The Harry Potter books, perhaps the most successful book series in my lifetime, was rejected 12 times before it got published. The Help by Kathryn Stockett was rejected 60 times. Roots by Alex Haley ...
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A slippery slope to an Orwellian future.That’s what Bartlesville residents are concerned is happening with Bartlesville ...
The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really is stranger than fiction. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer's having an easy life.
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
The opening page of Malka Older’s new book says simply ... How can stories and myths help sustain us? But The Siege of Burning Grass isn’t just a thoughtful consideration of war and ...
Now, forty-five years on, I think I’m finally there. I’m writing this book before my memories of half a century ago tip over into that chasm of forgetfulness that shadows old age," Spencer ...
Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...