"had found his groove and his leading character. Robert Langdon was carried forward to the enormously successful ""The Da Vinci Code"", and ""Angels & Demons"" rode its coattails to worldwide popularity, and Langdon's ambigrams went along for the ride. An expanded second edition of Wordplay was published in 2005 by Broadway Books/Random House, followed shortly by British and French editions. Robert Langdon was, to some degree, patterned after John Langdon. Both are university professors; Robert Langdon studies symbols, with a particular focus on religious iconography; John Langdon designs symbols, and exhibits a distinct interest in philosophy. John creates ambigrams, Robert"
"The Lion Wakes The Lion Wakes is the first novel of the ""Kingdom"" series by Scottish writer of historical fiction, Robert Low, released on 14 April 2011 through Harper. The novel was well received. The story revolves around the fictional character of Hal Sientcler of Herdmanston. 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 book follows the beginning of the story of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, culminating in the Battle of Falkirk, during the Wars of"
"This River Awakens This River Awakens is the first novel by Canadian author Steve Lundin, best known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson. The book was first published in 1998, with funding by the ""Manitoba Arts Council"". 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. The novel is set in the fictional town of Middlecross, Canada, a small town not far from the city. Owen Brand and his family move to Middlecross in an attempt to escape poverty. Twelve-year-old Owen falls"
"during his adaptation that the first cut of the movie was three hours long; he shortened it to 105 minutes by trimming subplots, stories and unnecessary scenes. Waking the Dead (novel) Waking the Dead is a 1986 novel by Scott Spencer. The book, Spencer's fourth, was adapted in 2000 into a film of the same name, starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly. The book is a love story about two passionate liberals with vastly different approaches to their ideologies: Fielding Pierce is a lawyer and aspiring politician, and Sarah Williams is a social activist who despises the political system. During"
"""Slow Learner"" collection, as well as in ""V"". ""North Gladiola"", a 1985 novel by James Wilcox, opens with a reference to Manon Lescaut, and mentions the character again later in the text. The title of the novel is paraphrased in James Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"" at 203.21 as ""Nanon L'Escaut"", which also refers to the 17th-century French courtesan Ninon de l'Enclos and to the Escaut River. In the novel ""Murder on the Ballarat Train"" by Kerry Greenwood Miss Henderson was reading the book on the train when her mother was murdered. In the novel ""Clouds of Witness"" by Dorothy L. Sayers,"
"The Discovery of Slowness The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: ""Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit"") is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second as a hymn of praise to ""slowness,"" a quality which Nadolny's fictional Franklin possesses in abundance. Published in Germany in 1983, its fame spread through the English translation by Ralph Freedman, first published in the United States by Viking Penguin in 1987; in Nadolny's native Germany it has also been the subject of television programs, experimental films, and"
"I could kiss the page."" and, of the novel as a whole, ""It's grand–lively, colourful, heavy on the reeking, captivating, saucy, villanous, honest."" The Lion Wakes The Lion Wakes is the first novel of the ""Kingdom"" series by Scottish writer of historical fiction, Robert Low, released on 14 April 2011 through Harper. The novel was well received. The story revolves around the fictional character of Hal Sientcler of Herdmanston. 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 book"
"was gone. He nominates a new leader, and prepares to do what he must, starting with rebuilding the School. The Dawning Light The Dawning Light is a 1959 science fiction novel published under the name Robert Randall, collaborative pseudonym of American writers Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett. It depicts the changes in the society of the fictional planet Nidor, a world perpetually covered in dense cloud, inhabited by humanoids resembling humans but differing in several respects, notably in being covered from head to foot in short downy fur. The technological level of the society is about that of Renaissance Europe,"
"The Dawning Light The Dawning Light is a 1959 science fiction novel published under the name Robert Randall, collaborative pseudonym of American writers Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett. It depicts the changes in the society of the fictional planet Nidor, a world perpetually covered in dense cloud, inhabited by humanoids resembling humans but differing in several respects, notably in being covered from head to foot in short downy fur. The technological level of the society is about that of Renaissance Europe, and has been that way for thousands of years. In the novel the main characters are struggling to throw"
"in with a gang of three boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent alcoholic. In the summer break from school, Owen and his friends find a body washed up on the riverbank. The discovery sends reverberations through the small community. The novel deals with the coming of age of the young characters, and with the past troubles of the adult characters. This River Awakens This River Awakens is the first novel by Canadian author Steve Lundin, best known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson. The book was first published in 1998, with funding by"
"Light as ""When it is possible to distinguish between black and white"" and Last Light as ""When it is no longer possible to distinguish black from white. The tanks then begin to withdraw"". The symbolic meaning is clear. The novel begins with Sergeant ""Paddy"" Donovan (likely based on Sergeant ""Buck"" Kite, a winner of three Military Medals) training a mostly-new tank crew around Aldershot, in the spring of 1944. Donovan is highly experienced, having fought in the North African Campaign and is invaluable as a leader but shows signs of battle fatigue. He is given a spell of leave with"
"The Awakening (Chopin novel) The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend"
"business world, where seminars for executives on how to follow the philosophy of slowness became, for a time, ""de rigueur"". Nadolny wrote the foreword to an important non-fiction work on the 1845 Franklin Expedition, ""Der eisige Schlaf"", published as ""Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition"" in the original English. The character descriptions refer, for simplicity, unless otherwise stated, to the protagonist John Franklin. The Discovery of Slowness The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: ""Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit"") is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of"
"sailor take warning"""". Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel) Red Sky at Morning is a 1968 novel by Richard Bradford. It was made into a 1971 film of the same name. The book follows Josh Arnold, a young man whose family relocates from Mobile, Alabama to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. It was regarded as a ""true delight"" (""Washington Post Book World"") and a ""novel of consequence"" (""New York Times Book Review""). Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story. The title of the novel comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme, """"Red"
"the rebels, requiring every sister to re-swear her allegiances. Fifty sisters are exposed and executed, while twenty are able to escape. Taking advantage of the weakened White Tower defenses following the Seanchan raid, the rebels prepare an immediate attack. Just before the attack is mounted, the Tower Aes Sedai announce that Elaida was captured in the Seanchan raid, and that they would have Egwene as their leader, the Amyrlin Seat. The rebels return and they begin rebuilding the Tower. Under the pen name Robert Jordan, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. began writing the intended final book, ""A Memory of Light"", before"
"four-word design reading, “EARTH/AIR/FIRE/WATER”, in perfect rotational symmetry, and his accompanying ambigrams of each word individually. Soon thereafter, Brown asked Langdon to recreate those ambigrams in a more antiquated and sinister style, and the word “Illuminati” as well. He declined to tell Langdon any more about what he had in mind for his next novel. Brown was thrilled with Langdon's reworked ambigrams, and months later let him know that he would name the protagonist (Robert Langdon) in his honor. ""Angels & Demons"" did not take the world by storm any more than had ""Digital Fortress"", Brown's first effort. But Brown"
"the Morning"" (1929). Mr Standfast Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Greenmantle"" (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"", to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of ""Pilgrim's Progress"" to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and"
"Leviathan Wakes Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It is the first book in the ""Expanse"" series, followed by ""Caliban's War"" (2012), ""Abaddon's Gate"" (2013), ""Cibola Burn"" (2014), ""Nemesis Games"" (2015), ""Babylon's Ashes"" (2016), and ""Persepolis Rising"" (2017). ""Leviathan Wakes"" was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was adapted for television in 2015 as the first and part of the second season of ""The Expanse"" by Syfy. ""Leviathan Wakes"""
"the anonymous ""Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time"" (1819), and a few months later ""Ivanhoe"" by Walter Scott, 1819. ""Ivanhoe"" was Scott's first novel where history and romance is combined. Robin Hood in this book is the saviour of the nation. The Upper classes need the working classes as much as the working classes rely on their 'betters'. Scott's tale is significant because it is the first time that Robin is presented as an Anglo-Saxon freedom fighter, a theme which many later Victorian Robin Hood novels would utilise. The next novel following Scott was Thomas Love Peacock's novella"
"The Sleeper Awakes The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899. The novel was originally published, as ""When the Sleeper Wakes"","
"On December 7 of that year the publisher Tor Books announced that fantasy author Brandon Sanderson was to finish ""A Memory of Light"". Sanderson, a longtime fan of the series, was chosen by Jordan's widow Harriet McDougal partly because she liked Sanderson's novels and partly because of a eulogy he had written for Jordan. On March 30, 2009, Tor Books announced that ""A Memory of Light"" would be split into three volumes, with Brandon Sanderson citing timing and continuity reasons. The first volume, ""The Gathering Storm"", was released on October 27, 2009. The second, ""Towers of Midnight"", was published on"
"That"" and ""5x5"". He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his husband Daniel and their dog Coach. Nathan Burgoine 'Nathan Burgoine is a Canadian writer. His debut novel ""Light"" was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror category at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards. The novel was published by Bold Strokes Books in 2013. He has also published short stories and non-fiction essays in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines, including ""Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction"", ""Men of the Mean Streets"", ""Boys of Summer"", ""Night Shadows"", ""This is How You Die"", ""Blood Sacraments"","
"The Awakening (short story) ""The Awakening"" is a short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. There are two distinct versions of this short story. The first was originally published in ""Zenith Sci-fi"" fanzine issue number 4 in February 1942. This version was reprinted in ""The Best of Arthur C. Clarke"". It is this version which appears in the almost complete ""The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke"". A revised version was published in the collection ""Reach For Tomorrow"" in 1956, individually copyrighted to 1951. The protagonist is the Master who is suffering from heart failure and given less than"
"literature using the same word in the title include John Dryden's ""Astraea Redux"" (1662), ""a poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty,"" and Anthony Trollope's ""Phineas Redux"" (1873). The book's popularity resulted in a rise in the use of the word ""redux"" in popular discourse. In ""Rabbit at Rest"", Rabbit notices: Updike pronounced the word ""ray-dooks."" Rabbit Redux Rabbit Redux is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his ""Rabbit"" series, beginning with ""Rabbit, Run"" and followed by ""Rabbit Is Rich"", ""Rabbit At Rest"", published from 1960 to 1990, and the"
"Earth Awakens Earth Awakens is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the third book of the First Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the Ender's Game series. It was released on June 10, 2014. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction. With an alien invasion in progress in China, humanity is divided on how to defend itself. The Chinese government is determined to go it alone, despite suffering catastrophic losses. Captain Wit O'Toole of the Mobile Operations Police (MOP) and Mazer Rackham have managed to destroy one of the three"
"disease that are short lived. Notable cases include: Hawes, the curate in Agatha Christie's book ""The Murder at the Vicarage"" (1930), was described as suffering from this syndrome. The discovery by Oliver Sacks that L-DOPA could relieve some symptoms was described in his book ""Awakenings"" in 1973. ""Awakenings"" (1973) was used by Harold Pinter as the basis of his one-act play ""A Kind of Alaska"", performed in 1982 starring Judi Dench. The disease plays a prominent role in the first issue of Neil Gaiman's comic book ""Sandman""; the disease, usually referred to by its nickname ""sleepy sickness"" and only once"
"Reed Sawyer, Katherine (Kaia) Sellers, and their French teacher, Jack Powell. Novels in the series are ""Lust"", ""Envy"", ""Pride"", ""Wrath"", ""Sloth"", ""Gluttony"", and ""Greed"". The series was made into a four-hour miniseries, which debuted on the Lifetime Movie Network on May 23 and 24, 2010. Since publication, this series title, book names, and cover images have been changed. They are the same books between the covers, however. ""Cold Awakening trilogy"": Robin Wasserman Robin Wasserman (born May 31, 1978) is an American young adult novelist. Wasserman grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University and UCLA. Before she was"
"Hodgson in ""The Night Land"" to name (apparently) several different species of intelligent beings evolved from humans who interbred with alien species or adapted to changed environmental conditions and were seen as decayed or malign by those living inside the Last Redoubt, who preserved artificially (to an unspecified extent) their human characteristics, though they were not fit for the new environmental conditions. The abridged version of the novel was first published in the United States in 1912 in chapbook form as ""Poems and a Dream of X"" (New York: R. H. Paget, 1912), in an extremely limited print run. In"
"Ascendance (novel) Ascendance is the first novel in the second DemonWars Saga trilogy by R. A. Salvatore. The book is also the fifth out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga. 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. The plans of the Touel'alfar go awry due to Aydrian's own arrogance, cultivated by a dark force. When he leaves the home of the elves, events occur which bring about great"
"the better"", while the heroines are smart and strong. The Romance Writers of America awarded her the RITA Award for Best Short Contemporary Romance in 2007 for her novel ""From the First"". She has also been nominated six times for ""Romantic Times"" Reviewer's Choice Awards, winning once for ""Lover Awakened"". She was also number 2 on the New York Times Bestsellers List of 2014. Same universe but takes place in an earlier timeline. Spin-off series that details the trainees Jessica Bird Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore is a #1 New York Times bestselling American novelist. Under her maiden name, Jessica"
"plaque, was sent to Buchan. The mysterious phrase ""Thirty-Nine Steps"", first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story. 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. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his"
"talking to her through her dreams. Slow Life (novelette) ""Slow Life"" is a science fiction novelette by Michael Swanwick. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2003. The story is set on Titan. The author wrote: ""I liked Titan specifically because there was a lot known about its chemistry and geography, but most people were not familiar with it, so a story set there would feel fresh to them."" The first explorers on Titan find that the ocean is a weird chemical soup. But there doesn't seem to be any life in it, until one of the members"
"of darkness I acknowledge mine"" in Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s ""The Tempest"". Born to an aristocratic family, Robert FitzRoy joined the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth aged 12 and entered the Royal Navy the following year, rising rapidly through the ranks. The novel begins in 1828 with the suicide of the commander of ""HMS Beagle"", Pringle Stokes, and FitzRoy’s subsequent appointment as the vessel’s (temporary) captain at the age of twenty-three. Whilst conducting ""Beagle""’s mission of surveying Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, during which he proved to be a meticulous surveyor, he captured four native Fuegians and brought"