posed by the technological advantage the up-timers have given to Gustavus Adolphus and his "Confederated Principalities of Europe". - 1633 (novel)
This novel is set in a then-future 2004. - The Zap Gun
The novel is narrated from the point of view of Magda, the white daughter of a widowed farmer in the Karoo semi-desert of the Western Cape. - In the Heart of the Country
Hamilton employed the practice of titling the novels after a location within each novel for most of the books in the series. - Circus of the Damned
The novel is laid out in five sections of ten chapters each, in a deliberate nod to the Catholic Rosary. - The Song of Bernadette (novel)
The events of the novel detail two nearly unrelated plotlines early in 2257, just prior to , the series pilot telefilm. - Babylon 5: The Shadow Within
While alone at the house, John discovers a box of novel and short story manuscripts that his mother wrote in her youth. - Mother (1996 film)
At the end of the novel Robert Silverberg addresses what it means to be human. - The Face of the Waters
The novel takes place over a period of three days. - The Unconsoled
Big Planet had been colonized hundreds of years prior to the start of the novel by misfits, faddists, cultists and anti-government advocates from Earth. - Big Planet
The novel centers on a feisty and smart sixteen-year-old narrator Mathilda "Mattie" Gokey with strong morals. - A Northern Light
While in Biarritz she eavesdrops on a conversation about Jules Verne's novel Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray). - The Green Ray (film)
The novel begins with Silas Lapham being interviewed for a newspaper profile, during which he explains his financial success in the mineral paint business. - The Rise of Silas Lapham
The plan is to slowly poison the boys through their lunches, inspired by the "queen bee" Chloe's obsession with the novel Flowers in the Attic. - Lick the Star
Introduces Jason's relatives who come for a visit, including cool, 15-year-old cousin Hugo Lamb (who reappears in Mitchell's later novel The Bone Clocks), who convinces Jason to try his first cigarette. - Black Swan Green
The novel is divided into 9 chapters. - Number9dream
The novel ends with Wolfe and Archie receiving an unidentified but important visitor, implied to be Edgar Hoover. - The Doorbell Rang
Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. - The Child of the Cavern
Shifting in time, the novel tells the story of Penelope Keeling, the daughter of unconventional parents (an artist father and his much-younger French wife), examining her past and her relationships with her adult children. - The Shell Seekers
The central character of this novel is Savitri, a submissive housewife, who is married to Ramani, an employee of the Engladia Insurance Company. - The Dark Room (Narayan novel)
This novel covers the time from when Arthur Pendragon first becomes king to the time Merlin, now getting on in years, begins to lose his powers and becomes a sort of master spy to assist King Arthur as he begins the task of uniting all of Britain. - The Last Enchantment
The humans notice this novel and very regular feature, conclude that intelligent beings inhabit the star, and use a laser to send simple messages. - Dragon's Egg
The novel ends with Archie confronting Wolfe. - The Silent Speaker
The premise of the book is that Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland was fiction, but that the character Alice is real, as, indeed, is the world of Wonderland. - The Looking Glass Wars
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. - The Morgesons
Hillard (Hilly) Wise gives the novel first-person narration. - Wise Men (Nadler novel)
To the chagrin of his fans and publisher, Cobb plans a novel based on his experiences in Vietnam, instead of another horror story, as a way to purge himself of the horrors that he had experienced while there. - House (1986 film)
A subplot of the novel involves Hopkins' relationship with his family. - Blood on the Moon (novel)
Locke gives Henry a copy of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov. - Maternity Leave (Lost)
The novel consists of a brief prologue and five "episodes" dated 1945, 1952, 1956, 1966, and 1981. - The Assault
He has a close friend, Charles Darke, who published his first novel and who is now a junior Minister in the Cabinet, and the Prime Minister's favourite. - The Child in Time
Several facts through the novel support her belief. - The Taking
Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz, Jr), a young writer, bets $20,000 that he can write a Wuthering Heights-calibre novel in 24 hours. - House of the Long Shadows
Ultimately, however, the entire European affair is revealed to be little more than an enactment of Max's novel in progress. - Princesse Tam-Tam
The novel deals with UFOs and alien abductions, illustrating how the government and military cope with an increasingly intrusive and hostile alien presence. - Operation Thunder Child
The novel is based on the life of Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801) before he became famous under the name Novalis. - The Blue Flower
The novel begins with where Amber and Ashes leaves off. - Amber and Iron
The final novel of The DemonWars Saga brings all of the main players from the previous two books together to combat the evil still residing in the land. - Immortalis
The novel Ascendance begins the tale of Aydrian Wyndon, a tortured and lonely young man raised by the Touel'alfar to be a ranger even greater than his father and to, hopefully, be the salvation of the elves. - Ascendance (novel)
The final novel in the first trilogy begins with the mopping up of Bestesbulzibar's army and the battle against the demon's spirit, which has possessed the highest levels of power within the Abellican Church. - The Demon Apostle
Bransen utilizes both sides of his heritage in the novel to overcome his crippled state and become the Highwayman. - The Highwayman (novel)
The events described in this novel take place about 18 years after the events of the second novel (possibly in 2019). - Meg: Primal Waters
The novel opens with Alan's purchase of a home in the Kensington Market neighborhood of modern-day Toronto. - Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
King states in the introduction to this story that it was the inspiration for his novel Dolores Claiborne and that it was partly written to explore the idea of why such famous and talented people can sometimes be horrible in real life. - Dedication (short story)
Finally the novel concludes with the a flooding of the low lying country surrounding Glastonbury, so that it becomes once again the legendary Isle of Avalon. - A Glastonbury Romance
This is also the third novel in the Paths of Darkness series. - Servant of the Shard
The only major plot line to be tied up in this novel is the question of what Drizzt will do about his relationship with Catti-brie. - The Two Swords
The novel is written in a diary form as told by Enrico Bottini, a 9-year old primary school student in Turin with an upper class background who is surrounded by classmates of working class origin. - Heart (novel)
The novel begins in medias res by presenting a miserable mr Polly: "He hated Foxbourne, he hated Foxbourne High Street, he hated his shop and his wife and his neighbours – every blessed neighbour – and with indescribable bitterness he hated himself". - The History of Mr Polly
The character Devil Judd Tolliver, in the novel was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, a United States Marshal for the region in and around Wise County, Virginia, and Letcher County, Kentucky. - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel)
The novel ends with the postmodern twist of the author revealing his presence in the narrative. - The Black Book (Pamuk novel)
In the course of their study, some characters in the novel form a core group which Chloe Steele christens the "Tribulation Force", dedicated to fight the seven years' war with the Antichrist. - Tribulation Force
After having signed a contract with the newspaper El País, Leo tells Ángel that she can't write romances anymore, and that she has written a dark ("black") novel about a young mother whose daughter kills her husband because he tried to rape her. - The Flower of My Secret
The novel portrays actor Hendrik Höfgen's rise from the Hamburger Künstlertheater (Hamburg Artists' Theater) in 1926 to nationwide fame in 1936. - Mephisto (novel)
One of the direct inspiration sources of the novel is the 14th-17th-century Chinese epic novel Water Margin by Shi Nai'an. - Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
After a failed suicide attempt at the very end of Inside mr Enderby, the second novel opens with the protagonist under psychiatric care and working as a bartender at a large London hotel. - Enderby Outside
The remainder of the novel comprises the narrator's recollections of his childhood. - The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire’s Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. - A Cool Million
” The literary critic Leslie Fiedler reads much into this and sees the whole novel as “a fractured and dissolving parable of the very process by which the emancipated Jew enters into the world of Western Culture. - The Dream Life of Balso Snell
For a novel of its period, it is fairly cosmopolitan, and the action ranges to locations as exotic as gold mines in New Zealand. - Dùn Aluinn
They start the novel far down the social ladder, but strive to rise up it, in spite of those who seek to keep them down. - Four Fires
The novel begins quietly, introducing us to Jonathan and Barbara as they are introduced to each other for the first time. - The War of the Roses (novel)
The novel begins by showing the state of play in Undertown. - Vox (novel)
The novel is set in northeastern Indiana. - A Girl of the Limberlost
The novel describes the changes in the relations of the four characters: Bunzo, Omasa, Osei and Noboru. - The Drifting Cloud
Graham White published a sequel novel entitled "The Gaffer's Guerillas" which takes the story into the present day. - The Gaffer (TV series)
The novel is narrated by Nathanial Delaney, a teenage boy with a self-confessed Hamlet complex and social ineptitude, which can be credited to his lack of a stable environment; he and his mother have been moving frequently since the divorce of his parents. - The Gathering (Carmody novel)
He is a world-famous author, she carries his latest novel in her bag and ponders the dilemma of reading it in front of him. - The Unexpected Man
In characterizing Salai as scheming, ambitious and selfish, the novel posits that several events in Leonardos's life occurred at least partly because of his manipulations. - Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci
The second, and main element of the novel was based on a story Scott claimed to have received in an unsigned letter. - The Heart of Midlothian
His mother succumbed to breast cancer several years before the novel began. - Twelve (novel)
The novel is of interest because of its portrayal of a voluntary contribution medical association which is based (not entirely uncritically) on the Tredegar Medical Aid Society for which Cronin worked for a time in the 1920s, and which in due course became the inspiration for the National Health Service as established under Aneurin Bevan. - The Citadel (novel)
The novel tells the story of Princess Marguerite "Daisy" Valensky. - Princess Daisy (novel)
The passages dealing with the journalist are written in the first person, and those dealing with the murderer in the second person, so the novel presents, in alternate chapters, an unusual example of an unreliable narrator. - Complicity (novel)
Cats (albeit non-speaking ones) are also central to Sleigh's stand-alone novel No One Must Know (1962), about children hiding a cat and her kittens from the landlord, who has banned pets. - Carbonel series
Much of the novel is taken up with a subplot involving an expedition into enemy territory by Dugald Dalgetty, an experienced mercenary fighting for Montrose. - A Legend of Montrose
The novel takes the form of a collection of dreamlike, poetic short stories that reflect on the death of the narrator's father, as well as life in the modest Jewish quarter of Drohobycz, the provincial town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire where Schulz was born. - Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The novel is centred upon the friendship between Dante and a schoolmate known as "Johnno" in their adolescence and early adulthood in the 1940s and 1950s in Brisbane. - Johnno
The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network to a halt. - Gridlock (novel)
Each novel usually begins with the companions arriving at a frequently unknown redoubt by MAT-TRANS. - Deathlands
The novel begins by announcing that today will be the day that a young boy, Robert Caligari, dies. - The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
He then writes a novel titled "Fear Knot". - Moving Malcolm
She is from here on in the novel referred to as "Other Lily". - Fall on Your Knees
In the first chapter of the novel Cleishbotham describes at length meeting Paterson, hearing his anecdotes, and finding other stories of the events to present an unbiased picture. - Old Mortality
The novel ends with a successful test of the Sicilian Project in the Pacific Ocean. - Raise the Titanic!
Using alternating first-person perspectives, the novel tells the stories of Henry DeTamble (born 1963), a librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and his wife, Clare Anne Abshire (born 1971), an artist who makes paper sculptures. - The Time Traveler's Wife
On one of these raids to the Coruscant system, the Star Destroyer Liberator (formerly the HIMS Adjudicator, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer captured at the Battle of Endor and, over a five-year period, repaired and beefed-up for covert missions) its sister ship, the Emancipator (originally the Accuser), three Star Destroyers demanded novel and unusual codes for clearance. - Dark Empire I
Originally intended to be a short story, Haykal found that his work had more mileage than he had first appreciated, becoming a full novel in three parts. - Zaynab (novel)
Underage at fifteen or sixteen (his age is never specified in the novel but if he is based on Cormier as he seems to be, he was born in 1925, and if he joined the army in 1941, that would make him sixteen), he forges his birth certificate and goes to fight in France. - Heroes (novel)
In the course of the novel the Amulet transports the children and the Psammead to times and places where the Amulet has previously existed, in the hope that – somewhen in time – the children can find the Amulet's missing half. - The Story of the Amulet
The Krotons feature in the Eighth Doctor Adventures spin-off novel Alien Bodies (1997) by Lawrence Miles. - The Krotons
Meanwhile, Marge is inspired to write a novel after a visit to a bookstore, and begins to write about whaling times. - Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
The novel has also been published under the title A Messiah at the End of Time. - The Dancers at the End of Time
The novel begins by introducing the murder of Efan Wurie, a case Bruce has been assigned. - Filth (novel)
In the last scene of the novel when Goodkind returns to theS. - Inside, Outside (Wouk novel)
The novel also depicts the lawlessness that existed at the time, when smugglers operated along the coast and thieves frequented the country roads. - Guy Mannering
This novel is a major turning point for Louis, after talking with the spirit of Claudia, called upon by Merrick, and receiving harsh words from the spirit that only confirm what the diary found in the French Quarter flat, the one Louis, Lestat and Claudia once shared, by Jesse as narrated in The Queen of the Damned (the diary was kept in the vaults of Talamasca and retrieved by Merrick), he attempts to commit suicide by allowing himself to bake in the sun, but he doesn't burn completely. - Merrick (novel)
The novel follows Geoffrey Braithwaite, a widowed, retired English doctor, visiting France and Flaubert locations. - Flaubert's Parrot
The novel is split into two parts: the present day, told from Jean's point of view and in the present tense; and 1873, told in first person from Maren's point of view, her "memoir". - The Weight of Water
The novel is written in the form of diary entries by dr Patrick Cory, a middle-aged physician whose experiments at keeping a brain alive are subsidized by Cory's wealthy wife. - Donovan's Brain
The novel also considers the passing of the epic form as a means of recording and retelling history and questions the nature of civilization itself as art forms are lost to development and technology. - The File on H.
Many of the events of the novel are narrated twice; first by the 'editor', who gives his account of the facts as he understands them to be, and then in the words of the 'sinner' himself. - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In the final scene, Tramell pays a visit to Glass at a local mental hospital where he has been institutionalised, and he learns from her that the subject of her latest best-selling novel was a man very much like him. - Basic Instinct 2
In 1797, the year the novel begins, the Royal Navy was beset by two serious mutinies. - The Fireship
Very heavily influenced by the Hong Kong style of cinema and Japanese manga style comics, The Couriers is an action driven graphic novel that returns the artform of comic books to its pulp/action oriented stories, albeit with an updated modern feel. - The Couriers
This novel marks the first time Hiaasen used first-person point of view to deliver the novel. - Basket Case (novel)
A year later, Larry has finished a novel based on his experiences with Owen and mrs Lift entitled Throw Momma from the Train. - Throw Momma from the Train
The first part of the novel focuses on Colonel Haki, the dour but basically likable head of Turkish Security, who already made his first appearance in The Mask of Dimitrios and returns in later Ambler stories as a general. - Journey into Fear (novel)
The novel occurs during a 22-day period mostly in Shanghai, China, and concerns mainly the socialist insurrectionists and others involved in the conflict. - Man's Fate
This possibility is suggested especially by references early in the novel to Eleanor's childhood memories about episodes of a poltergeist-like entity that seemed to involve mainly her. - The Haunting of Hill House
The story was thought to be based on the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, hence the name, however Webzen has stated there are no tie-ins to the book's story saying it was just an inspiration. - Huxley (video game)
Catherine Storr's later novel Marianne and Mark was a sequel to Marianne Dreams. - Marianne Dreams
The reader develops a sense of Esperanza’s observant and descriptive nature as she begins the novel with descriptions of minute behaviors and observations about her family members. - The House on Mango Street
The novel ends with the beginning of a Marxist rebellion of African-Americans against the war-distracted government of the CSA. - The Great War: American Front
This film, like the novel on which it is based, is about a local boy, Ben (Dana Andrews), who encounters a fugitive Tom Keefer (Walter Brennan) from a murder charge while hunting in the Okefenokee Swamp looking for his dog. - Swamp Water
In Mallorquí's first novel, El Coyote, one can trace that César must have been born around 1827 (the novel says he was 25 by his arrival in Los Angeles in late 1851). - El Coyote (character)
The climax of the novel sees Mafty deploy the powerful RX-105 Ξ Gundam in an attack against a Federation cabinet meeting in Adelaide, Australia to force them to vote down a provision that reinforces the Federation's authority. - Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
The novel is set in the small town of Friendly, West Virginia, where an eleven-year-old boy named Marty Preston finds a stray beagle wandering in the hills near his house. - Shiloh (Naylor novel)
The character of Ann Talbot reappears in the spin-off novel The Sands of Time by Justin Richards as Lady Ann Cranleigh. - Black Orchid (Doctor Who)
The final line of the novel reads, "The money from the Great Train Robbery was never recovered". - The Great Train Robbery (novel)
The focus of this novel is based on Greville's dissatisfactions and confusions. - Natalie Natalia
This novel continues where the previous one in the series, The Gods of Mars abruptly ended. - The Warlord of Mars
The Doctor and Romana depart and prepare to take the Earthling home, but as they are leaving Romana receives a message from the Time Lords that she must return to Gallifrey… The Gaztaks reappear in the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Warmonger by Terrance Dicks. - Meglos
Gallifrey was also assumed to be in Ireland in The Hand of Fear, in "Human Nature", in the novel Blood Harvest and in the audio drama Dark Eyes. - The Invisible Enemy (Doctor Who)
The Fendahl reappears in the spin-off novel The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham as well as in the Kaldor City series of audio plays and the Time Hunter novella Deus Le Volt by Jon de Burgh Miller. - Image of the Fendahl
Yet Ballard's novel is thematically more complex than is immediately apparent. - The Drowned World
Composer Ferde Grofe used the novel as the basis for the music to his adventurous composition Free Air. - Free Air
The New Adventures novel Conundrum states that the Gods of Ragnarok created the Land of Fiction, seen in the Second Doctor story The Mind Robber. - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
The Paul Cornell-written New Adventures novel Love and War implies (and his later novel Happy Endings confirms) that Ace lost her virginity to Glitz. - Dragonfire (Doctor Who)
In the Eighth Doctor novel The Taking of Planet 5, however, the Borad is revealed to have been killed by agents of the Celestis - Time Lords who cut themselves out of time to escape the Future War - shortly after his arrival in the past as part of their efforts to eliminate temporal anomalies on Earth. - Timelash
The spin-off novel Zeta Major by Simon Messingham, part of the Past Doctor Adventures line, is a sequel to this story. - Planet of Evil
Toward the end of the novel there are also two short sections telling of a hive planet in the far future. - Coalescent
In the script it is "Muthi" but she delivers it as "Hoothi" instead and writer Paul Cornell used "Hoothi" when he featured them in his New Adventures novel Love and War. - The Brain of Morbius
Shigekuni Honda, a character who figured prominently in Spring Snow, the first novel of the cycle, appears again here as a judge and later lawyer. - Runaway Horses
The novel ends with Jefferson's execution, and, much to Grant's surprise, a visit from Paul in which he tells Grant that "Jefferson was the strongest man in that crowded room" when he was executed. - A Lesson Before Dying
The New Adventures novel Love and War suggests that following the end of this serial, Earth and Draconia become allies against the Daleks. - Frontier in Space
Shah had been out of India en route to the Soviet Union, and suggests a novel disguise for Bose to assume. - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
The novel closes as the library in which Daniel is working is closed by student protests. - The Book of Daniel (novel)
As Iris collects the weapons, the novel describes a scene in which a director and camera operator are monitoring both Iris and Vogel as they collect and prepare the weapons, and already have a monitoring camera prepared for the disused theatre in which they will be used. - Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon
The Virgin Missing Adventures spin off novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang by David McIntee is a sequel to this story, and again features Mr Sin, this time under the control of Li H'sen Chang's daughter Hsien-Ko, who seeks to divert Greel to 1937 so that she can torture him for his role in her father's death. - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The focus of the novel is the effects of global warming in the early decades of the 21st century. - Forty Signs of Rain
The last scene in the novel describes Hiroshima being bombed byACT. - Islands in the Net
The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. - Our Lady of the Flowers
By setting Algiers in opposition to America, this part of the novel leads Underhill to comment on and formulate his conception of what it means to be American. - The Algerine Captive
As the novel progresses, the plot follows Nan and her marriage to the Duke of Tintagel. - The Buccaneers
The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1915 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. - A Death in the Family
The novel follows the stories of two men who find their destiny at Dros Delnoch. - Legend (Gemmell novel)
The man at the typewriter is Stine, author of the popular detective novel City of Angels, which he is adapting into a screenplay at the behest of Hollywood producer-director Buddy Fidler. - City of Angels (musical)
The novel ends with the other princes proclaiming fealty to High Prince Rohan and High Princess Sioned, and accepting Prince Pol, the new Sunrunner heir. - Dragon Prince
After her contract finishes in January 1991, she returns to Belgium and starts publishing: her first novel Hygiène de l'assassin appearing in 1992, she receives a brief congratulation note from Ms Mori in 1993. - Fear and Trembling (novel)
Other side characters in the novel also experience similar losses of friendship through tragedy or their own choice. - Good-bye, Chunky Rice
The novel depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of a European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. - New Atlantis
Nat begins to think back on his past life and tells the novel in a series of flashbacks. - The Confessions of Nat Turner
Borneman began working on this novel — his first — shortly after arriving in England from Nazi Germany in 1933, with practically no command of the English language. - The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
The novel ends with their marriage. - Clotel
The novel is a romanticised retelling of the overthrow of King Zhòu, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty, by Ji Fa, who would establish the Zhōu dynasty in its place. - Investiture of the Gods
The novel tells the story of Eilan, granddaughter of the Arch-Druid of Britain. - The Forest House
The novel ends with Theseus's return to Athens. - The King Must Die
The novel deals with a government installation at Blind Lake, Minnesota, where scientists observe sentient life on a planet 51 light-years away, using telescopes powered by quantum computers that have advanced beyond human understanding. - Blind Lake (novel)
The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora. - The Masque of Mandragora
The novel portrays a near-future in which the feednet, a huge computer network (apparently an advanced form of the Internet), is directly connected to the brains of about 73% of American citizens by means of an implanted device called a feed. - Feed (Anderson novel)
As letters disappear, the novel becomes more and more phonetically or creatively spelled, and requires more effort to interpret. - Ella Minnow Pea
The novel ends with Luke's mother smiling on the bus, having finally got her wish to leave cotton farming. - A Painted House
It would be tough to point out who the real hero of the novel is. - Sivagamiyin Sapatham
She is given the daunting task of translating a horror novel into Chinese. - Turn Left, Turn Right
As a writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. - Duplex (film)
The novel ends with Kathy alone after Tommy's completion, and she later visits Norfolk to reminisce about her memories that she feels she will cherish. - Never Let Me Go (novel)
In one match against two other teams including Bonzo's squad, Ender devises a novel strategy of sacrificing part of his team to achieve a goal, impressing Graff. - Ender's Game (film)
The novel centers around a Imperial Japanese plot to launch a biological warfare attack on the United States Dirk Pitt Jr, his father, and his sister Summer must foil the plot and expose and stop the antagonists before a deadly toxin can be spread in released over Los Angeles. - Black Wind (Cussler novel)
They discuss the need for a "security blanket" in unfamiliar surroundings, and he says that the novel Of Human Bondage serves this purpose for him. - The Freshman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
The novel has a number of seemingly disconnected subplots that are not resolved until the conclusion of the book. - Way Station (novel)
Paris in 1794: After prolonged detention, the Marquis de Sade, who claims during the hearing, neither noble nor the author of the novel Justine to be matched with other nobles in a former monastery in Picpus. - Sade (film)
The novel is set in the world as cats see it, with humans being mysterious and distrusted creatures in the eyes of feral cats. - Tailchaser's Song
Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. - Jacob's Room
Rachel is returned to the WorldWeb where her parents learn of the novel disease she has contracted, dubbed the "Merlin sickness" (afterH. - Hyperion (Simmons novel)
The swashbuckling historical novel takes place after the events of the French Revolution and during the subsequent rise of the Napoleonic Empire. - The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
In the course of investigating the mystery, the player learns new, powerful spells that must be used in novel ways. - Spellbreaker
(In Melville's novel Vere dies at the end, but not in the film). - Billy Budd (film)
While he protests his involvement, he is dragged deeper with each novel into growing unrest and chaos—the observable effects of a cosmic battle for all existence. - Repairman Jack
The novel is set aroundD. - David Starr, Space Ranger
The final novel in the original Flambards trilogy opens in the middle of the First World War with Christina, now a widow, returning to Flambards. - Flambards in Summer
The novel comprises two phases in the same space that are separated by 220 years of time. - Protector (novel)
When the novel opens, a pedophile and child murderer – identified only as "Chappy" – has been in prison for 23 years. - The End of Alice
The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New York architect—and secretly the son of Heinrich Clausen, chief economic adviser to the Third Reich. - The Holcroft Covenant
The novel ends with Ananda sculpting the eyes of a Buddha statue. - Anil's Ghost
The Doctor proposes a novel solution: to place the crew, save for himself and Seven, in stasis, allowing them to cross the nebula safely. - One (Star Trek: Voyager)
The novel combines supernatural horror with mystery as the researchers attempt to investigate the haunting of the house while their sanity is subtly undermined by its sinister supernatural influence. - Hell House (novel)
The novel describes Krakatoa as an island in the Pacific Ocean, but the Sunda Strait that contains the island is considered an arm of the Indian Ocean. - The Twenty-One Balloons
Vince drops his book, a novel about historic battles of the Civil War; it is found by one of the civilians, but it has little impact on the episode. - Gettysburg (The Outer Limits)
The novel opens, however, at Cumnor Place, near Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). - Kenilworth (novel)
The novel begins with a newspaper clipping about the death of Mary Turner, a white woman, killed off by her black servant Moses for money. - The Grass Is Singing
The novel culminates with justice for some—the faithful servant Campbell is saved by his patron, Delamere falls from grace, Josh Green avenges his father's death albeit at the cost of his own life, and Janet Miller gains recognition from her sister, who, along with Major Carteret, was humbled to respect the black Miller family in order to save an ailing Dodie. - The Marrow of Tradition
The novel ends there. - Archangel (Harris novel)
The novel features the romantic figure of Mihály, aloof and poetic, but struggling to break with an adolescent rebelliousness which he tries to quell under respectable bourgeois conformism, but also with the disturbing attraction of an erotic death-wish. - Journey by Moonlight
The novel charts the relationship between the four roommates and how obsession can be both a boon and a burden. - The Rule of Four
From there the novel explores the conflicts that rise up between the two, as the tensions between the political world, Kazu's formerly well-ordered life, and Noguchi's integrity flare up. - After the Banquet
The novel opens with an excerpt from a diary entry from 1882 during the founding of Hyde River. - The Oath (Frank E. Peretti novel)
As compared to most fictions, where the character chooses one alternative at each decision point and thereby eliminates all the others, Ts'ui Pên's novel attempted to describe a world where all possible outcomes of an event occur simultaneously, each one itself leading to further proliferations of possibilities. - The Garden of Forking Paths
The novel is composed of many jokes, which have strong effects on the characters. - The Joke (novel)
The novel contains an unflattering portrait of the ageing Asquith, former Prime Minister and still Leader of the Opposition at the time, thinly disguised as Mr Callamay, "a ci-devant Prime Minister feebly toddling across the lawn after any pretty girl". - Crome Yellow
In the first novel of the series, the reader is introduced to four high school students: Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell. - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel)
The timespan of the novel is roughly 24 hours. - Intimacy (novel)
(In the British edition of the novel and the screenplay version by Chandler [see below], Cumberland's name is Kinsolving) Mayfield marries a local criminal turned respectable citizen, who has taken a romantic interest in her. - Playback (novel)
The novel takes place during the Vietnam War and tells of two sisters aged 15 and 14, who have been arrested, tortured and finally put into Poulo Condor prison. - Black Rice (novel)
The novel is partly a tribute to Ernest Hemingway and some of its meditative sequences are written in a Hemingway-like style. - Isle of the Dead (Zelazny novel)
Jaroslav Vozáb decides to find a place where the story of novel The Castle of Otranto occurred as he believes it is based on a true story. - Castle of Otranto (film)
When the novel opens, Crimond has resurfaced, book nearly finished. - The Book and the Brotherhood
The novel begins with an inflated and parodic but reasonably accurate portrayal of Ellis's early fame. - Lunar Park
The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from back East and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger. - The Virginian (novel)
Much like the movie and novel which it is based on, dr Alan Grant is trapped at Jurassic Park located on Isla Nublar. - Jurassic Park (NES video game)
While working in a fast food restaurant he gets the idea to write a novel of historical fiction based in the small town of Holey, Minnesota. - Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
Summer Sisters is a coming-of-age novel about two friends, Caitlin Somers and Victoria "Vix" Leonard, who spend every summer together as teenagers. - Summer Sisters
The visitors all relied on Guy for advice and money, and as he dies the varied people in the novel begin to fray. - Nuns and Soldiers
The novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. - Adam Bede
Like the story of the prepubescent Murasaki in the classic novel The Tale of Genji, Jōji decides he will raise Naomi, a fifteen-year-old café hostess, to be his perfect woman: in this case he will forge her into a glamorous Western girl like Mary Pickford, a famous Canadian actress of the silent film era. - Naomi (novel)
The novel touches on Gibbon's views on human history, with Spartacus seen as a survivor of the Golden Age. - Spartacus (Gibbon novel)
The sixth story occupies the central position in the novel and is the only one not interrupted, wherein Zachry, an old man, tells a story from his youth, speaking an imagined future English dialect. - Cloud Atlas (novel)
Q also spends part of the novel lost in time and space, trapped by the barrier around the galaxy; this relates to the original series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". - Q-Squared
The novel is divided into four sections. - Absolute Beginners (novel)
The novel is a future history, set from 1994 to 2194. - The Outward Urge
The novel is about a gang of four international criminals who hire a young and naïve English girl as an innocent decoy in a scheme to rid an English aristocrat of her family jewels. - Checkmate (Sydney Horler novel)
The novel opens with a brief prologue set in 1957 in which the narrator, an Italian Jew, describes a visit to the Ferrara cemetery where the Finzi-Contini family mausoleum stands, empty in all but two slots: a young child, Guido, who died of illness before the narrator was born; and Alberto, the son of the Finzi-Continis and a friend of the narrator's, who died of lymphogranulomatosis (Hodgkin's disease) before the mass deportation that sent the remainder of the family to a concentration camp in Germany. - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
This novel deals with the attempts of the son of (fictional) Chola king Parthiban, Vikraman, to attain independence from the Pallava ruler, Narasimhavarman. - Parthiban Kanavu
The last scene of the film reveals that Jake's voice-over was the new father reading his novel entitled She's Having a Baby to his wife and son. - She's Having a Baby
Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. - The Crossing (McCarthy novel)
The novel begins with Suttree observing police as they pull a suicide victim from the river. - Suttree
The novel is structured in three segments, each segment describing the ever-growing isolation of the protagonist from society. - Child of God
The novel tells of a woman (Rinthy) who bears her brother's baby. - Outer Dark
The novel begins with Marion picking up a hitchhiker named Kenneth Rattner, who attacks Marion with a tire iron, attempting to murder and rob him. - The Orchard Keeper
The novel tells of John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old who grew up on his grandfather's ranch in San Angelo, Texas. - All the Pretty Horses (novel)
The novel follows an adolescent runaway from Tennessee with a disposition for violence, known only as "the kid," who is introduced as being born during the famous Leonids meteor shower of 1833. - Blood Meridian
Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone else; much of the novel involves the kidnap of Rose by a Spaniard. - Westward Ho! (novel)
The books biography lists this as Bradbury's first novel since Something Wicked This Way Comes, although the young adult novel The Halloween Tree was published later. - Death Is a Lonely Business
The novel begins with an "oath" signed by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two high school sophomores, who pledge that they will report only the facts about their experiences with mr Pignati. - The Pigman
The novel ends with Cantwell suffering a series of fatal heart attacks as he leaves the duck blind. - Across the River and into the Trees
This novel is episodic, with named chapters that often focus on a self-contained incident. - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
The novel dealt with one Ed Firmley, a composer of scores for B-movie grade sci-fi films and a race of alien humanoids that had evolved without the development of sound as a basis of communication. - The Owl in Daylight
The novel depicts the inward journey of mrs Curren, an old classics professor. - Age of Iron
The novel then cuts to Jackson Aranow,D, resident of the Manhattan East Enclave. - Beggars Ride
Ten Men is a picaresque novel in that the heroine is constantly "moving on", time and again leaving behind the people she has been intimate with and associating with a new set in some other part of the world. - Ten Men
At the beginning of the novel she has just been released from an unwanted marriage by the death of her betrothed, the Rev. - The Coquette
Narrated from the first-person perspective of John Moore, a crime reporter for The New York Times, the novel begins on January 8, 1919, the day that Theodore Roosevelt is buried. - The Alienist
The novel ends just after he briefly but desperately begs for pardon and curses the people of his time, the people he hears outside, screaming impatiently for the spectacle of his decapitation. - The Last Day of a Condemned Man
The novel is a bestseller due to the series' dedicated fan base, and has met with critical acclaim. - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
The novel is set in England between WWI and WWII and focused on the characters of Harriet Claridge and Vesey Macmillan. - A Game of Hide and Seek
In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. - The Burning World (novel)
The novel includes a series of adventures which spotlight one of Anne's children at a time as they engage in the misunderstandings and mishaps of youth. - Anne of Ingleside
The novel describes escalating phases of what appears to be an invasion of Earth by aliens, as told through the eyes of Mike Watson, who works for the English Broadcasting Company (EBC) with his wife and co-reporter Phyllis. - The Kraken Wakes
She is semi-ostracized from i, and at the beginning of the novel the narrator reveals he had ended their relationship because of these events. - In Watermelon Sugar
In 2010 the novel "Candy Candy The Final Story" written by Mizuki using her real name Keiko Nagita, Candy discovers that Susanna has died and Terence writes her a letter to say that for him nothing has changed, leaving hope that they will reunite. - Candy Candy
The novel begins with the phrase, "In the beginning was the myth. - Peter Camenzind
It is only within the last fifty pages of the first novel that Benjamin slays his first victim. - Death Wish (novel)
Romanova is sent by Rosa Klebb, an agent of the KGB (in both the novel and film, an agent of SMERSH) who has secretly defected to OCTOPUS. - James Bond 007: From Russia with Love
One of the interesting aspects of the novel is the insight the reader gains into the workings of a criminal mind. - The 12.30 from Croydon
The book opens at a party and there follow four continuous scenes, after which the novel becomes more fragmented. - The Original of Laura
The novel describes the naval career of a young gentleman during the period of British Mastery of the seas in the early 19th century. - Peter Simple (novel)
Maia is set in the Beklan Empire, the same fantasy world as Adams's 1974 novel Shardik. - Maia (novel)
The novel begins with Davidson travelling to "Centralville", the headquarters of the colony, hoping to have a sexual encounter with one of a number of women who have just arrived on the predominantly male colony. - The Word for World Is Forest
The character of Clorinda is inspired in part by Virgil's Camilla and by Bradamante in Ariosto; the circumstances of her birth (a Caucasian girl born to African parents) are modeled on the lead character (Chariclea) from the ancient Greek novel by Heliodorus of Emesa. - Jerusalem Delivered
He attempts suicide but survives, putting him in the coma he began the novel in. - Marabou Stork Nightmares
The novel is fundamentally the story of five months in the lives of David Bourne, an American writer, and his wife, Catherine. - The Garden of Eden (novel)
The novel climaxes in a rock concert playoff between Eddi and the Queen of Air and Darkness, which decides the fate of both faerie courts, as well as the fate of her loved one. - War for the Oaks
The novel takes place in Portugal early in the Peninsular War. - Death to the French
The novel opens with Brown, wounded and dying, on Resolution Island. - Brown on Resolution
The following two thirds of the novel then deals with their evolving relationship. - The Double (Dostoyevsky novel)
The novel alternates between flashbacks from the past and scenes from the present. - Lady Oracle
The novel begins with the aftermath of a massive battle between an alliance of Tiste Edur, led by Scabandari Bloodeye, and Tiste Andii, led by Silchas Ruin, against some K'Chain Che'Malle. - Midnight Tides
The main action of Memories of Ice, the third novel in the series, partially overlaps that of Deadhouse Gates. - Deadhouse Gates
The main plot of the novel is generally concerned with the rise of Marius, his marriage to Julia, his success in replacing Metellus as general in charge of the Numidian theatre of war, his defeat of King Jugurtha of Numidia, his re-organization of the Roman Army system, his unprecedented consecutive consulships, his defeat of a massive invasion of German tribes (the Teutones, the Cimbri and the Marcomanni/Cherusci/Tigurini), and the details of his relationship with his subordinate and close friend Sulla. - The First Man in Rome (novel)
Set in an unspecified Latin American country, the novel features Desiderio, a government minister in the main city, currently under attack by Doctor Hoffman's reality-distorting machines. - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
") Reflecting Koestler's later life relationship with science, and particularly his disagreement with various movements within psychiatry, the main character emerges from treatment psychically neutered, and the critical question of the novel is how much of his later trauma and political activity is due to a small incident in his childhood. - Arrival and Departure
Pharaoh begins with one of the more memorable openings in a novel — an opening written in the style of an ancient chronicle: Pharaoh combines features of several literary genres: the historical novel, the political novel, the Bildungsroman, the utopian novel, the sensation novel. - Pharaoh (novel)
The novel is set in the Aegean Sea, where Dirk Pitt has been sent with Al Giordino to assist Rudi Gunn, with an expedition being conducted by NUMA. - The Mediterranean Caper
The events of the novel are simultaneous with those of the novel At All Costs, which belongs to the main series of Honorverse novels. - The Shadow of Saganami
The novel continues the events that happened on From the Highlands, and is set over the background of the fight against genetic slavery. - Crown of Slaves
The novel opens just as one time traveller appears to have violated the laws of the continuum by bringing a cat from Victorian times to 2057. - To Say Nothing of the Dog
The novel captures Thea's independent-mindedness, her strong work ethic, and her ascent to her highest achievement. - The Song of the Lark
The novel closes with Felix taking a leadership role within Vampire$ Inc, after thwarting an attempt by the (now a vampire) Jack Crow to attack the Pope. - Vampire$
The first part of the novel revolves around the friendship of two men, Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian, who became heroes in their own right as they fought the Jin invaders. - The Legend of the Condor Heroes
The novel concerns the efforts of a poor rural Tennessee family to become affluent by selling the of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas “Si” Hawkins, in a timely manner. - The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know. - Ralph 124C 41+
The story describes the efforts of fictional computer animators to create a "compu-drama" from the second section of Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, which occurs in a parallel universe with different laws of physics to that within which Earth is situated, amongst a trigendered species of energy-based beings and one triad of narrative protagonists in particular. - Gold (short story)
This novel is much less Honor-centered than the previous two, and the war is depicted from many perspectives. - The Short Victorious War
The remainder of the novel ties up the loose ends. - The Way We Live Now
Much of the novel involves Lucius trying to reconcile his genteel and idealized vision of life with the reality he is faced with on this trip, portrayed in his struggle between Virtue and Non-Virtue. - The Reivers
Throughout the novel Jamie struggles to accept her true identity, carrying the fear of taunts and rejection from her classmates with her. - Ten Things I Hate About Me
This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from taking scalps. - The Deerslayer
The novel begins sometime after The Short-Timers leaves off and is divided into three parts. - The Phantom Blooper
The third and final part of the novel begins before Christmas, as Irene's relationship with her husband has become increasingly fraught. - Passing (novel)
In Nanapush’s chapters the point of view is that of Nanapush telling stories to his granddaughter, Lulu, several years after the main events in the novel occur. - Tracks (novel)
The disease proves to be fatal and the novel ends with the protagonist finding and reading a letter FlyNDance had written for him before she died. - The First Intimate Contact
The novel also includes the famous story that once, at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored. - I Am a Barbarian
The novel is set in an alternate present-day setting where a small percentage of people are born with violet irises and the ability to channel the dead. - Through Violet Eyes
The "Tamiami Slasher" has committed at least three murders already, as the novel opens. - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
A central theme in the novel is the clash between Marlowe's rational worldview and the natives' superstitious and often brutal culture. - A Far Sunset
The novel ends with the rightful ownership of the Chola Empire being given to the prince (whom Illanchezhiyan had saved earlier) known later as the legendary Karikala Chola. - Yavana Rani
The screenplay was adapted from the 1947 novel Ghost of a Chance by Kelley Roos, the pen name of husband and wife mystery writers Audrey Kelley and William Roos. - Scent of Mystery
The opening line of the novel and the film is restated: "There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed". - Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)
"An Invisible War" is a short novel that was the first serialized piece of longer fiction that spanned this and the next Gazette in their e-published versions—though the whole (110 pages) was published in the hardcover release of Grantville Gazette II. - Grantville Gazette II
The plot of the novel is Drogo's lifelong wait for a great war in which his life and the existence of the fort can prove its usefulness. - The Tartar Steppe
The plot of the novel follows Sammy as he explores and comes to terms with his new-found disability, and the difficulties this brings. - How Late It Was, How Late
Dalamar the Dark is a novel that tells the story of Dalamar the elf wizard. - Dalamar the Dark
The schoolhouse is one of many locations in the novel which Jewett elevates to mythic significance and for the narrator the location is a center of writerly consciousness from which she makes journeys out and to which others make journeys in, aware of the force of the narrator's presence, out of curiosity, and out of respect for Almira Todd. - The Country of the Pointed Firs
Tim Garden also puts the stumps and cricket bat to a new and novel use. - 2001 & A Bit
The novel ends with the “defeat” of Doña Bárbara, who is able to obtain neither the land nor Luzardo’s heart, and finally departs to an unknown location. - Doña Bárbara
The novel is divided into eighteen short chapters. - Medicine River
Interspersed in the novel are Dinnie's diary entries, postcards from her two paternal aunts informing Dinnie of what is happening with her family, and Dinnie's various attempts to communicate to the local community using signs at her window that she wants to return home. - Bloomability
The novel is set "a few years in the future", and frequently references Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov. - 9tail Fox
The novel ends with Susan dreaming of going to Hull in England to visit the parents of the boy who had raped her. - The Poseidon Adventure (novel)
The novel takes place immediately after Orphan Star with Flinx taking his new space ship, Teacher built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction. - The End of the Matter
The novel takes place in 550A. - Orphan Star
The novel is a satirical epic of the colonization of Maryland based on the life of an actual poet, Ebenezer Cooke, who wrote a poem of the same title. - The Sot-Weed Factor
The novel begins with an internal monologue by the 36-year-old Maria (Mar-eye-a) Wyeth, followed by short reminiscences of her friend Helene, and ex-husband, film director Carter Lang. - Play It as It Lays
Amis writes himself into the novel as a kind of overseer and confidant in Self's final breakdown. - Money (novel)
The novel tells the story of a highly dysfunctional family, the Pollits. - The Man Who Loved Children
Set in the 13th-century court of England's King Henry III, the novel centers around the wedding of the title character. - Gaston de Blondeville
The novel described the Yacoubian Building as one of the most luxurious and prestigious apartment blocks in Cairo following its construction by Armenian businessman Hagop Yacoubian in 1934, with government ministers, wealthy manufacturers, and foreigners residing or working out of offices there. - The Yacoubian Building
The novel ends with Obi-Wan Kenobi learning of Vader's survival after their duel on Mustafar (depicted in Revenge of the Sith). - Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
In the course of time, Lee's best-selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird is turned into a movie, but Capote is unable to share in the joy of his friend's success, too caught up in drinking through his own misery. - Capote (film)
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults – Waldo, Em and Lyndall – who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. - The Story of an African Farm
The novel opens with Strieber's account of a nuclear attack on New York City in October 1988. - Warday
The novel begins in 1922 with a depiction of traditional life in the Arabic village during the British Mandate of Palestine: Ibrahim al Soukori al Wahhabi asserts his inherited position as leader of the town, takes the pilgrimage to Mecca, and starts a family, but suffers humiliation in that his wife does not bear him a son before his third child. - The Haj
The novel is the story of John Johnson and Susan Colgate. - Miss Wyoming (novel)
The novel alternates between Jaimie describing his journey by wagon train with commentary by his father, a Scottish doctor with an effervescent personality whose judgment is often clouded by his weakness for gambling and strong drink. - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
The first and last parts of the novel are set in Tep's Town, on the site of modern Los Angeles. - The Burning City
Julian Barnes called it "a contemporary novel set in the past" and the book does not aim to stick closely to the historical record at every point. - Arthur & George
The narration of the novel takes a different turn in the ninth chapter by giving the back story of Celia Madden and her father Jeremiah Madden. - The Damnation of Theron Ware
The novel tells the tale of the planet Zyrgon, ruled by the galactic police called The Law-Enforcers. - Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
The novel and film are set largely in Melbourne, at a time when the policies of economic liberalisation was gaining credence in Australian politics and were arguably affecting many lives similarly to Eddie and Tanya. - Three Dollars
The novel ends when it shifts to somewhere on the surface of Mars, where another base similar to the one found on the Moon, ominously activates by itself. - Ice (Johnson novel)
The novel is based on the arrival of General John Pershing with American troops on the Western Front in 1917. - To the Last Man (Shaara novel)
The only thing he has to pass the time away with is his pet mouse Snow, the novel Robinson Crusoe and other books, and a small window overlooking the town. - The Island on Bird Street
The novel centres on two characters: Voss, a German, and Laura, a young woman, orphaned and new to the colony of New South Wales. - Voss (novel)
A short novel of 95 pages, it is about a boy who tries to overcome his fear of the sea. - Call It Courage
The novel begins with Andrea on the verge of embarking from Venice on his first non-military mission for Borgia, to induce Alfonso d'Este, the heir of Ferrara, the "brightest court in Italy," to marry Lucrezia Borgia, lately widowed, despite the numerous objections against the match on the grounds of state and taste. - Prince of Foxes
Bobby's adventures are chronicled as an epistolary novel and those of his friends in the third-person narrative. - The Rivers of Zadaa
The events of the novel follow and continue those of The Lantern Bearers. - Sword at Sunset
Throughout the novel the true identity of the young, attractive woman found hanging dripping wet from a rope in her hotel room remains a mystery. - The Lady in the Morgue
The novel reaches its climactic ending when Scase breaks into the flat only to find that Mary Ducton has already committed suicide. - Innocent Blood (novel)
The novel is set in a small religious Mennonite town called East Village, generally considered to be a fictionalized version of Toews' hometown of Steinbach, Manitoba. - A Complicated Kindness
We are told at the beginning of the novel that Ariane is a figment of his imagination, yet we learn her life story in intimate detail and the lines between reality and imagination are blurred throughout the story. - What a Piece of Work I Am
The novel follows the exploits of the Snopes family, beginning with Ab Snopes, who is introduced more fully in Faulkner's The Unvanquished. - The Hamlet
JPod is an avant-garde novel of six young adults, whose last names all begin with the letter 'J' and who are assigned to the same cubicle pod by someone in human resources through a computer glitch, working at Neotronic Arts, a fictional Burnaby-based video game company. - JPod
The major part of the novel takes part in the late 1940s and early 1950s. - The Recognitions
Greenleaf’s first novel Time Jumper is a coming-of-age novel set in Earth's distant future. - Time Jumper
At the start of the novel she lives comfortably with her husband Kotaro, and attends art classes at a local women's school. - Quicksand (Tanizaki novel)
The novel traces the life of the colony for many years as they try to eke out an existence on Janus and determine why it is moving through space. - Pushing Ice
In this novel Burroughs shifts the focus of the series for the second time, the first having been from early protagonists John Carter and Dejah Thoris to their children after the third book. - The Master Mind of Mars
The novel follows several characters as the "plague" is discovered as well as the panicked reaction of the public and theS. - Darwin's Radio
The novel is about 43-year-old dr Ernst Sebastian, a lawyer who works as an Untersuchungsrichter (investigating judge) in the fictional town of Sankt Nikolaus during 1927. - Class Reunion (novel)
The novel ends with the climactic conjunction of three dramatic events: a mass demonstration demanding "Milk and Iron Pills for Clara," Clara's death scene, and the birth of the girl's baby. - The Girl (novel)
Modern editors point out that only about one-third of the novel is set in the eponymous Gothic castle, and that the tone and style vary markedly between sections of the work. - The Mysteries of Udolpho
The novel begins with a frame tale in which the unnamed narrator describes the narrative that follows as "the great secret of my life". - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Musil's novel is ostensibly a Bildungsroman, a story of a young disoriented man searching for moral values in society and their meaning for him. - The Confusions of Young Törless
The novel begins with a mysterious woman in California being bitten on the street by a random man who walks up to her. - Monster Nation
The novel starts in the summer of 1870, when after serious diplomatic tensions, France has declared war on Prussia (the nucleus of Germany which was then emerging as one nation out of a number of disparate cities, regions and principalities). - La Débâcle
The novel relies heavily on surrealism and a lolling suspense that is never realized in any sort of actual climax. - Evening's Empire
Along with Bellow's second novel The Victim, it is considered his "apprentice" work. - Dangling Man
The title of the novel refers to its setting in The Fens in East Anglia. - Waterland (novel)
The novel is the tale of the Drummond family from Vancouver gathering together to watch Sarah Drummond's space shuttle blast off at the Kennedy Space Center. - All Families Are Psychotic
The novel ends with Hammond and Warren discussing Hammond’s plans to leave Falconhurst and forge a new life out west. - Mandingo (novel)
However, the film is based on the novel of the same title published in 1954 by Joan Henry. - Yield to the Night
Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu − a sidekick of Feluda − gets invited to Mumbai (previously Bombay) to watch the shooting of a film based on a novel written by himHis old friend of Garpar road, Pulak Ghoshal (Paran Bandyopadhyay) is the director. - Bombaiyer Bombete (film)
In one novel, there is a reference to a spy from "flat-films" and his assistant who used to make gadgets for him, probably a reference to James Bond and The novel states that when the scientist character died, he was replaced with a hologram version of himself, a prediction of the future of Bond movies. - Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
In this novel Burroughs focuses on a younger member of the family established by John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series. - The Chessmen of Mars
The novel starts in a future dystopian earth where the United States has become a woefully inefficient bureaucratized nation. - Higher Education (novel)
" The novel ends with Greenspan planning to produce a historical film about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, shot on location in 1st century Judea, while a horrified Barney tries to talk him out of it. - The Technicolor Time Machine
The main characters in the novel are Steve Peterson, whose wife Nina was murdered two years before, his six-year-old son Neil, who witnessed the murder, and Sharon Martin, a young journalist who befriends them both. - A Stranger Is Watching
The novel is about a girl named Junko Aoki (青木淳子 Aoki Junko), who has the psychokinetic power of pyrokinesis. - Crossfire (novel)
Smith is the main character in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which a dystopian society is ruled by a media-distorting government. - EPIC 2014
The novel consists largely of a series of letters written by its heroine, Emily Barlow, to her friend, Sylvia Carey. - The Lustful Turk
The novel predates the terrible wildfires of October 2007. - A Planet for the President
As well as his future discussions of theology and fears about McCarthy-era authoritarianism, the novel skewers several human foibles. - Eye in the Sky (novel)
One year before the events of the novel Underwood hosts a gathering of magicians in his villa. - The Amulet of Samarkand
The novel takes place in a prison and relates the final twenty days of Cincinnatus, a citizen of a fictitious country, who is imprisoned and sentenced to death for "gnostical turpitude". - Invitation to a Beheading
The novel takes place in the slums of Brooklyn during the Great Depression, and follows the narrator, Harry Odum, from his early childhood to his death. - Portrait of a Young Man Drowning
What begins in this novel as two separate tales eventually twist together into one, centered on the efforts of an LA Sheriff's Deputy to capture a brutal sex murderer while serving, somewhat reluctantly, as a decoy for a set-up to expose communists in Hollywood. - The Big Nowhere
The novel begins on a Friday morning when a man out of work (later identified as Jack Manning) appears at the front door of Henry Maxwell while the latter is preparing for that Sunday’s upcoming sermon. - In His Steps
Writer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers writes that the novel is the "most complete and accurate fictional account of the nature of disease and its relation to love. - Cancer Ward
The novel follows Cowl, a human male that was genetically engineered to be the perfect specimen of human evolution. - Cowl (novel)
The novel contains three parts, in fact three novels in one, which differ from each other in style, time and place of action, characters and atmosphere. - The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel)
The novel ends with Basheer standing outside the prison with a rose in his hand. - Mathilukal
The novel is about an Englishman named Christopher Banks. - When We Were Orphans
This was the title of Jake's novel in the alternate history episode "". - The Muse (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
The last pages of the novel recount their final "death," which they joyfully encounter. - The Wandering Jew (novel)
The novel focuses on Hilary Wainwright, an English man, on the search for his lost son in the ruins of post-war France. - Little Boy Lost (novel)
Cassandra's father is a writer suffering from writer's block who has not published anything since his first book, Jacob Wrestling (a reference to Jacob wrestling with the angel), an innovative and "difficult" novel that sold well and made his name, including in the United States. - I Capture the Castle
The novel version of this serial is ரகசியமாக ஒரு ரகசியம். - Marmadesam
The novel gives an evocative portrait of the city of Buenos Aires and its people. - On Heroes and Tombs
Nul dies smiling, and the last scene of the novel has him relaxing on a beach with a photograph of Miss Void and the presence of Nah, a dream character that had appeared to Nul twice before as a Mayan glyph. - Nil: A Land Beyond Belief
The novel opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady Castlewood. - The History of Henry Esmond
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. - The Hill of Dreams
The novel closes with an image of Lemuel holding his bloodied hatchet up. - Malone Dies
The novel (as many of Little's works do) deals with a series of unexplained events in a small town in Arizona. - The Revelation (Little novel)
"The Threads of Time" revisits the Gates in Cherryh's 1976 novel Gate of Ivrel. - The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
The events in the novel circle around Miguel de Cervantes and his attempts to complete and publish the first book of Don Quixote. - The Eternal Quest
The novel holds several key events and introduces a number of important characters like Captain Deudermont of the Sea Sprite. - The Halfling's Gem
Charlotte's fake letter gave the boys the gift of hope) Although the screenplay suggests that Julien's father and the Jewish boys are doomed, Faulks's novel states explicitly that they die in a concentration camp. - Charlotte Gray (film)
The novel is written in three parts, using the flashback technique. - Three Junes
The novel is written in a first person narrative. - Breath, Eyes, Memory
She was also an extremely prolific writer despite not publishing her first novel until she was 40, writing twenty-three novels in her life including Pulitzer Prize winner The Age of Innocence, as well as three collections of poetry, sixteen short story collections including The World Over, and nine volumes of nonfiction, the majority based around interior design and architecture. - Roman Fever
The last part of the novel tells what happened on the Soviet side. - Who? (novel)
The main character of the novel is the World Health Organization doctor John Mallory who, six months after his arrival in Central Africa, finds that intense guerilla activity has left him without patients. - The Day of Creation
Even as Part I of Illusions perdues, Les Deux poètes (The Two Poets), begins, Lucien has already written a historical novel and a sonnet sequence, whereas David is a scientist. - Illusions perdues
Beginning in Karuizawa, the novel alternates between the now middle-aged Momoi and recurring memories of a lake from his hometown, and his interactions with a number of women, beginning with a relative and the uncomfortable circumstances surrounding a death in his family. - The Lake (Yasunari Kawabata novel)
Evans provides details of the doomed expedition as a novel in progress, and he proves to be a remarkably unreliable narrator, constantly changing the particulars of his story as it progresses. - Beyond Apollo
Throughout the novel the idea of heaven and hell come into play. - Veniss Underground
The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland. - The Master of Ballantrae
The novel takes the form of an autobiography by a twenty-fifth century soldier, Brigadier General Sir Robert Mayfair Bruce, of the Yukon Confederacy, as edited by a prudish, bigoted academic of the twenty-sixth century, Professor Roland Modesty Van Buren. - Fitzpatrick's War
Meanwhile, after searching fruitlessly for Max, Bonnie is befriended by Augustine Herrera, an independent young man who is roaming the county in a half-futile search for a menagerie of exotic animals loosed from his deceased uncle's wildlife farm by the hurricane (these animals appear throughout the novel in various bizarre ways). - Stormy Weather (novel)
The events in part one of the novel all take place in South Africa. - The Pickup
One of the major themes of the novel is the way in which the title character attempts to come to terms with taking part in the murder of a reserve police officer by his friend Crilly, an operation for which he was the getaway driver, while at the same time trying to fend off the anti-Republican "Orangemen". - Cal (novel)
Krasicki's novel is the tale of Nicholas Experience (Mikołaj Doświadczyński), a Polish nobleman. - The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom
The film follows the novel in presenting a first-person narrative from the point of view of Billy Pilgrim (Sacks), who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life in a seemingly random order, including a period spent on the alien planet of Tralfamadore. - Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
The novel ends with them holding hands. - Airborn (novel)
The main narrative tells the story of Powers' return to his alma mater – referred to in the novel as simply "U". - Galatea 2.2
The novel takes Jacques Cormery from birth to his years in the lycée, or secondary school, in Algiers. - The First Man
The novel takes place on the planet of Worlorn, a world which is dying. - Dying of the Light
Set in New York City in 1949, the novel follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. - Enemies, A Love Story
The novel is presented as Clayton's improbably long and incredibly personal response, submitted to his professional association, the Northern New England Association of American Historians (NNEAAH). - Memories of the Ford Administration
The novel is set about 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of much of the Vorkosigan series. - Falling Free
The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels inclined to write about. - The Sea (novel)
The novel is told entirely from the points of view of its elephant characters. - The White Bone
The novel begins in the afternoon of April 18, 1775, when Adam Cooper's father, Moses Cooper, sends Adam out to draw water from the well for his mother, Sarah Cooper. - April Morning
At the beginning of the novel he believes he has just witnessed the execution of his partner and the love of his life, Jenna Karas (anglicized version of Jana Karasova) along an isolated stretch of the Costa Brava. - The Parsifal Mosaic
The novel is presented as a diary written by Zeno (who claims that it is full of lies), published by his doctor. - Zeno's Conscience
This is a ‘stand-alone’ work, not part of any of Vance's numerous novel sequences, though the human-colonized stellar regions in which it takes place are similar to that of many of his stories. - Space Opera (novel)
The events of the novel take place in the mid-1980s during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and soon after the troop withdrawal, back in the then Soviet Union. - Two Steps from Heaven
The novel features HMS Ulysses, a light cruiser that is well armed and among the fastest ships in the world. - HMS Ulysses (novel)
The novel ends before the action concludes. - The Simulacra
The novel ends with what will be his last visit to the medical specialist. - The Chequer Board
The novel is told in the first person from various points of view; much of the narration is by Gemma and Tar, and takes place over the course of a few years in their lives. - Junk (novel)
The novel is populated by two species of dragons: The story begins with the destruction of the dragon settlement, South Point, home to Fortune, a young Natural dragon. - Dragoncharm
The novel opens up with the news that Tambu’s older brother, Nhamo, had just died. - Nervous Conditions
The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. - O Pioneers!
The novel follows the struggles of engineer John Custance and his friend, civil servant Roger Buckley, as, along with their families, they make their way across an England which is rapidly descending into anarchy, hoping to reach the safety of John's brother's potato farm in an isolated Westmorland valley. - The Death of Grass
The novel broadly satirizes what Gaddis called "the American dream turned inside out". - J R
The novel ends with Jones saying that he is no longer considering suicide and has even struck up a small friendship with Steiner where the two meet for coffee and mourn their lost loves. - Doctor Fischer of Geneva
This novel is considered to be a masterpiece of dystopian satire. - Moscow 2042
Everything in the novel is described from his viewpoint, mostly in retrospect, ranging from a few hours or minutes to several weeks or months after the actual events. - The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel)
Aside from the action-ridden plot of Carson and DeVaca, the novel highlights political and scientific battle between the CEO of GeneDyne, Brent Scopes, and his former best friend, Charles Levine, over the ethics of genetic modification. - Mount Dragon
The visual novel Muv-Luv is divided into two parts. - Muv-Luv
The novel ends with him drifting into unconsciousness, surrounded by the police as he is about to be taken to a hospital. - Little Boy Blue (novel)
Some major events of the school year documented in the novel are the final exams, the opening of the new school, and a ball to mark the visit of an important political minister to the town. - Claudine at School
The hero of the novel is the mysterious and distinguished Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. - The Mysteries of Paris
The novel ends with mrs Noyes sitting on deck with Mottyl, praying to the clouds for rain. - Not Wanted on the Voyage
The plot of the novel hinged on this point and Ritchie one day met Snowy Rowles, whom Upfield also knew. - The Murchison Murders
The novel opens in the present day, with successful orthodontist Alexander MacDonald visiting his elderly older brother Calum in Toronto, Ontario. - No Great Mischief
The plot of the novel centers on the instability of the Ringworld. - The Ringworld Engineers
Young Boughton, the apple of his parents' eye but deeply disliked by Ames, seeks Ames out; much of the tension in the novel results from Ames's mistrust of Jack Boughton and particularly of his relationship with Lila and their son. - Gilead (novel)
Forty years after the fall of the Galactic Empire, the novel begins with Luke Skywalker sensing the dark presence of a mysterious enemy. - Betrayal (Star Wars novel)
The novel opens in 1950 Sicily, where Michael Corleone, nearing the end of his exile in Sicily, meets with Don Croce Malo, the Capo di Capi or Boss of bosses in Sicily, his brother, Father Benjamino Malo, Stefan Andolini (redheaded cousin of Don Vito Corleone), and Sicilian Inspector Frederico Velardi. - The Sicilian
The novel starts in Las Vegas, where a group including John Merlyn, Cully Cross, and Jordan Hamley, spend time gambling at the Hotel Xanadu. - Fools Die
A recurring scene in the novel involves Ezra's unsuccessful attempts to bring the family together for a meal at his "Homesick Restaurant", reflecting his desire to unite and mend the family. - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The novel opens in the year 2198 and shows several preliminary scenes both on Earth and on alien planets; however, most of the action takes place much later, in the year 2374, on planet Cavanagh's Star. - City of Pearl
The young, idealistic, and terribly handsome writer of the novel that the film is based on, Rick Foster, quickly gets roped into convoluting the plot of this already-bad adaptation of his heartfelt book largely because of a chance meeting between him and the film's star, Guy. - Straight-Jacket
The novel begins with Jackie Duluoz, based on Kerouac himself, relating a dream in which he finds himself in Lowell, Massachusetts, his childhood home town. - Doctor Sax
The novel opens at the alternate close of the Second Punic War. - Hannibal's Children
The novel proposes that the Great Game, the prolonged strategic conflict between the British and Russian empires in the 19th century over domination of Central Asia, was actually part of Operation Declare. - Declare
The novel follows the story of a modern black American man who is able to mentally project himself back to pre-human Africa, where he meets (and eventually mates) with humanity's prehistoric ancestors. - No Enemy But Time
The novel is of investigative crime fiction genre, entailing the main character of Penn Cage. - The Quiet Game
The 2013 graphic novel and 2014 movie update the original book's plot with more current references and technology. - Alongside Night
The novel deals with the relationships of three principal characters. - Prizes (novel)
Each sequence features an imaginative and novel treatment of sexual activity based on these themes, as well as several visual/anatomical puns achieved through the strategic use of body paint, fetishistic costumes and accessories, and trompe l'oeil camera placement and editing trickery. - Zazel
The café is raided by police and Candy escapes with the help of Pete Uspy, an anti-materialist (the only man in the novel with no designs on Candy's body) who sends her to the camp of the peace activist Crackers. - Candy (Southern and Hoffenberg novel)
Heinlein explored ideas centered on pantheistic solipsism and the nature of reality in a number of his other works, including the short story "All You Zombies—", and the novel Time Enough for Love. - They (Heinlein)
The novel explores her sense of culture shock when she travels back to India intertwined with the political situation in Calcutta and West Bengal. - The Tiger's Daughter
As the novel ends, they watch the approach of a ship repeatedly mentioned by Ed Wojakowski. - Passage (Willis novel)
Other conflicts within the novel involve Gustad's ongoing interactions with his eccentric neighbours and his relationship with his close friend and co-worker, Dinshawji. - Such a Long Journey (novel)
Importantly, Nikhilesh tells Bimala that he would like her to have a life not only inside the home, but outside of it as well—a most controversial matter when the novel was written. - Ghare Baire (film)
The novel concludes with an epilogue in the form of an entry in Wally Wronken's diary. - Marjorie Morningstar (novel)
Doctorow, The March is a historical fiction novel set in late 1864 and early 1865 near the conclusion of the American Civil War. - The March (novel)
A less obvious but nonetheless imposing character in the novel is the Halloran house itself. - The Sundial
The novel ends as Lantier is driving a train carrying troops towards the front at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. - La Bête humaine
An unusual feature of this novel is the participation of Gandhi as a character. - Waiting for the Mahatma
Most of the action of the novel is in Derbyshire, England; the ruins of a Mackworth Castle actually exist on the west side of Derby. - Men of Iron
Instead of written credits at the beginning of the film, Gitai reads out the credits, introduces himself to the viewer, and explains that Alila is based on the novel Returning Lost Love. - Alila
The novel ends with Corran waking as a captive aboard a ship, where Isard informs him that he is on his way to the prison and torture facility, Lusankya. - Wedge's Gamble
The novel ends with several appendices describing some lesser-known aspects of the medical profession and a postscript discussing current problems in medicine, including abortion. - A Case of Need
The novel is set in 2178 AD (approximately 20 years after the events of Prisoners of Power) and follows the story of the main character of the first novel, Maxim Kammerer. - Beetle in the Anthill
As the novel begins, Wedge Antilles has gathered together a group of pilots to choose from to recreate the legendary Rogue Squadron, as a dual X-wing and commando squadron. - Rogue Squadron (novel)
The novel proposes invasions from alternate Earths in alternate universes. - The Coming of the Quantum Cats
The novel begins with the trial of Obi Okonkwo on the charge of accepting a bribe. - No Longer at Ease
The novel introduces readers to young Nathaniel "Nat" Bowditch, the son of a ship captain. - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
The ailment that the Duke of Manhattan is dying from, Petrifold Regression — a disease that turns its victims to stone — is also mentioned in the New Series Adventures novel The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner. - New Earth (Doctor Who)
The initial stages of the novel are told in the first person, from the narrative voice of a woman who travels to India, to find out more about her step-grandmother, Olivia. - Heat and Dust
This novel covers the time from Merlin's sixth year until he becomes a young man. - The Crystal Cave
A good portion of the novel involves Boone Caudill becoming a fur trapper and dealing with the hardships as he moves further from civilization. - The Big Sky (novel)
The novel is split into five "books", each covering a different period in the characters' lives. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
As the novel opens, we learn that Will is currently seeing a young, working-class, black man named Arthur. - The Swimming Pool Library
The novel is the story of an English gay man, Edward Manners, who, disaffected with life, moves to a town in Flanders where he teaches two students English. - The Folding Star
A welcome humorous interlude in the novel occurs when Irma Prunesquallor (sister of the castle's doctor), decides to get married, and throws a party in the hope of meeting a suitable partner. - Gormenghast (novel)
The novel ends with the author noting rumors that Sanin, who is quite financially well off, is planning to sell off his property and move to America. - Torrents of Spring
The novel follows the story of Ellen, the first person narrator, a young white American girl living under unfavorable conditions somewhere in the rural South. - Ellen Foster
Boy in Darkness is an episode in the Gormenghast series when Titus Groan, referred to as "the Boy" in the story, is a young teenager – placing it during the period covered by the second novel in the series, Gormenghast. - Boy in Darkness
The film originally was intended to begin a trilogy of films, based on the historical novel of the same name by Kaizan Nakazato. - The Sword of Doom
The novel is set in Dublin during the week leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916. - The Red and the Green
The novel opens with a framing device wherein we are shown what is happening in the London home of the dying novelist at the beginning of World War One of the servant staff in James' house has taken a crude but sincere interest in discovering what her employer's books are all about and takes to reading one of his more famous stories, "The Beast in the Jungle". - Author, Author (novel)
The mystery surrounding Mimi and the full potential of the carpet brings Cal and Suzanna together and quickly into confrontation with the primary antagonists: As the novel progresses, Cal and Suzanna acquire new allies and abilities in their goal of protecting The Fugue from destruction, even venturing into it themselves twice. - Weaveworld
The novel is divided into eight books, or parts, each with its own subchapters. - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
A reclusive novelist named Bill Gray works endlessly on a novel which he chooses to not finish. - Mao II
At the end of the novel is a note, stating that the entire tale was made into a drama, edited by one Florian Dugglewoof Wilffachop. - Marlfox
Everyone in London would know who the characters truly were, were the novel ever published. - The Adventure of the Three Gables
The novel begins with the character of Peregrine as a young country gentleman rejected by his cruel mother, ignored by his indifferent father, and hated by his degenerate brother. - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Unfortunately for Bruce, Wayne and Scout (a pair of psychopaths known in the media as the "Mall Murderers") have formulated a plan to hold him hostage and have him publicly announce that his movies are responsible for their crimes so they can avoid the death penalty (Wayne has a lengthy speech giving examples of how in America it is possible to be guilty and innocent at the same time) As the novel progresses, Bruce and a critically injured Brooke Daniels are joined inside his house by his wife and daughter and a TV camera crew. - Popcorn (novel)
The novel concludes on a note of guarded optimism. - The Eyes of Heisenberg
When the novel opens, Floyd and Custine are hired by a concerned landlord to investigate the death of one of his tenants. - Century Rain
The novel opens on an overcast October 23. - Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)
The novel was translated by Penny Williams in 1967, and later again by Sheila Fischman. - Prochain épisode
The first part of the novel is laid out as an opera, with act and scene numbers as chapter titles and each of the characters being assigned a singing voice. - Watch Your Mouth
The novel begins in Manchester, where we are introduced to the Bartons and the Wilsons, two working-class families. - Mary Barton
The novel is set in the mid-1930s (1934 or 1935) in Ixania, a small fictional country somewhere in a mountainous region of the Balkans bordering Romania. - The Dark Frontier
Mitchell includes a quote at the beginning of Ghostwritten from the novel by Thornton Wilder, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. - Ghostwritten
The spin-off BBC Books novel The Quantum Archangel by Craig Hinton briefly shows an alternate timeline where the destruction of Logopolis did result in the death of the universe. - Logopolis
Several characters from this novel continue their lives in later novels by Moore. - Practical Demonkeeping
The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. - The Golem (Meyrink novel)
The novel intertwines the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA with the musicality of Johann Sebastian Bach's harpsichord composition, the Goldberg Variations. - The Gold Bug Variations
The novel takes place in a world where online "tribes" form, where all members set their circadian rhythms to the same time zone even though members may be physically located throughout the world. - Eastern Standard Tribe
In fact, whenever anyone came into dr Swain's office and complained about Allison's book, he would roar them down and after a harsh tongue-lashing from him about some of the things that person had done, he or she wouldn't ever complain about Allison's novel after that. - Return to Peyton Place
The Chronology breaks down as follows: The novel consisting of 150 letters appeared in May 1721 under the rubric Cologne: Pierre Marteau, a front for the Amsterdam publisher Jacques Desbordes whose business is now run by his widow, Susanne de Caux. - Persian Letters
In his preface, Zola explains that his goal in this novel was to "study temperaments and not characters". - Thérèse Raquin
The film is primarily based on the columns of reporter Jerry Capeci, who also wrote the novel that documented Gotti's rise and fall inside the Gambino crime family, and served as executive producer of the film which was based on his novel. - Gotti (1996 film)
The novel begins with the death of a nun, Sister Miriam, who apparently starved herself to death in a ruined tower, known as the 'Tower of Ivory', which adjoins the grounds of the Convent of the Blessed Eleanor, a nunnery and an all-girls school. - Quiet as a Nun
Smilla's friendship with Isaiah, recounted in the novel in flashback, gives some meaning to her otherwise lonely life. - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
DoubleShot, the second novel in Raymond Benson's Union trilogy, again sets James Bond, 007 against the evil terrorist organization called the Union. - DoubleShot
The novel is split into two books, one called "Cold Front" and the second entitled "Cold Conspiracy". - Cold (novel)
The novel is full of double-crosses and even triple-crosses, where the agents and agencies go without sharing their true loyalties with one another. - Icebreaker (novel)
The novel concludes with an appendix explaining the meaning of each major character's name. - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The novel thus deals with the investigation of two parallel locked room mysteries: the murder of Marta Korelev, and the "locked planet" mystery of the disappearance of the human race. - Marooned in Realtime
The novel resolves with Denver becoming a working member of the community and Paul D returning to Sethe and pledging his love. - Beloved (novel)
Volkswagen Blues is a road novel, in the tradition of Jack Kerouac, about a middle-aged, formerly successful writer who has adopted the pen-name Jack Waterman (a metonymy can play on Waterman pens) and, as the novel begins, is experiencing a bout of writer's block. - Volkswagen Blues
The novel is divided into five parts, each shorter in length than the preceding one (Part four being the only exception). - Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat; for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatyana. - Onegin (film)
In the early parts of the novel Shaw goes to great lengths to make the point about "Jordache blood" – violent, bitter, resentful. - Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)
The main action of the novel seems to take place during the first one or two years after the Grandma has come to live at the Old Bleachery with her daughter's family, to help manage the household. - The Grandma
Cadging enough money to buy paints and supplies, he spends much of the novel seeking surfaces, such as walls, to serve as ground for his paintings. - The Horse's Mouth
This novel also presents numerous theories and ideas about the space-faring future of humanity, albeit in an alternate dimension where we are forced into space by an eroding Earth. - Moonseed (novel)
The novel focuses on the life of socialite Anthony Beavis, but it does so by employing a non-chronological structure. - Eyeless in Gaza (novel)
The novel reaches its climax in April 1775 with the outbreak and immediate aftermath of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. - Johnny Tremain
The last third of the novel pursues how Michael, Pauline, and their children deal with moving on with the rest of their lives after the divorce. - The Amateur Marriage
The novel is set in a post-visitation world where there are now six Zones known on Earth (each zone is approximately five square miles/kilometers in size) that are full of unexplained phenomena and where strange happenings have briefly occurred, assumed to have been visitations by aliens. - Roadside Picnic
In the novel The City of the Dead, the Eighth Doctor offhandedly mentions giving up on vegetarianism. - The Two Doctors
However it brings the novel full circle from the suicidal "flight" of Robert Smith, the insurance agent, to Milkman's "flight" in which he learns to fly like Pilate. - Song of Solomon (novel)
The novel is set in the 10th century. - Eaters of the Dead
The novel ends with George finding a new occupation: designing destroyers for the highest bidder. - Tono-Bungay
The last paragraph of the novel underlines this defeat; "The chauffeur held open the door of the car. - Five Little Pigs
The novel follows the stories of victims of a fictional school shooting in North Vancouver in 1988. - Hey Nostradamus!
In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth. - Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The science fiction novel tells the story of a frightening virtual network created by a group of rich men known as The Grail Brotherhood. - City of Golden Shadow
The novel was followed by a sequel in 2006 titled Voyage of Slaves. - The Angel's Command
The novel is set in a world of environmental catastrophe and extreme socio-economic inequality. - Earthworks (novel)
The novel was extensively rewritten and published in 1961, partially because the original novel featured elements of racism that were considered unacceptable. - The Mystery at Lilac Inn
The novel ends with mrs Murdo finding their note. - The City of Ember
The novel opens in the 96th year of the Malazan Empire, during the final year of the rule of Emperor Kellanved. - Gardens of the Moon
Clanton is also the venue for John Grisham's first novel A Time to Kill which was published in 1989. - The Last Juror
The narrator of the novel is Greta, a young human female employed at a Recuperation Station where soldiers recover from battles. - The Big Time
The Vardans also appeared in the Virgin New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell, in which Bernice Summerfield refers to this story by dismissing them as "the only race in history to be outwitted by the intellectual might of the Sontarans". - The Invasion of Time
The novel is set in central Ireland 1914–16. - The Valley of the Squinting Windows
The novel takes place in a distant future in which diverse human societies have developed on some 6000 planets. - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
The novel is set in Britain in three parts, taking place in 1983, 1986 and 1987. - The Line of Beauty
The novel is set in the early years of the Taishō period with the reign of the Emperor Taishō, and is about the relationship between Kiyoaki Matsugae, the son of a rising nouveau-riche family, and Satoko Ayakura, the daughter of an aristocratic family fallen on hard times. - Spring Snow
The twins develop a bond that is shown throughout the novel as very special. - On the Black Hill
The result stands alongside Walpole's novel and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) in the first rank of early Gothic fiction. - Vathek
The general plot of Gankutsuou, while broadly the same as the novel on which it is based, changes many aspects of the source material. - Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
The novel tells the story of Lara Cameron, a successful real estate developer who came from a broken family in Nova Scotia. - The Stars Shine Down
The novel is about a rugged fire lookout, Will Gatlin, who falls in love with an American girl half his age and then becomes wrongly blamed when she mysteriously disappears in the nearby Grand Canyon National Park. - Black Sun (Abbey novel)
The novel implies that some of Lukyanenko's other books are actually written by the Original of this Envoy. - Autumn Visits
The novel is set in the fictional Swiss village of Karlstein in 1816. - Count Karlstein
The novel opens in 1806 in northern England with The Learned Society of York Magicians, made up of "theoretical magicians", who believe that magic died out several hundred years earlier. - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The novel centers on the life of Dalia, a young Muslim woman living in Amman, Jordan. - Forbidden Love (novel)
The novel follows the painful journey they must take in order to correct the misunderstanding that exists between them. - The Blackwater Lightship
As a vampire, Shade sometimes feels a lust for blood, though this only occurs once or twice a year - though the Need, as it is called, strikes several times during the course of the novel for reasons that are not fully explained. - Nightshade (Jack Butler novel)
Both the novel and miniseries imply that the Soviet Union has conquered other countries after theS. - Amerika (miniseries)
The novel is about McDermott's attempts to deal with several crises in the hotel which involve a range of other characters. - Hotel (novel)
The novel is in fact an allegory of Yendred/Dewdney's search for a reality deeper than that of scientific enquiry. - The Planiverse
This novel is significant as it is the first time in the Wooster canon that Jeeves' first name (Reginald) is revealed. - Much Obliged, Jeeves
As the novel plays out, Mona and her guardian, Rowan Mayfair, reveal more and more about the powerful genetic plague that has haunted the Mayfairs for generations: their connection to the Taltos, an advanced species of human to which both women have given birth. - Blood Canticle
The novel describes the life of a young man (Frédéric Moreau) living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman (based on the wife of the music publisher Maurice Schlesinger, who is portrayed in the book as Jacques Arnoux). - Sentimental Education
The novel is epistolary; aside from opening and closing chapters consisting entirely of dialogue the story is told through memos from the office, fragments of notes dropped in the trash can, essays handed in to be graded, lesson plans, suggestions dropped in the class suggestion box, and most often by inter-classroom notes that are a dialogue between Sylvia and an older teacher. - Up the Down Staircase
When published in the United States, the novel was rewritten to eliminate the character of Andrew Fraser. - First Among Equals (novel)
The first published novel explains it this way: white is the chaotic combination of all wavelengths of visible light, while black is the absence of this light. - The Saga of Recluce
The novel spins two story lines which intertwine with ever increasing complexity: one follows the "gaijin" (foreign) community in Yokohama, the other, the Japanese, both the government (Bakufu) run by a Council of Elders who advise the young Shogun, and the anti-government, xenophobic, pro-Emperor forces, focusing on the "shishi". - Gai-Jin
The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. - Love in the Time of Cholera
The novel tells the story of John Clayton III. - Tarzan of the Apes
In this bridge novel between McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are in their middle years, still serving as respected Texas Rangers. - Comanche Moon
Barker has stated he wrote the novel in fourteen months; writing fourteen to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. - Imajica
In the novel (actually begun in the previous novel, The Ringworld Throne), they engage in a Cold War of sorts on the fringe of the Ringworld star system. - Ringworld's Children
One example described in the novel is the above mentioned settlement, kind of a "concentration camp" without any guards, designed so that the prisoners stay inside apparently of their own "free" will. - Eden (Lem novel)
The novel is told from the point of view of Philip Roth as a child. - The Plot Against America
In the manga, the Medaforce is a form of medal mind control, as explained by dr Aki in the third graphic novel of Medabots. - Medabots
The novel portrays him as a flawed great man with many achievements to his credit. - The Last Hurrah
The ending of the novel leaves unanswered the question of whether he died, and whether the drought ended. - The Guide
The premise of this novel is the banishment to the seemingly metal-poor planet Treason of a group of people who attempted to create rule by an intellectual elite. - A Planet Called Treason
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a relatively short novel concerning the Coromantin grandson of an African king, Prince Oroonoko, who falls in love with Imoinda, the daughter of that king's top general. - Oroonoko
The novel opens with a distressed letter from Lady Howard to her longtime acquaintance, the Reverend Arthur Villars, in which she reports that Mme. - Evelina
The novel opens aboard Hong Kong-based Transpacific Airlines Flight 545, a Norton Aircraft-manufactured N-22 wide-body aircraft, flying from Hong Kong to Denver. - Airframe (novel)
Barrie's novel The Little White Bird. - Trinity (video game)
Laney accepts his new position warily, but is conflicted throughout much of the novel by his past involvement with a powerful infotainment organization, "SlitScan", which thrives on destroying media personalities by exposing their secrets. - Idoru
(This is, of course, not true, as Jane, Lassiter, and Fay return in Grey's sequel, The Rainbow Trail/The Desert Crucible) Unlike many Western novels, which are often straightforward and stylized morality tales, Riders of the Purple Sage is a long novel with a complex plot that develops in many threads. - Riders of the Purple Sage
Although Wong becomes the kept woman of two other men, and Robert Lomax briefly becomes attracted to a young British nurse, Lomax and Wong are eventually united and the novel ends happily with them marrying. - The World of Suzie Wong
The novel takes place entirely in the environs of Egdon Heath, and, with the exception of the epilogue, Aftercourses, covers exactly a year and a day. - The Return of the Native
The novel opens with the fiddlers and singers of the choir—including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy—making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve. - Under the Greenwood Tree
The conclusion of the novel features a tenderly described romance between the young giant Redwood and the unnamed princess. - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
In a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work. - New York Stories
This novel views the long-term effect of Elminster's meddling on the nation of Cormyr, which Elminster played no small part in creating and protecting, through the lens of his daughter, Narnra, a thief from Waterdeep. - The Elminster Series
The novel explores a range of possible attitudes toward space exploration and science in the early twenty-first century in which he lays down his concerns about anti-intellectualism and the loss of the pioneering spirit in modern American politics and culture. - Titan (Baxter novel)
The novel opens as the protagonist, Antonio, approaches the age of seven when his family decides to house Ultima, an elderly curandera. - Bless Me, Ultima
(The visitor, voiced by Joss Ackland, is called "The Black Rabbit" in the film's credits, though the corresponding passage in the novel clearly identifies him as El-Ahrairah). - Watership Down (film)
The second part of the novel details the spring break. - SilverFin
The third novel also introduces the series' best-characterized villain in the fat, petulant, pedophilic and avaricious contractor Aila Woudiver. - Planet of Adventure
He does this in such a way that implies magic, thus setting the basis of the novel as collections of life events tinged with a degree of fantasy. - Dandelion Wine
The novel is narrated from two different standpoints; one set in the 18th century which follows a group of pirate boys led by Noah Blake, who land in Panama to liberate it. - Cities of the Red Night
The novel ends with Miri and the Superbrights moving to the Susan Melling Foundation complex in New Mexico, and Leisha deciding to act as the counsel for the defense in Jennifer Sharifi's trial. - Beggars in Spain
The novel begins when Janet Evason suddenly arrives in Jeannine Dadier’s world. - The Female Man
The novel begins in the year 2489E. - The Uplift War
The novel is set on Earth in the year 2381, when the population of the planet has reached 75 billion people. - The World Inside
As the novel progresses, the narrative widens, giving the reader secondary viewpoints besides those of Simon. - The Dragonbone Chair
At the end of the novel the alcoholic Lord Jeremy Pimpole is appointed as Master of the College. - Grantchester Grind
The novel ends with Aunt Polly marrying her former lover dr Chilton and Pollyanna being sent to a hospital where she learns to walk again and is able to appreciate the use of her legs far more as a result of being temporarily disabled and unable to walk well. - Pollyanna
In the Seventh Doctor novel Legacy, the Seventh Doctor manipulates events to convince Peladon to temporarily withdraw from the Galactic Federation to keep it safe during an upcoming war with the Daleks. - The Curse of Peladon
The novel is set in a distant future. - In Death Ground
The novel is set in a culture where the first person singular is forbidden, and words such as I or me are treated as obscenities or social errors. - A Time of Changes
When Adam's novel Bright Young Things, commissioned by tabloid newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, is confiscated by HM customs officers at the port of Dover for being too racy, he finds himself in a precarious financial situation that may force him to postpone his marriage. - Bright Young Things (film)
Sarah sneaks into Julie's room and steals her diary, using it in the new novel she's working on. - Swimming Pool (film)
The fourth novel ends with the Empress abdicating the throne due to her condition, leaving Roger to reign as Emperor of the Throne of Man over an uncertain future. - Empire of Man
The novel begins with the introduction of Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, a professor of Russian at Waindell College, who is "ideally bald" with a "strong man torso," short "spindly legs," and "feminine feet". - Pnin
The last sentence of the novel reports a local legend that a man and woman had emerged from the aqueduct after the eruption—implying that Attilius and Corelia likely survived the trip up the aqueduct. - Pompeii (novel)
The novel closes many decades later by suggesting that all vampires, though still effectively immortal, were eventually freed from their blood addiction by Joshua's potion and Abner's brave efforts on their behalf. - Fevre Dream
The novel is set during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial law and censorship prevail. - No One Writes to the Colonel
The novel is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of mrs Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation. - A Lost Lady
In the novel the organization is only referred to as "the Movement," but the fictional portrayal could have been inspired in part by the 1976-87 activities of the El Rukn gang under Jeff Fort. - Patriot Games
General Hancock, for instance, spends much of the novel dreading the day he will have to fire on his friend in the Confederate Army, Lewis "Lo" Armistead. - Gods and Generals (novel)
Adams's second novel Shardik concerns a lonely hunter, Kelderek, who pursues Shardik, a giant bear he believes to embody the Power of God. - Shardik
Potter also adds: Orlando's words and looks to the camera [were] intended as an equivalent both of Virginia Woolf's direct addresses to her readers and to try to convert Virginia Woolf's literary wit into cinematic humor The film's last scene takes place in present-day 1992, just as Woolf's novel ends in its present day of 1928. - Orlando (film)
Although the narrator of the novel professes to be disturbed and befuddled by Orlando's change, the fictional Orlando complacently accepts the change. - Orlando: A Biography
However, unlike some of his other works, the novel is not just a catalogue of sadism. - Justine (de Sade novel)
His dreams for writing a best-selling trash novel are shot down by his co-workers. - A Life Less Ordinary
The novel centers on Charlotte Heywood, the eldest of the daughters still at home in the large family of a country gentleman from Willingden, Sussex. - Sanditon
The novel revolves around the mishaps of its narrator, Fred Trumper, a floundering late-twenty-something graduate student with serious commitment and honesty issues that earn him the nickname "Bogus". - The Water-Method Man
As the novel begins, nine-year-old Jommy Cross (a telepathic Slan of the first type) is brought with his mother to the capital, Centropolis. - Slan
In this novel the Scarecrow discovers that, in a previous incarnation, he was human. - The Royal Book of Oz
The novel describes a legend consisting of eight tales the pastoral and pacifist Dogs recite as they pass down an oral legend of a creature known as Man. - City (novel)
The novel revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a young man who inherits one million dollars from his rich grandfather. - Brewster's Millions
The surgery is watched by various doctors and others, including Oliver Haddo, a hypnotist, magician and student of medicine (a character in Maugham's original novel based on real-life occultist Aleister Crowley). - The Magician (1926 film)
The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on "the doctor's wife," her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. - Blindness (novel)
Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns businessman Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. - Vice Versa (novel)
The novel relates the story of Franz Biberkopf, an ex-convict, who has to deal with misery, lack of opportunities, crime and the imminent Nazism lived in Germany during the 1920s. - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Revelation Space starts off with three seemingly unrelated narrative strands that merge as the novel progresses. - Revelation Space
As the subtitle implies, the novel offers several conflicting perspectives on the concept of utopia. - Triton (novel)
(Confirmed by his childhood fear of squid, especially the giant squid in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, manifested in the form of a vast number of small squid and later a giant squid that attacks the DH-8 Habitat) Johnson and Halpern sedate Adams and wait for contact to be re-established with the surface, but the manifestations continue. - Sphere (novel)
This is the only novel to directly involve Earth. - Uplift Universe
The novel covers various topics, including free love, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams. - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)
The novel concludes with a change in narrative style, with Kerouac working alone as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak (adjacent to Hozomeen Mountain), in what would soon be declared North Cascades National Park (see also Desolation Angels). - The Dharma Bums
Amadeo later goes to Paris, changes his name to Armand, and creates his own coven under the Cimetière des Innocents, which Lestat would years later drastically impact thus resulting in the creation of the Théâtre des Vampires (featured in the earlier novel Interview with the Vampire). - The Vampire Armand
Carl Reinecke, a critic writing for the London Times, has argued that this novel is an example of the archetypal "prodigal son" storyline. - The Blue Flowers
The novel is narrated by Jock McLeish, a supervisor of the installation of alarm systems. - 1982, Janine
The novel starts with a narration by its protagonist, Cal (his masculine identity), also known as Calliope (feminine): He recounts how 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, a recessive condition, caused him to be born with female characteristics. - Middlesex (novel)
Machizo's novel writing efforts were recognized by Tetsuo, and they end up working together to create a manga. - G Senjō Heaven's Door
They are re-interpreted several times throughout the novel to make various destinations seem likely. - In Search of the Castaways
Fabrice spends his early years in his family’s castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy). - The Charterhouse of Parma
It becomes clear over the course of the novel that Anna dislikes Portia because she is strange. - The Death of the Heart
The novel takes place in a future in which people can create clay duplicates (called "dittos" or golems) of themselves. - Kiln People
There are four major interwoven narratives: These narratives are connected via a film, Infinite Jest, also referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". - Infinite Jest
Sales of The Stingray Shuffle, a good novel by good novelist Ralph Krunkleton, have soared recently. - The Stingray Shuffle
The novel ends as it begins, with a first-person narrative indicating that a new and mysterious shop called "Answered Prayers" is about to open in a small Iowa town - an implication that Gaunt is ready to begin his business cycle all over again. - Needful Things
The Fifth Doctor's sequence in the novel The Eight Doctors – featuring the Eighth Doctor going through his own past to meet and assist his other selves – takes place after this episode, the Fifth Doctor travelling to the Eye of Orion to continue their earlier holiday only to be attacked by a renegade Time Lord from the Eighth Doctor's era using the Timescoop, forcing the two Doctors to defeat a Raston Warrior Robot and a Sontaran squadron. - The Five Doctors
When he investigates she informs him that she was actually laughing at the novel she is reading – one that would be banned at her home with the pious Rycker – and the two share a bottle of whisky. - A Burnt-Out Case
The latter, nearly gone mad and sporting the first symptoms of leprosy, is portrayed towards the end of the novel as the leader of a band of lepers who set for the interior of the crystallizing forest, clearly to never come back. - The Crystal World
Calvert has inherited a trader starship, the Lady MacBeth, from his late father, but the ship was heavily damaged in an unknown incident (Calvert makes up several stories during the course of the novel to explain this incident, all false. - The Reality Dysfunction
The novel centers on a young, independent, unnamed, wealthy traveler (the narrator), who visits a friend, a mining engineer. - Vril
The novel centers on a wealthy family living in New Rochelle, New York, simply named Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather and 'the little boy', Father and Mother's young son. - Ragtime (novel)
The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his faith in the fertility and promise of the soil. - Tobacco Road (novel)
At first, Nicholas takes these posturings of Conchis, what the novel terms the "godgame," to be a joke, but they grow more elaborate and intense. - The Magus (novel)
The novel opens a short while after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on 1 August 1834. - Wide Sargasso Sea
While the narrative speaks of Vaillant positively, it also alludes to his willingness to acquire (he "forces the hand" of a landowner into giving himself and Latour two prize mules, Angelica and Contento, chastises the widow Dona Isabella Olivares for refusing to assert her rights under her husband's will and thereby blocking the church from its testamentary share, and goes on frank "begging trips" to acquire money) and near the end of the novel his questionable financial behaviour receives an investigation from Rome. - Death Comes for the Archbishop
The loose plot of the novel follows The Moviegoer himself, Binx Bolling, in desperate need of spiritual redemption. - The Moviegoer
The novel is divided into four Parts: Wave, Argil and Mold, Plant and Phantom, and Wake. - The Naked and the Dead
The novel opens with Herzog in his house in Ludeyville, a town in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. - Herzog (novel)
This is primarily a novel about adolescent despair, but one that uses devices of fantasy such as having events at different times in history influencing each other. - Red Shift (novel)
It is ultimately revealed that sometime prior to the events of the novel Severin had an affair with a teacher at the school, and when Edith discovered this she became furious and depressed. - The 158-Pound Marriage
The novel also carries a number of subplots, including an old Russian sniper credited with the initial discovery of gold in Siberia, a Russian Army general (who led the defense of the Bright Star facility in The Cardinal of the Kremlin) seeking to fully retrain his forces in time for the Chinese invasion, and a Japanese-American CIA agent who seduces Fang Gan's secretary into installing a computer program that collects sensitive government information. - The Bear and the Dragon
The novel is divided into two parts. - Notes from Underground
Before the main story of the novel begins,S. - Winter Kills
Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611 page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel The Land Downstairs, which was published seven years earlier. - Wonder Boys
Many prominent elements of the book, particularly De Selby himself, the eccentric policemen, and the atomic theory of the bicycle, were taken from O'Brien's much earlier novel The Third Policeman, because he had not been able to find a publisher for it. - The Dalkey Archive
Most of the novel is set during the time of the Risorgimento, specifically during the period when Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, swept through Sicily with his forces, known as The Thousand. - The Leopard
The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, where he comes to live with his 17-year-old cousin, Sammy Klayman. - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The first novel in The Heritage of Shannara reveals the gathering of the chosen Ohmsfords to meet with the shade of Allanon, then focuses on Par and Coll Ohmsford as they attempt to retrieve the Sword of Shannara. - Heritage of Shannara
The novel begins by introducing James Mowry as he is being recruited by the Terran government to infiltrate enemy lines; to become a "wasp," in the sense portrayed in the opening passages of the novel. - Wasp (novel)
The first 36 chapters of the novel in numerical order are grouped under the heading "From the Other Side". - Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)
The novel covers the early life of FitzChivalry, a royal bastard living in Buckkeep Castle as he begins his training as an assassin and successfully safeguards the throne from his over-ambitious uncle Regal, almost at the cost of his life. - Assassin's Apprentice
Plot note In the original Bradford Ropes' novel Julian and Billy are lovers. - 42nd Street (film)
The novel is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of mr Verloc, a secret agent. - The Secret Agent
The novel ends with Adam and Charlotte Verver about to depart for the United States. - The Golden Bowl
The novel opens with the famous line, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard". - The Good Soldier
The novel concludes with Dick drifting into ever-diminishing circumstances. - Tender Is the Night
The novel opens with a psychiatrist who is researching inmates at a women's prison. - Woman at Point Zero
The novel is based in Saint Petersburg in the run up to the Revolution of 1905 and follows a young revolutionary, Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has been ordered to assassinate his own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, a high Tsarist official, by planting a time bomb in his study. - Petersburg (novel)
A framing story in the first two chapters describes the world of the novel as Mercury, though it is clearly a fantasy version of Earth, a "secondary world"; no effort was made to conform to the scientific knowledge of Mercury as it existed at the time of writing. - The Worm Ouroboros
Lauzon talks Georges into giving back the love letters from Alexandre, which at the time the novel is set meant that a relationship was over. - Les amitiés particulières
The novel ends with Hastings returning to Argentina and Poirot considering retirement. - The Big Four (novel)
Nana first appeared near the end of Zola's earlier novel Rougon-Macquart series, L'Assommoir (1877), where she is the daughter of an abusive drunk. - Nana (novel)
The novel is notable for the non-resolution of a plot continued from the previous novel in the series, The Small House at Allington, involving Lily Dale and Johnny Eames. - The Last Chronicle of Barset
The story begins where the last novel left off. - War of the Twins
Pete discovers she is laundering money brought into South Africa by André and the novel ends with the suffering typical of the violent world of apartheid and police corruption. - Time of our Darkness
The novel follows many historic events in the Eighty Years' War. - The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
The novel tells the story of a fictional famous college football player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the early 1950s. - Everybody's All-American
The protagonist of the novel is a 13-year-old orphan named Tom Mullen. - The Grave (novel)
Walking away, he throws the pages of his novel into the air, paper flying and landing everywhere. - The Last Time I Committed Suicide
In one example, there is a mention of a crucial plot point from Eco's first novel The Name of the Rose. - The Island of the Day Before
He is able to congratulate Aya on her accomplishments without jealousy now and hopes to make her notebook novel into film. - Strawberry 100%
The novel begins when old Mason Tarwater dies. - The Violent Bear It Away
The novel is narrated by the dead protagonist Brás Cubas, who tells his own life story from beyond the grave, noting his mistakes and failed romances. - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
The novel starts when Kammerer accidentally discovers an unexplored planet Saraksh inhabited by a humanoid race. - Prisoners of Power
The novel focuses on the protagonist Henry Chinaski. - Ham on Rye
Assigned to stay with Thursday in the unpublished novel Caversham Heights during the events of Lost in a Good Book, Randolph and Lola started out as truly generic characters, being sexless, ageless, nameless and with no distinguishing features of any kind. - Characters in the Thursday Next series
This may possibly be Tim Price from the novel American Psycho, because as mentioned in American Psycho Tim is from California, where he went to school at UCLA before dropping out and going to Stanford. - The Informers
The novel opens with Samson explaining how grateful he is to have found this story, already formed, already happening, waiting to be written down. - London Fields (novel)
Initially, Don does not intend to do anything about it, but his busybody neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who is a mystery novel enthusiast, urges Don to investigate. - Broken Flowers
The narrator of the novel is Hodgins "Hodge" McCormick Backmaker, who writes a diary of his life in our timeline, year 1877. - Bring the Jubilee
The soap opera goes well (with a scene of him in bed with Queen Cleopatra (a reference to the antagonist of Anne Rice's novel The Mummy), until Moe learns from top-secret future plot lines that his character will be killed off in a skydiving accident as a result from a coma (a color mixture) shortly after being forced to by Countessa. - Pygmoelian
The first half of the novel includes a remarkable overland trek across Africa after the characters are stranded in Madagascar, and the second half is almost entirely at sea, involving piratical heists in the East Indies. - Captain Singleton
Jo's ghost prevents him and calls his attention to the novel he has begun to write. - Bag of Bones
This third novel of Updike's Rabbit series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth. - Rabbit Is Rich
This novel is part of the series that follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990. - Rabbit at Rest
The story is told by a first-person narrator and well-to-do author, William Ashenden, who, at the beginning of the novel is suddenly and unexpectedly contacted by Alroy Kear, a busybody literary figure in London who has been asked by Amy, the second Mrs Driffield, to write the biography of her deceased husband, Edward Driffield. - Cakes and Ale
The novel follows Moon, the only one of these clones to survive to adolescence. - The Snow Queen (Vinge novel)
Apart from the laboratory work and testing by Leo Kall, much of the novel takes place in the home of Leo and Linda. - Kallocain
Adrienne hopes to find an inspiration for her next novel in her new home, but starts having nightmares immediately upon moving in. - Phantasmagoria (video game)
The concept of 'half-life' was used again and developed in Dick's 1969 novel Ubik, which even re-uses a page of the novella verbatim. - What the Dead Men Say
"Real history is messy," Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why he took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. - 1632 series
This type of android is a forerunner of the type appearing in Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. - War Veteran
Narrated by a young author, Vanya, who has just released his first novel which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoyevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk, it consists of two gradually converging subplots. - Humiliated and Insulted
The name of this entry, The Princeless Bride, is a pun on the title of the novel and film The Princess Bride. - King's Quest VII
The novel provides an exposition on how the weather, geology and atmosphere of the seas and the pole are affected by the local conditions, and sees the Mesklinites overcoming their fear of gravity as they learn to view it scientifically, eventually harnessing aerodynamics to make the Bree fly at the poles. - Mission of Gravity
The novel begins with a "Translator's Preface," a translator note on the "Peculiarity of Joan of Arc's History," and a foreword by Sieur Louis de Conte. - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
As the novel closes, Paul reaffirms his love for Chani, telling her he has loved her for over five-thousand years. - Sandworms of Dune
The main character in the novel is Freek Groenevelt, a 37-year-old journalist living in Antwerp. - De komst van Joachim Stiller
The novel begins with Riggu Felis, wildcat warlord of Green Isle, and his two sons, Jeefra and Pitru, attempting to kill an osprey, later known to be Pandion Piketalon. - High Rhulain
Horrified by nuclear weapons John Grey formed a secret society, "Greywings" inspired by the heroes of the Wells novel The Shape of Things to Come. - Cold Winter
(The second edition of the novel has an ambiguous ending about Zhang Wuji's relationship with Zhou Zhiruo) Zhang Wuji gave up an opportunity to become a ruler because the Ming Cult eventually overthrew the Yuan dynasty. - The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
Her second novel is less successful, and her friend the playwright Jonathan Brockett, himself an invert, urges her to travel to Paris to improve her writing through a fuller experience of life. - The Well of Loneliness
The Doctor claims that he is known in Dalek legend as "the Oncoming Storm", a title that first appeared in the Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War by Paul Cornell (who wrote the episode "Father's Day"). - The Parting of the Ways
Rose mentions that she and the Doctor have been to Justicia, which is the star system that they visit in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole. - Boom Town (Doctor Who)
Although one further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor (Fear Itself by Nick Wallace) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before BBC Books decided to retire the PDAs as well, that book takes place prior to Timeless. - Eighth Doctor Adventures
This story was later expanded in the novel Clans of the Alphane Moon. - Shell Game (short story)
The novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. - The Waves
Chronicled in the prequel novel First King of Shannara, the Second War of the Races begins with the destruction of the Druid Order. - The Sword of Shannara
The circumstances that led to the Master being reduced to his emaciated state are described in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Legacy of the Daleks by John Peel, which features the Master having an out-of-sequence encounter with the Eighth Doctor and Susan on Earth in the aftermath of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and the Big Finish Productions audio drama The Two Masters, which sees the Master being attacked by his own future self as part of a plan to join the Cult of the Heretic in their efforts to remake the universe. - The Deadly Assassin
The novel is known for its interesting use of language – Doyle uses a register that gives the reader the vivid impression of listening to a ten-year-old Irish boy from the 1960s. - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Because of Feinberg I later set part of my tachyon novel at Columbia" towards the inventor of the tachyon concept, Gerald Feinberg of Columbia). - Timescape
The novel is in three parts. - Demons (Dostoyevsky novel)
The novel describes how, over the course of three days, Julian English destroys himself with a series of impulsive acts, culminating in suicide. - Appointment in Samarra
Although it is unclear whether Henderson has truly found spiritual contentment, the novel ends on an optimistic and uplifting note. - Henderson the Rain King
The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. - To the Lighthouse
Elizabeth von Arnim's novel tells of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. - Enchanted April (1992 film)
The novel revolves around movie actress Suzanne Vale as she tries to put her life together after a drug overdose. - Postcards from the Edge
This novel starts seven years after Dragonflight, the first book set in the Pern universe. - Dragonsong
Also, Mallory is in the process of writing her first novel while Jessi continues to dance her way through life and closer to her dream of becoming a professional dancer. - The Baby-Sitters Club (film)
Also, throughout the novel people find themselves in embarrassing situations due to their — occasionally inexplicable — nakedness. - Skinny Dip (novel)
The novel ends with the Consul returning to the former Web Worlds in his starship to discover what happened, with Severn's artificial intelligence stored in his ship. - The Fall of Hyperion (novel)
They are familiar with the author's name after coming into possession of a copy of his novel 'Salem's Lot in the Calla, and they decide to pay him a visit. - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Lucius, though bemoaning his labor as an ass, also realizes that this state has allowed him to hear many novel things with his long ass-ears. - The Golden Ass
The novel contains a great deal of satirical commentary on gender identities, multinational capitalism, and postmodern thought. - Distress (novel)
The novel is set in and around New Crobuzon, a sprawling London-esque city. - Iron Council
The novel centers on three character groups: that of Hockenberry (a resurrected twentieth-century Homeric scholar whose duty is to compare the events of the Iliad to the reenacted events of the Trojan War), Greek and Trojan warriors, and Greek gods from the Iliad; Daeman, Harman, Ada, and other humans of an Earth thousands of years after the twentieth century; and the "moravec" robots (named for scientist and futurist Hans Moravec) Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io, also thousands of years in the future, but originating in the Jovian system. - Ilium (novel)
Many of the stages are recreations of notable battles present historically or from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, while original creations became more common with the newer installments. - Dynasty Warriors 4
Then, Orme reaffirms his commitment and the novel ends abruptly with a sense of the years of impending struggle against the forces of evil. - Jesus on Mars
Once again, the setting of the novel is rural California, where Chan has been invited as a houseguest. - Keeper of the Keys
The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years. - The House Without a Key
The novel deals with issues of technology, identity, the nature of justice, and the existence of consciousness and the soul. - Queen of Angels (novel)
The novel is a brutally realistic depiction of the social conditions in Highland and Lowland Scotland in the early 18th century. - Rob Roy (novel)
The novel abounds in mythological and Christian allegories, as well as in allusions to the Cold War, 1960s academia, and religion. - Giles Goat-Boy
The Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat features an alternate universe where the Doctor died in captivity during the events of this serial and Earth was subsequently conquered by the Silurians. - Doctor Who and the Silurians
Years after the series ended, Savalas reprised the role in two TV movies, The Belarus File (1985) (an adaptation of the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret) and The Price of Justice (1987) (based on Dorothy Uhnak's novel The Investigation). - Kojak
The novel also explains how Moiraine and Siuan witnessed a prophecy of the Dragon's rebirth and came to begin investigating the Karaethon Cycle, the Prophecies of the Dragon, decades before discovering Rand al'Thor. - New Spring
A being calling itself Azathoth in All-Consuming Fire turns out to be an impostor, but the novel identifies several other Doctor Who monsters with Lovecraftian entities: the Great Intelligence is Yog-Sothoth, the Animus is Lloigor, Fenric is Hastur the Unspeakable, and an Old One encountered in White Darkness is Cthulhu. - Virgin New Adventures
The novel tells the history of Hawaiian Islands from the creation of the isles to the time they became an American state, through the viewpoints of selected characters who represent their ethnic and cultural groups in the story (eg, the Kee family represents the viewpoint of Chinese-Hawaiians). - Hawaii (novel)
The novel begins with an explanation of Leonid's few relationships within the revolutionary movement and the beginning of his relationship with Menni, a Martian in disguise. - Red Star (novel)
The novel follows Dunross' attempts to extricate himself from all this and to save Struan's, the Noble House. - Noble House
The novel explores themes of innocence, guilt, and judgement. - Leaven of Malice
The main novel begins at Abhorsen's House, which is besieged by Dead Hands led by Chlorr of the Mask under the control of Hedge the Necromancer, who serves Orannis the Destroyer. - Abhorsen
The novel begins with the main character, Jacob Demwa, working at the center for uplift on Earth, while he recovers from a tragedy at the Vanilla Space Needle where he saved the space elevator from destruction but lost his love in the process. - Sundiver
The novel ends a few weeks after Gerald's death with Birkin trying to explain to Ursula that he needs Gerald as he needs her; her for the perfect relationship with a woman, and Gerald for the perfect relationship with a man. - Women in Love
The novel deals with several of the raids, their eventual discovery in the present day, and the fallout that results from changes to the present day reverberating into the future. - Millennium (novel)
The novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home. - The Notebook (novel)
The prologue of the novel introduces the Wall: an ancient barrier of stone, ice, and magic, hundreds of feet high and hundreds of miles long, shielding the Seven Kingdoms from the Northern wilderness. - A Game of Thrones
The novel follows the adventures of John Paul Ziller and his wife Amanda—lovable prophetess and promiscuous earth mother, inarguably the central protagonist—who open "Captain Kendrick's Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve," a combination hot dog stand and zoo along a highway in Skagit County, Washington. - Another Roadside Attraction
They then return to Earth and in the course of the investigation they discover a shape-shifting being (similar to the "Chameleon" in his later novel Camouflage) posing as an android cowboy at a western-themed amusement park. - Forever Free (novel)
The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel. - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
The novel takes place in Virginia, somewhere near the Shenandoah River, and quickly establishes its plot line in a post-apocalyptic era. - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
The novel ends with Marcello hearing the plane’s approach. - The Conformist
The novel takes place around the planets Yellowstone and Resurgam, in two story lines which converge near the climax of the novel. - Redemption Ark
Throughout the novel the narrator and time period change, and the reader relies on the chapters' headings to establish the date and the source of the chapter. - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The reader learns at the end of the novel that Richard is the progeny of Rahl's rape of Zedd's daughter. - Wizard's First Rule
The motion picture story is based on the novel L'Orphelin de Perdide (1958) by the French writer Stefan Wul. - Les Maîtres du temps
The remake ends with Jeff and Rita back together, selling the story as a novel to a publishing company. - The Vanishing (1993 film)
The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a state police barracks in western Pennsylvania. - From a Buick 8
Titled after the Elvis Costello song of the same name, the novel follows the life of Clay, a rich young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for winter break during the early 1980s. - Less Than Zero (novel)
The fictional planet Lagash (Kalgash in the novel adaptation) is located in a stellar system containing six suns (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta are the only ones named in the short story; Onos, Dovim, Trey, Patru, Tano, and Sitha are named in the novel), which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated; total darkness is unknown, and as a result, so are all the stars outside the planet's stellar system. - Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel)
The novel climaxes in the Revolution. - Night Watch (Discworld)
The novel is divided into three sections or 'books'. - War with the Newts
It is repeated in the Virgin New Adventures novel by Terrance Dicks, which forms a sequel to The War Games. - The War Games
The novel ends as Günther recovers and learns from Shield that Becker had been hanged and Belinsky was not actually a CIC officer, but an agent of Poroshin. - A German Requiem (novel)
The main body of the novel is told in the third person, with Grove retreating into a group of schoolmates only to re-emerge at the end of the book, in the "Afterword", which is told from a distance of more than 30 years. - A Good School
The novel is a bildungsroman about a callow youth named David in rural Mississippi during the late 1930s to early 1950s. - The Neon Bible
That meeting, never seen on screen, is related in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Business Unusual by Gary Russell and also in the alternature universe audio story He Jests at Scars, which provides a semi-sequel to this TV story. - The Ultimate Foe
The novel concludes with Molton enlightening Sadler and the reader as to the brilliant technical subterfuge with which he transmitted information, namely that he used the observatory's main telescope as a transmitter by placing a modulated ultra-violet source at its prime focus. - Earthlight
The novel begins on the Yuuzhan Vong prisoner-of-war camp planet of Selvaris. - The Unifying Force
From this point, the novel follows Gene's description of the time span from the summer of 1942 to the summer of 1943. - A Separate Peace
The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel (the classical and hardboiled varieties, for example) but also creates a new form that links "the traditional features of the genre with the experimental, metafictional and ironic features of postmodernism". - The New York Trilogy
The novel begins by introducing the two protagonists: Tristram Foxe, a history teacher, and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, a homemaker. - The Wanting Seed
The novel opens with her calling a random strangers' number, who happens to be a lie detector, in the middle of the night from a bar seeking to confess or find solace in the voice of a stranger. - A Spy in the House of Love
"Book One: The Romantic Egotist"—The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. - This Side of Paradise
The novel is set in a dystopian society in the very near future. - The Last Starship from Earth
A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island (also the setting of King's novel Dolores Claiborne) off the coast of Maine. - Storm of the Century
The novel takes place in 4034D. - The Algebraist
The novel primarily focuses on the life story of Randall Peterson "Pete" Armstrong, a child prodigy with total recall memory, whose entire life's outlook has been defined by the tragic murder of his younger brother, Leonard, by an ex-convict who was believed to be capable of committing violent crimes again, but could not be imprisoned any longer under the current law structure. - The Truth Machine
The final scene of the novel depicts the reunion of Kerewin, Simon and Joe, who are all celebrating back at the beach where Kerewin has rebuilt her home, this time in the shape of a shell with many spirals. - The Bone People
The novel follows the adventures of Conrad Metcalf, a tough guy private detective and a wiseass, through a futuristic version of San Francisco and Oakland, California. - Gun, with Occasional Music
The main protagonist of the novel is dr Elliott Grosvenor, the only Nexialist on board (a new discipline depicted as taking an actively generalist approach towards science). - The Voyage of the Space Beagle
The novel ends mid-sentence with the prince who arranged Chichikov's arrest giving a grand speech that rails against corruption in the Russian government. - Dead Souls
The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande ("big ambush" in Portuguese), in a fertile agricultural zone in the state of Bahia. - Showdown (Amado novel)
The novel is set in Brazil in late 1940 and early 1941 at a time when Brazil had close connections to Nazi Germany. - Pen, Sword, Camisole
The novel opens with the sudden death of Dona Flor's husband, Vadinho, who collapses in the midst of Carnival celebrations. - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (novel)
A movie of the same name based upon the novel was released in 1964. - Red Field
Bobby is ultimately able to determine that the cause of the non-aggression is the presence of a chemical unique to the town's water supply, a phenomenon that is mentioned in (but had nothing to do with the causations of) King's earlier novel It. - The End of the Whole Mess
Since it presents Jesus as merely a human being and deviates from the orthodox biblical portrayal of the Son of Man, the novel was severely criticised by mainstream Christians. - According to Mary Magdalene
The novel features a variety of characters whose lives unfold around the story of two lovers, Lívia and Guma. - Sea of Death
The novel tells the story of the friendship between a poor black youngster from Salvador de Bahia, Antonio Balduino, and a candomblé priest - Pai de Santo -, Jubiabá. - Jubiabá
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett is a fantasy novel about a girl who is learning her place as a witch. - A Hat Full of Sky
The novel begins with Rubashov's arrest in the middle of the night by two men from the secret police (in the USSR, it was called the NKVD). - Darkness at Noon
The novel is set in a version of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. - Freak the Mighty
The focus throughout the course of this novel begins to drift away from the original generation of characters in order to delineate the passage of time. - Earthfall
Through Gates' extensive research and travels through Europe, the reader learns of Castle's considerable influence over the great films of his time culminating in an uncredited collaboration with Orson Welles to make the acclaimed movie Citizen Kane, followed by a failed attempt to adapt Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness to the silver screen. - Flicker (novel)
No explanation is given for the mark in the television series, and it does not appear on any other Doctor; it has been theorised in fandom that it is a Time Lord criminal brand, a theme expanded upon by the spin-off novel Christmas on a Rational Planet. - Spearhead from Space
The novel is in the form of an autobiography of dr Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain. - Slapstick (novel)
The novel is set in the early 3800s and takes place almost entirely on the faraway oceanic planet of Thalassa. - The Songs of Distant Earth
Apprentice JurisFiction agent and SpecOps-27 operative Thursday Next is taking a vacation inside Caversham Heights, a never-published detective novel inside the titular Well of Lost Plots, while waiting for her child to be born. - The Well of Lost Plots
The novel starts with an abrupt end to an expedition sent by Earth Resource Technology Services Inc. - Congo (novel)
The film version of the novel implies that Sulari wants Muldanno killed as punishment for his stupidity in revealing the location of the body to Clifford, but the novel leaves The Blade's subsequent fate unexplained. - The Client (novel)
The novel is written in the first-person, continuing the aesthetic of Ellis' earlier Less Than Zero, and is told from the points of view of multiple characters. - The Rules of Attraction
Then Sanoma Tora is kidnapped, and the novel moves into high gear. - A Fighting Man of Mars
The novel is set in West Germany and East Germany in the months of August and September; the year is unspecified. - Team Yankee
It is important to note here, however, that the movie differs sharply from the book it takes its story from, Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase, and future entries in the novel series do not differentiate between Dracula, The Vampire King and D's father, proposing that they are one and the same. - Vampire Hunter D
Despite references to them having met before, the Doctor has never been shown to meet Commodore Travers on screen before this or in any subsequently published material (although the novel Instruments of Darkness states that the original meeting occurred while the Doctor was travelling with Evelyn Smythe, Travers actually proposing to Evelyn before the Doctor talked her out of it). - Terror of the Vervoids
She features in the Virgin New Adventures novel Bad Therapy by Matt Jones. - Mindwarp
The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. - Ethan Frome
The novel ends as it started, with Paul sitting in his room listening to the distant shouts of the Bollinger Club. - Decline and Fall
The novel was written in 1994, and published on Kuro5hin in 2002. - The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
As the novel opens, Robert awaits delivery of new labour-saving machinery for the mill which will enable him to lay off additional employees. - Shirley (novel)
Here the novel ends abruptly. - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The primary focus of the graphic novel is dark humor, with many of the stories having twist endings. - Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl
Shortly before the novel begins, the Pope met with Leonardo Vetra who believed that antimatter was capable of establishing a link between science and God. - Angels & Demons
Independent People is the story of the sheep farmer Guðbjartur Jónsson, generally known in the novel as Bjartur of Summerhouses, and his struggle for independence. - Independent People
(The Scone of Stone in the novel is kept under close guard in a dwarf mine in Überwald, and will form a vital part of the forthcoming coronation ceremony of the dwarfs' new Low King) Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Duke of Ankh, is sent to the remote region of Überwald as an ambassador to take advantage of the coronation to negotiate with the new Low King on increased imports of fat. - The Fifth Elephant
The novel begins in 1891, when Holmes first informs Watson of his belief that Professor James Moriarty is a "Napoleon of Crime". - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Nastya, her head bent down, is absorbed in reading a novel titled Fatal Love. - The Lower Depths
The second half of the novel deals with the trial, complete with endless squabbling between opposing psychiatrists as to whether or not MPD is real. - Tell Me Your Dreams
The novel continues as Isham's old teacher, Collaci, sets out to bring him back from New York to face a murder charge. - Telempath
The stories cover a wide range of genres and subjects, including the gothic, the picaresque, the erotic, the historical, the moral and the philosophic; and as a whole, the novel reflects Potocki's far-ranging interests, especially his deep fascination with secret societies, the supernatural and "Oriental" cultures. - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
The book begins with the line "It was a dark and stormy night," an allusion to the opening words in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Richey, a NASA astronaut, and a pulp novel titled Hotel Royale. - The Royale
5th Day Sequence: Marcello spends the afternoon working on his novel at a seaside restaurant where he meets Paola, a young waitress from Perugia playing Perez Prado's cha-cha Patricia on the jukebox and then humming its tune. - La Dolce Vita
He attempts to learn Lu-Tze's fifth surprise (an ongoing theme in the novel as the sweeper refuses to tell him), after which he is defeated in the iron dojo by Lu-Tze, but passes his training anyway and becomes a sweeper. - Thief of Time
The novel focuses on Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler who has recently returned to the United States after more than 30 years in Europe, where he married into minor Napoleonic nobility; he is accompanied by his beautiful young widowed daughter Emma, the Princesse d'Agrigente, who immediately becomes the darling of New York high society. - 1876 (novel)
When the novel opens Catherine has decided she can bear it no longer not to see her boys. - The Present and the Past
The novel is set in the reign of "old King Henry VI" (1422–1461, 1470–1471) and during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). - The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
The narrator attempts to calm Roderick by reading aloud The Mad Tryst, a novel involving a knight named Ethelred who breaks into a hermit's dwelling in an attempt to escape an approaching storm, only to find a palace of gold guarded by a dragon. - The Fall of the House of Usher
The novel opens on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground. - Invisible Monsters
The novel tells the story of a British officer, Harry Faversham, who resigns from his commission in the Royal North Surrey Regiment just after Lord Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Colonel Ahmed Orabi. - The Four Feathers
The novel focuses on a post-apocalyptic character with the name of Snowman, living near a group of primitive human-like creatures whom he calls Crakers. - Oryx and Crake
(Much later in the novel, Charlie develops an inner conviction that she will eventually be powerful enough to "change the sun" in some way) The novel begins in medias res with Charlie and Andy on the run from Shop agents in New York City. - Firestarter (novel)
The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called "334" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. - 334 (novel)
The novel is set in two neighbouring fictional countries: To the South lies Ancelstierre, which has a technology level and society similar to that of early-20th century Australia, and to the North lies the Old Kingdom, where both Free magic and Charter Magic exist — a fact officially denied by the government of Ancelstierre and disbelieved by most of Ancelstierre's inhabitants. - Sabriel
Although the story is based on the novel by Peter Gilman, the screenplay by Marguerite Roberts makes several significant changes in Gilman's story. - Diamond Head (film)
The novel examines the philosophical issues that arise from the world's population (increasingly suffering from ecological and political disturbances) being aware that they could be under constant observation by anyone, or that they could observe anyone without their knowledge. - The Light of Other Days
The novel begins with Ashe Marson, a young writer employed by the Mammoth Publishing Company, the creator of the popular "Gridley Quayle" detective novels, doing his daily exercises. - Something Fresh
The novel presents the issue of mental illness from multiple viewpoints. - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel)
The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary persons, particularly women, to accomplish great things. - National Velvet
When Herman Raucher met Gentry in preparation for writing a novel and screenplay based on the song, she confessed that she had no idea why Billie Joe killed himself. - Ode to Billie Joe
The novel takes the form of letter from a young woman named Anna Blume. - In the Country of Last Things
The novel ends with the Abbess's observation: "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning". - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is split into two unequal parts: the bulk of the book, Saturday Night, and the much smaller second part, Sunday Morning. - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The novel was influenced by the heightened atmosphere of the Cold War, with its escalating series of international crises such as the U-2 incident; West Berlin; unrest in Hungary, Indochina, Congo, and Latin America; and the Cuban Missile Crisis. - Ice Station Zebra (novel)
This novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms — dubbed the First-Born — who created the black monoliths. - 3001: The Final Odyssey
Most of the novel repeatedly switches between two apparently separate plotlines that gradually converge. - 2061: Odyssey Three
The novel tells the story of three young women who become fast friends in the turbulent post-war worlds of Broadway and Hollywood: Anne Welles, the reserved New England beauty who sees New York as the romantic city of her dreams; Neely O'Hara, the ebullient vaudevillian with a talent she doesn't fully understand; and Jennifer North, the sweet-natured showgirl who wants only to be loved. - Valley of the Dolls
The novel is principally the story of Gervaise Macquart, who is featured briefly in the first novel in the series, La Fortune des Rougon, running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry in one of the seedier areas of the city. - L'Assommoir
Fleming structured the novel in three sections—"Me", "Them" and "Him" to describe the phases of the story. - The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)
Eventually he has a complete nervous breakdown and collapses into a near-comatose state, whereupon his distant relative, the unconventional doctor Pascal Rougon (the central character of the last novel in the series, 1893's Le Docteur Pascal), places him in the care of the inhabitants of a nearby derelict stately home, Le Paradou. - La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
The novel begins with an introduction to the manor of L'Enfant where Cesaria lives along with three of her children, Marietta, Zabrina and Luman. - Galilee (novel)
Homicide detective Nick Curran investigates, and the only suspect is Catherine Tramell, Boz's bisexual girlfriend and a crime novelist who has written a novel that mirrors the crime. - Basic Instinct
Throughout the novel Billy teeters between helping the NRA and helping the government. - Jennifer Government
The novel opens in a dismal future America, the “Communal North American Citizen's Republic. - Galactic Pot-Healer
The novel is an example of a bildungsroman, following the life of a distinguished member of the Castalian Order, Joseph Knecht, whose surname means "servant" (and is cognate with the English word knight). - The Glass Bead Game
Next herself is apprenticed as a rookie Jurisfiction agent to Miss Havisham, the abandoned bride from Dickens' novel Great Expectations. - Lost in a Good Book
The novel alternates between these storylines, and also jumps back and forth from 1961 to 1996, with frequent flashbacks to periods earlier in Trujillo's regime. - The Feast of the Goat
As Alex dictates his novel to Emma, the movie cuts away to scenes from the novel, where Adam (Wilson) interacts with a series of nannies (all played by Hudson), and falls for the last one. - Alex & Emma
The third plot of the novel is on Eos. - Foundation's Triumph
The novel is the second part of The Second Foundation Trilogy and takes place almost entirely in the same time frame as "The Psychohistorians," which is the first part of the novel Foundation. - Foundation and Chaos
The novel ends with Seldon accepting his position as Emperor Cleon’s First Minister. - Foundation's Fear
A Small Killing is a novel which looks inward, examining the images of one man's inner world. - A Small Killing
The novel details Howson's struggles to come to grips with his power and his deformity. - The Whole Man
As part of his duties, Turner files a report to CIA headquarters on a low-quality thriller novel his office has been reading, pointing out strange plot elements therein, and the unusual assortment of languages into which the book has been translated (Spanish and Dutch but not German or French, and both Arabic and Persian). - Three Days of the Condor
The novel is written largely from the point of view of the narrator, a young, aspiring writer and playwright in London. - The Moon and Sixpence
As a child, Thursday had experienced a seemingly supernatural event, whereby she was able to physically enter the world of the novel and briefly became acquainted with Rochester himself while she was there. - The Eyre Affair
The novel revolves around three boys who grow up as friends in Boston — Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, and Jimmy Marcus. - Mystic River (novel)
The first half of the novel is mostly backstory in Teri's voice, leading up to the day when she passed her test for "full adulthood", a legal status that can apparently be reached at any age by passing an educational and psychiatric exam, which gives her the right to marry, hold property, vote, and so forth. - The Sky So Big and Black
The novel opens with the family in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm. - The Swiss Family Robinson
Her story, and that of her child Randall Firth, is concluded in Card's later novel Ender in Exile. - Shadow of the Giant
The novel begins with the text of a letter dated July, 1855 from the Crimean War front of Sevastopol. - Anti-Ice
At the start of the novel Martin is in the water and desperately fighting for his life. - Pincher Martin
The novel ends just as the "all clear" signal for the detonation is sounded, with the three of them whispering the same prayer: "Please fly away". - Tourist Season (novel)
The novel closes with three chapters that present ambiguity:. - Billy Budd
One day, he finds a novel on the beach by the author Marcus Skinner, which quickly inspires him to become a writer. - Orange County (film)
While Valerie wants Warhol to produce her play, Up Your Ass, Girodias wants her to write a pornographic novel for him. - I Shot Andy Warhol
Only one manuscript is missing: his translation of Le Rossignol de Bois, a novel by Jean-Pierre Breteuil. - Under the Net
There are several references to the events of the Chanur series in Cherryh's 1988 novel Cyteen, both in statements by its characters and in the pseudo-historical documents making up the chapter interstitials. - The Chanur novels
The novel takes place in two time periods: the first deals with the Binewski children's constant struggle against each other through life. - Geek Love
The first part of the novel is set on the boat home, where Fang courts two young ladies. - Fortress Besieged
The novel ends with the launching of Prometheus; the entire plot consists of scientists, engineers and administrators showing dr Dirk Alexson how the mission was planned and how the technology will work. - Prelude to Space
The novel ends with three of the twelve astronauts stranded inside Rama as it travels out of the Solar System, Nicole des Jardins, Richard Wakefield and Michael O'Toole. - Rama II (novel)
The novel is set in the near future (2034–2080), after the solar system has been surrounded by an impenetrable shield (constructed by either aliens or extra-solar humans) known as the Bubble. - Quarantine (Greg Egan novel)
The novel begins about one month after the discovery in the cluster as Streaker arrives on the planet Kithrup in an attempt to hide and make repairs. - Startide Rising
Encouraged by the others, Orlick starts writing a novel about his father in which Trellis is tried by his own creations, found guilty and viciously tortured. - At Swim-Two-Birds
The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. - The Valley of the Moon (novel)
The novel ends with Eden's committing suicide by drowning, which contributed to what researcher Clarice Stasz calls the "biographical myth" that Jack London's own death was a suicide. - Martin Eden
The novel is based on the (fictional) "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. - The Iron Heel
The novel begins with a note from the author, which is an integral part of it. - Life of Pi
The original novel also contains a battle between Merlyn and sorceress Madam Mim that was not included in The Once and Future King but was included in the Disney film. - The Once and Future King
The novel opens outside a club called the Dancers. - The Long Goodbye (novel)
Only the first novel and first manga have similar stories, involving rescuing Nenene Sumiregawa from a vicious kidnapper. - Read or Die
The novel ends with Harry, Chili, and Karen having finished a production meeting, and wondering why writing the ending of a story is always the hardest part. - Get Shorty
However, at this point, the novel flashes forward a few years to Owen's funeral, which confirms his premature death. - A Prayer for Owen Meany
This novel is a counter-theodicy similar to Morrow's Godhead Trilogy. - Only Begotten Daughter
Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. - The Sea, the Sea
Father Callahan also tells the gunslingers his remarkable story of how he left Maine following his battle with the vampire Kurt Barlow in the novel 'Salem's Lot. - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The plot of the novel takes place in four separate time periods. - Absolution Gap
The novel is a comedy that sees 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through Hank Morgan's view; he is a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England where he meets King Arthur himself. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The year in which the novel is set is not explicit but cannot be later than 1951. - Lucky Jim
The novel opens with an extended description of the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris' rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève covered with vines, owned by the widow Madame Vauquer. - Père Goriot
The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of st Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. - The Mill on the Floss
The novel is told partly in first-person narration by the main character, Julian Class, and partly by an anonymous third-person narrator, who is able to comment on aspects of Julian's personality and background. - Forever Peace
He deals with traitors Sela the vixen and her son Chickenhound, Sela is killed while Chickenhound seeks refuge at Redwall, but he ends up accidentally killing Methuselah after being caught stealing, he is driven out of the abbey but ends up being attacked and maimed by the adder Asmodeus who appears as a local legend and terror throughout the novel and picks off wandering creatures, Chickenhound escapes and heals himself (and would later debut as the main villain of the third book). - Redwall (novel)
The preface of the novel consists of two real-life newspaper articles from 1975 about terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal". - The Bourne Identity (novel)
The rest of the novel mainly deals with Shukhov's squad (the 104th, which has 24 members), their allegiance to the squad leader, and the work that the prisoners (zeks) do—for example, working at a brutal construction site where the cold freezes the mortar used for bricklaying if not applied quickly enough. - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The novel begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. - Tai-Pan (novel)
The epistolary novel is conveyed Ramsay's post-retirement letter to the headmaster of Colborne College. - Fifth Business
Annie forces him to burn the manuscript of Fast Cars – the book he hoped would launch his post-Misery career – and presents him with an antique Royal typewriter, for the purpose of writing a new Misery Chastain novel that will bring the character back from the dead. - Misery (novel)
The novel ends with two proposals of marriage accepted: Julius and Jane, and Tommy and Tuppence. - The Secret Adversary
Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude. - Black Beauty
After the events related in The Time Machine, the Time Traveller (his first name, Moses, is given in the novel but applied to the Time Traveller's younger self) prepares, in 1891, to return to the year 802,701 and save Weena, the Eloi who died in the fire with the Morlocks. - The Time Ships
The novel comes full circle at the end as Arrowsmith deserts his wealthy second wife and the high-powered directorship of a research institute to pursue his dream of an independent scientific career in backwoods Vermont. - Arrowsmith (novel)
It can be speculated and reasonably defended that in his advanced age Vonnegut no longer felt up to the task of composing a conventional novel in the same way he did before. - Timequake
Ramona is referred to as illegitimate in some summaries of the novel, but chapter 3 of the novel says that Ramona's parents were married by a priest in the San Gabriel Mission. - Ramona
The novel concludes with a lengthy account of the funerals of Uncas and Cora, and Hawk-eye reaffirms his friendship with Chingachgook. - The Last of the Mohicans
The novel begins with a prologue called "Semley's Necklace", which was first published as a stand-alone story titled "Dowry of the Angyar" in Amazing Stories (September 1964). - Rocannon's World
The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, who is an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics but was fired for discovering an internal scandal. - Prey (novel)
Omega would return in the Fifth Doctor serial, Arc of Infinity (1983), the Big Finish Productions audio play Omega, the novel The Infinity Doctors and the gamebook Search for the Doctor. - The Three Doctors (Doctor Who)
The protagonist of the novel is an orphan boy called Tip. - The Marvelous Land of Oz
The unfinished novel breaks off abruptly before Švejk has a chance to be involved in any combat or enter the trenches, though it appears Hašek may have conceived that the characters would have continued the war in a POW camp, much as he himself had done. - The Good Soldier Švejk
They appear in more detail in The Golden Ocean, another O'Brian novel about the Anson expedition. - The Unknown Shore
As the novel progresses, Dick, Arthur and Andy advance in their work along the Knocknacar Hills when Arthur comes across what he describes as the most beautiful peasant girl he has ever seen. - The Snake's Pass
Most of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, notably, to Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. - James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007
The novel doesn't have a fight scene between Genichirou and Rebi Ra. - Demon City Shinjuku
On pages 126-127 (as well as pages 155, 160 and elsewhere) Vonnegut heavily implies that his use of the term "hocus pocus" is intended as a euphemism for "bullshit"; throughout the novel Vonnegut's avoidance of profanity (with the express exception of the words "god" and "hell") is excused by his convicton that profanity entitles people who don't want to hear unpleasant information to close their minds to the important underlying message, which can be understood as an allusion to the frequent attempts to ban his books on grounds of obscenity. - Hocus Pocus (novel)
The novel is a political, social, and ethical commentary on the nature of good and evil and takes place in The Land of Oz, in the years leading to Dorothy's arrival. - Wicked (Maguire novel)
Most of the novel consists of Dora's memories. - Wise Children
The novel was published by Greenberg in New York in 1951. - The Weapon Shops of Isher
As the title suggests, the novel contains analogues of historical 1942 battles, such as the German drive to, and the battle of, Stalingrad. - Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
The novel flashes back to when his parents and sister were brutally murdered and before and after Michael is bitten by a Werewolf. - The Wolf's Hour
The events in the novel take place between March 9 and March 13, 1971. - The Terminal Man
As the novel opens, the Derwatt enterprise is threatened by a disgruntled American collector, Thomas Murchison, who (correctly) surmises that one of his paintings is a forgery. - Ripley Under Ground
In a rare bit of continuity for the pulp magazines, America did not find itself fully recovered in the first novel following the end of the Purple Invasion. - Operator No. 5
The novel begins when "Edward Henry Machin first saw the smoke on May 27, 1867"—the very day of Bennett's own birth. - The Card
The novel starts with Felix and his company assaulting an inhospitable planet aptly named "Banshee". - Armor (novel)
The novel is set on a sugar plantation located halfway between the city of Santa María de Puerto Príncipe (modern-day Camagüey) and the village of Cubitas. - Sab (novel)
He loves Shelomith (the disciple Salome, depicted in the novel as a prostitute), who does not return his affections due to her unrequited love for Yeshua (Jesus). - Judas, My Brother
The novel is based on the author's real life experience. - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Every sentence has two meanings – one in the novel and one that tells something about Communism. - The Pyramid (Kadare novel)
The novel depicts their rule as a benevolent despotism, allowing freedom of religion and maintaining the urban Roman society they had conquered. - Lest Darkness Fall
The novel opens with her and her best friend, Florisa, bathing, talking of love. - La Galatea
The novel starts with a "man on the street" news interview in August 1972, in which an unnamed man (later identified as Barton George Dawes) gives his angry opinion of a new highway extension project. - Roadwork
The novel is a satire of modern celebrity culture; this is reflected in its premise, which features models-turned-terrorists. - Glamorama
The novel brought its author the 1988 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. - The Golden Gate (Seth novel)
The novel opens in early 1945. - King Rat (Clavell novel)
The novel describes a number of foreigners of various origins, as well as local Indians, highlighting the rich diversity of life in Mumbai. - Shantaram (novel)
Ferrer plays newly promoted Major Stringer of the Royal Marines, who comes up with a novel idea for a raid. - The Cockleshell Heroes
The novel is set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona, whose inhabitants epitomize ordinary Americans as they are simultaneously backhandedly celebrated and lovingly pilloried for their emergent reactions to the wonders of magic and of everyday life. - The Circus of Dr. Lao
Each person eventually gets their desired test score without the answers: Kyle's dream of becoming an architect is still alive by attending Syracuse University, Desmond ends up going to st John's, Matty becomes an actor, Francesca writes a novel (which is about six kids who conspire to steal the answers to the SAT), and Anna decides to travel to Europe for a while before starting college. - The Perfect Score
The novel is narrated by 30-year-old Barnaby, whose life has gone off the rails since he was caught robbing neighborhood homes as an adolescent. - A Patchwork Planet
The novel picks up 15 years later in the dugout of the New York Knights, a fictional National League baseball team. - The Natural
The first third of the novel provides a lengthy exploration of the characters' histories. - Cousin Bette
Grace Marks eventually does get pardoned (as did the historical Grace), and the novel tells how she changes her name and begins a new life in the United States. - Alias Grace
The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. - Silas Marner
", and the novel ends with Watanabe pondering that question. - Norwegian Wood (novel)
The novel deals with the life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, probably around 1912, just prior to World War The plot revolves around the Melekhov family of Tatarsk, who are descendants of a cossack who, to the horror of many, took a Turkish captive as a wife during the Crimean War. - And Quiet Flows the Don
The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock (pseudonym), an agent of Professor Moriarty. - The Valley of Fear
The novel ends with a face off between the Genghis Khan and the Macedon. - Warchild (Lowachee novel)
As the novel progresses, Golding explores Jocelin's growing obsession with the completion of the spire, during which he is increasingly afflicted by pain in his spine [which the reader gradually comes to realize is the result of tuberculosis]. - The Spire
A similar device was used by Kurt Vonnegut in the novel Galápagos; however, unlike Vonnegut, Houellebecq only reveals the frame to the reader in the epilogue. - Atomised
The novel becomes a meditation on modern society's fear of death and its obsession with chemical cures as Gladney seeks to obtain his own black-market supply of Dylar. - White Noise (novel)
He has written a novel based on Alice's life and while being photographed to publicize it, he flirts with the American photographer Anna Cameron (Julia Roberts). - Closer (2004 film)
The novel is written in the third-person with flashbacks to specific events in the life of Simón Bolívar, "the General". - The General in His Labyrinth
The novel covers Miller's growing inability and outright refusal to accommodate what he sees as America's hostile environment. - Tropic of Capricorn (novel)
The novel takes the form of a long review by a somewhat cantankerous unnamed Editor for the English Publication Fraser's Magazine (in which the novel was first serialized without any distinction of the content as fictional) who is upon request, reviewing the fictional German book Clothes, Their Origin and Influence by the fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (Professor of "Things in General" at Weissnichtwo University). - Sartor Resartus
Here may be a parallel between Dulcinea in Cervantes' novel and Monsignor Quixote's Lady for whom he would lay down his life. - Monsignor Quixote
(This same literary device has also been employed by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes books and Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel You Only Live Twice) And finally, perhaps in a nod to the developing continuity of the "series", Charteris brings Detective-Inspector Carn (MEET THE TIGER) back for a brief reunion with Templar at the climax. - Knight Templar (The Saint)
The novel ends with Sheba, trapped and demoralised, resigning to Barbara's dominance of her. - Notes on a Scandal
An angel named Raziel (previously in Moore's novel ) is sent to Earth to grant the wish of a child; he decides to help a boy who had witnessed the death of a man dressed as Santa Claus. - The Stupidest Angel
The novel by Naomi Mitchison, The Blood of the Martyrs (1939) is set in the months leading up to the failure of the conspiracy. - Pisonian conspiracy
The novel begins on the planet of Arrakis, 35 years before the events of the original novel Dune. - Dune: House Atreides
Nicknamed "Smike" by his Augment siblings after a handicapped character from the comic novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, he is taken to Enterprise. - Cold Station 12
Loosely related to the author's highly regarded novel The Stand, the brief story follows one evening on a place called Anson Beach, New Hampshire, with a group of teens, survivors of a catastrophic virus called A6, or "Captain Trips", that has wiped out virtually the entire population. - Night Surf
The novel concerns Phaethon's discovery that parts of his past have been edited out of his mind—apparently by himself. - The Golden Oecumene
Étienne's simplistic understanding of socialist politics and their rousing effect on him are very reminiscent of the rebel Silvère in the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon (1871). - Germinal (novel)
On the surface, the novel is a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnes—a man whose war wound has made him impotent—and the promiscuous divorcée usually identified as Lady Brett Ashley. - The Sun Also Rises
From this point on, the novel slowly cascades into a series of catastrophes for Kira and Leo. - We the Living
They invite Noel (Strachan) to make his home with them in Australia, but he declines the invitation, returns to Britain and the novel closes. - A Town Like Alice
The novel begins ten years after the war, when most factory workers have been replaced by machines. - Player Piano (novel)
This element makes the novel one of Stapledon's efforts to write "an essay in myth making". - Star Maker
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin (Michel Serrault from Happiness is in the field) has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. - Bonsoir (film)
The novel is divided into three parts. - Kokoro
The novel ends with all three of them settling down to a simple life of farming and goat keeping at Ogion's old cottage. - Tehanu
The final plot line follows Angela Mitchell, famous simstim star and the girl from the second Sprawl novel Count Zero. - Mona Lisa Overdrive
The novel focuses on Molly Bolt, the adopted daughter of a poor family, who possesses remarkable beauty and who is aware of her lesbianism from early childhood. - Rubyfruit Jungle
The novel is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. - The Day of the Locust
The novel alternates between the present and flashbacks featuring the points of view of Tony, Charis, and Roz, respectively. - The Robber Bride
Properly, the novel is considered a fixup, as each of the ten chapters was first published as a short story, six of them in Asimov's Science Fiction, between 1989 and 2003. - Roma Eterna
The novel is told from the point of view of Gilgamesh, and is primarily ambivalent about the supernatural elements of the epic. - Gilgamesh the King
Although the game has been indefinitely postponed, the backstory for Nova was released in the novel StarCraft Ghost: Nova by Keith DeCandido. - StarCraft: Ghost
The novel contains five parts, three of them describing road trips with Moriarty. - On the Road
The novel explores an unusual connection between molecular genetics and quantum computing, with criticism of some of what it considers the excesses of postmodernism and feminism. - Teranesia
The novel races towards its climax and Ben also disappears, apparently having gone off with a pretty girl whom Boris did not recognize, but Ben appeared to trust without hesitation. - Freaky Friday
Traveling between Earth and Mars, his ship—carrying Rumfoord and his dog, Kazak—entered a phenomenon known as a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, which is defined in the novel as "those places. - The Sirens of Titan
Lurie has been keeping a resilient stray from being euthanized, but at the end of the novel "gives him up" to Bev Shaw's euthanasia. - Disgrace
The novel alternates between two settings. - The Master and Margarita
Their story was familiar to Asimov from his recent reading of Robert Graves's novel Count Belisarius, and of his earlier study of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, on which the entire series is loosely based. - Foundation and Empire
The Navarinos are also featured in the novel Return of the Living Dad by Kate Orman. - Delta and the Bannermen
The Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks and the Missing Adventure Goth Opera by Paul Cornell are sequels to this serial. - State of Decay
Facets of Kerala life captured by the novel are Communism, the caste system and the Keralite Syrian Christian way of life. - The God of Small Things
Set both in the 18th century and the present day and centred on the mystery of an inscription on a rock about a death from exposure, the novel seeks to explain time and history in terms of setting and interaction. - Thursbitch
The BBC Books spin-off novel Corpse Marker by Chris Boucher is a sequel to this serial, as is Robophobia, a Seventh Doctor audio play by Nicholas Briggs. - The Robots of Death
While the woman was never identified by name, the novel insinuates that it was María Clara. - Noli Me Tángere (novel)
The novel ends with Fowler thinking about his first meeting with Phuong, and the death of Pyle. - The Quiet American
The novel begins in the year 2019, when the SETI program, at the Arecibo Observatory, picks up radio broadcasts of music from the vicinity of Alpha Centauri. - The Sparrow (novel)
This novel tells the story of Oskar Schindler, self-made entrepreneur and bon viveur who almost by default found himself saving Polish Jews from the Nazi death machine. - Schindler's Ark
The principal heroes of the novel are the musketeers. - The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
After this, the novel skips ahead a year, noting that Bambi was cared for by Nettla, and that when he got his first set of antlers he was abused and harassed by the other males. - Bambi, a Life in the Woods
The novel starts out in the seedy milieu of bars where prostitutes mingle with the hopeless flotsam that the war left behind. - Three Comrades (novel)
The novel takes place over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, during a dangerous ice storm and centers on two neighboring families, the Hoods and the Williamses, and the difficulties they have dealing with the tumultuous political and social climate of the day, in affluent suburban Connecticut, during the height of the sexual revolution. - The Ice Storm
This portion of the novel underlines the extreme dislike that Kitty feels for her brother. - Maurice (novel)
The novel recounts the story of a young British boy, Jamie Graham (named after Ballard's two first names, "James Graham"), who lives with his parents in Shanghai. - Empire of the Sun
After a scene in which former hippie Zoyd Wheeler dives through a window, something he is required to do yearly in order to keep receiving mental disability checks, the action of the novel opens with the resurfacing of federal agent Brock Vond, who (through a platoon of agents) forces Zoyd and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie out of their house. - Vineland
The setting and plot of Overman King Gainer are a loose adaptation of the novel series La Compagnie des glaces by the French writer Georges-Jean Arnaud. - Overman King Gainer
The novel is achronological and frequently shifts focus between Hoover and Trout, as well as supporting characters like Hoover's son, Bunny, and Wayne Hoover, and Kurt Vonnegut himself, who appears as the author of the book. - Breakfast of Champions
The first person narrator of the novel is Palatine Ross, a 70-year-old cleaning woman originally from New Orleans, whose childhood is dominated by poverty and loss. - Joy (Hunt novel)
The novel is written from the point of view of an anonymous narrator, who continually complains about his poor writing skills and often uses circumlocution. - Gadsby (novel)
The exact time when the novel occurs isn't specified, but it is stated to be approximately two and a half centuries since the Opening of Japan and a century and a half since the discovery of quasars, suggesting early 22nd Century. - The Gods Themselves
The novel began as a short story entitled "Wang's Carpets" which originally appeared in New Legends, a collection of short stories edited by Greg Bear (Legend, London, 1995). - Diaspora (novel)
The novel focuses on the life of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. - Oblomov
The opening episode in the novel is the release of the 108 Spirits, imprisoned under an ancient stele-bearing tortoise. - Water Margin
The original edition of the novel ends with Fran and Stu questioning whether the human race can learn from its mistakes. - The Stand
The novel ends on a somewhat optimistic note when Virginia, again alone in the empty house in Dinwiddie, receives a letter from her son telling her that he is going to leave Oxford before he has completed his two-year course at the university in order to come back and stay with his mother. - Virginia (novel)
Completed in 1900, the novel was eventually published in 1902 by William Heinemann, but only on the condition that the author took out passages which, according to Heinemann, might have offended the readers. - Mrs Craddock
In the novel Lord of the Flies, the rescue of the savage children by a passing navy officer (which author William Golding called a "gimmick") is viewed by some critics as a deus ex machina. - Deus ex machina
Divided into four chapters, each of which is further divided into three parts, the novel is a chronological narrative of four periods in the lives of Alabama and David Knight, names that are but thin disguises for their real-life counterparts. - Save Me the Waltz
According to Publishers Weekly, the novel is "[g]enerally considered a roman a clef", with its lead character, Monroe Stahr, modeled after historic film producer Irving Thalberg. - The Last Tycoon
The novel is divided into three sections, each of which comprises chapters with different narrators. - Porno (novel)
The novel begins with Peter and Mary Jackson, a couple driving cross-country in Peter's sister's car after visiting their friends the Sodersons. - Desperation (novel)
After briefly describing Interzone, the novel breaks down into sub-stories and heavily cut-up influenced passages. - Naked Lunch
The book describes encounters between Robyn Penrose, a feminist university teacher specialising in the industrial novel and women's writing and Vic Wilcox, the manager of an engineering firm. - Nice Work
The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia (賈) clan—the Rongguo House (榮國府) and the Ningguo House (寧國府)—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. - Dream of the Red Chamber
The opening pages of the novel follow Pirate Prentice, an employee of the Special Operations Executive, first in his dreams, and later around his house in wartime London. - Gravity's Rainbow
The novel begins with some insight into the life of the Brodie household, where James Brodie seems to have everyone under his thumb. - Hatter's Castle
Many characters in the novel wear the same sort of “optic chain”; all are loath to discuss how they came to do so. - Dhalgren
This novel is the story of the Berrys, a quirky New Hampshire family composed of a married couple, Win and Mary, and their five children. - The Hotel New Hampshire
The book includes a novel within a novel, a roman à clef attributed to Laura but published by Iris. - The Blind Assassin
The novel includes portrayals of Restoration fashion, including the introduction and popularization of tea in English coffeehouses and the homes of the fashionably rich; politics; and public disasters, including the plague and the Great Fire of London. - Forever Amber
The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader (she is borrowed from Disraeli's novel Sybil); Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty". - The Difference Engine
The events of the novel span from the 1950s through the 1990s. - Underworld (DeLillo novel)
He awakes in the year 2039, and at this point, the novel adopts the format of a journal that Tichy keeps to chronicle his experience in this new world. - The Futurological Congress
The novel follows the eponymous murders and their investigation as seen by Arthur Hastings, Poirot's old friend. - The A.B.C. Murders
Dr Sheppard continues writing his report on Poirot's investigation (the novel itself), admitting his guilt and that he wanted to write the account of Poirot's great failure—that is, not solving the murder of Roger Ackroyd. - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
From there, the narrator, who intervenes throughout the novel and later becomes a character in it, offers three different ways in which the novel could end: Before the second and third endings, the narrator appears as a character sharing a railway compartment with Charles. - The French Lieutenant's Woman
The novel chronicles a term in the lives of Howard and Barbara Kirk. - The History Man
The novel ends several months later with both the Trenton and Camber families trying to go on with their lives: Donna has completed her treatment for rabies, her marriage with Vic has survived, and Charity gives Brett a new, vaccinated puppy named Willie. - Cujo
The novel was originally published in three volumes in 1850 as La Tulipe Noire by Baudry (Paris). - The Black Tulip
Although D-503 expresses hope that the Benefactor shall restore "reason", the novel ends with One State's survival in doubt. - We (novel)
(Fair-haired Reggie Havershot admits earlier on in the novel that he is not particularly handsome) On the other hand, wherever Eggy (whose complexion, especially in the morning, is described as "greenish") meets Reggie in Joey's body, he thinks his drinking habits have got the better of him. - Laughing Gas (novel)
The novel tells of Anna's struggle for freedom and independence against her father's restraints, and her inward battle between wanting to please her father and wanting to help Willie Price whose father, Titus Price, commits suicide after falling into bankruptcy and debt. - Anna of the Five Towns
While they are living happily in England, with several gifts coming in for many years from the governments of every country ever targeted by the giants (notably England, Sweden, Iraq, Arabia, India, Panama, Tibet, the United States, Chile, Jersey and New Zealand), the BFG writes a book of their adventures, which is then identified as the novel itself. - The BFG
The novel covers great spans of time. - Lord of Light
The central theme of the novel is time travel using a highway that links all times and all possible histories. - Roadmarks
The novel begins in late August 1865 with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany. - Daniel Deronda
The first section of the novel is narrated by Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a source of shame to the family due to his diminished mental capacity; the only characters who show a genuine care for him are Caddy, his older sister; and Dilsey, a matriarchal servant. - The Sound and the Fury
Adaptation The novel was adapted into a radio script in three hour-long episodes by BBC Radio 4 and broadcast as the Classic Serial in 2008. - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The novel begins when Henry Pulling, a conventional and uncharming bank manager who has taken early retirement, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. - Travels with My Aunt
The novel opens with young Molly Gibson, who has been raised by her widowed father, mr Gibson. - Wives and Daughters
At the beginning of the novel Kelso has a chance meeting with Sandra Stone, the girl with whom he lost his virginity back when they were at school. - Cunt (novel)
The novel begins with the affable, intrusive narrator outlining the nature of our hero. - Joseph Andrews
Sets in ancient China, Leslie Cheung plays a young Ouyang Feng (the main antagonist in the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes) and serves as a common link to to the other young characters from the novel when he crosses path with them. - Ashes of Time
The novel turns into an analysis of the relationship between different life domains, and their place in the universe. - The Invincible
It adds an additional short novel (originally published with the Triplanetary name) which is transitional to the novel First Lensman. - Lensman series
Much of the novel focuses on the pursuit of this line of inquiry, with the passengers all coming under suspicion in turn. - Death in the Clouds
When the novel begins Bernard, the squire’s nephew and heir, brings his friend Adolphus Crosbie to Allington and introduces him to the family. - The Small House at Allington
The final vignette is an allusion to the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Days of Sodom; the intertitle reads: 120 Days of Depraved Acts, about an orgy in a castle, wherein the surviving orgiasts are ready to emerge to the light of mainstream society. - L'Age d'Or
Victoria, a writer, announces to Frederick that she needs to travel to Russia to research a novel she is working on. - The Red Violin
The novel is interspersed with extracts from Jarvis Stringer's (fictional) book on the London Underground. - King Solomon's Carpet
The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare time. - The Collector
The novel tells the story of Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman from Valognes who comes to Paris with her younger brothers and begins working as a saleswoman at the department store Au Bonheur des Dames. - Au Bonheur des Dames
In 1921, German director Murnau takes his cast and crew on-location in Czechoslovakia to shoot Nosferatu, an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. - Shadow of the Vampire
The novel opens with a prologue by Padre Monty, a character from the second half of the novel. - Tell England
The title itself, however, is a reference to a well-known phrase from Charles Dickens' 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby, and later used by Wodehouse, although it had at that time a different meaning. - All Gas and Gaiters
The novel might be easily dismissed as standard pulp fare if it had not presaged concepts popularized decades later: the sexual revolution, green consumerism, strong AI, full-immersion virtual reality as a surgical procedure (like The Matrix), desktop molecular manufacturing, global warming, and stem cell therapies. - The Man Who Awoke
Dieyi calls her "Pan Jinlian" (a "dragon lady" from the novel Golden Lotus). - Farewell My Concubine (film)
She has always been ugly, but after her mother dies and her father the King of Glome remarries, she gains a beautiful half-sister Istra, whom she loves as her own daughter, and who is known throughout the novel by the Greek version of her name, Psyche. - Till We Have Faces
When they all turn up looking for the other half of the £5 notes which are handed out, Hyde asks their opinion of the novel which is about a robbery. - The League of Gentlemen (film)
The novel ends with no suggestion that she will ever have the "brilliant career" as a writer that she desires. - My Brilliant Career
The novel ends after the beginning of the conflict, with Jessup working as an agent for the New Underground in Corpo-occupied portions of southern Minnesota. - It Can't Happen Here
The novel opens with psychiatrist Dr Alistair Crown's wife Virginia giving birth to the couple's first child. - A Solitary Grief
The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. - Jude the Obscure
The novel ends with her entering the room for an interview, which will decide whether she can leave the hospital. - The Bell Jar
The novel is divided into three volumes. - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
One element of the novel Asimov was particularly fond of was the inclusion of a scene of exposition conducted over the course of a game of chess between two of the characters. - Pebble in the Sky
The novel ends with an epilogue from the year 2099, summarizing how the Organization went on to conquer the rest of the world and how all non-white races were eliminated. - The Turner Diaries
The novel takes its form as a narrative from Weston's diary in combination with dispatches that he transmits to his publication, the fictional Times-Post. - Ecotopia
Though the world described in the novel is intended to be ideal, there's an attempt to show a conflict and its resolution with a voluntary self-punishment of a scientist whose reckless experiment caused damage. - Andromeda (novel)
In parallel with this plot, the novel also details the intense power struggle between the various war-lords, Toranaga and Ishido, and also – as a sub-text – the political maneuvering of the Protestant and Catholic powers in the Far East. - Shōgun (novel)
The novel alternates between episodes featuring Benny, Stencil and other members of the Whole Sick Crew (including Profane's sidekick Pig Bodine) in 1956 (with a few minor flashbacks), and a generation-spanning plot that comprises Stencil's attempts to unravel the clues he believes will lead him to "V". - V.
The novel takes place over a few days in late August. - The Member of the Wedding
The novel also contains philosophical discussions and parables of automata/robots, the after-life, the eleven days lost to the Gregorian calendar, slavery, feng shui and others. - Mason & Dixon
He also has more human adventures, at one point meeting the outlaw Robin Hood (who is referred to in the novel as Robin Wood). - The Sword in the Stone (novel)
The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them (a type of thoughtform). - American Gods
The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. - Lady Chatterley's Lover
It emerges that, in the past, their father had reacted to the news that Derek's English teacher, dr Sweeney, had assigned Richard Wright's novel Native Son by putting his son on his guard against blacks, and that this had changed the bright student into a racist once the father was murdered. - American History X
The novel focuses on Francis's return to Albany, and the narrative is complicated by Phelan's hallucinations of the three people, other than his son, whom he killed in the past. - Ironweed (novel)
In contrast with the omniscient narrative mode of the 1940 version, the published novel "focus[es] each chapter through the mind of one central figure, no two sequential chapters employing the same character's consciousness". - Under the Volcano
Fleming structured the novel in three sections—"Happenstance", "Coincidence" and "Enemy action"—which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. - Goldfinger (novel)
As the novel concludes, she is being taken away by the secret police, the Eyes of God, known informally as "the Eyes", under orders from Nick. - The Handmaid's Tale
The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. - Creatures of Light and Darkness
The novel uses of a variety of writing forms, including diary entries, letters, and straight narrative to tell its story. - Kalimantaan
The novel maintains a high level of ambiguity through mistaken identity and contradictions that introduce the possibility that Bateman is an unreliable narrator. - American Psycho
At the end of the novel the Postman discovers the Holnists have another organized enemy to the South. - The Postman
The novel is about Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman or "fixer". - The Fixer (novel)
The narrative voice for the novel alternates between the third person and the first person, the latter in the form of a diary kept by dr Theodore "Theo" Faron, an Oxford don. - The Children of Men
The novel ends with Lee pleading with a bedridden and dying Adam to forgive his only remaining son. - East of Eden (novel)
Most of the novel is then told in flashback as Casaubon waits in the museum. - Foucault's Pendulum
Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound. - The Red House Mystery
A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a wealthy country landowner who wants to marry Princess Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Oblonsky. - Anna Karenina
The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers. - Vurt
One of the most unusual, and possibly unique, features of the book is that, while it appears at first sight to be an expanded version of Berkeley's short story "The Avenging Chance", the eventual solution of the crime in the full-length novel is quite different from that in the short story. - The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Tleilaxu control a number of planets but are originally connected with Tleilax, the sole planet of the star Thalim; Herbert's 1965 novel Dune notes that the Tleilaxu are the source of "twisted" Mentats. - Bene Tleilax
The novel is set in a distant future when humans are part of an interstellar civilization called the ConSentiency composed of many species. - The Dosadi Experiment
As the novel opens, it is revealed that Calebans, who are beings visible to other sentient species as stars, have been disappearing one by one. - Whipping Star
Now able to view his late wife more objectively, Bartlow goes on to write a novel based upon her (something Shields had previously encouraged him to do) and wins a Pulitzer Prize for it. - The Bad and the Beautiful
The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South. - Light in August
During the following year, Boyes suffered from repeated bouts of gastric illness, while Harriet had bought several poisons under assumed names to test a plot point of her novel then in progress. - Strong Poison
The novel is set in a world that is tidally locked. - Jack of Shadows
The novel follows Oedipa Maas, a California housewife who becomes entangled in a convoluted historical mystery, when her ex-lover dies having named her as the co-executor of his estate. - The Crying of Lot 49
The novel takes place in 1864-1869, beginning a few months after the death of Saccard's second wife Renée (see La curée). - L'Argent
Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright. - La Curée
The novel opens in 1856 with Rougon's career at a low ebb. - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
The fictional town of Plassans (loosely based on the real city of Aix-en-Provence, where Zola grew up) is established as the setting for the novel and described in intimate detail, and then we are introduced to the eccentric heroine Adelaide Fouque, later known as "Tante Dide", who becomes the common ancestor for both the Rougon and Macquart families. - The Fortune of the Rougons
The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and confidante to the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. - War and Peace
Then, Belvedere's novel (described as "A Screaming Satire on suburban manners and morals") is published and becomes a national bestseller. - Sitting Pretty (1948 film)
The novel is set out to a strict timetable. - The 120 Days of Sodom
Although the novel fits into the storyline of The Vampire Chronicles, the vast majority of it consists of Memnoch's account of cosmology and theology. - Memnoch the Devil
Trent's Last Case is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. - Trent's Last Case
The novel has six parts, the first (The Beginning of the End) taking place in Scotland in 1938. - The Keys of the Kingdom
The novel has a multitude of named characters; see the List of Midnight's Children characters. - Midnight's Children
The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. - The Newcomes
The novel opens in April 1800. - Master and Commander
The novel is also a murder mystery, and the beautiful heroine soon becomes a damsel in distress herself. - Sliver (novel)
The first person narrator of the novel is an unnamed medical doctor turned politician (called Dr Stephen Fleming in the Louis Malle film) whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent. - Damage (Hart novel)
As the novel progresses, Raskolnikov is introduced to the detective Porfiry, who begins to suspect him of the murder purely on psychological grounds. - Crime and Punishment
The novel begins with Stevens receiving a letter from a former colleague, the housekeeper Miss Kenton, describing her married life, which he believes hints at an unhappy marriage. - The Remains of the Day
(Forster is clear that the novel is "not concerned with the very poor". - Howards End (film)
The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young English woman's first visit to Florence, at a time when upper middle class English women were starting to lead independent, adventurous lives. - A Room with a View
Pym's friend, the British writer Robert Liddell, appears in the novel in the guise of dr Nicholas Parnell. - Some Tame Gazelle
The novel is set in an era in which interstellar travel is in the process of being discovered and perfected. - Nemesis (Asimov novel)
In Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit are a secretive matriarchal order who have achieved somewhat superhuman abilities through physical and mental conditioning and the use of the drug melange. - Bene Gesserit
As the novel progresses, the jobs and means the family uses to stay alive slowly lead to their physical and moral decay. - The Jungle
The rest of the novel incorporates several narratives, including Zampanò's report on the fictional film; Truant's autobiographical interjections; a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom; a small transcript of interviews of many people regarding The Navidson Record by Navidson's partner, Karen; and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes. - House of Leaves
The novel begins as Dr Rivers, an army psychiatrist at Craiglockhart War Hospital, learns of poet Siegfried Sassoon's declaration against the continuation of the war. - Regeneration (novel)
A mainstay of the novel is a detailed analysis of philosophical, political, personal, economical, and geological experiences of the characters. - Mars trilogy
Told from the point of view of Professor Bill Reynolds, a scholar in the (formerly) fictitious discipline of 'micropaloentology', this novel is set in the 24th and 25th Centuries, when the solar system has been colonised. - The Road to Mars
The novel ends with Peter restored as Hegemon, Petra reunited with Bean, a Caliph in command of the world's Muslims, a China severely reduced in territory and forced to accept humiliating surrender terms, and the embryos still lost. - Shadow Puppets
The novel captures the atmosphere in a small town suddenly shaken by catastrophe. - The Sweet Hereafter (novel)
The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. - The Thirty-Nine Steps
As the novel progresses, John learns of a substance called ice-nine, created by the late Hoenikker and now secretly in the possession of his children. - Cat's Cradle
One interpretation of the end of the novel is that Beran Panasper is only in nominal charge of the planet, on the sufferance of the warrior caste, and that it is uncertain what will become of him and his plans of re-uniting the populace of Pao. - The Languages of Pao
The novel deals with several issues related to the peculiarities of language, how conditions of life shape the formation of words and meaning, and how the words themselves can shape the actions of people. - Babel-17
Maugham begins by characterizing his story as not really a novel but a thinly veiled true account. - The Razor's Edge
The novel closes with the men confessing that they had loved the girls, but that they will never know the motives behind the suicides. - The Virgin Suicides
The novel graphically describes the brutality of the civil war in Spain during this time. - For Whom the Bell Tolls
The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. - The Great Gatsby
The penultimate scene takes place in a police station in a small suburban town, where nearly every significant character in the novel is present; their common link being Marcus. - About a Boy (novel)
There is also Gregory Maguire's novel Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which gives the classic story from the view of one of the ugly stepsisters. - Cinderella
The novel chronicles the life of Amelia, the only daughter of newspaper tycoon Max de Monde who, after having spoiled Amelia beyond hope while she was still young, abandons her when she becomes pregnant. - A Vicious Circle
The novel states that Eliza made this decision because she fears losing her only surviving child (she had already miscarried two children). - Uncle Tom's Cabin
The novel chronicles the lives of a group of Jews - or rather, a Jewish family - in theSA, in particular New York City, over a period of roughly seven months during 1991 and 1992. - Just Like That (novel)
When Sandra Pickering, one of the students, belatedly submits some chapters from the novel she is writing, Helen immediately recognises one of the male characters as having been modelled on her late husband Martin. - Thinks ...
The novel begins with a brief foreword, which reads: "Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves. - Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
The novel builds up to a sad climax, suggesting that all men—with the possible exception of Tom—are alike, since they all beat their wives, especially when they have been drinking. - Liza of Lambeth
When the novel opens, Tierwater is a 75-year-old disillusioned ex-con living on the estate of a famous pop star in the Santa Ynez Valley, north of Santa Barbara, in California and looking after the latter's private menagerie. - A Friend of the Earth
Denny is later fired from the museum, and begins collecting stones from around the city to build his "dream home;" Palahniuk based this portion of the novel on the true story of Ferdinand Cheval. - Choke (novel)
The novel recounts several of these interventions and Zakalwe's attempts to come to terms with his own past. - Use of Weapons
Although Gurgeh never discovers the whole truth, in the final sentences of the novel the narrator is revealed to be Flere-Imsaho, who had been disguised as Mawhrin-Skel to manipulate Gurgeh into taking part in the game. - The Player of Games
The novel is based on Pride and Prejudice. - Bridget Jones's Diary
The protagonist of the novel is Raymond Davis Garraty, a 16-year-old boy from the town of Pownal in Androscoggin County, Maine. - The Long Walk
A first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home sharing his story with fellow resident Elaine Connelly in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor's linoleum. - The Green Mile (novel)
Sandra masters dr McCarron's novel (for the 1930s) breathing method intended to help her through childbirth. - The Breathing Method
The novel ends with Blaine and Roland's ka-tet speeding through the Waste Lands, a radioactive land of mutated animals and ancient ruins created by something that is claimed to have been far worse than a nuclear war, on the way to Topeka, the end of the line. - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
His first novel becomes a best-seller and a successful film. - The Body (King novella)
The novel is divided into three parts, following a third-person omniscient narrative with no main character. - Childhood's End
The novel continues from this point mainly as a Socratic dialogue between Ishmael and his new student as they hash out what Ishmael refers to as "how things came to be this way" for mankind. - Ishmael (novel)
The novel closes with the following passage:. - The Red Badge of Courage
The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist. - Lost Horizon
The novel is set in the period between late 1925 and late 1927. - Dodsworth (novel)
The novel begins with Virgil Adams confined to bed with an unnamed illness. - Alice Adams (novel)
The novel takes its beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. - The Way of All Flesh
Set in the 1910s at "the Shore" of New Jersey, the novel explores issues of race and class in early 20th-century America. - Imitation of Life (novel)
The novel is divided into five books. - A Farewell to Arms
(Haggis pakora becomes a staple of the cult's cuisine) The novel opens shortly before the Luskentyrian Festival of Love, held every four years, about nine months before every leap year day (29 February). - Whit (novel)
The novel opens in 1970 with Daniel Boone Davis, an engineer and inventor, well into a long drinking binge. - The Door into Summer
Next, they visit Solaria, where they find that the Solarians, who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire, have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodites, generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact. - Foundation and Earth
The book's central crime is a murder, which takes place before the novel opens. - The Caves of Steel
This was edited and changed by Heinlein's publishers, as was a discussion early in the novel in which MacRae expresses strong support for adults and older children being free to carry handguns, and opposition to any government which would restrict that. - Red Planet (novel)
The novel is linked to Heinlein's short story They by the term "the Glaroon", and to his earlier novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by referring to the Moon colonies "Luna City" and "Tycho Under". - Job: A Comedy of Justice
The stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters. - The Joy Luck Club (novel)
The novel is set in a dystopian version of 1988, following a Second Civil War which led to the collapse of the United States' democratic institutions. - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
At the end of the novel Frank is alerted of Eric's imminent return when he sees a dog that has been burned alive and discovers Eric’s camp site; This knowledge incites Frank’s father to get drunk and then forget to conceal the keys to his study, where Frank discovers male hormone drugs, tampons and what appears to be the remains of his own genitals in a jar. - The Wasp Factory
Despite the novel approach of the family's being (mostly) supernatural creatures (except for niece Marilyn, who is "normal"), the show followed the typical family sitcom formula of the era—the well-meaning father, the nurturing mother, the eccentric live-in relative, the naïve teenager and the precocious kid. - The Munsters
The novel is set prior to the Constitution of 1782 and tells the story of four generations of Rackrent heirs through their steward, Thady Quirk. - Castle Rackrent
(In reality, Dou Jiande was executed, but in the novel he lives on as a monk) Mulan is given leave to journey back to her homeland, and once arrangements were made for Mulan's parents to relocate, it is expected that they will all be living in the princess's old capital of Leshou (, modern Xian County, Hebei). - Hua Mulan
The novel is a first-person narrative from the perspective of the title character. - Jane Eyre
As the novel opens, it is 1980. - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
While much of the film's dialogue is taken verbatim from the novel, the film does not follow the novel exactly. - Black Narcissus
The Hunting of the Snark shares its fictional setting with Lewis Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" published in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). - The Hunting of the Snark
The laboratory is in turmoil as the novel begins. - Sixth Column
Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks (including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches), expounding on their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world [these themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell]. - From Hell
Martha also reveals the truth about George's creative writing escapades: he had tried to publish a novel about a boy who accidentally killed both of his parents (with the implication that the deaths were actually murder), but Martha's father would not let it be published. - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. - Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)
The novel contains several framed narratives: Garp's first novella, The Pension Grillparzer; "Vigilance", a short story; and the first chapter of his novel, The World According to Bensenhaver. - The World According to Garp
The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, "I'm sorry, but there is bad news," and this alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core. - The Forge of God
The novel ends with Kip learning that America has bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - The English Patient
The end of the novel has Nettie, Samuel, Olivia, Adam, and Tashi arriving at Celie's house. - The Color Purple
They are only reunited near the end of the novel Queen of the Damned. - The Queen of the Damned
The novel opens with the marriage in June 1857, of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, childlike blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, a middle-aged, rich, and kind widower. - Lady Audley's Secret
The novel is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. - How Green Was My Valley
The prequel novel New Spring takes place during the Aiel War and depicts the discovery by certain Aes Sedai that the Dragon has been Reborn. - The Wheel of Time
He finally commits to writing his novel The Bottle, dedicated to her, which will recount the events of the weekend. - The Lost Weekend (film)
The novel is framed as the unnamed protagonist delivering his personal report on "the IPCRESS affair" directly to the Minister of Defence, thus making the novel itself the 'IPCRESS File' of the title. - The IPCRESS File
Catherine, in accordance with her novel reading, expects the abbey to be exotic and frightening. - Northanger Abbey
The novel opens in London in AF 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar). - Brave New World
The novel is set in a future a few decades ahead of the 1960s, when it was written. - The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
He finishes the novel about her adventure and gives it to her, curing her of "the disease of images". - Until the End of the World
The plot of the novel varies between each of the published versions. - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the "cyberpunk" genre. - The Shockwave Rider
The novel opens with Rico aboard the space corvette Rodger Young (named after Medal of Honor recipient Rodger Wilton Young), serving with the platoon known as "Rasczak's Roughnecks" (named after the platoon leader, Lieutenant Rasczak); about to embark on a raid against a colony inhabited by "Skinnies" (allies of the Arachnids). - Starship Troopers
The novel opens in 2850 AD on Earth. - Ringworld
The novel opens with Mrs Bennet trying to persuade Mr Bennet to visit an eligible bachelor, Mr Bingley, who has arrived in the neighborhood. - Pride and Prejudice
Like its successor VALIS, this novel is autobiographical. - Radio Free Albemuth
The novel is set in the year 1992, by which humanity has colonized the Moon and psychic powers are common. - Ubik
As the novel opens, strange things begin to happen to Gumm. - Time Out of Joint
Up to the point where the novel begins, New York City-based Perky Pat (orP) Layouts, Inc, has held a monopoly on this product, as well as on the illegal trade in the drug CAN-D which makes the shared hallucinations possible. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The plot of the novel has two distinct movements: the events at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and the move to Silicon Valley and the "Oop. - Microserfs
The story begins in fictional st Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River "forty to fifty years ago" (the novel having been published in 1884). - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states initially, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. - Gone with the Wind (novel)
Nearly three centuries before the events of the first novel (see backstory), the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros were united under the Targaryen dynasty by Aegon I and his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys, with Aegon Targaryen becoming the first king of the whole of the continent of Westeros, save for the southerly Dorne. - A Song of Ice and Fire
The novel is divided into three parts: "The Hearth and the Salamander", "The Sieve and the Sand", and "Burning Bright". - Fahrenheit 451
The events portrayed in the novel take place chronologically and largely in England and Transylvania during the 1890s and all transpire within the same year between the 3rd of May and the 6th of November. - Dracula
Grand begins working on his novel again. - The Plague

Example sentences for "novel" in interesting articles

A novel role for glucose 6-phosphatase in the small intestine in the control of glucose homeostatis. - High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India
But behind the appeal of Indian food — what makes it so novel and so delicious — is also a stranger and subtler truth. In a large new analysis of more than 2,000 popular recipes, data scientists have discovered perhaps the key reason why Indian food tastes so unique: It does something radical with flavors, something very different from what we tend to do in the United States and the rest of Western culture. - Data-Crunching Indian Recipes
Dan Grover articulates what many want to say with regard to bots, design and why bots may not replace apps.Imagining the future of apps and sharing novel ideas on the subject has became a trend amongst strong opinionated (smart) minds of the human race. - ChatBots and the future of Apps in India
His novel "Arzee the Dwarf" is published by New York Review Books. - India's Pointless Search for 'Black Money'
“There are certain things we can prevent and we need to design our society in a way that mitigates the effect of these natural disasters and man-made disasters.” A student of environmental engineering at Northwestern University, Jain had devised a novel system that not only would deal with the problem of public defecation, but also provide a way to pay for its upkeep. The waste from the facilities is collected in a cement tank where it is converted to biogas. - Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)
At least 400 students were expelled for cheating even as authorities claimed that they were trying their best to ensure free and fair examinations.While asking students to strip down to their underwear seems to be a novel measure, last year the Central Board of Secondary Education found itself in the middle of a controversy after disallowing women from wearing hijabs to the examination centres for the All India Pre Medical Entrance Test. - What India Is Doing To Stop Cheating At Board Exams
Johnson & Johnson's bedaquiline, the first novel TB treatment to be released in some 40 years, can also be effective. - Supercharged Tuberculosis, Made in India
And I told you the story above not to make myself sound like a character out of a Horatio Alger novel but to make a point: I saw, I listened, and I learned. - Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
And I told you the story above not to make myself sound like a character out of a Horatio Alger novel but to make a point: I saw, I listened, and I learned. - Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
And when they ran an automated spell check against the manuscript they found that over 100 words in the 90,000 word novel contained that dreaded little line. - Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
With new continents providing players quicker ways to advance and novel locations to explore, many older zones have simply become bygone curiosities. So what are the abandoned parts of WoW? Unfortunately, the game designers declined to comment, so it was left to me to do some on-the-digital-ground reporting. What an attractive young man. I reactivated Baerf, my level 86 troll rogue. - Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft
The bacteria have never come across man-made antibiotics, so do not have a resistance to them."Our work, and the work of others, suggests that antibiotic resistance is not a novel concept," says microbiologist Hazel Barton of the University of Akron, Ohio, who led the study. - Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms
My coin-collecting algorithm uses a novel forces-based mechanism to control movement. - A Programming War Between 545 Wizards
The legal issues are novel — a classic example of how technology has lapped the law. - Microsoft fights U.S. warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
"But they said the project, which has proved especially useful in finding criminals who discard cellphones frequently to thwart government tracking, employed routine investigative procedures used in criminal cases for decades and posed no novel privacy issues," the Times wrote. - AT&T gives DEA 26 years of phone call records to wage war on drugs
He loved beginning new worlds and novel strategies for surviving in them. - Player stuck in an eternal Civ II war
⇧ Let me give you an example from personal experience. I needed to develop a bunch of novel algorithms to “screen” 15 million small, chemical compounds with regard to a very problem specific hypothesis. - Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars (2015)
The problem he faced was that the Soviet army was seen to have a three-to-one edge in conventional forces, leaving America only with its nuclear forces to deter the Soviets from advancing into Europe.The answer, concocted by both public and private experts, was to create a “radically novel and highly sophisticated offset strategy.” Through technology, America would offset the Soviet military superiority on the battlefield. - A Stark Nuclear Warning
In its attention to detail and to the candidates' personal struggles, the book can read more like a novel - a style of political reporting that at that time had never been seen before.Writing in The Wall Street Journal, political reporter David M. - Books Warren Buffett thinks you should read
Ricks | 2 days ago Book review: 'American War' — a grim novel about a second … Thomas E. - Africa's Forever Wars: Why the continent's conflicts never end
The boosts are novel and fun enough, apparently, to justify the cost, and he also argues that they can help him get a higher score. Of course, the high Fruit Pop score is itself illusory. - Game in-app purchases are warping kids’ understanding of basic economic ideas
In specific, often the alternatives assume (or require) cooperative daemon processes in order to fully realize their benefits; systemd is deliberately designed so that it does not and can fully manage even existing obstreperous Unix daemons with their willful backgrounding and other inconvenient behaviors. (I don't know the field of Linux and Unix init-like systems well enough to say whether or not features like socket activation and clever use of control groups are genuinely novel in systemd or simply the first time I've become aware of them. - Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't
There was nothing novel about the on-screen user interface–to choose something, you navigated through nested menus, a concept that harked back to Windows 95. - The Great Tech War Of 2012
The tax prep thing I use changes every year to look a little more Web Two Point Oh (in that special don’t-quite-get-it way unique to financial institutions), and this year they’ve unveiled quite a novel monstrosity: their own scrollbar! Yes, they’ve hidden the native scrollbar and replaced it with one that drifts lazily up and down, taking several whole seconds to come to a stop after a single click of the mouse wheel. - We Have Always Been at War with UI
window.__PREFETCH_DATA = {"id":"5886b72e4e4993458da743f6","nsfb":false,"nsfw":false,"web_id":"4x3k33","title":"The Author of Our Best SF Military Novel Explains the Future of War","body":"\u003Cp\u003EFor my money, the best novel to read about the future of war today, in 2015, was published in 1974. - The Author of Our Best SF Military Novel Explains the Future of War
Inside were two rolls of film from British intelligence — pictures of the pages of a Russian-language novel titled “Doctor Zhivago.” The book, by poet Boris Pasternak, had been banned from publication in the Soviet Union. - During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union
In 1945, Council picked out an older novel by F. - Publishers Gave Away 123M Books During World War II
So militaries from the two countries reportedly turned to one of the most novel weapons of the 21st century: malware. - Puzzle box: The quest to crack the worlds most mysterious malware warhead
It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognised the features with the naked eye. It’s unfortunately typical of the sea serpent’s treatment over the years that my first response on reading this was to write a novel about what might have happened next. Perhaps I should have started by looking further into what actually happened, which initiated a debate that remains unresolved. - Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility
“The photos and videos that appeared in the news from the protests cemented the mask as the symbol of Anonymous.”Warner Brothers did not respond to a request for comment on the mask’s newfound popularity as a tool of protesters.Alan Moore, the author of the graphic novel on which the movie is based, could not be reached for comment, but in a 2008 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he expressed how proud he was of the mask’s role in the protests of the Church of Scientology. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “That pleased me,” he said. - Masked Protesters Aid Time Warners Bottom Line
René Carmille, a French administrator who had created a novel punch-card system for semi-automated analysis of population data to help with mobilisation against the Nazis, attempted to subvert its later use by the Vichy government to identify Jews. - Statisticians in World War II
I don't think that's a particularly novel message but it's good to see it articulated well by a popular and rich purple cow [Seth]. Pingback: Seth Godin Repost « Mbakardjieva’s Weblog() Jeremy Campbell You had great curiosity and passionate questions, Seth loves that kind of stuff and I can tell he really likes you. - Andrew Warner's latest interview with Seth Godin
When they do get the job, the broker often pockets a cut and can even sue if the employee quits or switches jobs. Cut to India where hundreds of young men line up outside the offices of the very same labour brokers, ready to pay out large sums for their American dream. The nightmarish story of the 'indentured' Indian tech worker in America has found its most recent rendering in a graphic novel published by The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), a non-profit American organization. - From Techies to Slaves: Murky Underbelly of Indian H1B Visa Holders
The competition to be first with the new novel technique often supersedes the need to ensure that the foundation built upon is solid! [That’s my opinion of the ecology field that I’m relatively familiar with, and which in my opinion is too quick to call itself a “hard” science to begin with!] Reply howard waldow on November 25, 2015 at 2:51 am JS, I agree a great deal with what M. - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
The State Department only became suspicious that the Soviets had developed this novel bug in the early 1950s, when British and American military radio operators monitoring Soviet military radio traffic independently and accidentally picked up the voices on their receivers that appeared to belong to their respective diplomats. - How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. For 7 Years
Another novel enterprise was the launch of the annual Old School Bluegrass Camp with their musician friend Jenny Whiteley. - A family converts a decommissioned school into a home and bed-and-breakfast
In systems (e.g., database systems, operating systems, networking, some parts of human-computer interaction), you optimize for novel engineering efforts and don't offer as many rigorous proofs that your system is better than another. - The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs
And you probably got turned on by the novel ideas that college introduces, which made it all go down easier. - School Is to Submit
And he didn't want to spend months writing a novel he wouldn't be able to sell. - Stephen King – How did a misfit high school girl change the author's life?
Loukaitis was obsessed with Stephen King’s novel “Rage” (written under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman), about a high-school student who kills his algebra teacher with a handgun. - Thresholds of Violence: How School Shootings Spread
It makes me better positioned to imagine novel approaches to the way people produce and consume information.But let's go back to school.Because I can honestly count on one hand (okay, a finger) the number of journalism professors who get it. - Rethinking J-school
A Silicon Valley software developer will come up with a novel technology idea, such as a new database. - Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise Software Is Still Old School
When we combine general relativity with quantum theory, we find moderately strong evidence that wormholes cannot exist after all—but we just don’t know for sure yet. How did wormholes lead to your interest in time travel? In Carl Sagan’s original version of his novel Contact, he had his heroine traveling through a black hole to a distant part of the universe, and he asked me for advice. - Kip Thorne: The Man Who Imagined Wormholes and Schooled Hawking (2007)
We already had title sheets due and done, a math quiz on a variety of things on the second week, a novel study going on, history project packages, band (in which everyone had to play an instrument), and artworks in which we had strict time limits, and were not allowed to take home to work on. I didn’t, and still don’t, know the entire picture, so to speak. - Why Do Schools Stigmatize "Gifted Children"?
Why might they work?The novel approach is focused on the natural defence mechanisms built into brain cells.When a virus hijacks a brain cell it leads to a build-up of viral proteins. - Scientists hope they've found a drug to stop neurodegenerative brain diseases
We're now going to see the truth."A web portal has been opened where anyone can play with Gaia data and look for novel phenomena. - Gaia space telescope plots a billion stars
Many people may be rediscovering Cervantes because of the search, he said.Born near Madrid in 1547, Cervantes has been dubbed the father of the modern novel for The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615.The book is thought to be one of the most widely read and translated books in the world. - Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid
Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick was based on a real sperm whale attack that destroyed the Essex whaling ship in 1820. - Freedivers who swim with whales
The standard solution - iron supplements or tablets to increase iron intake - isn't working.The tablets are neither affordable nor widely available, and because of the side-effects people don't like taking them.Lump of ironDr Charles had a novel idea. - Why an iron fish can make you stronger
At Seoul Global High School, Won June-Lee, Yerim Jin and Minjun Kim were studying 1984 - the George Orwell novel in which Big Brother first appears - when the BBC visited.Their opinions all followed the same line: parents are right to have fears about what children are doing on the internet, but the kids are also entitled to challenge and negotiate what they are allowed to see. - South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
Another novel addition to the zoo of cosmic building blocks might be the particle responsible for dark matter, which makes up some 27% of the Universe.Because dark matter is expected to be "invisible" at sub-atomic as well as astronomical scales, physicists will have to look for indirect evidence of its production. - Large Hadron Collider to turn on 'data tap'

Meaning of "novel" in English

pleasantly new or different
original and of a kind not seen before
a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Example
- he burned all the novels
an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

Meaning of "novel" in Hindi

कथा ( Katha, kathaa)
कहानी ( Kahani, kahanee)
उपन्यास ( Upanyas, upanyaas)
नयी तरह का ( Nayi tarah ka, nayee tarah kaa)
नवीन ( Navin, naveen, nawin)
नया ( Naya, nayaa)
अनोखा ( Anokha, anokhaa)
अनूठा ( Anutha, anoothaa)

Synonyms of "novel"

refreshing
new
fresh

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