"a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied. Her withdrawal from public life prompted unfounded speculation that new publications were in the works. Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award–winning screenplay adaptation of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" by Horton Foote: ""I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made."" She became a friend of Gregory Peck, and after his death remained close to the actor's family; Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her. Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of"
"Only Forward Only Forward is a science fiction novel by English writer Michael Marshall Smith; his debut novel, it was first published in 1994 by HarperCollins. It was the winner of the August Derleth Award (1995) and Philip K. Dick Award (2000). A small boy is left on his own in a flat. The boy answers a knocking on the front door of his high rise flat to find a man with no head standing on the doorstep. The man cannot speak, but the boy knows he is asking him for help. The boy apologises and, explaining that he cannot"
"of neighbourhoods, each one geared to the interests and tastes of its residents. Neighbourhoods in The City include: Only Forward Only Forward is a science fiction novel by English writer Michael Marshall Smith; his debut novel, it was first published in 1994 by HarperCollins. It was the winner of the August Derleth Award (1995) and Philip K. Dick Award (2000). A small boy is left on his own in a flat. The boy answers a knocking on the front door of his high rise flat to find a man with no head standing on the doorstep. The man cannot speak,"
"the book ahead of the Bible as one ""every adult should read before they die"". It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown. ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" was Lee's only published book until ""Go Set a Watchman"", an earlier draft of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity"
"for herself or the novel since 1964. Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became close friends with soon-to-be famous writer Truman Capote. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While attending college, she wrote for campus literary magazines: ""Huntress"" at Huntingdon and the humor magazine ""Rammer Jammer"" at the University of Alabama. At both colleges, she wrote short stories and other works about racial injustice, a rarely mentioned topic on such campuses at the time. In 1950, Lee moved to"
"first saw Harper Lee's manuscript in 1957, she considered it to be ""more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel"" though ""the spark of the true writer flashed in every line"". Over the course of the next two years, she guided Harper Lee until the book finally achieved its finished shape and was retitled ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Once during the long editorial process, Lee lost confidence in herself and threw her manuscript out her window and into the snow. When she called her editor in tears, Hohoff ""told her to march outside immediately and pick up the"
"the Clair Huffaker screenplay of ""Tarzan and the Valley of Gold"". Many of Leiber's most-acclaimed works are short stories, especially in the horror genre. Owing to such stories as ""The Smoke Ghost"", ""The Girl With the Hungry Eyes"" and ""You're All Alone"" (later expanded as ""The Sinful Ones""), he is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of the modern urban horror story. Leiber also challenged the conventions of science fiction through reflexive narratives such as ""A Bad Day For Sales"" (first published in ""Galaxy Science Fiction"", July 1953), in which the protagonist, Robie, ""America’s only genuine mobile salesrobot,"" references"
"Only Human (short story) Only Human by Eileen Wilks is a short story in the ""Lover Beware"" anthology. It is also the first story in the World of the Lupi series. It came out in July 2003. Eileen's story in the ""Lover Beware"" anthology is entitled ""Only Human"". In it Lily is a Chinese-American detective working with the city of San Diego on a murder that appears to be the work of a werewolf. But, if she wants to find out who the killer is, she'll have to get inside the clans. She enlists the help of a were named"
"and men of letters. However, the significance of his output was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and is now almost forgotten. He is today known primarily for his only science fiction novel ""Earth Abides"" (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the inaugural International Fantasy Award for fiction in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's ""Escape"" and served as an inspiration for Stephen King's ""The Stand"", as King has stated. ""The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"" calls it ""one of the finest of all Post-Holocaust/Ruined Earth novels"". His 1941 novel ""Storm"", featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called ""Maria,"""
"Just One Look (novel) Just One Look is a 2004 novel by Harlan Coben. It is a stand-alone novel but does contain at least one reference to his Myron Bolitar novels. The plot centers on a woman whose whole life changes one day upon her taking home a set of pictures, and finding one that does not belong. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t identify. But"
"series,"" while Chicago Magazine compared Paretsky's integration of character and environment to past masters of the genre Dashiell Hammett and Chandler. In the 3 March 1982 issue of The New Republic, crime-fiction critic Robin W. Winks described the novel as ""thoroughly convincing.""” Indemnity Only Indemnity Only is a mystery novel written by Sara Paretsky. V. I. Warshawski, a private detective, is employed by a man who calls himself John Thayer to find his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill. However, as she begins her search, V.I. almost immediately comes across Peter Thayer, John's son, dead. Her investigation takes a definite turn as"
"published in ""Postscripts"". His first novel, ""Only Forward"", was published in 1994 and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in 1995, and then the Philip K. Dick Award in 2000. The plot involves the lead character, Stark, having to find a missing man he believes to have been kidnapped, and travel through the strange zones of his city. In 1996 his second novel, ""Spares"", was released, a novel in which the lead character, Jack, goes on the run with clones who are used for spare body parts for rich people, when he realises they are people with feelings."
"For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, and the eighth book to feature the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The collection contains five short stories: ""From a View to a Kill"", ""For Your Eyes Only"", ""Quantum of Solace"", ""Risico"" and ""The Hildebrand Rarity"". Four of the stories were adaptations of plots"
"Go Set a Watchman Go Set a Watchman is a novel by Harper Lee published on July 14, 2015 by HarperCollins, United States and William Heinemann, United Kingdom. Although written before her first and only other published novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""To Kill a Mockingbird""and initially promoted by its publisher as a sequelit is now more widely accepted as being a first draft of the famous novel. The title comes from Isaiah 21:6: ""For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth."" It alludes to Jean Louise Finch's view of her"
"her husband. Just One Look (novel) Just One Look is a 2004 novel by Harlan Coben. It is a stand-alone novel but does contain at least one reference to his Myron Bolitar novels. The plot centers on a woman whose whole life changes one day upon her taking home a set of pictures, and finding one that does not belong. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t"
"Indemnity Only Indemnity Only is a mystery novel written by Sara Paretsky. V. I. Warshawski, a private detective, is employed by a man who calls himself John Thayer to find his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill. However, as she begins her search, V.I. almost immediately comes across Peter Thayer, John's son, dead. Her investigation takes a definite turn as she discovers ulterior motives for Anita's whereabouts to be found. In her search, Warshawski also discovers that the man who claims to be John Thayer turns out to be Andrew McGraw, the father of Anita Hill and a big labor union leader."
"the mid-1950s and published in July 2015 as a ""sequel"", though it was later confirmed to be ""To Kill a Mockingbird""s first draft. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama where she grew up as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, Alabama, who saved the life of her sister Louise. Her first name, Nelle, was her grandmother's name spelled backwards and the name she used; Harper Lee being primarily her pen name."
"None but Lucifer None but Lucifer is a fantasy novel by American writers Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the fantasy magazine ""Unknown"" in September 1939. Despite its good reception by the readership and the prominence of its authors (Gold was the founding editor of ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" magazine, and de Camp quickly became a leading light of science fiction and fantasy during those genres' ""golden age""), the book remained unpublished in book form for over sixty years, until finally issued as a trade paperback by Gateways Retro Science Fiction in 2002. It"
"Canada. If completed, the film will only be able to be released in Canada, China and other countries in which the copyright has expired. For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, and the eighth book to feature the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The collection contains five short stories: ""From a"
"speak, ""all alone in the universe"""". All Alone in the Universe All Alone in the Universe is a children's novel by American author Lynne Rae Perkins. It was first published in 1999. It is about a young middle school girl named Debbie and the hardships she faces as her best friend, Maureen, is ""stolen"" from her by a classmate, Glenna. ""All Alone in the Universe"" was Lynne Rae Perkins' first published novel. Her other works include the picture books ""The Broken Cat"" and ""Snow Music"" and the Newbery Medal-winning novel, ""Criss Cross"". The book begins with Debbie and Maureen being"
"Solo (Mason novel) Solo is a 1993 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's second novel; he had previously written ""Weapon"" and a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled ""Chickenhawk"". When the self-aware Pentagon-built robot, Solo, goes AWOL, the Pentagon uses its reserve robot, Nimrod, as bait luring Solo into a trap meant to destroy him, and setting the stage for a cyborg confrontation. Solo, a robot designed by the US Government as a hyper intelligent super assassin, goes AWOL on his mission in Nicaragua, and finds himself at the bottom of a lake. Reaching the"
"All Alone in the Universe All Alone in the Universe is a children's novel by American author Lynne Rae Perkins. It was first published in 1999. It is about a young middle school girl named Debbie and the hardships she faces as her best friend, Maureen, is ""stolen"" from her by a classmate, Glenna. ""All Alone in the Universe"" was Lynne Rae Perkins' first published novel. Her other works include the picture books ""The Broken Cat"" and ""Snow Music"" and the Newbery Medal-winning novel, ""Criss Cross"". The book begins with Debbie and Maureen being best friends, and everything is going"
"Only the Heart Only The Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem about the Vietnamese boat people. It was first published in 1997. In contrast to Caswell's mainly futuristic style, such as his widely acclaimed Deucalion series, this book is written in the present-past style. The book is said to be based on David's life. The book is classified as young adult fiction and is one of the most successful books by the author. The main character for this story is a boy named Toan. The book jumps from the past, when Toan is"
"The Only Story The Only Story is a novel by Julian Barnes. It is his thirteenth novel, and was published on 1 February 2018. The short (273 pp.) novel is the life story of Paul Roberts, who we first meet as a 19-year-old Sussex University undergraduate returning to his parents' house in the leafy southern suburbs of London (Sutton, in Surrey, is suggested as a model.) The time is the early sixties, and there are a few references to current events. Paul joins the tennis club, which is the one of the few opportunities such places offer for socialising. In"
"familiar H. L. Gold. Gold's most noted stories tended more toward fantasy, like his ""Trouble with Water"" (1939). In 1939-41 he was an assistant editor on a trio of science fiction magazines -- ""Captain Future"", ""Thrilling Wonder Stories"" and ""Startling Stories"". His 1939 novel, ""None But Lucifer"" in ""Unknown"" (September 1939) was a collaboration with L. Sprague de Camp. During the early 1940s, Gold teamed with Kendell Foster Crossen on comic book scripts, freelancing with DC Comics writing for ""Batman"", ""Superman"", ""Superboy"", ""Boy Commandos"" and ""Wonder Woman"" from ""roughly the end of 1942"" until World War II interrupted his career."
"Only Begotten Daughter Only Begotten Daughter is a 1990 fantasy novel written by James Morrow, setting the stage for his later ""Godhead Trilogy"". The book shared the 1991 World Fantasy Award with Ellen Kushner's ""Thomas the Rhymer"". It was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990, and both the Locus and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 1991. The story is about Julie Katz, the new Messiah, who is the daughter of God, and who is spontaneously conceived from a sperm bank donation by her father, Murray Katz, through ""inverse parthenogenesis"". Julie struggles with her messianic"
"pages"". The commercial and critical success of the novel led to pressure on Lee to publish a second novel but Hohoff ""guarded Nelle like a junkyard dog"". After their successful collaboration, Hohoff and Lee remained close. When Lee found an extra-toed kitten huddled against a pipe in the basement of her apartment building, she persuaded Hohoff and her husband to adopt him. ""She knew us very well and pulled out all the right stops,"" Hohoff wrote in her memoir. When Hohoff died in 1974, Lee felt devastated. In 2015, Harper published ""Go Set a Watchman"", an early draft for ""To"
"book, or Lee herself. Local residents call them ""Mockingbird groupies"", and although Lee was not reclusive, she refused publicity and interviews with an emphatic ""Hell, no!"" To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the"
"tale well told."" Only Revolutions Only Revolutions is an American road novel by writer Mark Z. Danielewski. It was released in the United States on September 12, 2006 by Pantheon Books. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. The story alternates between two different narratives: Sam and Hailey, and Hailey and Sam, wild and wayward teenagers who never grow old. With an evolving stable of cars, the teenagers move through various places and moments in time as they try to outrace history. As the story proceeds, one can note that many events are perceptual and"
"only see from the reception area. She wrote much of the novel in Positano in 1963. Her editor at ""Harper & Brothers"" rejected the manuscript and requested major changes, especially to establish Carter's character before his imprisonment. Highsmith found herself blocked for a time until the acceptance of other manuscripts (""The Two Faces of January"" by Doubleday in the US and a short story by ""Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"") restored her confidence. She reworked the manuscript and placed it with Doubleday and Heinemann in the spring of 1964. Highsmith dedicated the novel to her cat Spider. Highsmith devoted a chapter"
"The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1948. The first edition retailed at $2.50. The story ""The Second Gong"" features Hercule Poirot, the only character in the stories who appears in any other of Christie's works. Each story has also appeared in either of the UK collections ""The Hound of Death"", ""The Listerdale Mystery"" or ""Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories"" and therefore this collection was not published in"
"her first published novel, ""Child of the Morning"", on the historical figure of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only female pharaoh. She wrote the novel in six weeks and went on to win the Alberta Search-for-a-New Novelist Competition in 1977. ""The Eagle and the Raven"" received the Jean Boujassy award from the Société des Gens de Lettres in France and ""The Twelfth Transforming"" won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best Novel of the Year Award. She has also written in other genres. ""Stargate"" is science fiction, ""The Covenant"" is contemporary horror fiction, and ""Scroll of Saqqara"" incorporates some fantasy elements. Gedge's ex-husband, Bernie"
"Only Lovers Left Alive (novel) Only Lovers Left Alive is a 1964 science fiction novel by Dave Wallis. It describes a society where there are no adults and teenagers are able to run wild. With its theme of teenagers in charge and out of control, the book hit a chord with the emerging counter-culture, and a film adaptation starring the Rolling Stones and directed by Nicholas Ray was planned in the mid-1960s. Wallis was an English writer working as a supply teacher, with two previous novels, and he was in his late 40s when it came out. After being rejected"