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[ "Robert Kirkman" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.84, "text": "first began shipping to backers on 7 November 2016. A series of novels based on the comics, written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, were released between 2011 and 2014 focusing on the antagonist \"\"The Governor\"\". Taking place in the initial outbreak, the books chronicle his experiences from surviving in the newly ravaged world to the establishment of himself as leader of Woodbury, and finally tying up the conclusion to the prison arc storyline in the comics. Following \"\"\"\", Bonansinga continued the \"\"Walking Dead\"\" novels as sole author, with Kirkman's name affixed to the title. The series has so far", "title": "The Walking Dead (comic book)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.16, "text": "The Walking Dead (comic book) The Walking Dead is a black-and-white comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman with art by Tony Moore. It focuses on Rick Grimes, a Kentucky deputy who is shot in the line of duty and awakens from a coma in a zombie apocalypse that has resulted in a state-wide quarantine. After joining with other survivors, including his loved ones, he gradually takes on the role of leader of a community as it struggles to survive the zombie apocalypse. First issued in 2003 by publisher Image Comics, the comic is written by Kirkman with art", "title": "The Walking Dead (comic book)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.12, "text": "and Gold Foil Version for Compendium 3). Several ancillary books and a special edition have also been published: The Walking Dead (comic book) The Walking Dead is a black-and-white comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman with art by Tony Moore. It focuses on Rick Grimes, a Kentucky deputy who is shot in the line of duty and awakens from a coma in a zombie apocalypse that has resulted in a state-wide quarantine. After joining with other survivors, including his loved ones, he gradually takes on the role of leader of a community as it struggles to survive the", "title": "The Walking Dead (comic book)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.03, "text": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy is a post-apocalyptic horror novel written by Jay Bonansinga and was released on October 18, 2016. The novel is a spin-off of \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" comic book series, and it is the seventh novel based on the series. It continues to explore the story of Lilly Caul as her group deals with new enemies. \"\"The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy\"\" is the third book in a four-part series of novels. One year after defeating Garlitz's cult, Lilly and her band of survivors start a", "title": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.56, "text": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent is a post-apocalyptic horror novel written by Jay Bonansinga and released October 14, 2014. The novel is a spin-off of \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" comic book series and continues to explore the story of one of the series' most infamous characters, Lilly Caul. \"\"Descent\"\" is the first book in a second four-part series of novels. Lilly Caul struggles to rebuild Woodbury after the Governor's shocking demise in a stunning and horrifying last act. Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst", "title": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.38, "text": "Dead\"\" novels: Kirkman has written a number of \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" TV episodes. \"\"Fear the Walking Dead\"\" is a companion series to \"\"The Walking Dead\"\", set in Los Angeles, California and starting prior to the apocalypse. Robert Kirkman is co-creator of the series alongside Dave Erickson. He is also an executive producer and has co-written episodes of the series. \"\"Outcast\"\" is a horror series on Cinemax. Robert Kirkman Robert Kirkman (; born November 30, 1978) is an American comic book writer best known for creating \"\"The Walking Dead\"\", \"\"Invincible\"\", \"\"Tech Jacket\"\", \"\"Outcast\"\" and \"\"Oblivion Song\"\" for Image Comics, in addition", "title": "Robert Kirkman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.19, "text": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury is a post-apocalyptic horror novel written by Jay Bonansinga and was released October 17, 2017. The novel is a spin-off of \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" comic book series, it is the seventh novel based on the series and it concludes the story of Lilly Caul as her group struggles to return to Woodbury. \"\"The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury\"\" is the final book in a four-part series of novels. Lilly Caul has lived through over four years of The Walking Dead. She has staked a", "title": "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.11, "text": "Robert Kirkman Robert Kirkman (; born November 30, 1978) is an American comic book writer best known for creating \"\"The Walking Dead\"\", \"\"Invincible\"\", \"\"Tech Jacket\"\", \"\"Outcast\"\" and \"\"Oblivion Song\"\" for Image Comics, in addition to writing \"\"Ultimate X-Men\"\", \"\"Irredeemable Ant-Man\"\" and \"\"Marvel Zombies\"\" for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series \"\"Haunt\"\". He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders. Robert Kirkman was born November 30, 1978, in Lexington, Kentucky, and was raised in Cynthiana, Kentucky.", "title": "Robert Kirkman" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.06, "text": "three male life forms on the Earth, leaving the whole planet to be controlled by women. \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" is a comic-book series from IC and was written by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard It was started in 2003 and is continuing as of 2018. The story follows a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The apocalypse in this series was brought about by zombies, and it is strongly suspected that the zombies are victims of a virus. \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" television series is based on the comic books. They have also spawned a motion comic. \"\"Kamandi\"\"", "title": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.98, "text": "The Walking Dead (franchise) The Walking Dead is a media franchise created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore including a comic book series, two television series, six novels, video games, and various other media such as audio books and sound tracks. \"\"The Walking Dead\"\" is a monthly black-and-white comic book series chronicling the travels of Rick Grimes, his family, and other survivors of a zombie apocalypse. First issued in 2003 by publisher Image Comics, the series was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore (who was later replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward, though Moore continued", "title": "The Walking Dead (franchise)" } ]

[ "Robert Littell" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.05, "text": "The Company (Ehrlichman novel) The Company is a political fiction \"\"roman à clef\"\" novel written by John Ehrlichman, a former close aide to President Richard Nixon and a figure in the Watergate scandal, first published in 1976 by Simon & Schuster. The title is an insider nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency. The plot is loosely based on events leading up to the Watergate coverup, centered on Nixon administration attempts to cover up its own illegal activity and that of the CIA dating back to the Kennedy administration. Although all characters are fictional, most are based on real-life political figures,", "title": "The Company (Ehrlichman novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.03, "text": "Company (novella) Company is a novella by Samuel Beckett, written in English and published by John Calder in 1979. It was translated into French by the author and published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1980. Together with \"\"Ill Seen Ill Said\"\" and \"\"Worstward Ho\"\", it was collected in the volume \"\"Nohow On\"\" in 1989. It is one of Beckett's '\"\"closed space\"\" stories. In it, a man lies on his back in the dark, musing about the nature of existence and in particular, his own life. While there are several reminiscences about the narrator's own life (and these seem to", "title": "Company (novella)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "Company (novel) Company is a 2006 book by Max Barry. It is Barry's third published novel, following \"\"Jennifer Government\"\" in 2003. The novel is set in a modern corporation. Set in Seattle at a company called Zephyr Holdings Incorporated, the plot is centered in a drab building from which it is difficult to discern the company's type of business. The company's defining characteristic is its obscurity and its heavy reliance on corporate jargon, through which it avoids hard truths and harsh realities. Stephen Jones, a young graduate, reports for his first day in the Training Sales Department shortly after there", "title": "Company (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.69, "text": "The Company (Littell novel) The Company: A Novel of the CIA is an American novel written by Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August 1995. The book was a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller and received wide critical acclaim. It is the basis of a 2007 miniseries starring Michael Keaton, Chris O'Donnell, and Alfred Molina. The plot includes numerous characters based on historical persons, with varying degrees of verisimilitude. The following is a list of the", "title": "The Company (Littell novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.44, "text": "historical persons who speak or interact with other characters in the novel: In addition, although William King Harvey doesn't appear by name, the character \"\"Harvey Torriti, a.k.a. the Sorcerer\"\" is a very thinly disguised version of Harvey. The Company (Littell novel) The Company: A Novel of the CIA is an American novel written by Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August 1995. The book was a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller and received wide critical acclaim.", "title": "The Company (Littell novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.98, "text": "Despite the mixed reception, \"\"The Company She Keeps\"\" sold 10,000 copies. The Company She Keeps (novel) The Company She Keeps is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. Published in 1942, it was her first book. It is an unconventional work, tracing the journey of a highly-politicised young catholic college graduate through various stages of emotional development, in unusually frank and revealing detail. The story blends many themes that had clearly marked the author’s own life, such as patriarchy, feminism, rebellion and betrayal, as reflected in her later autobiography. The six episodes do not follow directly in sequence, and", "title": "The Company She Keeps (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "and expound and thus emphatically impose his vision on the reader. Beckett decided instead to subtract: to make his prose simple, monolithic and bare - till the sentences resemble aphorisms or existential nostrums. There is some stylistic resemblance to JP Donleavy's work 'The saddest summer of Samuel S' (1966) in the short sentences and the general eschewing of punctuation such as comma's and question marks. Company (novella) Company is a novella by Samuel Beckett, written in English and published by John Calder in 1979. It was translated into French by the author and published by Les Éditions de Minuit in", "title": "Company (novella)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "Jean Paré Jean Paré, CM (born December 7, 1927) is a Canadian caterer, author of the \"\"Company's Coming\"\" cookbook series, and founder of Company’s Coming Publishing Limited. She is one of the top selling cookbook authors in the world, selling 30 million copies as of 2011. She wrote over 200 cookbooks before her retirement in 2011. In 2004, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. Paré was born on December 7, 1927, in Irma, Alberta, Canada to Edward and Ruby Elford. The family later moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Jean married her first husband,", "title": "Jean Paré" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.73, "text": "The Company She Keeps (novel) The Company She Keeps is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. Published in 1942, it was her first book. It is an unconventional work, tracing the journey of a highly-politicised young catholic college graduate through various stages of emotional development, in unusually frank and revealing detail. The story blends many themes that had clearly marked the author’s own life, such as patriarchy, feminism, rebellion and betrayal, as reflected in her later autobiography. The six episodes do not follow directly in sequence, and some had already appeared as magazine fiction. Critics noted that some", "title": "The Company She Keeps (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.72, "text": "Characters in the Novels of the Company Dr. Zeus Inc., also known simply as the Company, is a fictional entity in a series of time travel science fiction stories by Kage Baker. Most of the characters in the novels are immortal cyborgs created by Company operatives throughout history and recruited to work on preserving art, artifacts, rare species and other valuable items which the Company can sell for huge profits in the 24th century. The cyborgs look forward to receiving their final reward when they reach the 24th century by living through all the preceding times, but some suspect that", "title": "Characters in the Novels of the Company" } ]

[ "Thomas Woods" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.94, "text": "Meltdown (book) Meltdown is a book on the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 by historian Thomas Woods, with a foreword by Rep. Ron Paul. The book was published on February 9, 2009 by Regnery Publishing. Woods is a follower of the Austrian School of economics and believes in allowing the market to freely compete in currency, which he believes would lead to mostly gold-based currency. The book is dedicated to Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul. The book debuted at #16 on the \"\"Hardcover, non-fiction\"\" \"\"New York Times\"\" Best Seller list, and advanced to the #11 spot in its second week", "title": "Meltdown (book)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.66, "text": "convertible to gold, in amounts greatly exceeding their gold reserves. Meltdown (book) Meltdown is a book on the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 by historian Thomas Woods, with a foreword by Rep. Ron Paul. The book was published on February 9, 2009 by Regnery Publishing. Woods is a follower of the Austrian School of economics and believes in allowing the market to freely compete in currency, which he believes would lead to mostly gold-based currency. The book is dedicated to Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul. The book debuted at #16 on the \"\"Hardcover, non-fiction\"\" \"\"New York Times\"\" Best Seller list,", "title": "Meltdown (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.16, "text": "Meltdown (Clearfield and Tilcsik book) Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It is a non-fiction book by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, published in March 2018 by Penguin Press. It explores how complexity causes failure in modern systems and how individuals, organizations, and societies can prevent or mitigate the resulting meltdowns. The \"\"Financial Times\"\" selected \"\"Meltdown\"\" as one of the books of year in 2018. The book is the result of a collaboration between Chris Clearfield, a former derivatives trader, and András Tilcsik, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Clearfield", "title": "Meltdown (Clearfield and Tilcsik book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.53, "text": "country’s most important priorities. Kenneth Clark (financial writer) Kenneth E. Clark is an American mortgage executive and author of \"\"“The Story Behind the Mortgage and Housing Meltdown: The Legacy of Greed,”\"\" published in 2010 (). He is also the host of the housing and mortgage information radio program, “Rebuilding the Dream” on WMAL (www.WMAL.com), a Baltimore-based talk radio station owned by Citadel Broadcasting Company. Clark is the founder and chairman of First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation, based in McLean, VA, a mortgage lender licensed in 44 states specializing in residential lending. He maintains an active management role in the company, coming", "title": "Kenneth Clark (financial writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.53, "text": "the story firmly in the context of the flaws in the type of capitalism that was let loose over the past 20 years\"\". Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed is a 2009 book by British journalist and writer Paul Mason. An updated edition was released in 2010. The book is an account of the Great Recession, that, according to Mason \"\"destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy\"\". The book documents the beginnings of the crisis to its real-world", "title": "Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.5, "text": "meltdown entitled \"\"Survior\"\", is available in the \"\"Scoundrels\"\" anthology in both print and e-book formats. The anthology is edited by noir author Gary Philips. The city and county of San Francisco awarded Stanley a Certificate of Honor for her invention of the \"\"Roman noir\"\" subgenre, and \"\"Nox Dormienda\"\" went on to win the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award for best historical mystery published in 2008, despite its limited print run as a small-press book. \"\"City of Dragons\"\" received early praise from several notable writers, including Lee Child, Linda Fairstein, Robert B. Parker, George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler, and was", "title": "Kelli Stanley" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.5, "text": "The Definitive Collection\"\", which also featured 52 pages of new material. Meltdown (Image Comics) Meltdown is a two-part comic book mini-series published in December 2006 (issue 1) and January 2007 (issue 2) by Image Comics. Written by David Schwartz and illustrated by Sean Wang. \"\"Meltdown\"\" tells the story of Caliente, aka The Flare, a superhero with flame based powers that are killing him. He's only got 7 days left to put his life in order, and to make amends for all of his regrets. The story largely consists of flashbacks that show Caliente's trials and tribulations leading to his final", "title": "Meltdown (Image Comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "Meltdown (Image Comics) Meltdown is a two-part comic book mini-series published in December 2006 (issue 1) and January 2007 (issue 2) by Image Comics. Written by David Schwartz and illustrated by Sean Wang. \"\"Meltdown\"\" tells the story of Caliente, aka The Flare, a superhero with flame based powers that are killing him. He's only got 7 days left to put his life in order, and to make amends for all of his regrets. The story largely consists of flashbacks that show Caliente's trials and tribulations leading to his final days. The series was collected into a trade paperback entitled \"\"MELTDOWN:", "title": "Meltdown (Image Comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed is a 2009 book by British journalist and writer Paul Mason. An updated edition was released in 2010. The book is an account of the Great Recession, that, according to Mason \"\"destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy\"\". The book documents the beginnings of the crisis to its real-world consequences. The book discusses the impact of the crisis on \"\"capitalist ideology\"\" and politics in the \"\"age of austerity\"\". In \"\"The Guardian\"\" Will", "title": "Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "Kenneth Clark (financial writer) Kenneth E. Clark is an American mortgage executive and author of \"\"“The Story Behind the Mortgage and Housing Meltdown: The Legacy of Greed,”\"\" published in 2010 (). He is also the host of the housing and mortgage information radio program, “Rebuilding the Dream” on WMAL (www.WMAL.com), a Baltimore-based talk radio station owned by Citadel Broadcasting Company. Clark is the founder and chairman of First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation, based in McLean, VA, a mortgage lender licensed in 44 states specializing in residential lending. He maintains an active management role in the company, coming out of semi-retirement prior", "title": "Kenneth Clark (financial writer)" } ]

[ "William Faulkner", "William Cuthbert Faulkner", "William Falkner", "William Cuthbert Falkner" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.59, "text": "The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. \"\"The Trees\"\" (1940) and \"\"The Fields\"\" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. \"\"The Town\"\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the edition notice of this all-in-one version—which lists the original publication dates of the three books -- \"\"The Town\"\" was first published on 24 April 1950.", "title": "The Town (Richter novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.58, "text": "The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the \"\"Snopes\"\" trilogy, following \"\"The Hamlet\"\" (1940) and completed by \"\"The Mansion\"\" (1959). Each chapter is narrated from the point of view of one of three characters: Chick Mallison, Gavin Stevens, or V.K. Ratliff. Flem moves into Jefferson; is cuckolded by de Spain. De Spain's election. Flem is made power-plant supervisor. Flem steals brass from the plant. Flem plays Tom Tom and Turl off against each other; Tom Tom cuckolds", "title": "The Town (Faulkner novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.12, "text": "Ohio University Press released paperback editions of \"\"The Awakening Land\"\" trilogy in 1991. Chicago Review Press issued reprints of the original Knopf editions in 2017. The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. \"\"The Trees\"\" (1940) and \"\"The Fields\"\" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. \"\"The Town\"\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the", "title": "The Town (Richter novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "The Town and the City The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel \"\"On the Road\"\" (1957). Like all of Jack Kerouac's major works, \"\"The Town and the City\"\" is essentially an autobiographical novel, though less directly so than most of his other works. \"\"The Town and the City\"\" was written in a conventional manner over a period of years, and much more novelistic license was taken with this work than after Kerouac's adoption", "title": "The Town and the City" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.42, "text": "in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between \"\"The Hamlet\"\" and \"\"The Town\"\". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of \"\"The Hamlet\"\" and \"\"The Town\"\". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in \"\"The Town\"\" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of", "title": "The Town (Faulkner novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.25, "text": "film \"\"The Town\"\" (2010). The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. Chuck Hogan Charles Patrick Hogan (born August 4, 1967) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of \"\"Prince of Thieves\"\", and as the co-author of \"\"The Strain\"\" trilogy with Guillermo del Toro. Alongside del Toro, Hogan created the television series \"\"The Strain\"\" (2014–2017), adapting their trilogy of vampire novels. Hogan also wrote the crime novels \"\"The Standoff\"\" (1995), \"\"The Blood Artists\"\" (1998), \"\"The Killing Moon\"\" (2007),", "title": "Chuck Hogan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.05, "text": "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a contemporary fantasy novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was published in June 2005, concurrently released on the Internet under a Creative Commons license, free for download in several formats including ASCII and PDF. It is Doctorow's third novel. The novel was chosen to launch the Sci Fi Channel's book club, \"\"Sci Fi Essentials\"\" (now defunct). The story mainly takes place in two Ontario locales. In flashbacks, the main character, usually but not always called Alan (he appears to have been alphabetized rather than", "title": "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "of people are nameless, described by some physical characteristic instead. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a contemporary fantasy novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was published in June 2005, concurrently released on the Internet under a Creative Commons license, free for download in several formats including ASCII and PDF. It is Doctorow's third novel. The novel was chosen to launch the Sci Fi Channel's book club, \"\"Sci Fi Essentials\"\" (now defunct). The story mainly takes place in two Ontario locales. In flashbacks, the main character, usually but not always", "title": "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "exposed as a fraud by her elder sister: in reality, she has lived a middle-class life without trauma, and received a good education (which also included a course in creative writing). Danny Santiago, author of \"\"Famous All Over Town\"\", published a novel in which he depicts life through the eyes of a young Hispanic boy growing up in East Los Angeles. The novel won the Rosenthal Award for Literary Achievement in 1984, though suspicion arose about the true identity of Danny Santiago when the author refused to supply a biographical sketch for editors at Simon & Schuster who wanted to", "title": "Literary forgery" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.56, "text": "The History of a Town The History of a Town is a fictional chronicle by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin first published in 1870 and regarded as the major satirical Russian novel of the 19th century. Originally it came out subtitled: \"\"Based on true historical documents and published by M.E.Saltykov (Shchedrin)\"\", implying the latter to be a publisher, not the author. In the 1867-1868 Saltykov-Shchedrin stopped working upon the \"\"Pompadours and Pompadouresses\"\" series of short stories and sketches and started upon a novel, seeing it a kind of a spin-off for the cycle. In January 1869 two first chapters (\"\"The City Inventory\"\" and", "title": "The History of a Town" } ]

[ "James Hadley Chase", "René Lodge Brabazon Raymond", "Ambrose Grant", "R. Raymond", "Raymond Marshall", "James L. Docherty", "Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond", "James L. Dochery" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.5, "text": "equal parts and move on. The plan begins to go awry, though, when the detective on duty in the penthouse senses something fishy about Sheila dressing up as someone else when leaving the flat. Just a Matter of Time (novel) Just a Matter of Time is a 1973 thriller novella by British writer James Hadley Chase. Alice Morely-Johnson is an old lady worth several million dollars. She had been a popular pianist, and now has retired to live in a penthouse with a chauffeur named Bromhead, who serves her impeccably. Her financial matters are handled by a banker named Chris", "title": "Just a Matter of Time (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.42, "text": "Just a Matter of Time (novel) Just a Matter of Time is a 1973 thriller novella by British writer James Hadley Chase. Alice Morely-Johnson is an old lady worth several million dollars. She had been a popular pianist, and now has retired to live in a penthouse with a chauffeur named Bromhead, who serves her impeccably. Her financial matters are handled by a banker named Chris Patterson, who does because he knows that Miss Morely-Johnson is fond of him and gives him costly gifts. When Miss Morely-Johnson’s companion-help goes away, she asks Patterson to search for one. Patterson falls for", "title": "Just a Matter of Time (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.31, "text": "It's Just a Matter of Time (song) \"\"It's Just a Matter of Time\"\" is a popular song written by Brook Benton, Clyde Otis and Belford Hendricks. The original recording by Benton topped the Billboard rhythm & blues chart in 1959 and peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 pop chart, the first in a string of hits for Benton that ran through 1970. The song later found a second life as a country song, with major hit recordings by three different country music performers during the 1970s and 1980s, two of which hit number one. Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks", "title": "It's Just a Matter of Time (song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "Michael from assassinating his Vietnam buddy. A Matter of Time (Cook novel) A Matter of Time is a novel by Glen Cook, combining elements of science fiction (specifically, time travel), crime fiction and spy thriller. In regard to the last, the novel in particular takes up and expands the theme of American prisoners of war being brainwashed in Communist China and their loyalties reversed – a theme made famous through the novel \"\"The Manchurian Candidate\"\" and film made on its basis. The book was re-published in 2011, along with other earlier works of Glen Cook. The book has three distinct", "title": "A Matter of Time (Cook novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.84, "text": "A Matter of Time (Cook novel) A Matter of Time is a novel by Glen Cook, combining elements of science fiction (specifically, time travel), crime fiction and spy thriller. In regard to the last, the novel in particular takes up and expands the theme of American prisoners of war being brainwashed in Communist China and their loyalties reversed – a theme made famous through the novel \"\"The Manchurian Candidate\"\" and film made on its basis. The book was re-published in 2011, along with other earlier works of Glen Cook. The book has three distinct plot lines, set out in alternating", "title": "A Matter of Time (Cook novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.64, "text": "and Clyde Otis established themselves as a songwriting team in the late 1950s, penning hits for Nat King Cole (\"\"Looking Back\"\") and Clyde McPhatter (\"\"A Lover's Question\"\"). During one songwriting session, Benton expressed frustration that they were not hitting on any good ideas, to which Otis replied, \"\"It's just a matter of time, Brook\"\". Those words inspired them to write a love song from the point of view of a man who misses his love, but believes she will come back to him. Benton and Otis placed the song on a demo tape for Cole, and he agreed to record", "title": "It's Just a Matter of Time (song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.62, "text": "it. However, Otis became an A&R manager at Mercury Records, and signed Benton to the label. Otis felt that \"\"It's Just A Matter Of Time\"\" would be an ideal single for Benton, and he asked Cole not to record the song so it could be Benton's first release on the label. Belford Hendricks, a classically trained composer, co-wrote and arranged the recording. Benton's version, in a style clearly influenced by Cole, was a quick success, rising to number three on the Billboard pop charts while topping the R&B chart for 9 weeks in the spring of 1959, the longest run", "title": "It's Just a Matter of Time (song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.16, "text": "mirror as a remembrance and leaves the hospital. The film jumps forward to the present time. Nina has become a motion picture star. She arrives at the press conference. As she steps out of her limousine, a girl hurries up and says she wants to be just like Nina when she grows up. The novel had been adapted for the stage by Paul Osborne as \"\"Contessa\"\" in 1965. Minnelli read the book in 1966, but only obtained the film rights in 1973. He raised the funds via Jack H. Skirball, a sometime producer. Eventually American International Pictures agreed to co-finance", "title": "A Matter of Time (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "in August 1989 as the lead-off single to the album \"\"No Holdin' Back\"\", Travis' version became his 10th No. 1 hit on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot Country Singles chart. Travis' bluesy rendition was initially recorded as part of the album \"\"Rock, Rhythm & Blues\"\", a 10-song compilation featuring covers of 1950s-era pop hits by 1980s stars. The song was later included on \"\"No Holdin' Back\"\" after Travis and others liked what they had just recorded. It's Just a Matter of Time (song) \"\"It's Just a Matter of Time\"\" is a popular song written by Brook Benton, Clyde Otis and Belford Hendricks.", "title": "It's Just a Matter of Time (song)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.89, "text": "in America, patiently waiting for the 21st Century and for their beloved State to arise – Marda Zumsteg/Fiala Groloch in St. Louis, and her uncle Stephan, as Fian Groloch, in Rochester. The third, Otho Zumsteg/Fial Groloch, remains in Bohemia, taking up residence in the village of Lidice. However, the vengeful Neulist does appear eventually and gets on his tracks. In 1942, it is the nefarious Neulist who manipulates the Nazi occupiers to destroy Lidice, causing one of the most notorious atrocities of World War II to be perpetrated just in order that his hated rival be among the victims. After", "title": "A Matter of Time (Cook novel)" } ]

[ "Linda Nagata", "Linda Webb Nagata", "Trey Shiels" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.36, "text": "Vast (novel) Vast is a science fiction novel by Linda Nagata, part of her loosely connected \"\"Nanotech Succession\"\" sequence. The main characters of \"\"Vast\"\" are the crew and passengers of the \"\"Null Boundary\"\", who are fleeing from the alien Chenzeme. The Chenzeme, using the \"\"cult virus\"\" and other, more conventional, weapons have destroyed much of human-occupied space, leaving the inhabitants of the \"\"Null Boundary\"\" to attempt to discover why. While \"\"Vast\"\" is a standalone novel, there are links to \"\"The Bohr Maker\"\", \"\"Tech-Heaven\"\" and \"\"Deception Well\"\", primarily in the form of two shared technological innovations: advanced nanotechnology and \"\"ghosts\"\", a", "title": "Vast (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.36, "text": "Vast (novel) Vast is a science fiction novel by Linda Nagata, part of her loosely connected \"\"Nanotech Succession\"\" sequence. The main characters of \"\"Vast\"\" are the crew and passengers of the \"\"Null Boundary\"\", who are fleeing from the alien Chenzeme. The Chenzeme, using the \"\"cult virus\"\" and other, more conventional, weapons have destroyed much of human-occupied space, leaving the inhabitants of the \"\"Null Boundary\"\" to attempt to discover why. While \"\"Vast\"\" is a standalone novel, there are links to \"\"The Bohr Maker\"\", \"\"Tech-Heaven\"\" and \"\"Deception Well\"\", primarily in the form of two shared technological innovations: advanced nanotechnology and \"\"ghosts\"\", a", "title": "Vast (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "The Vast Fields of Ordinary The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a young adult gay novel by American author Nick Burd first published in 2009. The novel depicts the summer after high school graduation for a closeted suburban teenage boy, his openly lesbian new best friend, and the two boys he is interested in dating (one a Latino football star, the other a drug dealer). \"\"The Vast Fields of Ordinary\"\" is Burd's debut novel. The book won the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for", "title": "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25, "text": "story,\"\" and found the missing-girl subplot unsatisfying. Both \"\"Booklist\"\" and \"\"The Plain Dealer\"\" felt the novel's conclusion was perfunctory. The Vast Fields of Ordinary The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a young adult gay novel by American author Nick Burd first published in 2009. The novel depicts the summer after high school graduation for a closeted suburban teenage boy, his openly lesbian new best friend, and the two boys he is interested in dating (one a Latino football star, the other a drug dealer). \"\"The Vast Fields of Ordinary\"\" is Burd's debut novel. The book won the American Library Association's", "title": "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.78, "text": "Vaster than Empires and More Slow \"\"Vaster than Empires and More Slow\"\" is a science fiction story by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the collection \"\"New Dimensions 1\"\", edited by Robert Silverberg. It is set in the fictional Hainish universe, where the Earth is a member of an interstellar \"\"League of Worlds\"\". The anthology was released in United States in 1971, by Doubleday Books. The story follows an exploratory ship sent by the League to investigate a newly discovered planet, named World 4470. The team includes Osden, an \"\"empath\"\" who is able to feel the emotions", "title": "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.48, "text": "the end? The storylines also feature the power of prayer, and the motivations of faith. The Battle for Vast Dominion The Battle for Vast Dominion is the third book of the Trophy Chase Trilogy, written by American author George Bryan Polivka, and published by Harvest House Publishers. The story takes place in the fictional country of Nearing Vast, in a time of sailing ships, pirates, sea monsters, and swordsmen. The key characters are a young swordsman, Packer Throme, and his love, Panna Throme, whose story is told throughout the trilogy. The war between rival kingdoms of Drammun and Nearing Vast", "title": "The Battle for Vast Dominion" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.47, "text": "name given to electronically preserved human memories and personalities. The SF Site gave the novel a positive review, commenting on the balance between the relatively straightforward plotline and the complex character interaction. John Clute, in \"\"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\"\", described the \"\"Deception Well\"\" sub-sequence (comprising \"\"Deception Well\"\" and \"\"Vast\"\") as \"\"an immensely complex tale,\"\" drawing comparisons with the work of Olaf Stapledon and Larry Niven. Alastair Reynolds described \"\"Vast\"\" as \"\"one of the most enjoyable SF books I've read in the last 12 years\"\" and noted its influence on his own novels, particularly \"\"Redemption Ark\"\" and \"\"House of Suns\"\".", "title": "Vast (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.45, "text": "The Battle for Vast Dominion The Battle for Vast Dominion is the third book of the Trophy Chase Trilogy, written by American author George Bryan Polivka, and published by Harvest House Publishers. The story takes place in the fictional country of Nearing Vast, in a time of sailing ships, pirates, sea monsters, and swordsmen. The key characters are a young swordsman, Packer Throme, and his love, Panna Throme, whose story is told throughout the trilogy. The war between rival kingdoms of Drammun and Nearing Vast reaches its conclusion, with Packer Throme leading his forces to war while convinced that victory", "title": "The Battle for Vast Dominion" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "a style which anticipates the 20th-century Argentinian short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges who once declared: \"\"To write vast books is a laborious nonsense; much better is to offer a summary as if those books actually existed.\"\" Browne however was not the first author to engage in such fantasy. The French author Rabelais in his epic \"\"Gargantua and Pantagruel\"\" also penned a list of imaginary and often obscene book titles in his \"\"Library of Pantagruel,\"\" an inventory which Browne himself alludes to in his \"\"Religio Medici\"\". As the 17th century scientific revolution progressed the popularity and growth of antiquarian collections, those", "title": "Musaeum Clausum" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "VAST VAST (pronounced \"\"vast\"\") is an American alternative rock band based in Seattle. The acronym VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby. The band is signed to 2blossoms, an independent record company created by Crosby. VAST's sound is identifiable as ambient electro-rock with considerable industrial and acoustic influences, usually made with Crosby's traditional acoustic guitar, electronic instruments and processing, drum-driven tracks, and heavy bass. Vocally similarities range from classic rock to post-grunge. In recent years, however, VAST's sound has been more identifiable with acoustic rock in releases such as", "title": "VAST" } ]

[ "Valerie Bloom" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.66, "text": "The Fruits of the Earth The Fruits of the Earth () is a prose-poem by André Gide, published in France in 1897. The book was written in 1895 (the year of Gide's marriage) and appeared in a review in 1896 before publication the next year. Gide admitted to the intellectual influence of Nietzsche's ' but the true genesis was the author's own journey from the deforming influence of his puritanical religious upbringing to liberation in the arms of North African boys. Andre Maurois draws attention to the similarity of moral outlook between the two works in these words: \"\"Like \"\"Thus", "title": "The Fruits of the Earth" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.48, "text": "poem.\"\" The BookTrust called it \"\"A sumptuous book, with rich, vibrant and distinctive illustrations.\"\" Fruits (book) Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem () is a children's picture book written by Valerie Bloom and illustrated by David Axtell. In 1997 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award. \"\"Kirkus Reviews\"\" found that \"\"Although authentic to the Patwa language, the pronunciations and cadences can, for unpracticed readers, result in a halting tempo rather than the intended rhythmic lilt.\"\" while \"\"Publishers Weekly\"\" saw that \"\"Readers may need guidance deciphering some of the words\"\" and \"\"First-time illustrator Axtell gives ... evocation of the poem's", "title": "Fruits (book)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.33, "text": "Fruits (book) Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem () is a children's picture book written by Valerie Bloom and illustrated by David Axtell. In 1997 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award. \"\"Kirkus Reviews\"\" found that \"\"Although authentic to the Patwa language, the pronunciations and cadences can, for unpracticed readers, result in a halting tempo rather than the intended rhythmic lilt.\"\" while \"\"Publishers Weekly\"\" saw that \"\"Readers may need guidance deciphering some of the words\"\" and \"\"First-time illustrator Axtell gives ... evocation of the poem's lush tropical setting and brightly painted buildings offers a lively backdrop for Bloom's bouncy", "title": "Fruits (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "Charles Mason Hovey Charles Mason Hovey (October 26, 1810, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1887) was an American nurseryman, seed merchant, journalist and author of horticultural books best known for his two-volume large quarto, \"\"The Fruits of America\"\" published between 1848 and 1856 and containing some 100 chromolithographs by William Sharp, the British-born lithographer and artist, with an extremely rare third volume which was partly published. Hovey was an honorary member of the Royal Societies of London and of Edinburgh. Charles was the sixth of seven children born to Sarah Stone Hovey and Phineas Brown Hovey, who ran a grocery store at", "title": "Charles Mason Hovey" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "Brian Francis Brian Francis (born 1971) is a Canadian writer. His 2004 novel \"\"Fruit\"\" was selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by novelist and CBC Radio One personality Jen Sookfong Lee. It finished the competition as the runner-up, making the last vote against the eventual winner, Lawrence Hill's \"\"The Book of Negroes\"\". Published in Canada by ECW Press and released on May 4, 2004, \"\"Fruit\"\" is the story of Peter Paddington, a teenager living in Sarnia. Overweight, gay and a social outsider, Paddington regularly retreats into an active fantasy life which includes", "title": "Brian Francis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.8, "text": "books\"\"). Ptolemy was indeed accepted as its author by medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin scholars, and the book was widely taken up and quoted. In Arabic it was known as the \"\"Kitab al-Tamara\"\" (\"\"Book of the Fruit\"\"), the name supposedly a translation of the Greek καρπος meaning \"\"fruit\"\", the book's aphorisms being seen as standing as the fruit or summation of the earlier treatise. It was translated at least four times into Latin, in which it was also known as the \"\"Liber Fructus\"\", including by John of Seville in Toledo in 1136 and by Plato of Tivoli in Barcelona in", "title": "Centiloquium" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.22, "text": "the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) determined Rybka was plagiarized from Fruit and Crafty. The author of Rybka, Vasik Rajlich, refused to address the allegations against Rybka with the ICGA, instead preferring an \"\"ex post facto\"\" public interview conducted by Nelson Hernandez on July 4, 2011. Rajlich had previously said: \"\"I went through the Fruit 2.1 source code forwards and backwards and took many things.\"\" On the tenth anniversary of the start of Fruit development in 2014, Fabien Letouzey released a completely new engine, Senpai, under the GPLv3. Senpai makes use of chess engine developments made in the intervening decade.", "title": "Fruit (software)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.06, "text": "Strange Fruit (novel) Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally \"\"Jordan is so Chilly\"\", with Smith later changing the title to \"\"Strange Fruit\"\". In her autobiography, singer Billie Holiday wrote that Smith chose to name the book after her song \"\"Strange Fruit\"\", which was about the lynching and racism against African-Americans, although Smith maintained that the book's title referred to the \"\"damaged, twisted people (both black and white) who are the products or results of our racist culture.\"\" After", "title": "Strange Fruit (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.03, "text": "Peter Robbins (author) Peter Robbins (born 1946) is a British author whose published works include \"\"Stolen Fruit\"\" and a range of specialist books on related topics including precious metals markets, tropical commodity markets, trade sanctions, access to market information, and on support for rural communities. He was a commodities trader in the City of London for 30 years. He was able to retire from the business early and became a consultant to the United Nations on trade relations between African countries and multinational companies. He worked also as an advisor to the African National Congress on trade sanctions against apartheid.", "title": "Peter Robbins (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.91, "text": "her blackness, nor written to be an \"\"honorary white woman\"\". Strange Fruit (novel) Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally \"\"Jordan is so Chilly\"\", with Smith later changing the title to \"\"Strange Fruit\"\". In her autobiography, singer Billie Holiday wrote that Smith chose to name the book after her song \"\"Strange Fruit\"\", which was about the lynching and racism against African-Americans, although Smith maintained that the book's title referred to the \"\"damaged, twisted people (both black and white) who", "title": "Strange Fruit (novel)" } ]

[ "Jill Thompson" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.2, "text": "Scary Godmother Scary Godmother is a series of children's books and comic books created by artist Jill Thompson and published by Sirius Entertainment beginning in 1997. Thompson described the work and the character this way: “Scary Godmother is like your fairy godmother, but for Halloween. There’s really nothing scary about the Scary Godmother. She’s fun and macabre; reminiscent of childhood with a little bit of social commentary mixed in.\"\" She stated that “comics are so segregated now” and that she wanted to create something that both young readers and adults could enjoy.\"\" She decided to create something with a Halloween", "title": "Scary Godmother" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.14, "text": "for. Jill Thompson co-wrote the script, and had some creative control over the project. When she was shown early character designs for the film which resembled the watercolor illustrations in her books, she requested that the characters instead be fully computer-generated. (In an interview, Thompson stated that she wanted them to go with CGI because \"\"I'm doing 2D. Nobody else should be doing 2D, just me.\"\") However, the mostly static backgrounds used in the film more closely resemble traditional cel animation or the illustrations in Thompson's books. Because of that, the 3D characters often appear to \"\"pop out\"\" from their", "title": "Scary Godmother" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.02, "text": "backgrounds. The visual style of the film has been described as resembling that of Tim Burton's \"\"The Nightmare Before Christmas\"\" rather than that of computer-animated films such as \"\"Finding Nemo\"\". A review of the film in School Library Journal, however, described the film as \"\"Toy Story meets Tim Burton\"\", and thought that the animation closely resembles Thompson's watercolor illustrations. The second, \"\"\"\" (based on the second book), premiered in 2005. Scary Godmother Scary Godmother is a series of children's books and comic books created by artist Jill Thompson and published by Sirius Entertainment beginning in 1997. Thompson described the work", "title": "Scary Godmother" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.92, "text": "theme after looking for a Halloween-themed children's book for her niece and not finding anything that she liked. The books employ a combination of storybook/comic formats. Thompson does the interiors as well as the covers for Scary Godmother, and she said that planning ahead and meeting deadlines can be a challenge. Two films have been produced based on the series. The first, \"\"\"\", premiered on television in Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Canada in 2003. Later, it premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network in 2004. The film was the first one Mainframe Entertainment used its new software/animation pipeline", "title": "Scary Godmother" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.61, "text": "written and illustrated several stories featuring the Sandman characters. These include the manga-style book \"\"\"\", one of DC's best selling books of 2003, set during the events of \"\"\"\", and \"\"The Little Endless Storybook\"\", a children's book using childlike versions of the Endless. In 2005 Thompson wrote and illustrated the \"\"Dead Boy Detectives\"\", an original graphic novel based on two minor characters from \"\"Season of Mists\"\". Thompson designs the ring attire for WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan. Thompson created the comic book series \"\"Scary Godmother\"\", originally published by Sirius Entertainment and later by Dark Horse Comics. The books spawned two television", "title": "Jill Thompson" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.31, "text": "notably as the original model for Scary Godmother. Her likeness has been used by P. Craig Russell in his graphic novel \"\"The Magic Flute\"\", and many other works by Russell. In a 2012 interview, she said,\"\"For his \"\"\"\" story ‘Hothouse,’ I was this evil doctor, or someone who was manipulating Poison Ivy...He used me for operas and things, like Brunhilda and \"\"Ring of the Nibelung\"\".\"\" Alex Ross used her likeness for the character Duela Dent in \"\"Kingdom Come\"\". Thompson is a featured interview in the film \"\"\"\", a documentary about \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" fandom. She was also interviewed", "title": "Jill Thompson" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.22, "text": "Jill Thompson Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American comic book writer and illustrator who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's \"\"The Sandman\"\" characters and her own \"\"Scary Godmother\"\" series, she has worked on \"\"The Invisibles\"\", \"\"Swamp Thing\"\", and \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" as well. Thompson attended The American Academy of Art in Chicago, graduating in 1987 with a degree in Illustration and Watercolor. Jill Thompson began her comics career working for such publishers as First Comics and Now Comics in the 1980s. She became the artist of DC Comics' \"\"Wonder", "title": "Jill Thompson" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.12, "text": "has won multiple Eisner Awards, including in 2001 for best painter for Scary Godmother, 2004 for \"\"Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)\"\" for her work on \"\"The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings\"\", and in 2005 for \"\"Best Short Story\"\" for \"\"Unfamiliar\"\" (from \"\"The Dark Horse Book of the Dead\"\") with Evan Dorkin. In 2011 the National Cartoonist Society named her Best Comic Book Artist for \"\"Beasts of Burden\"\". She was nominated for Lulu of the Year in 1998 and won in 1999. National Cartoonists Society Award Eisner Awards: Eisner Award nominations: Created by, written and illustrated by Thompson: Adaptation/ co-writer, art", "title": "Jill Thompson" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.84, "text": "director, set designer: Actor, \"\"Aunt Lindsay\"\": With Mainframe Entertainment: Jill Thompson Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American comic book writer and illustrator who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's \"\"The Sandman\"\" characters and her own \"\"Scary Godmother\"\" series, she has worked on \"\"The Invisibles\"\", \"\"Swamp Thing\"\", and \"\"Wonder Woman\"\" as well. Thompson attended The American Academy of Art in Chicago, graduating in 1987 with a degree in Illustration and Watercolor. Jill Thompson began her comics career working for such publishers as First Comics and Now Comics in the", "title": "Jill Thompson" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.81, "text": "The Fairy Godmother (novel) The Fairy Godmother is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, published in 2004 and the first book of the \"\"Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms\"\" series. It is about a young woman named Elena, the daughter of a wealthy gentleman. After the death of her mother, her father married a devious social climber with two daughters of her own. Not long after the marriage, Elena's father dies and her stepmother relegates her into the position of a house servant. She seems to be the perfect Cinderella candidate, except the prince of the land is many years younger", "title": "The Fairy Godmother (novel)" } ]

[ "Sarah Kane", "Sarah Marie Kane" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.98, "text": "Crave (play) Crave is a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough, with which Kane was writer-in-residence for the year, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. The play was initially presented under the pseudonym Marie Kelvedon; Kane used a pseudonym to avoid the distraction of her reputation for graphic staged violence from her previous works. \"\"Crave\"\" was Kane's fourth play. It is dedicated by the author to Mark Ravenhill. The play reflects a stylistic departure from Kane's previous works, using a non-linear, poetic style, and is notable for its", "title": "Crave (play)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.47, "text": "\"\"An Echo, A Stain\"\", released on the album \"\"Vespertine\"\" in 2001, are based on this play. Crave (play) Crave is a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough, with which Kane was writer-in-residence for the year, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. The play was initially presented under the pseudonym Marie Kelvedon; Kane used a pseudonym to avoid the distraction of her reputation for graphic staged violence from her previous works. \"\"Crave\"\" was Kane's fourth play. It is dedicated by the author to Mark Ravenhill. The play reflects a", "title": "Crave (play)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "written by Stephen Dale Petit, except where noted. Additional musicians The Crave The Crave is the second studio album by Stephen Dale Petit released on the 26 July 2010. It features guest appearances from former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, original Rolling Stones bassist and Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor and keyboardist Max Middleton. The album contains original material and covers of staple songs within the Blues genre. Covers include versions of Albert King's \"\"\"\"As The Years Go Passing By\"\", \"\"Need Your Love So Bad\"\"\"\" (most famously covered by Fleetwood Mac) a re-interpretation of Robert Johnson's \"\"\"\"Cross Road Blues\"\"\"\" (covered", "title": "The Crave" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.14, "text": "The Crave The Crave is the second studio album by Stephen Dale Petit released on the 26 July 2010. It features guest appearances from former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, original Rolling Stones bassist and Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor and keyboardist Max Middleton. The album contains original material and covers of staple songs within the Blues genre. Covers include versions of Albert King's \"\"\"\"As The Years Go Passing By\"\", \"\"Need Your Love So Bad\"\"\"\" (most famously covered by Fleetwood Mac) a re-interpretation of Robert Johnson's \"\"\"\"Cross Road Blues\"\"\"\" (covered by Cream) as well as a reworked version of Bob", "title": "The Crave" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.94, "text": "lack of staged violence that had been a hallmark of the author's previous work; this style is continued in her next and final work, \"\"4.48 Psychosis.\"\" The dialogue is intertextual, and often it is unclear whom each line is addressed to. Much of the delivery of the text is left up to directorial interpretation. The author does not provide context, stage directions or descriptions of characters. The sex and gender of the four characters (A, B, C, and M) is only identifiable from context within the play. \"\"Crave\"\" continues the theme of pain in love that Kane had explored with", "title": "Crave (play)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.7, "text": "was cited in the 2009 book \"\"The Man's Book: The Essential Guide for the Modern Man\"\" by Thomas Fink as a top website for men. Regarding Crave Online, AskMen.com said, \"\"CraveOnline.com combines entertainment and other interests in one place. Great articles, nice pictures and other cool stuff that you won't want to miss.\"\" CraveOnline CraveOnline Media, LLC is a male lifestyle website based in Los Angeles with sales offices in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco. The site is owned by media company Evolve Media, LLC. CraveOnline focuses its contents into the male-lifestyle audience. It owns a dozen websites", "title": "CraveOnline" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "a free e-novella by Hoover into a print book. Atria Books had received 5,000 tweets, posts and memes under the #FindingCinderella campaign. Atria Books has also focused on finding and publishing successful self-published authors. In 2013, they signed 18 books by 8 self-published authors. Atria signs on a self-published author, reworks the previously published ebook if necessary, and then republishes them in new e-book and paperback editions. When looking for at a potential author they look at how emotionally connected the online reviews are with the storyline and characters. In 2015, Atria launched Crave (ThisIsCrave.com), an application and subscription service", "title": "Atria Publishing Group" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.67, "text": "directorial debut with the psychological thriller \"\"Crave\"\" which began shooting on October 23, 2009, in Detroit, Michigan, and stars Josh Lawson, Emma Lung, Edward Furlong and Ron Perlman. Lauzirika is also one of the film's producers and co-wrote the screenplay with Robert A. Lawton. \"\"Crave\"\" had its sold out world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 24, 2012 and went on to win the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature Film. The film had its sold out United States premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 22, 2012, with Lauzirika going on to win", "title": "Charles de Lauzirika" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.61, "text": "Crave (film) Crave (also known under the working titles of \"\"Shatterbrain\"\" and \"\"Two Wolves\"\") is a 2012 American drama thriller film directed by Charles de Lauzirika. The film stars Josh Lawson as a man who retreats into a fantasy world that comes with deadly consequences. \"\"Crave\"\" had its world premiere on July 24, 2012 at the Fantasia International Film Festival and had a wider theatrical and video on demand release on December 6, 2013. Aiden (Josh Lawson) is an underpaid and lonely freelance crime scene photographer who copes with the world around him by imagining himself as a hero who", "title": "Crave (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.52, "text": "London in 2016, the first time any of Kane's work had been performed there. A change in critical opinion occurred with Kane's fourth play, \"\"Crave\"\", which was directed by Vicky Featherstone and presented by Paines Plough at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1998. The play was performed under the pseudonym of Marie Kelvedon, partly because the notion amused Kane, but also so that the play could be viewed without the taint of its author's notorious reputation. \"\"Marie\"\" was Kane's middle name and she was brought up in the town of Kelvedon Hatch in Essex. \"\"Crave\"\" marks a break from", "title": "Sarah Kane" } ]

[ "Barbara Hambly", "Barbara Hamilton (pseudonym)", "Barbara Hamilton" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.03, "text": "eldest of all vampires, who might be either the killer himself, or the key to the killer's undoing. What they discover is a threat to the living as well as the undead. Those Who Hunt the Night Those Who Hunt the Night (also published under the title Immortal blood) is a 1988 horror/mystery novel by Barbara Hambly. It won the Locus Award winner for Best Horror Novel in 1989. The 20th century is just under way, and somebody is killing the vampires of London. Against the wishes of his fellow undead, Simon Ysidro, oldest of the London vampires, seeks the", "title": "Those Who Hunt the Night" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.89, "text": "Those Who Hunt the Night Those Who Hunt the Night (also published under the title Immortal blood) is a 1988 horror/mystery novel by Barbara Hambly. It won the Locus Award winner for Best Horror Novel in 1989. The 20th century is just under way, and somebody is killing the vampires of London. Against the wishes of his fellow undead, Simon Ysidro, oldest of the London vampires, seeks the assistance of Oxford professor James Asher, former spy for the British government. Ysidro gains Asher's cooperation by threatening the life of his beautiful young wife, Lydia. Unbeknownst to Ysidro, Asher enlists the", "title": "Those Who Hunt the Night" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.89, "text": "Traveling with the Dead Traveling with the Dead is a 1995 horror/mystery novel by American writer Barbara Hambly. It was a 1996 Locus Award nominee, and winner of the Lord Ruthven Award, 1996. In this sequel to \"\"Those Who Hunt the Night\"\", professor James Asher and his young wife, Lydia, are again swept up in the dangerous world of the undead. It is 1908, and a weary Asher, traveling home from his tiresome duties as executor of a relative's estate, spots Charles Farren, vampire Earl of Ernchester, clearly involved in some intrigue with mercenary and enemy spy Ignace Karolyi. Asher,", "title": "Traveling with the Dead" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.44, "text": "for Best Horror Novel \"\"Those Who Hunt the Night\"\" (1989) (released in the UK as \"\"Immortal Blood\"\") and the Lord Ruthven Award for fiction for its sequel, \"\"Travelling With the Dead\"\" (1996). Hambly was married for some years to George Alec Effinger, a science fiction writer. He died in 2002. She lives in Los Angeles. Hambly speaks freely of suffering from seasonal affective disorder, which was undiagnosed for years. Hambly's work has several themes. She has a penchant for unusual characters within the fantasy genre, such as the menopausal witch and reluctant scholar-lord in the \"\"Winterlands\"\" trilogy, or the philologist", "title": "Barbara Hambly" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.22, "text": "Night Huntress Night Huntress is a series of \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling urban fantasy romance novels by author Jeaniene Frost. The first novel was published in 2007 by Avon and takes place in a world where supernatural creatures exist but are not known to the general public at large. The series initially focused around the character of half-vampire Catherine \"\"Cat\"\" Crawfield and her full-vampire lover Bones, but eventually shifted focus to other characters such as Vlad Tepesh, a character that Frost had initially not planned to include. The original \"\"Night Huntress\"\" series was initially planned to span seven novels, with", "title": "Night Huntress" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.81, "text": "The Night of the Hunter (novel) The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. Murderous ex-convict Harry Powell misrepresents himself as a prison chaplain upon his release from prison. Acting on a story told to him by his now-dead cellmate, \"\"Reverend\"\" Powell cons the cellmate's widow, Willa Harper, into marrying him in hopes that her children will tell him where their father hid the money from his last robbery. After killing their mother, he embarks on", "title": "The Night of the Hunter (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.38, "text": "the novels, with \"\"Eternal Kiss of Darkness\"\" winning its 2010 \"\"Vampire Romance Award\"\". \"\"Publishers Weekly\"\" has mostly praised the series, but has stated that the \"\"would-be witticisms [begin] to grate\"\" in \"\"Once Burned\"\". Night Huntress Night Huntress is a series of \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling urban fantasy romance novels by author Jeaniene Frost. The first novel was published in 2007 by Avon and takes place in a world where supernatural creatures exist but are not known to the general public at large. The series initially focused around the character of half-vampire Catherine \"\"Cat\"\" Crawfield and her full-vampire lover Bones, but", "title": "Night Huntress" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.33, "text": "help of his wife, a physician with a keenly analytical mind. Asher prowls the streets and crypts of London with Ysidro, entering the dark underworld of the undead, as Lydia combs property records and medical journals for clues as to who might have the means and the motive to carry out the slaughter. Asher's theory is that the killer must be a vampire himself, one able to remain awake and active in the daytime. Lydia develops a theory as to how such a vampire might come to be. Together Asher and Ysidro travel to Paris to seek out the mythical", "title": "Those Who Hunt the Night" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.3, "text": "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 1993. It was the final volume in his Miramichi trilogy, which also included the novels \"\"Nights Below Station Street\"\" (1988) and \"\"Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace\"\" (1990). The novel centres on Jerry Bines, a charismatic but violent ex-convict, and his family. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1993 Governor General's Awards, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 1994. The novel was later adapted by", "title": "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.2, "text": "Jeaniene Frost Jeaniene Frost (born 1974) is an American fantasy author, known for her work on the \"\"New York Times\"\" and \"\"USA Today\"\" bestselling \"\"Night Huntress\"\" series and the \"\"Night Huntress World\"\" novels. Foreign rights for her novels have sold to nineteen different countries. Frost first came up with the idea for the \"\"Night Huntress\"\" series after dreaming of a couple arguing. \"\"In my dream, I saw a man and a woman arguing. Somehow I knew the woman was a half-vampire, the man was a full vampire, and they were arguing because he was angry that she'd left him.\"\" This", "title": "Jeaniene Frost" } ]

[ "Michel Houellebecq" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.97, "text": "Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, \"\"Whatever\"\", in 1994. His next novel, \"\"Atomised\"\", published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. \"\"Platform\"\" followed in 2001. He published several books of poems, including \"\"The Art of Struggle\"\" (\"\"Le sens du combat\"\") in 1996. After a publicity tour for \"\"Platform\"\" led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland for several years.", "title": "Michel Houellebecq" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.59, "text": "Whatever (novel) Whatever (, literally \"\"extension of the domain of struggle\"\") is the debut novel of French writer Michel Houellebecq, which was published in 1994 in France by Éditions Maurice Nadeau and in 1998 in the UK by Serpent's Tail. It primarily highlights \"\"... disaggregating effects of post-Fordism on the intimate spaces of human affect\"\" through the story of a depressed and isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job. It was adapted into the 1999 film \"\"Whatever\"\", directed by and starring Philippe Harel. The protagonist (Harel), known only as \"\"Our Hero\"\" during the entirety of the story,", "title": "Whatever (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.12, "text": "Karl Stevens Karl Stevens (born November 21, 1978 in Concord, Massachusetts) is a graphic novelist and painter. His first book, \"\"Guilty\"\", was published in 2004 with a grant from the Xeric Foundation. He is also the author of \"\"Whatever\"\" (2008) and \"\"The Lodger\"\" (2010). His comic strips have appeared since 2005 in the alternative newsweekly the \"\"Boston Phoenix\"\". \"\"Guilty\"\" is set in Allston and Cambridge, and chronicles the events following an unexpected bus stop encounter between exes. Reviews of \"\"Guilty\"\" noted its \"\"painstaking cross-hatch[ing] ... and its pitch-perfect, 'overheard' dialogue\"\" and its extremely — even \"\"overwhelmingly\"\" — detailed realism. In", "title": "Karl Stevens" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.12, "text": "for why Houellebecq portrayed Lovecraft as an 'obsolete reactionary' whose work was based largely on 'racial hatred.' . Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, \"\"Whatever\"\", in 1994. His next novel, \"\"Atomised\"\", published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. \"\"Platform\"\" followed in 2001. He published several books of poems, including \"\"The Art of Struggle\"\" (\"\"Le sens du combat\"\") in 1996. After a publicity tour for \"\"Platform\"\"", "title": "Michel Houellebecq" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "authors recount sexual misconduct assertions made by women against Trump, and Trump's statement of blood pouring out of Megyn Kelly's \"\"whatever\"\" in response to a critical question from the journalist. The book concludes with the 2016 Republican National Convention. Prior to his work on the book, author Michael Kranish had written biographical works on other presidential candidates John Kerry and Mitt Romney, with books \"\"John F. Kerry\"\" and \"\"The Real Romney\"\". He wrote about president Thomas Jefferson in his book, \"\"Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War\"\". Kranish worked in the field of investigative journalism for \"\"The Boston Globe\"\" and", "title": "Trump Revealed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.98, "text": "New World Library New World Library is a San Francisco Bay Area-based American publisher of books for adults and children. The press focuses on publishing books concerning the mind, the body and the spirit. The company was established in 1977 by authors Marc Allen and Shakti Gawain under the name Whatever Publishing. The fledgling firm's first three books were written by Marc Allen; the fourth book they published, Shakti Gawain's \"\"Creative Visualization\"\", released in December 1978, became a bestseller under the guidance of Sky Canyon (aka Jon Bernoff), who was President and Publisher from 1979 through 1986, selling over 3", "title": "New World Library" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.69, "text": "for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1995, and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Campbell Awards that same year. Bishop's first novel for young people \"\"whatever their age\"\" was published in June 2016 by the Fairwood Press imprint Kudzu Planet Productions. Ten-year-old Joel-Brock Lollis returns home from a baseball game to discover that his parents and sister have been kidnapped, and proceeds to recruit two employees of the local big-box department store in his quest to rescue his family. Reviewer Paul Di Filippo writes \"\"Bishop's prodigious powers of invention serve him well here too. There are many angles", "title": "Michael Bishop (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.53, "text": "work for Gawker eventually attracted media attention from several publications including \"\"The New York Times\"\", as well as significant controversy. She left Gawker in November 2007. Gould is the co-author, with Zareen Jaffery, of the young-adult novel \"\"Hex Education\"\", which was released by Penguin's Razorbill imprint in May 2007. She is also the author of a collection of essays, \"\"And the Heart Says Whatever\"\", published by Free Press in May 2010. Her semi-autobiographical novel \"\"Friendship\"\" was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014). Gould is the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books. Emily Books", "title": "Emily Gould" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.52, "text": "Chelsea Martin Chelsea Martin (born 1986 in California) is an American author and illustrator. She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008. She is the author of \"\"Everything Was Fine Until Whatever\"\" (Future Tense Books, 2009), \"\"The Really Funny Thing About Apathy\"\" (Sunnyoutside, 2010), \"\"Kramer Sutra\"\" (Universal Error, 2012), and \"\"Even Though I Don't Miss You\"\" (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013), which was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed Magazine and was a small press bestseller. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Poetry Foundation, Hobart (magazine), Lena Dunham's", "title": "Chelsea Martin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.48, "text": "\"\"\"\", released in October 2007 by North Light Books. His short stories have appeared in Volumes 1 and 3 of \"\"Blurred Vision\"\", anthologies of \"\"New Narrative Art\"\" published by Blurred Books. Karl Stevens Karl Stevens (born November 21, 1978 in Concord, Massachusetts) is a graphic novelist and painter. His first book, \"\"Guilty\"\", was published in 2004 with a grant from the Xeric Foundation. He is also the author of \"\"Whatever\"\" (2008) and \"\"The Lodger\"\" (2010). His comic strips have appeared since 2005 in the alternative newsweekly the \"\"Boston Phoenix\"\". \"\"Guilty\"\" is set in Allston and Cambridge, and chronicles the events", "title": "Karl Stevens" } ]

[ "Adam Nevill", "Nevill, Adam L. G." ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.33, "text": "Last Days (Nevill novel) Last Days is a 2012 horror novel by the British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012 by Pan Macmillan and was published in the United States on 26 February 2013 through St. Martin's Griffin. It won the 2013 \"\"August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel\"\" and film rights for \"\"Last Days\"\" were first optioned by Adam Storke in early 2014. The option has subsequently passed to another film production company. The book follows Kyle Freeman, a guerrilla documentary maker that has been hired to make a", "title": "Last Days (Nevill novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.28, "text": "good humour and a smart sense of self-awareness.\"\" Last Days (Nevill novel) Last Days is a 2012 horror novel by the British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012 by Pan Macmillan and was published in the United States on 26 February 2013 through St. Martin's Griffin. It won the 2013 \"\"August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel\"\" and film rights for \"\"Last Days\"\" were first optioned by Adam Storke in early 2014. The option has subsequently passed to another film production company. The book follows Kyle Freeman, a guerrilla documentary", "title": "Last Days (Nevill novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.23, "text": "author’s grandfather and great-grandfather were both miners – was acclaimed in \"\"The Independent\"\" as \"\"a pained description of an England that has all but exhausted itself\"\". Hudson’s most recent book, \"\"Titian, the Last Days\"\", is a personal study of the great Venetian painter Titian, focusing on his mysterious last paintings. Hudson is a regular contributor to the \"\"Daily Telegraph\"\" and has also written for \"\"The Observer\"\", the \"\"Mail on Sunday\"\", the \"\"Financial Times\"\", the \"\"Sunday Times\"\" and the \"\"Guardian\"\". Books Discography Reviews Mark Hudson (author) Mark Hudson is a multiple-award-winning British writer, journalist and critic, whose books have been described", "title": "Mark Hudson (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.11, "text": "The Last Days (Westerfeld novel) The Last Days, a horror novel by Scott Westerfeld, is a companion book to \"\"Peeps\"\". It takes place in New York, during the end of civilization hinted upon in \"\"Peeps\"\". The narrative focuses around Moz, Zahler, Pearl, Alana Ray and Minerva, in an apocalyptic New York. Odd occurrences are taking place, the sewers are gushing black water, the earth shakes, and people are inexplicably going mad. In the midst of it all, two friends begin to see their dreams realized. Moz and Zahler have been friends for six years, playing their guitars without any clear", "title": "The Last Days (Westerfeld novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.77, "text": "appearances alongside Cal. The Nightmayor (a pun of nightmare), only alluded to in \"\"Peeps\"\", has short introductions to all parts of the book, describing historical events from a unique perspective. The Last Days (Westerfeld novel) The Last Days, a horror novel by Scott Westerfeld, is a companion book to \"\"Peeps\"\". It takes place in New York, during the end of civilization hinted upon in \"\"Peeps\"\". The narrative focuses around Moz, Zahler, Pearl, Alana Ray and Minerva, in an apocalyptic New York. Odd occurrences are taking place, the sewers are gushing black water, the earth shakes, and people are inexplicably going", "title": "The Last Days (Westerfeld novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.59, "text": "Mary Miller (writer) Mary U. Miller is an American fiction writer. She is the author of two collections of short stories entitled \"\"Big World\"\" and \"\"Always Happy Hour\"\". Her debut novel entitled \"\"The Last Days of California\"\" was published by Liveright. It is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl on a family road trip from the South to California, led by her evangelical father. By January 2014, \"\"Big World\"\" had sold 3,000 copies and \"\"Last Days of California\"\" had an initial print run of 25,000. \"\"Last Days of California\"\" was recommended by numerous newspapers, including the \"\"Los Angeles Times\"\", the", "title": "Mary Miller (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire is a book by American author David Remnick. Often cited as an example of New Journalism, it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1994. The book is equal parts history and eyewitness account, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Opening with the excavation of the corpses of Poles killed in the Katyn massacre, \"\"Lenin's Tomb\"\" begins by describing the structural flaws present from the country's early days, and then uses individual accounts from a wide variety of contemporary individuals", "title": "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "gave a favorable assessment of the book. <br> Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire is a book by American author David Remnick. Often cited as an example of New Journalism, it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1994. The book is equal parts history and eyewitness account, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Opening with the excavation of the corpses of Poles killed in the Katyn massacre, \"\"Lenin's Tomb\"\" begins by describing the structural flaws present from the country's early days, and then uses individual", "title": "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.89, "text": "The Garden of Last Days The Garden of Last Days is a 2008 novel by Andre Dubus III. It tells the interweaving stories of several individuals in Florida in the days before the September 11 attacks. The book is a follow up to \"\"House of Sand and Fog\"\". One early September night in Florida, April, a stripper at the \"\"Puma Club for Men\"\" brings her daughter to work when her usual babysitter is in the hospital. That night, April has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile,", "title": "The Garden of Last Days" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.81, "text": "Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings. Taking place in 1940s Brooklyn, the bulk of the novel consists of letters written between fictional New York Giants third baseman Charlie Banks and Jewish twelve-year-old Joey Margolis. Joey Margolis, a Jewish boy growing up in a tough Italian neighbourhood, is burdened with beatings from neighborhood kids, his parents' divorce, and an absent father who repeatedly lets him down. In addition, he is", "title": "Last Days of Summer" } ]

[ "Harold Pinter" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.61, "text": "revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, as well a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature. The poet William Wordsworth was a major contributor to the literature of landscape, as was his contemporary poet and novelist Walter Scott. Scott's influence was felt throughout Europe, as well as on major Victorian novelists in Britain, such as Emily Bronte, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, as well as John Cowper Powys in the 20th-century. Margaret Drabble in \"\"A Writer's Britain\"\" suggests that Thomas Hardy \"\"is perhaps the greatest writer of rural life and landscape\"\" in", "title": "Landscape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "The Landscape of Love The Landscape of Love (The Sisters Mortland in the US edition) is a novel published by British author Sally Beauman. It tells the tale of the Mortland girls – beautiful, but cold, Julia; remote and aloof Finn; and young ‘different’ Maisie – who come with their mother, Stella, to live in their grandfather's home, a huge and ancient ruin of an abbey. In the summer of 1967, the family friends Dan, Nick and Lucas arrive for a visit. Dan is Finn's boyfriend; Nick is a young doctor; and Lucas is a non-conformist fame-hungry artist and disregards", "title": "The Landscape of Love" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.17, "text": "the influential inheritor of a tradition of writing about landscape, place, travel and nature which includes John Muir, Richard Jefferies and Edward Thomas, as well as contemporary figures such as John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez and his friend Roger Deakin. He is associated with other walker-writers including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nan Shepherd and Laurie Lee, and seen as one of a number of recent British writers who have provoked a new critical and popular interest in writing about landscape. Edward Thomas, in particular, prompted Macfarlane's interest in the impact of British country paths and lanes on British", "title": "Robert Macfarlane (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.06, "text": "best writing on Landscape Architecture. Olin co-authored \"\"La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany\"\", which includes a historical essay, along with photographs, sketches, and a critical analysis of the early 20th-century garden in Italy. \"\"Across the Open Field\"\" (2000), is both a memoir and series of essays on the evolution of the English landscape. He is also the author of \"\"Transforming the Commonplace\"\" (1996) and \"\"Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers\"\" (2006, with Witold Rybczynski), on James Deering's mansion in Coconut Grove, Florida. Olin is a Guggenheim Fellow, an American Academy of Rome Fellow, a Fellow of the", "title": "Laurie Olin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.02, "text": "The Making of the English Landscape The Making of the English Landscape is a 1955 book by the English local historian William George Hoskins. It is illustrated with 82 monochrome plates, mostly photographs by Hoskins himself, and 17 maps or plans. It has appeared in at least 35 editions and reprints in English and other languages. The book is a landscape history of England and a seminal text in that discipline and in local history. The brief history of some one thousand years is widely used in local and environmental history courses. Hoskins defines the theme of the book in", "title": "The Making of the English Landscape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.97, "text": "Richard Forman Richard Townsend Turner Forman is a landscape ecologist. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College in the Harvard University. Forman has been called the \"\"father\"\" of landscape ecology for his work linking ecological science with spatial patterns describing how people and nature interweave on land. He is the author of a widely held textbook for landscape ecology, \"\"Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions.\"\" According to WorldCat, the book is held in 564 libraries He served as Vice President of the Ecological Society of America from 1982-1983 and was elected a", "title": "Richard Forman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "Christine Macy Christine Macy is an architect, historian and the dean of the architecture and planning faculty at Dalhousie University. She is the author numerous books and publications including \"\"Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape\"\" co-authored with Sarah Bonnemaison. This book received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award in 2006 from the Society of Architectural Historians. Jon Goss' book review: \"\"This book explores four moments in the changing architectural expression of the relationship between nation and nature in the United States: the closing of the frontier at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of conservation; the", "title": "Christine Macy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.8, "text": "his bones. It is when he says this, indirectly but without evasion, that he succeeds.\"\" Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) Man in a Landscape (1960) is the third poetry collection by Australian author and poet Colin Thiele. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1960. The collection consists of 5 sequences of poems, with several others interspersed between the sequences. In his review of the poetry collection in \"\"Westerly\"\" Malcolm Leven wrote: \"\"Mr. Thiele's poems do not rock our ears with motion or swamp our eyes with light, nor do they, at a different level, strike up", "title": "Man in a Landscape (poetry collection)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.78, "text": "Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) Man in a Landscape (1960) is the third poetry collection by Australian author and poet Colin Thiele. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1960. The collection consists of 5 sequences of poems, with several others interspersed between the sequences. In his review of the poetry collection in \"\"Westerly\"\" Malcolm Leven wrote: \"\"Mr. Thiele's poems do not rock our ears with motion or swamp our eyes with light, nor do they, at a different level, strike up a hallucinatory ringing in the conceptual spheres. Thus the fascination of image cadenzas and concept", "title": "Man in a Landscape (poetry collection)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "and the Landscape\"\" is considered the authoritative survey of its subject. It was billed by the MoMA as \"\"the first book to discuss the relationship between the modern garden and the natural landscape in terms of contemporary aesthetics.\"\" \"\"Modern Gardens and the Landscape\"\" included the works of Burle Marx, Bernard Rudofsky, Gunnar Asplund and Luis Barragan. Her books were all published by the Museum of Modern Art. A 1979 visit to Taliesin West inspired her to put together a retrospective directory of the Taliesin Fellowship in time for its 50th anniversary (in 1982). She collected all the listings herself, and", "title": "Elizabeth Bauer Mock" } ]

[ "Martin Amis", "Martin Louis Amis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.38, "text": "The Information (novel) The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that \"\"both\"\" characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. It is, says Amis, a book about \"\"literary enmity\"\". Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull have been friends since they roomed together at university. Richard Tull was a promising writer with a seemingly bright future. However his career flags and he finds himself depressed writing book reviews for a small literary paper and running", "title": "The Information (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.22, "text": "Public Media Corporation Board of Directors, as well as the current director of the Cornell Law School’s Alumni Helping Alumni careers program. Marx is the author of \"\"Information Law: A Compilation of Articles\"\", in which he first coined the term “Information Law” in 1985. He later wrote the \"\"Contracts in the Information Industry\"\" series of books, published by the Information Industry Association. Peter Marx (lawyer) Peter Marx is an American lawyer and business executive. He is known for coining the term \"\"Information law\"\". Marx is currently the President of the Wellesley Public Media Corporation Board of Directors. He is also", "title": "Peter Marx (lawyer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.44, "text": "information systems is a productive approach to our field. There is a huge and rich supply of real problems out there still awaiting exploration, of real importance and endless fascination, and I urge others to take them on.\"\" Wilson is the author of three books: Patrick Wilson (librarian) Patrick Wilson (December 29, 1927 – September 12, 2003) was a noted librarian, information scientist and philosopher who served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies there. Earlier in his career, Wilson taught philosophy at the University of California,", "title": "Patrick Wilson (librarian)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.41, "text": "Louis Rosenfeld Louis B. Rosenfeld (born c. 1965) is an American Information scientist, consultant and author, known as co-author of \"\"Information Architecture for the World Wide Web\"\". Rosenfeld earned his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan in 1987, and his Master's in library science from the University of Michigan School of Information in 1990. Along with Peter Morville, he was the co-founder of Argus Associates, one of the first firms devoted exclusively to the practice of information architecture. The consulting firm was at the forefront of the nascent field of information architecture until the Dot-com bubble of 2001.", "title": "Louis Rosenfeld" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.34, "text": "agent. Amis and Barnes had been friends but this caused a rift that was played out in public. Secondly he received an almost unheard of advance for a literary novel (approximately £500,000 according to most sources) which caused what was described as resentment and envy amongst his peers. The Information (novel) The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that \"\"both\"\" characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. It is, says Amis, a", "title": "The Information (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.11, "text": "written and edited four books. His first book, \"\"The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power\"\" was published in 2001 by the Southern Illinois University Press is an attempt \"\"to understand the interlinking of a variety of historical streams into a discourse on \"\"information\"\".' This is done from the perspective of literary and critical theory, with the objective of understanding how the concept of 'information' is embedded in modern culture.\"\" Day does this through the story of Suzanne Briet, the French librarian, author, historian, poet, and author of \"\"Qu'est-ce que la documentation?\"\" (What is Documentation?), where she viewed \"\"documentation", "title": "Ronald E. Day" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.09, "text": "insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler. The author also delves into how digital information is now being understood in relation to physics and genetics. Following the circulation of Claude Shannon's \"\"A Mathematical Theory of Communication\"\" and Norbert Wiener's \"\"\"\" many disciplines attempted to jump on the information theory bandwagon to varying success. Information theory concepts of data compression and error correction became especially important to the computer and electronics industries. Gleick finally discusses Wikipedia as an", "title": "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick published in March 2011 which covers the genesis of our current information age. It was on the New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its debut. \"\"The Information\"\" has also been published in ebook formats by Fourth Estate and Random House, and as an audiobook by Random House Audio. Gleick begins with the tale of colonial European explorers and their fascination with African talking drums and their observed use to send complex and", "title": "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.64, "text": "Principles of Information Security Principles of Information Security is a textbook written by Michael Whitman and Herbert Mattord and published by Course Technology It is in widespread use in higher education in the United States as well as in many English-speaking countries. The initial edition of this text was published in 2002 with The second edition was published in 2004 with The third edition was published in 2008 with . The bound text contained 550 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2011 Authors: Michael E. Whitman (Author), Herbert J. Mattord (Author) eText: Print: The fourth edition of Principles of Information Security", "title": "Principles of Information Security" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.59, "text": "Christine L. Borgman Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Both of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center", "title": "Christine L. Borgman" } ]

[ "Wilbur Smith", "Wilbur Addison Smith" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.2, "text": "Gold (Rhodes novel) Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in March 2007 by Canongate. It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian. It was also one of the 'best books of 2007' according to critics at \"\"The Independent\"\". 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", "title": "Gold (Rhodes novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.02, "text": "Gold (Cleave novel) Gold is a 2012 sports novel by British author Chris Cleave and was published by Simon & Schuster on July 3, 2012. The story focuses on the friendship and rivalry between two women and the effects that come from the choices they make and the events that they cannot prevent. \"\"Gold\"\" follows two friends and professional cycling rivals, Kate Meadows and Zoe Castle, through their lives until the London Olympics. Meeting at the age of nineteen at a cycling challenge, Kate chooses a family over cycling while Zoe maintains her profession, winning several medals at both Olympic", "title": "Gold (Cleave novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.97, "text": "Gold is published by Simon & Schuster in America, Canada, and Australasia; HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand; Penguin Group/New American Library in the United States; Editoriale ViaMagna in Spain; and Edition Michel LaFon in France. His books deal extensively with major historical themes from numerous time periods, as well as recreating fabulous women whose lives have been lost to history, such as Gráinne O'Malley and Jezebel. \"\"Bloodline\"\" is the first of the \"\"Heritage Trilogy\"\" co-written with Mike Jones. \"\"Bloodline\"\" charts the path from biblical Israel throughout the ages to modern-day Israel. Tracing two related families, the", "title": "Alan Gold (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.53, "text": "lesson in not taking each other for granted. Her appearance in the local pub is welcomed by all, but this year she becomes more involved in the local community than usual; the gold in the title referring to her impulsive gold spray-painting of a prominent boulder on a nearby beach, which soon attracts the attention of the local police. Gold (Rhodes novel) Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in March 2007 by Canongate. It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch,", "title": "Gold (Rhodes novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.39, "text": "PlayStation video games, including \"\"Vibes\"\". Gold is a \"\"New York Times\"\" best-selling author of numerous books published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, and is a regular contributor to \"\"The Huffington Post\"\", for which he began writing in September 2012. Gold's books have sold more than two million copies and have been published in seven languages. His first book, \"\"Open Your Mind, Open Your Life,\"\" was released in 2001 and became a perennial best seller that has been published in English, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean. The book received a strong endorsement from Arun Gandhi, director of the Gandhi Institute and", "title": "Craig Taro Gold" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.2, "text": "Mike Gold Michael \"\"Mike\"\" Gold (April 12, 1894 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich. A lifelong communist, Gold was a novelist and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel \"\"Jews Without Money\"\" (1930) was a bestseller. During the 1930s and 1940s Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of U.S. proletarian literature. Gold was born Itzok Isaac Granich on April 12, 1894, on the Lower East Side of New York City to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents, Chaim Granich and Gittel Schwartz Granich. He had two brothers, Max and George. Mike Gold published his", "title": "Mike Gold" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.08, "text": "Gold (short story) \"\"Gold\"\" is a short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It originally appeared in the September 1991 issue of \"\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\"\" and was collected in the eponymous volume \"\"Gold\"\". One of the last short stories he wrote in his life, it won a Hugo Award for best Novelette in 1992. 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", "title": "Gold (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "Gold the Man Gold the Man is a science fiction novel by Joseph L. Green, published in 1971. It combines themes of genetic engineering, Cold War politics, and sexuality with an encounter between humans and a race of humanoid giants. It was also published under the title The Mind Behind the Eye. \"\"Gold\"\" is a man created using genetic engineering. The object was to produce a person of high intelligence with superhuman reflexes and muscular coordination. He leads an unfulfilled life, despite having become rich and famous, including a career as a concert pianist. He lacks real companionship, and is", "title": "Gold the Man" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "Alan Gold (author) Alan David Gold (born 1945) is a novelist, columnist, and human rights activist. Born in Leicester, United Kingdom, Alan Gold began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the \"\"Leicester Mercury\"\" before becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe. He and his wife Eva moved to Australia in 1970. He has written seventeen books which have been published and translated internationally. His novels deal with a wide range of subjects, most often associated with modern and ancient history and politics and Judaism. His most recent publications are \"\"Bell of the Desert\"\" (the", "title": "Alan Gold (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "species of energy-based beings and one triad of narrative protagonists in particular. The story attributes this middle portion to an author named Gregory Laborian, saying it is a stand-alone novel entitled \"\"Three in One\"\". Laborian convinces director Jonas Willard, who had won fame for a CGI version of \"\"King Lear\"\", to create an animated version of Laborian's story. Gold (short story) \"\"Gold\"\" is a short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It originally appeared in the September 1991 issue of \"\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\"\" and was collected in the eponymous volume \"\"Gold\"\". One of the last short stories he", "title": "Gold (short story)" } ]

[ "Samuel Beckett", "Samuel Barclay Beckett", "Andrew Belis", "Sam Beckett", "Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe", "Samuel Beḳeṭ" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.38, "text": "Author An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer. More broadly defined, an author is \"\"the person who originated or gave existence to anything\"\" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Typically, the first owner of a copyright is the person who created the work i.e. the author. If more than one person created the work, then a case of joint authorship can be made provided some criteria are met. In the copyright laws of various jurisdictions, there is a necessity for little", "title": "Author" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.92, "text": "intellectual property owned by others (such as when writing a novel or screenplay that is a new installment in an already established media franchise). In literary theory, critics find complications in the term \"\"author\"\" beyond what constitutes authorship in a legal setting. In the wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a text. Barthes challenges the idea that a text can be attributed to any single author. He writes, in his essay \"\"Death of the Author\"\" (1968), that \"\"it is language", "title": "Author" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.41, "text": "It (novel) It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his 22nd book, and his 18th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an entity that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. \"\"It\"\" primarily appears in the form of 'Pennywise the Dancing Clown' to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two periods, and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. \"\"It\"\" deals with themes", "title": "It (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.83, "text": "real time, it only makes sense as it occurs. The person who writes an article on a page is acting at the very moment of writing, but no longer when the text (the action) is finished. The author, on the other hand, is present even when the actor is no longer there. He is present before and after the action. The result of navigating a page, the passage from one link to another, the path from one click to another, although considered as actions that the individual performs, because they do only make sense when someone acts, are good examples", "title": "Editorialization" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.8, "text": "The more specific phrase published author refers to an author (especially but not necessarily of books) whose work has been independently accepted for publication by a reputable publisher , versus a self-publishing author or an unpublished one. The author of a work may receive a percentage calculated on a wholesale or a specific price or a fixed amount on each book sold. Publishers, at times, reduced the risk of this type of arrangement, by agreeing only to pay this after a certain number of copies had sold. In Canada, this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until", "title": "Author" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.73, "text": "is used in a very wide sense, and includes composers, artists, sculptors and even architects: in general, the author is the person whose creativity led to the protected work being created, although the exact definition varies from country to country. Authors’ rights have two distinct components: the economic rights in the work and the moral rights of the author. The economic rights are a property right which is limited in time and which may be transferred by the author to other people in the same way as any other property (although many countries require that the transfer must be in", "title": "Authors' rights" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.59, "text": "Milton believed it was done, that is, God created Heaven, Earth, Hell, and all the creatures that inhabit these separate planes from part of Himself, not out of nothing. Thus, according to Milton, the ultimate authority of God over all things that happen derives from his being the \"\"author\"\" of all creation. Satan tries to justify his rebellion by denying this aspect of God and claiming self-creation, but he admits to himself the truth otherwise, and that God \"\"deserved no such return/ From me, whom He created what I was.\"\" Raphael is the archangel whom God sends to warn Adam", "title": "Paradise Lost" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 18.52, "text": "How It Is How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as \"\"Comment c'est\"\" by Les Editions de Minuit in 1961. The Grove Press (New York) published Beckett's English translation in 1964. An advance text of his English translation of the third part appeared in the 1962 issue of the Australian literary journal, \"\"Arna\"\". \"\"L'Image\"\", an early variant version of \"\"Comment c'est\"\", was published in the British arts review, \"\"X: A Quarterly Review\"\" (1959), and is the first appearance of the novel in any form. The novel is a monologue by the narrator as he", "title": "How It Is" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.5, "text": "Bessy, who is credited as translating it into French, was long rumoured to be the real author. Rosenbaum suggested that the book was written in French and then translated into English, since lines from the script were approximations that seemed to have been translated from English to French to English again. Research by film scholar François Thomas in the papers of Louis Dolivet has uncovered documentary proof that Bessy was indeed the author. 9. Whilst no version of the film can claim to be definitive as Welles never finished editing the film, this version is likely the closest to Welles'", "title": "Mr. Arkadin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.48, "text": "As It Is Written As it is Written is an Oriental fantasy novel by pulp writer De Lysle Ferrée Cass mistakenly republished under the name of Weird Tales writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was first published in 1982 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,250 copies (1200 of which were for sale), all of which were signed by the illustrator, R.J. Krupowicz. The book includes an introduction by Will Murray and an afterword by Donald Sidney-Fryer. The novel was discovered in the files of \"\"The Thrill Book\"\" magazine, where it had been accepted in 1919, by", "title": "As It Is Written" } ]

[ "Katherine Mansfield", "Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry", "Kathleen Murry", "Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield", "Kathleen Mansfield Murry" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.97, "text": "Pictures (short story) Pictures is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published under the title of \"\"The Common Round\"\" in the \"\"New Age\"\" on 31 May 1917 and later as \"\"The Pictures\"\" in \"\"Art and Letters\"\" in Autumn 1919. It was then reprinted as \"\"Pictures\"\" in \"\"Bliss and Other Stories\"\". Miss Moss wakes up in the morning and she is hungry because she didn't have dinner the night before, nor is she going to have breakfast : she cannot afford it. Then her landlady turns up and gives her a letter hoping that it would be", "title": "Pictures (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.53, "text": "employment agency, and he tells her there is no work for her. She then decides to go into a café and there a stout man sits beside her and then they leave together. The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative. Pictures (short story) Pictures is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published under the title of \"\"The Common Round\"\" in the \"\"New Age\"\" on 31 May 1917 and later as \"\"The Pictures\"\" in \"\"Art and Letters\"\" in Autumn 1919. It was then reprinted as", "title": "Pictures (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "has been shown every year since on British television. Japanese author and illustrator Mitsumasa Anno has published a number of picture books beginning in 1968 with \"\"Mysterious Pictures\"\". In his \"\"Journey\"\" books a tiny character travels through depictions of the culture of various countries. \"\"Everyone Poops\"\" was first published in Japan in 1977, written and illustrated by the prolific children's author Tarō Gomi. It has been translated into several languages. Australian author Margaret Wild has written more than 40 books since 1984 and won several awards. In 1987 the first book was published in the \"\"Where's Wally?\"\" (known as \"\"Where's", "title": "Picture book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.31, "text": "similarities between both books, \"\"the Book of Pictures\"\" and the \"\"Book of Keys\"\" (see there). Up to now, only one single Arabic manuscript of the \"\"Book of Pictures\"\" is extant. In the fourth part of the \"\"Book of the Rank of the Sage (Rutbat al-Ḥakīm) its author Maslama al-Qurțubī (formerly wrongly assigned to Maslama al-Magriti) quotes extensively from the “Book of Pictures”. He is the first author quoting it, but using another Greek original than the one published in 2015 than the version published 2015 (CALA III, by Th. Abt) and has influenced several alchemists like the early Arabic alchemist", "title": "Zosimos of Panopolis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.19, "text": "in 1973, a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze. By 2008 it had sold over 19 million copies worldwide. American illustrator and author Gyo Fujikawa created more than 50 books between 1963 and 1990. Her work has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books, \"\"Babies\"\" and \"\"Baby Animals\"\", have sold over 1.7 million copies in the U.S. Fujikawa is recognized for being the earliest mainstream illustrator of picture books to include children of many races in her work. Most of the Moomin books by Finnish", "title": "Picture book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.02, "text": "The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures is a diaristic graphic novel by author and artist Phoebe Gloeckner. It is notable for its hybrid form, composed of both prose and \"\"comics\"\" passages, each contributing to the narrative. First published in 2002, the book has been called \"\"autobiography\"\" or \"\"semi-autobiography.\"\" The story is told by its protagonist Minnie Goetze, a 15-year-old girl living in San Francisco, CA. The year is 1976, and Minnie, the daughter of a young single mother, loses her virginity to", "title": "The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.75, "text": "Jindřich Bišický Jindřich Bišický (11 February 1889 in Zeměchy, now part of Kralupy nad Vltavou – 31 October 1949 in Velvary) is known as the author of unique photographs from World War I. He was not properly identified until 2009. Jindřich Bišický was born in a small village in 1889. After apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he studied technical school in Prague-Smíchov with 1906 practice in Drohobycz (Galicia), in the reconstruction of an oil refinery. His mandatory 10-month-long military service was in Trient, as a military sketcher. At the beginning of World War I Bišický was drafted into the Infantry regiment", "title": "Jindřich Bišický" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.58, "text": "Philip Gefter Philip Gefter is an American author and photography critic. He wrote the biography of Sam Wagstaff, \"\"Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe\"\", for which he received the 2014 Marfield Prize, the national award for arts writing. He is also the author of \"\"George Dureau: The Photographs\"\", and \"\"Photography After Frank\"\", a book of essays published by \"\"Aperture\"\" in 2009. He was on staff at \"\"The New York Times\"\" for over fifteen years, where he wrote regularly about photography. He produced the 2011 documentary film, \"\"Bill Cunningham New York\"\". Gefter received a fine arts degree from the Pratt Institute in", "title": "Philip Gefter" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.56, "text": "Bart van Leeuwen Bart van Leeuwen (Amsterdam, 5 February 1950 — June 2017) was a Dutch photographer and author. He published his first pictures in 1967, graduated from the School for Professional Photography in The Hague in 1969 and started to work as a freelance photographer in 1971. Inspired by film noir, Italian neorealism and photographers like Avedon, Brassaï, Frank, Kertész, Lartigue, Newton and Penn he developed a narrative, cinematographic style, linking facts and fiction. He published \"\"Nabelichting\"\", an autobiographical novel, in 2012, and \"\"Niets is Echt\"\", a book about photography and reality, in 2015. Due to a neuromuscular disorder", "title": "Bart van Leeuwen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.45, "text": "of horror novellas: Blood Ranch, Loom, and Night of the Dogs. Trengove and Lawrence first collaborated on It's Your Money In My Pocket, Dear, Not Mine In Yours; Engulfed In A Tide Of Filth (re-published as Up The Pictures); The Mao Tse Tung Workers Revolutionary Striptease Emporium; and the music business cult classic Full Moon. It's Your Money, Engulfed/Up The Pictures, and Striptease Emporium are part of an ongoing series, The London Chronicles. Writing solo, Lawrence has published Fishing For Crocodiles, a 'fictionalized autobiography' about growing up in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia; and Smoke and Dust, a dramatic and meticulously researched and", "title": "Peter Lawrence (author)" } ]

[ "Dale Peck", "Tim Kring", "Richard Timothy \"Tim\" Kring", "Richard Timothy Kring" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.2, "text": "Shift (novel) \"\"For the 2013 novella written by Hugh Howey, see Silo (series).\"\" Shift is a 2010 alternative history book by Tim Kring and Dale Peck and is the first book in the \"\"Gates of Orpheus\"\" trilogy, originally titled as the \"\"Flag of Orpheus\"\" trilogy. The book was released on August 10, 2010 in the United States by Crown Publishing and centers around a series of secretive government experiments with LSD and its repercussions. Kring has stated that he first began work on the novel after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and intended to make use of multiple", "title": "Shift (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "Kevin Roose Kevin Roose is an author and business columnist for the New York Times. His column, \"\"The Shift,\"\" focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and culture. He is well known for writing about Liberty University, a university historically known for very strict rules imposed on students. Roose worked as news director at Fusion. He was named to Forbes' \"\"30 under 30\"\" in 2015. In June 2017, he rejoined the New York Times. Roose wrote \"\"The Unlikely Disciple\"\" while undercover at Liberty University, aiming to explore the culture of life at a fundamental Evangelical university. Roose, raised in a", "title": "Kevin Roose" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.92, "text": "second novel (part of a trilogy) \"\"SHIFT\"\", was published. The second book in the trilogy was published on 23 April 2015, titled \"\"DELETE\"\". Jeff Povey Jeff Povey is an English author, screenwriter and director. Povey has written television since the early 1990s, starting with \"\"Stay Lucky\"\". He has written multiple episodes of long running continuing dramas, such as \"\"Casualty\"\", its spinoff \"\"Holby City\"\", and \"\"EastEnders\"\". He wrote and directed a short film, \"\"Blowing It\"\", which was shortlisted for the Orange FilmFour Prize for Short Film in 2002. Other television series he wrote for include \"\"The Dumping Ground\"\", \"\"Hooten and the", "title": "Jeff Povey" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "David Houle (futurist) David Houle (born 1948) is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of \"\"The Shift Age\"\". He coined the phrase \"\"The Shift Age\"\" and identified this new age as the successor to the Information Age in 2007. David Houle was born on July 3, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His parents were Bettie E. Houle (d. 2000) and Cyril O. Houle (d. 1998). His mother earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in child development, was active in the community and numerous charities, and served a two-year term", "title": "David Houle (futurist)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.58, "text": "Chandler is subjected to a series of experiments. Critical reception for \"\"Shift\"\" has been mixed with Booklist praising the book while Publishers Weekly panned it. The A.V. Club gave the book a C-, calling it a \"\"bumpy ride\"\". Shift (novel) \"\"For the 2013 novella written by Hugh Howey, see Silo (series).\"\" Shift is a 2010 alternative history book by Tim Kring and Dale Peck and is the first book in the \"\"Gates of Orpheus\"\" trilogy, originally titled as the \"\"Flag of Orpheus\"\" trilogy. The book was released on August 10, 2010 in the United States by Crown Publishing and centers", "title": "Shift (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "\"\"Shift Magazine\"\" from 1998 to 2003. His writing has also appeared in, \"\"The Walrus\"\", \"\"The New Yorker\"\", \"\"The Globe and Mail\"\", \"\"The Independent,\"\" \"\"The Sunday Times,\"\" \"\"Time Magazine,\"\" \"\"The Guardian,\"\" \"\"Utne Reader,\"\" \"\"Adbusters\"\" and \"\"The South China Morning Post\"\". His latest work is \"\"How To Breathe Underwater\"\" (2014), a collection of his award-winning magazine writing from the last 15 years. He is currently working on a new book for Simon & Schuster with a working title of \"\"The Patch\"\", which will be an analysis of the importance and history of the oilsands. Turner was the recipient of a Fleck Fellowship", "title": "Chris Turner (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.36, "text": "Andrew Heintzman Andrew Heintzman is a Canadian author and venture capitalist. He is president of Investeco Capital, an environmental investment company, and the author of \"\"The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future\"\". He was one of the founders of \"\"Shift\"\" in 1992, and was a member of the editorial board for the new Canadian magazine \"\"The Walrus\"\". He is co-editor along with Evan Solomon of a series of anthologies published by House of Anansi press, that are part of the Ingenuity Project. The first was \"\"Fueling the Future\"\" (), published in 2003, and the second was \"\"Feeding", "title": "Andrew Heintzman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "Charlotte Agell Charlotte Agell (born 1959) is a Swedish-born American author for young adults and children who currently lives in Maine. Her second novel, \"\"Shift\"\", was featured on the front cover of the Brunswick \"\"Times Record\"\" in October 2008. In addition to working on novels and children's books, Charlotte Agell also is a teacher in Maine. Agell has also written and illustrated picture books for young children. Agell was born in Norsjö, Sweden, on September 7, 1959. She is the daughter of businessman L. Christer Agell and artist Margareta \"\"Meta\"\" McDonald. Her great-grandfather, K. Hugo Segerborg, was director of the", "title": "Charlotte Agell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "Nine Shift Nine Shift: Work, Life and Education in the 21st Century (2004), is a non-fiction book about futurism. It is co-authored by William A. Draves and Julie Coates. The premise of the book is that the World Wide Web is a technology so forceful that it changes society, just as the invention of the automobile changed society 100 years ago. According to the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists, the book provides \"\"analysis of the transition of the agricultural age to the industrial age (1900–1920) and how it parallels the transition from the industrial age to the information age (2000–2020).", "title": "Nine Shift" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "Theresa Brown (author) Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, is an American clinical nurse, frequent contributor to \"\"The New York Times\"\" and author. \"\"New York Times\"\" columnist for \"\"Bedside\"\" from 2012-2015, she was previously a contributor to the \"\"Times\"\" blog \"\"Well\"\". Her first book, \"\"Critical Care\"\", was published in 2010 by Harper Studio, an imprint of HarperCollins, (published in paperback, April 2011, by HarperOne). Her second book, \"\"The Shift\"\", will be released on September 22, 2015, published by Algonquin Books. Brown grew up in Springfield, MO. Her father was a professor of Philosophy at Missouri State University and her mother was", "title": "Theresa Brown (author)" } ]

[ "Laurence Yep", "Laurence Michael Yep" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.61, "text": "The Dragon (short story) \"\"The Dragon\"\" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine \"\"Esquire\"\". A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in \"\"A Medicine for Melancholy\"\" (1959), \"\"R is for Rocket\"\" (1962), \"\"Classic Stories 1\"\" (1990), and \"\"Bradbury Stories\"\" (2003). The story concerns two knights who have a mission to slay a dragon. They describe the dragon as huge, fire-breathing, and horrific, having only one eye. They charge the dragon but fail, presumably dying", "title": "The Dragon (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "in the attempt. The \"\"dragon\"\" is then revealed to be a steam train, and its single eye is the train's head light. The operators discuss the event, but go away without attempting to find the knights. The Dragon (short story) \"\"The Dragon\"\" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine \"\"Esquire\"\". A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in \"\"A Medicine for Melancholy\"\" (1959), \"\"R is for Rocket\"\" (1962), \"\"Classic Stories 1\"\" (1990), and \"\"Bradbury", "title": "The Dragon (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.98, "text": "Dragon (fantasy series) The Dragon series is a tetralogy of fantasy novels by Chinese American author Laurence Yep. Yep had already written several books including the Newbery Honor novel \"\"Dragonwings\"\" by 1980, when, after undertaking careful research, he decided to adapt Chinese mythology into a fantasy form, something he had always wanted to do since he had sold his first science fiction story at 18. He \"\"tried to stay true to the spirit\"\" of these myths, but did not try \"\"to keep their exact details\"\". The \"\"perfect vehicle\"\" he chose was a folktale in which the Monkey King captured a", "title": "Dragon (fantasy series)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.83, "text": "1996); and author of \"\"Fires of the Dragon\"\", on the life and murder of Taiwanese-American journalist Henry Liu. David Kaplan (author) David E. Kaplan (born 1955) is an investigative reporter and former director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Before this post, he worked for the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report. David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence. He is co-author of the award-winning book \"\"Yakuza\"\" (University of California Press, 2003), widely considered the definitive work on Japanese organized crime. Kaplan is also co-author of \"\"The Cult at the", "title": "David Kaplan (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.53, "text": "is \"\"The First Dragon\"\", released on November 12, 2013. James A. Owen James A. Owen is an American comic book illustrator, publisher and writer. He is known for his creator-owned comic book series \"\"Starchild\"\" and as the author of \"\"The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica\"\" novel series, that began with \"\"Here, There Be Dragons\"\" in 2006. Owen self-published the black-and-white fantasy series \"\"Starchild\"\" under his Taliesin Press imprint in the 1990s. Adopting the name Coppervale Press for \"\"Starchild: Crossroads\"\", he gave up self publishing in 1997 for \"\"Starchild: Mythopolis\"\", five issues of which were published by Image Comics. Owen returned", "title": "James A. Owen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.45, "text": "Marjorie B. Kellogg Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (born 1946) is an American theatre set designer as well as an author. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Vassar College in 1967. Kellogg is the author of a tetralogy of fantasy novels, \"\"The Dragon Quartet\"\". The series feature four elemental dragons (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water), and each dragon has a human companion. The series begins in medieval Europe and travels on to the future, as the world is embroiled in a war that pits the forces of greed and fanaticism against the dragons and their guides and those who", "title": "Marjorie B. Kellogg" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "It follows the story of Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver, two modern day American teenagers who each have one parent that was once a dragon. Because of their dragon heritage, they each have unique traits, which they use in their battles against the evil dragon slayers. The first book, \"\"Raising Dragons\"\" was published in 2004, and the last book, \"\"Tears of a Dragon\"\" in 2005. A prequel/sequel series, Oracles of Fire was written, beginning with \"\"Eye of the Oracle\"\" in 2006 and ending with \"\"The Bones of Makaidos\"\" in 2009. A third series, Children of the Bard, began with \"\"Song", "title": "Bryan Davis (author)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.36, "text": "Dragon of the Lost Sea Dragon of the Lost Sea is a fantasy novel by Chinese-American author Laurence Yep. It was first published in 1982 and is the first book in his \"\"Dragon\"\" series. Having already written several books, Yep had wanted to adapt Chinese mythology into a fantasy form for some time, and began writing the story in 1980 after undertaking careful research. He had originally intended to adapt a Chinese folktale in which the Monkey King captured a river spirit who had flooded an entire city, which he at first tried to conceive in picture book form. However,", "title": "Dragon of the Lost Sea" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.33, "text": "Kinsmen of the Dragon Kinsmen of the Dragon is a fantasy novel by author Stanley Mullen. It was published in 1951 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 3,500 copies. The book had originally been announced by Mullen's own Gorgon Press. The superb jacket art was by Hannes Bok. The novel concerns an empire of invisible wizards and adventure in the realm of Annwyn. Writing in \"\"The New York Times\"\", J. Francis McComas declared that \"\"Practically every theme of fantasy and science fiction has been mistreated in this silly melodrama.\"\" Damon Knight described it as the paradigm of the idiot-plotted", "title": "Kinsmen of the Dragon" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.28, "text": "Jersey University, and is his first published novel. The author based his novel on Welsh and Finnish folklore. The cover artwork, \"\"On A Dare,\"\" was an oil painting also completed by the author, and hangs on his living room wall. The novel received positive reviews by Children's Bookwatch and Midwest Book Review. The Dragon's Familiar The Dragon's Familiar is a fantasy novel by Lawrence Jeffrey Cohen. 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. Cory meets Prince Taliesin", "title": "The Dragon's Familiar" } ]

[ "Gore Vidal", "Eugene Luther Gore Vidal", "Gor Vidal", "Cameron Kay", "Eugene Luther Vidal", "Edgar Box", "Katherine Everard", "Eugene Vidal" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.44, "text": "Joseph C. Lincoln Joseph Crosby Lincoln (February 13, 1870 – March 10, 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the \"\"Saturday Evening Post\"\" and \"\"The Delineator\"\". Lincoln was aware of contemporary naturalist writers, such as Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, who used American literature to plumb the depths of human nature, but he rejected this literary exercise. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied \"\"spinning yarns\"\" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Six films and a short", "title": "Joseph C. Lincoln" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.66, "text": "Abraham Lincoln (Morse books) Abraham Lincoln is a 2-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written by John Torrey Morse (1840-1937). Originally published in 1893, \"\"The New York Times\"\" found it to be \"\"for its scope, admirable. It will even stand up and appear respectable in the most distinguished company of Lincoln biographies that might be assembled.\"\" The author is \"\"a sane biographer, who brings to the task of writing about Lincoln a mind that aspires to \"\"see\"\" clear and think straight, instead of one held slavishly subject to a heart's desire to make Lincoln out a hero without fault or blemish.\"\"", "title": "Abraham Lincoln (Morse books)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.23, "text": "Lincoln (novel) Lincoln: A Novel is a historical novel, part of the \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series by Gore Vidal. Set during the American Civil War, the novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures, including presidential secretary John Hay, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, his daughter Kate Chase, U.S. Representative Elihu B. Washburne, and conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold. The novel's emphasis is on the president's political and personal struggles, and not the battles of the Civil War. Though Lincoln", "title": "Lincoln (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "William Shakespeare. In particular Macbeth, one of Lincoln's favorite Shakespearian pieces has a famous scene in which the titular ruler is haunted by a spectral dagger. In terms of the actual poem, many believe Lincoln to be the author because it shares a similar meter, syntax, diction, and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln, and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is \"\"especially Lincolnian in spirit\"\". Another reason why the poem could have been written by Lincoln is that many of the symptoms of depression", "title": "The Suicide's Soliloquy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.89, "text": "novel, starting a running feud with Vidal in the pages of \"\"The New York Review of Books\"\". Lincoln (novel) Lincoln: A Novel is a historical novel, part of the \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series by Gore Vidal. Set during the American Civil War, the novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures, including presidential secretary John Hay, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, his daughter Kate Chase, U.S. Representative Elihu B. Washburne, and conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold. The novel's emphasis is", "title": "Lincoln (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "Lincoln in the Bardo Lincoln in the Bardo is a 2017 experimental novel by American writer George Saunders. It is Saunders's first full-length novel and was the \"\"New York Times\"\" hardcover fiction bestseller for the week of March 5, 2017. Saunders is better known for his short stories, reporting, and occasional essays. The novel takes place during and after the death of Abraham Lincoln's son William \"\"Willie\"\" Wallace Lincoln and deals with the president's grief at his loss. The bulk of the novel, which takes place over the course of a single evening, is set in the \"\"bardo\"\"—an intermediate space", "title": "Lincoln in the Bardo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.88, "text": "C. Eric Lincoln C. Eric Lincoln (June 23, 1924 – May 14, 2000) was an African-American scholar. He was the author of several books, including sociological works such as \"\"The Black Church Since Frazier\"\" (1974) and \"\"Race, Religion and the Continuing American Dilemma\"\" (1984), as well as fiction and poetry. C. Eric Lincoln was born in Athens, Alabama, on June 23, 1924. He was abandoned by his father, then by his mother, and raised by his grandmother. He attended Trinity School in Athens, where he edited the school newspaper, the \"\"Campus Chronicle\"\". At the age of 13, he picked cotton", "title": "C. Eric Lincoln" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.83, "text": "Henry Lincoln Henry Lincoln (born Henry Soskin; 12 February 1930) is a British author, television presenter, scriptwriter and former supporting actor. He co-wrote three \"\"Doctor Who\"\" multi-part serials in the 1960s, and — starting in the 1970s — inspired three Chronicle BBC Two documentaries on the alleged \"\"mysteries\"\" surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Château (on which he was writer and presenter) — and later from the 1980s on co-authored and authored a series of books of which, the pseudohistorical \"\"The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail\"\" was the most popular, becoming the inspiration for Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel, \"\"The", "title": "Henry Lincoln" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "John Nicoll, the author of the first book she had commissioned. (He later headed Yale University Press in the UK). The couple had a son and two daughters. Frances Lincoln Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an English independent publisher of illustrated books. She won a \"\"Woman of the Year\"\" award in 1995. She went to school at St George's School, Harpenden where she became Head Girl. Her university education was at Somerville College, Oxford. (Somerville at that time was a women's college, known in Oxford as \"\"the bluestocking college\"\".) There she read Greats", "title": "Frances Lincoln" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.72, "text": "Christopher Lincoln \"\"Christopher Lincoln\"\"' is the author of two children's books: \"\"\"\" published in the United States in August 2008 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and before that in April 2008 by Macmillan Children's Books in the UK. and \"\"\"\", published in August 2009. The first book revolves around Billy, a young skeleton boy who lives in a secrets-closet with his parents, Lars and Decette Bones. It is the job of these secrets keepers to archive the Biglum family’s lies, fibs, and secrets. Not an easy task, as each family whopper is more despicable than the last. Struggling", "title": "Christopher Lincoln" } ]

[ "H. Beam Piper", "Henry Beam Piper", "Horace Beam Piper", "Herbert Beam Piper" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "Federation (novel) Federation (1994) is a science fiction novel written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. It is a tie-together chronicle that brings the original \"\"Enterprise\"\" adventures of James T. Kirk close to an encounter with the \"\"Enterprise-D\"\" adventures of Jean-Luc Picard. The first half of the novel involves three parallel arcs. In one arc, Zefram Cochrane has just completed the first warp speed voyage, a solo journey to Alpha Centauri and back. His is the first successful manned flight beyond the Sol system. His benefactor and backer, Micah Brack, exploits the warp drive to help humanity burst into the stars", "title": "Federation (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.91, "text": "with what was established about Zefram Cochrane, his first warp flight, and first contact with the Vulcans, in the 1996 film \"\"\"\". Federation (novel) Federation (1994) is a science fiction novel written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. It is a tie-together chronicle that brings the original \"\"Enterprise\"\" adventures of James T. Kirk close to an encounter with the \"\"Enterprise-D\"\" adventures of Jean-Luc Picard. The first half of the novel involves three parallel arcs. In one arc, Zefram Cochrane has just completed the first warp speed voyage, a solo journey to Alpha Centauri and back. His is the first successful manned", "title": "Federation (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "a campaign in favour of federation. A selection of his writings in the Argus on this subject was published with additions in 1891 under the title \"\"Australian Federation its Aims and its Possibilities\"\". Willoughby was frequently consulted when the drafting of federal bills was in progress. In 1898 he was appointed editor of the Argus but an illness in January 1903 compelled his resignation. He continued, however, to make occasional contributions to the paper until shortly before his death in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. In addition to the works already mentioned he was the author of \"\"The Critic", "title": "Howard Willoughby" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.98, "text": "and interest in the proposal is that the events surrounding the federation proposal were used as a background setting by the author Arnold Bennett in his contemporary (1908) novel \"\"The Old Wives' Tale\"\". With Fenton, Tunstall and Burslem all opposing federation it was left to Hanley, Stoke and Longton to submit proposals to the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board ruled that only the submission made by Longton met the statutory and other formal requirements and that it alone would form the basis of the subsequent local inquiry, held in January 1908. Before the inquiry opened, a poll was", "title": "Federation of Stoke-on-Trent" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.89, "text": "intellectuals in the 1850s and 1860s, which included Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse, Richard Rowe, Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall, Joseph Moore, James Lionel Michael, Henry Halloran, William Bede Dalley, professors John Woolley and Charles Badham, and Sir Henry Parkes, the ‘Father of the Australian Federation’. Fowler clashed with Parkes following his critical review of Parkes’s poem \"\"Stolen Moments\"\" (1842). In January 1858 Fowler contested the Sydney City seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, with the support of N. D. Stenhouse, Joseph Sheridan Moore, newspaper proprietor John Fairfax, and shipowner Edye Manning. However, his candidature was unsuccessful. In April 1858 Fowler", "title": "Frank Fowler (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.31, "text": "who rises from junior surgeon to Diagnostician. In the fourth book the Galactic Federation decides that the emergency service which the hospital offers to victims of space accidents and planetary catastrophes is the most effective means of making peaceful contact with new spacefaring species, which allows the series to expand its range of plots, characters and settings. The seventh and later books each have a different and usually alien viewpoint character, which gave them \"\"considerable new pep\"\". They also expand the range of issues beyond purely medical, and in Mike Resnick's opinion treat issues such as guilt and forgiveness better", "title": "James White (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.28, "text": "Forces Federation (BAFF). Adrian Weale Adrian Weale (born 9 February 1964) is a British writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer of Welsh origin. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, University of York, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Weale was born in Knightsbridge, London. Prior to becoming a professional author, he served as an officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps. He was compulsorily mobilised for active service in Iraq in May 2003 and from July to December 2003 held the appointment of Deputy Governor of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, seconded from", "title": "Adrian Weale" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.08, "text": "to publish his work in Federation space. Tom Paris asks the Doctor to let him preview \"\"Photons Be Free\"\", set on the fictional USS \"\"Vortex\"\" a Starfleet ship lost in the Delta Quadrant. The protagonist of the story — a holographic doctor — wears a huge cumbersome backpack-like mobile emitter to get around and is constantly mistreated by his crewmates. Worse, each member of the crew is a thinly veiled allusion to an actual crewman but portrayed as being cruel or obnoxious—for example the Tom Paris character is a self-serving adulterer, Harry Kim is a hypochondriac and Captain Kathryn Janeway", "title": "Author, Author (Star Trek: Voyager)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.02, "text": "edited a second book, \"\"Why Federations Fail\"\", which returned to many of the themes examined in \"\"East African Unity Through Law\"\". The book examined several cases of failed federation, including a chapter on East Africa by Franck, and concluded with another chapter by Franck on the common themes of federation failure. In his concluding chapter, Franck emphasized the uniqueness of each individual federation, and the difficulty of finding common points, but he went on to conclude that ideological commitment was one of the most important prerequisites for federation. Franck completed a third book in 1968, \"\"The Structure of Impartiality\"\". In", "title": "Thomas M. Franck" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.81, "text": "the two programmers left CompuNet, the remaining programmer, Alan Lenton, decided to rewrite the game from scratch and named it Federation II (at the time no Federation I existed). The MUD was officially launched in 1989. Federation II was later picked up by AOL, where it became known simply as \"\"Federation: Adult Space Fantasy\"\". Federation later left AOL to run on its own after AOL began offering unlimited service. In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote \"\"MUD\"\", Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called \"\"Milieu\"\" using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by", "title": "MUD" } ]

[ "Elliott Hayes" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.84, "text": "Michael Blake (author) Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel \"\"Dances with Wolves\"\", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas, before moving to Southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at a film school, in Berkeley, California. He also attended Eastern", "title": "Michael Blake (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.48, "text": "Jon Blake (author) Jon Blake (born 1954 in Mortimer, Berkshire) is the author of over sixty works for children and teenagers. He was brought up in Southampton and has lived in Cardiff since 1987. His works include the picture book \"\"You're A Hero, Daley B\"\" (illustrated by Axel Scheffler, worldwide sales of over 200,000), as well as \"\"Little Stupendo\"\", which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. In 1995 Jon's TV play 'Life' was shortlisted for a Writers Guild Award, while in 2002 he won a BBC Talent award for his adult radio sitcom \"\"Degrees R Us\"\", which was broadcast", "title": "Jon Blake (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.48, "text": "John Lauris Blake John Lauris Blake (December 21, 1788 – July 6, 1857) was an American clergyman and bestselling author. He is best known as the author of the \"\"General Biographical Dictionary\"\". He was born on 21 December 1788 in Northwood, New Hampshire. During his adolescence he practiced cabinet making and at the same time prepared himself for college. He graduated from Brown University in 1812, and was licensed as a Congregational minister in 1813. Blake was the founder of the \"\"Ladies' Magazine\"\", headmaster of the Cornhill School for Young Ladies, and served on the committee of Boston public schools.", "title": "John Lauris Blake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.36, "text": "the 1969 (Bob Dylan) Isle of Wight Festival. Jon Blake (author) Jon Blake (born 1954 in Mortimer, Berkshire) is the author of over sixty works for children and teenagers. He was brought up in Southampton and has lived in Cardiff since 1987. His works include the picture book \"\"You're A Hero, Daley B\"\" (illustrated by Axel Scheffler, worldwide sales of over 200,000), as well as \"\"Little Stupendo\"\", which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. In 1995 Jon's TV play 'Life' was shortlisted for a Writers Guild Award, while in 2002 he won a BBC Talent award for his adult", "title": "Jon Blake (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.3, "text": "Muir High School in Pasadena, California. He died on May 2, 2015, after a long illness in Tucson, Arizona. Michael Blake (author) Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel \"\"Dances with Wolves\"\", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas, before moving to Southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. He studied journalism at", "title": "Michael Blake (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.27, "text": "A. G. E. Blake Anthony George Edward Blake, usually known as A.G.E. Blake or Anthony Blake (born 1939), is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the philosophy of thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of the DuVersity and its Director of Studies. Anthony Blake was born in the United Kingdom in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an honours degree in physics at Bristol University, followed by history", "title": "A. G. E. Blake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.02, "text": "Russell Blake (author) Russell Blake is an author of thrillers. As of January 2014 he had written 25 books, writing up to 10000 words a day. Although most of his books were self-published, he was chosen by Clive Cussler to co-write two books, \"\"The Eye of Heaven\"\" and \"\"The Solomon Curse\"\", both about husband and wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo. In the second title, \"\"Cussler and Company continue the winning formula, and this jungle episode, featuring exotic locales and an interesting back story, will satisfy the cravings of every fan.\"\" by Kirkus; Jeff Ayers for AP wrote that", "title": "Russell Blake (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.02, "text": "Blake was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815. A significant number original 19th century copies of works authored by Blake are held in the collections of the AAS. Blake was an editor of the \"\"Literary Advertiser\"\" and the \"\"Gospel Advocate\"\". His published books include: John Lauris Blake John Lauris Blake (December 21, 1788 – July 6, 1857) was an American clergyman and bestselling author. He is best known as the author of the \"\"General Biographical Dictionary\"\". He was born on 21 December 1788 in Northwood, New Hampshire. During his adolescence he practiced cabinet making and at", "title": "John Lauris Blake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.02, "text": "six children and lives in the Scottish Borders. A. G. E. Blake Anthony George Edward Blake, usually known as A.G.E. Blake or Anthony Blake (born 1939), is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the philosophy of thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of the DuVersity and its Director of Studies. Anthony Blake was born in the United Kingdom in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an honours degree", "title": "A. G. E. Blake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "Korban Blake Korban Blake is a British multi-genre author whose work includes science fiction, horror and apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and a non-fiction survivalism guide, as well as poetry, and news articles. Recent works are published by Archaeopteryx Books. Blake is also an outsider artist and displays art work in exhibitions local to the East Anglia region of the United Kingdom. Blake is also an activist and campaigner for civil liberties, human rights and environmental issues. According to Facebook, Blake currently resides in Norwich, Norfolk (UK), and has been employed as a journalist, going on to become the editor for", "title": "Korban Blake" } ]

[ "Lincoln Child" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.39, "text": "of the final rafts before the base explodes and sinks into the Sudd. —Review by Examiner.com The Third Gate The Third Gate is the fifth solo novel by American writer Lincoln Child. The novel was released on June 12, 2012 by Doubleday. The book is also the third installment in the Jeremy Logan series. Shortly after the events of \"\"Terminal Freeze\"\", Dr. Jeremy Logan is contacted by an old colleague named Dr. Ethan Rush, who invites him on an expedition into the Sudd in southern Egypt. The expedition, led by famed archaeologist Dr. Porter Stone, seeks to finally locate and", "title": "The Third Gate" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.33, "text": "The Third Gate The Third Gate is the fifth solo novel by American writer Lincoln Child. The novel was released on June 12, 2012 by Doubleday. The book is also the third installment in the Jeremy Logan series. Shortly after the events of \"\"Terminal Freeze\"\", Dr. Jeremy Logan is contacted by an old colleague named Dr. Ethan Rush, who invites him on an expedition into the Sudd in southern Egypt. The expedition, led by famed archaeologist Dr. Porter Stone, seeks to finally locate and excavate the long-lost tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Narmer, located at the bottom of the", "title": "The Third Gate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.58, "text": "Ptolemy's Gate Ptolemy's Gate is a children's novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It is the third book in the \"\"Bartimaeus trilogy\"\", written by British author Jonathan Stroud. It was released in the United Kingdom in September 2005, and in the United States in December of the same year. Three years have passed since the magician Nathaniel (otherwise known as John Mandrake) helped prevent an attack on London that would have been cataclysmic for its magicians and commoners. Now an established member of the British Government, he faces unprecedented problems: foreign wars are going badly, Britain’s enemies are mounting", "title": "Ptolemy's Gate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.33, "text": "a separate story-line. A second prequel short story, \"\"Drive\"\", was published in the anthology \"\"Edge of Infinity\"\" in November 2012, set decades before the first novel. The third book, \"\"Abaddon's Gate\"\", was released on June 2013, and won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. A second prequel novella, \"\"The Churn\"\", was published in April 2014 and features the main series character Amos Burtos. The fourth book, \"\"Cibola Burn\"\", was published in June 2014, the first novel in the series to be released in hardcover. The fifth book, \"\"Nemesis Games\"\", was released in June 2015, and was praised by", "title": "Daniel Abraham (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.31, "text": "The Gates of Morning The Gates of Morning is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1925. It is the third and final novel of the \"\"Blue Lagoon\"\" trilogy which began with \"\"The Blue Lagoon\"\" (1908) and continued with \"\"The Garden of God\"\" (1923). Stacpoole wrote this third book as a kind of exposé of the despoiling of South Sea Island cultures and people by Europeans. His introduction says: The novel picks up a day or so after the events at the conclusion of \"\"The Garden of God\"\". Dick Lestrange, son of Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange,", "title": "The Gates of Morning" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.3, "text": "the story is unfinished and has been since 1996. The sequel is currently in outline stage. The \"\"Hell's Gate\"\" series, for which nothing has been added since 2007, is still in development. The first two books have been published in the \"\"Hell's Gate\"\" series and a third book is under development. The author apologizes to her readers, but continuing serious health problems have made writing difficult for her. ANTHOLOGIES: \"\"Bolos 3: The Triumphant\"\" Novellas Included: \"\"The Farmer's Wife\"\" \"\"Little Red Hen\"\" (co-written with Robert R. Hollingsworth) \"\"Little Dog Gone\"\" \"\"Bolos 4: Last Stand\"\" (1996) In this anthology, Evans wrote a", "title": "Linda Evans (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.19, "text": "The Three Gates The Three Gates (\"\"Les trois portes\"\" : The Time Runaways #01) is a novel by Philippe Ebly published in France in 1977. Looking for a shelter in a stormy night, two young trekkers, Thierry and Didier stop by a cosy inn which was supposed to be unfriendly. Thierry lies unashamedly to the owner, pretending that they have booked a room. The con works, much to the surprise of Didier. The morning after, back on the road, the two boys realized that they are no more on the map, and that the milestones have vanished. There are no", "title": "The Three Gates" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "The Lost Gate The Lost Gate is a fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the first novel in the Mither Mages trilogy. The second novel is \"\"The Gate Thief\"\" and the third one is \"\"Gatefather\"\". Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an outself. He grew", "title": "The Lost Gate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.89, "text": "might, no one can ever quite get there. The Gates of Morning The Gates of Morning is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1925. It is the third and final novel of the \"\"Blue Lagoon\"\" trilogy which began with \"\"The Blue Lagoon\"\" (1908) and continued with \"\"The Garden of God\"\" (1923). Stacpoole wrote this third book as a kind of exposé of the despoiling of South Sea Island cultures and people by Europeans. His introduction says: The novel picks up a day or so after the events at the conclusion of \"\"The Garden of God\"\".", "title": "The Gates of Morning" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.64, "text": "The Gates of Ivory The Gates of Ivory is a 1991 novel by novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel is the third in a series of novels, following \"\"The Radiant Way\"\" and \"\"A Natural Curiosity\"\". The novel continues the stories of several middle aged intellectuals introduced in the last two novels. The novel also introduces a new character, Stephen Cox who is loosely based on J.G. Farrell. The novel includes metafiction reflecting on the choices Drabble made while writing the novel. The novel also includes a bibliography referencing a number of works which provide background and connections for the rest of", "title": "The Gates of Ivory" } ]

[ "Jonathan Kellerman", "Jonathan Seth Kellerman" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.66, "text": "Blood Test (novel) Blood Test is the second novel by Jonathan Kellerman, published in 1986. It is told from the first-person point of view of Dr. Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who is Kellerman's main character in the majority of his novels. The novel also includes Delaware's best friend, LAPD Detective, Milo Sturgis. The plot of the novel surrounds a five-year-old boy, Woody Swope, who is gravely ill, and his parents have refused to allow the one treatment that could save his life. Alex is asked by Dr. Raoul Melendez-Lynch to discuss the treatment with Woody's parents. Mr. and Mrs.", "title": "Blood Test (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.36, "text": "custody cases as a consultant to family court. Blood Test (novel) Blood Test is the second novel by Jonathan Kellerman, published in 1986. It is told from the first-person point of view of Dr. Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who is Kellerman's main character in the majority of his novels. The novel also includes Delaware's best friend, LAPD Detective, Milo Sturgis. The plot of the novel surrounds a five-year-old boy, Woody Swope, who is gravely ill, and his parents have refused to allow the one treatment that could save his life. Alex is asked by Dr. Raoul Melendez-Lynch to discuss", "title": "Blood Test (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "Max Weiss (scholar) Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the Middle East. He studied biology and history at University of California, Berkeley before moving on to Stanford University, where he completed his PhD in modern Middle Eastern history in 2007. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2010. Weiss is the author of \"\"In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon\"\" (2010). He is also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature into English. His translation of Abbas Beydoun's novel \"\"Blood Test\"\" won the Arkansas", "title": "Max Weiss (scholar)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.05, "text": "in several issues of \"\"Banipal\"\" magazine. Beydoun has mentioned Pierre Jean Jouve and Yannis Ritsos among his key poetic influences. He also published a novel called \"\"Tahlil damm\"\" in 2002. The English translation by Max Weiss, titled \"\"Blood Test\"\", won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 2008. Since 1997, Beydoun has been cultural editor of the Beiruti newspaper \"\"As-Safir\"\". Abbas Beydoun Abbas Beydoun (born 1945) is a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the village of Sur near Tyre in southern Lebanon. His father was a teacher. Beydoun studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the", "title": "Abbas Beydoun" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.83, "text": "authors to learn more about the process of writing and publishing a novel. This bundle was limited to the first 50 participants. At this point, Ted has no plans of mass-producing \"\"The Blood Book\"\" for retail, but has left the possibility open for consideration in the future. The Blood Book The Blood Book: Tales, Confessions and Rumors of the Worlds is a novel by New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker, along with Kevin Kaiser and Josh Olds, with additional assistance from Gregg Hart. It is a part of Dekker's mega-series, The Books of History Chronicles. The book is compiled", "title": "The Blood Book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.77, "text": "was adapted and directed into the film \"\"Book of Blood\"\" by John Harrison. Books of Blood Books of Blood are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in total, each simply subtitled \"\"Volume 1\"\" through to \"\"Volume 6\"\", and were subsequently re-published in two omnibus editions containing three volumes each. Each volume contains four or five stories. The volume 1–3 omnibus was published with a foreword by Barker's fellow Liverpudlian horror writer Ramsey Campbell. They were published between 1984 and 1985. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became", "title": "Books of Blood" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.75, "text": "The Blood Book The Blood Book: Tales, Confessions and Rumors of the Worlds is a novel by New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker, along with Kevin Kaiser and Josh Olds, with additional assistance from Gregg Hart. It is a part of Dekker's mega-series, The Books of History Chronicles. The book is compiled in-universe by High Priest Ba'al, and takes place in the far future in a world known as \"\"Other Earth\"\". Ba'al commissions General Mustul and alchemist Grushon to study and document a variety of mythical creatures from their world, including the fearsome Shataiki bats and their interesting counterparts,", "title": "The Blood Book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.56, "text": "Books of Blood Books of Blood are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in total, each simply subtitled \"\"Volume 1\"\" through to \"\"Volume 6\"\", and were subsequently re-published in two omnibus editions containing three volumes each. Each volume contains four or five stories. The volume 1–3 omnibus was published with a foreword by Barker's fellow Liverpudlian horror writer Ramsey Campbell. They were published between 1984 and 1985. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as \"\"the future of", "title": "Books of Blood" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.38, "text": "William T. Y'Blood William Thomas Y'Blood (November 12, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American World War II historian, notable as the author of eight books that have been translated into ten languages. His collection of research materials were a source of help in the writing of his books Y'Blood's career as a pilot, first in the U.S. Air Force flying Boeing B-47s and later as a commercial pilot for Continental Airlines was reflected in the subjects he chose to write about. His first publication, \"\"Stratojet in Action\"\", is a pictorial history of the B-47 that he knew so", "title": "William T. Y'Blood" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.33, "text": "Hubert C. Kueter Hubert C. Kueter (born 1930) is the author of the book \"\"My Tainted Blood\"\", which chronicles his childhood in World War II era Germany . He is also a professor emeritus at Colby College. The book \"\"My Tainted Blood\"\" has been described as being written in the style of magic realism. It follows the author's adventures and exploits as a boy and teenager in wartime Breslau and postwar Germany. The incorporation of the author's love of food and cooking is also a notable feature of this work. Kueter taught German language and literature at Colby College from", "title": "Hubert C. Kueter" } ]

[ "Lawrence Miles" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.5, "text": "her mother she notices a look in her dad's eyes that shows her that he has always and will always love her. I'm Down (book) I'm Down is a memoir by the American author Mishna Wolff, originally published by St. Martin's Press in 2009. In the book she relates her experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children at her gifted student public school program filled with mostly white kids. She fights for acceptance in her neighborhood as she is perceived as \"\"too", "title": "I'm Down (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.27, "text": "I'm Down (book) I'm Down is a memoir by the American author Mishna Wolff, originally published by St. Martin's Press in 2009. In the book she relates her experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children at her gifted student public school program filled with mostly white kids. She fights for acceptance in her neighborhood as she is perceived as \"\"too white\"\" while she struggles with acceptance (and accepting others) in her prestigious school. Mishna has trouble dealing with bullying from her peers,", "title": "I'm Down (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a Creative Commons noncommercial license on his website, allowing the whole text of the book to be freely read and distributed without needing any further permission from him or his publisher. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2004. This future history book takes place in the 22nd", "title": "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "Michael Thomas (author) Michael Thomas is an American author. He won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel \"\"Man Gone Down\"\", receiving a prize of €100,000. \"\"Man Gone Down\"\" is also recommended by \"\"The New York Times\"\". Thomas was born and raised in Boston. He studied for a bachelor's degree at Hunter College in New York City, where he now teaches, and for a master's at Warren Wilson College. He currently lives in New York City, claiming to have never had a proper job although he has worked in several areas, including bars, restaurants, construction, pizza", "title": "Michael Thomas (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "A Long Way Down A Long Way Down is a novel written by British author Nick Hornby, published in 2005. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity. The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ. These four strangers happen to meet on the roof of a high building called Toppers' House in London on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans for death in solitude are ruined when they meet. The novel", "title": "A Long Way Down" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.17, "text": "Mallori McNeal Mallori McNeal is an African American urban fiction author from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her debut novel, \"\"A Down Chick\"\", was released in 2005. McNeal began writing \"\"A Down Chick\"\" at age 14, during the summer before she began her first year in high school. She completed \"\"A Down Chick\"\" and was signed to Triple Crown Publications at age 16. McNeal's second novel, \"\"The Set Up\"\", was published in 2007. Mallori McNeal is now a film major student at the Art Institute of San Francisco, as well as a mother of a daughter and son. She lives in the Bay", "title": "Mallori McNeal" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.16, "text": "area of California. Mallori McNeal Mallori McNeal is an African American urban fiction author from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her debut novel, \"\"A Down Chick\"\", was released in 2005. McNeal began writing \"\"A Down Chick\"\" at age 14, during the summer before she began her first year in high school. She completed \"\"A Down Chick\"\" and was signed to Triple Crown Publications at age 16. McNeal's second novel, \"\"The Set Up\"\", was published in 2007. Mallori McNeal is now a film major student at the Art Institute of San Francisco, as well as a mother of a daughter and son. She lives", "title": "Mallori McNeal" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.14, "text": "Theresa Schwegel Theresa Schwegel (born July 20, 1975) is an American author of crime fiction. She won the Edgar Award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America for \"\"Officer Down\"\" in 2006. In 2008, she received the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award for achievement in writing by an author with ties to Chicago. Theresa Schwegel was born in Algonquin, Illinois, to Don and Joyce Schwegel. She attended Loyola University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in Communication. After graduating, she took a job at a local television-commercial production company, which sparked", "title": "Theresa Schwegel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.08, "text": "to hear from readers who've seen this notice and concluded that I am a hypocrite who uses SFWA to send out legal threats to people who heeded my exhortation.\"\" Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a Creative Commons noncommercial license on his website, allowing the whole text of the book to be freely read and distributed without needing any", "title": "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.06, "text": "Shanna Compton Shanna Compton is the author of \"\"Down Spooky,\"\" a collection of poems published by Winnow Press in October 2005, and the editor of \"\"GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels,\"\" an anthology of essays on the theme of video games, published by Soft Skull Press in 2004. From 2002-2005, she served as the editor of \"\"Lit\"\" magazine at The New School in New York City, and has also edited several poetry collections and novels for Brooklyn, NY-based Soft Skull Press. Compton has also curated multiple poetry reading series in New York City and currently runs", "title": "Shanna Compton" } ]

[ "Upton Sinclair", "Upton Beall Sinclair", "Clarke Fitch", "Frederick Garrison", "Arthur Stirling", "Upton Sinclair Jr." ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.28, "text": "The Jungle The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the", "title": "The Jungle" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.12, "text": "The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or \"\"man-cub\"\" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is \"\"Seonee\"\" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed", "title": "The Jungle Book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.08, "text": "Welcome to the Jungle (comics) Welcome to the Jungle is a 2008 hardback graphic novel written by science fiction and fantasy author Jim Butcher and illustrated by Ardian Syaf. Set in the world of Butcher's contemporary fantasy/mystery novel series, \"\"The Dresden Files\"\", \"\"Welcome to the Jungle\"\" was written as a prequel to the first novel, \"\"Storm Front\"\". It was nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Graphic Novel category. A security guard at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo is brutally mauled to death; normally the city authorities would not consider this very important, but the guard is the son of", "title": "Welcome to the Jungle (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.64, "text": "This is the Jungle This is the Jungle is the fifth book of jungle tales and man-eaters written by Kenneth Anderson, first published in 1964 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. The book is dedicated to the memory of Kenneth Anderson's late mother, Lucie Anne Anderson. Anderson also acknowledges thanks to his publishers, \"\"I very gladly take this opportunity of expressing my grateful thanks to Malcolm Barnes of George Allen & Unwin Ltd., for all the time and trouble he has given to patiently reading through and editing all my stories, both in this volume and its four predecessors\"\". Introduction", "title": "This is the Jungle" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.41, "text": "animation and its 2016 remake, and the 1989 Japanese anime \"\"Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli\"\". Stuart Paterson wrote a stage adaptation in 2004, first produced by the Birmingham Old Rep in 2004 and published in 2007 by Nick Hern Books. The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or \"\"man-cub\"\" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India;", "title": "The Jungle Book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "The Mystery of the Black Jungle The Mystery of the Black Jungle () is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1895. It features two of his most famous characters, the hunter Tremal-Naik and his loyal servant Kammamuri. The adventure continues in The Pirates of Malaysia. Few can live in the Black Jungle of the Sundarbans, the islands formed by the delta of the Ganges river in India, a desolate, silent place teeming with wild dangerous beasts. Yet it is among its dark forests and bamboo groves here that the renowned snake and tiger hunter", "title": "The Mystery of the Black Jungle" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.88, "text": "The Jungle (Cussler novel) The Jungle is the eighth novel of Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. The hardcover edition was released March 8, 2011. Other editions were released on other dates. This book is about a series of exploits by the Corporation, headquartered in \"\"The Oregon\"\", a ship that from the outside looks as if it is ready for the scrapyard. In reality this is a ruse, as the ship is as high tech as can be. The Corporation is hired by a very wealthy man to find his adventurer daughter, who appears to have gotten into trouble in the", "title": "The Jungle (Cussler novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.77, "text": "the stories, reflecting the irresponsible side of human nature. \"\"The Jungle Book\"\" has remained popular, partly through its many adaptations for film and other media. Critics such as Swati Singh have noted that even critics wary of Kipling for his supposed imperialism have admired the power of his storytelling. The book has been influential in the scout movement, whose founder, Robert Baden-Powell, was a friend of Kipling's. Percy Grainger composed his \"\"Jungle Book Cycle\"\" around quotations from the book. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood", "title": "The Jungle Book" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "them. Later, evidence taken from Reese’s corpse implicates Watson and clears Moe. Murphy is not pleased that Watson is not alive to be arrested, and is sure that Dresden knows more than he is telling, but she agrees to pay his consulting fee. Welcome to the Jungle (comics) Welcome to the Jungle is a 2008 hardback graphic novel written by science fiction and fantasy author Jim Butcher and illustrated by Ardian Syaf. Set in the world of Butcher's contemporary fantasy/mystery novel series, \"\"The Dresden Files\"\", \"\"Welcome to the Jungle\"\" was written as a prequel to the first novel, \"\"Storm Front\"\".", "title": "Welcome to the Jungle (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.69, "text": "The Village in the Jungle The Village in the Jungle is a novel by Leonard Woolf, published in 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early years of the 20th century. Ground-breaking in Western fiction for being written from the native rather than the colonial point of view, it is also an influential work of Sri Lankan literature. It was republished by Eland in 2008. Leonard Woolf worked for the British Ceylon Civil Service in Sri Lanka for seven years after graduating from Cambridge University in 1904. In Cambridge", "title": "The Village in the Jungle" } ]

[ "James Fenimore Cooper" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "—Ronald Bailey, author of Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution and science correspondent for Reason magazine \"\"This fine volume fills a very useful role in the ongoing debate over the use of biotechnology in foods and pharmaceuticals. Let Them Eat Precaution covers every aspect of the issue, catalogs what is known about GM crops, and helps us understand the ideological basis for opposition to the use of this life-saving technology. The antibiotechnology campaigns are denying food to starving millions—a high price to pay for ideology. \"\" —Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St.", "title": "Let Them Eat Precaution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24, "text": "on the Precautionary Principle: the authors advise that it would be better for humanity to prepare for an incursion which never happens than to suffer from an invasion for which we have not prepared. The story takes place on Mars, where a group of separatists have launched an attack against the federal military personnel from Earth who have been instructed to guard them and the surrounding area. A senator, who is there to help with the peace negotiations, and his family get caught up in the subsequent battle and butchery. The senator can only hope to reach safety before he", "title": "Travis S. Taylor" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "E. Géhin call ‘precautionism’, i.e. the unconditional (and often ideologically driven) application of the precautionary principle. In \"\"La planète des hommes - Réenchanter le risque,\"\" he analyzes the theories underpinning governmental and administrative action and argues that basing entire policies on ideas such as Hans Jonas’ responsibility principle can lead to unintended and sometimes potentially dangerous consequences. Gérald Bronner Gérald Bronner (born 22 May 1969) is a French social scientist and author. Bronner is a professor of sociology at Université Paris-Diderot and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (University Institute of France). He is one of the", "title": "Gérald Bronner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.69, "text": "Cooper's. Aboard this ship, Cooper met his lifelong friend William Branford Shubrick, who was also a midshipman at the time. Cooper later dedicated \"\"\"\", \"\"The Red Rover\"\", and other writings to Shubrick. In 1820, Cooper's wife Susan wagered that he could write a book better than the one that she was reading. In response to the wager, Cooper wrote the novel \"\"Precaution\"\" (1820). Its focus on morals and manners was influenced by Jane Austen's approach to fiction. He anonymously published \"\"Precaution\"\" and it received favorable notice from the United States and England. By contrast, his second novel \"\"The Spy\"\" (1821)", "title": "James Fenimore Cooper" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "Let Them Eat Precaution Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture is a 2005 book edited by American author and journalist Jon Entine, about how politics is affecting the use of genetically modified food. The 10 contributing authors from the United States and the United Kingdom provide insights into the benefits of agricultural biotechnology, offer an international perspective on why some groups are opposed to it, and suggest potential solutions to the controversy. Resistance to GMO food production and use comes from the European Union. The EU evokes the Precautionary Principle in much of", "title": "Let Them Eat Precaution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.75, "text": "Entine: \"\"Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?\"\", which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; \"\"Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing\"\", which focuses on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds; and \"\"Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture\"\", which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. He has also contributed to numerous academic books on a variety of subjects, including sports, genetics, leadership, and sustainability. Jon Entine Jon Entine (born April 30, 1952) is an American author and journalist. Entine is a senior", "title": "Jon Entine" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.66, "text": "Christian Aid. In this book much of the arguments in favor of GMO's center around the advantages they provide and the general scientific consensus of the safety of GMO foods. This book grew out of a 2003 conference, \"\"Food Biotechnology, the Media, and Public Policy\"\", held at the American Enterprise Institute. Jon Entine, the editor, is an adjunct fellow at the institute and a scholar in residence at Miami University in Ohio. \"\"Let Them Eat Precaution does a superb job of educating the reading public on the basic issues of genetically modified foods. The distinguished authors provide a devastating point-by-point", "title": "Let Them Eat Precaution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.61, "text": "best way to manage risks. He noted that rich, technologically advanced societies were the safest, as measured by life expectancy and quality of life. Precautionary approaches to approving new technology are irrational, he said, because they demand that we know whether something is safe before we can do the very tests that would demonstrate its safety or dangerousness. Furthermore, precaution eliminates the benefits of new technology along with the harms. He advocated enhancing society's capacity to cope with and adapt to the unexpected, rather than trying to prevent all catastrophes in advance. Wildavsky was a prolific author, writing or co-writing", "title": "Aaron Wildavsky" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.45, "text": "Louis, Mo. \"\"The book would be appropriate for a college-level course in science communication or in agricultural or science policy. Scientists involved in molecular biology and related research might find the book helps them better understand how something that they may think is a safe and exciting scientific discovery is not readily accepted by others in society.\"\" - Martin Marshall Senior Associate Director ARP and Assistant Dean, Professor Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. Let Them Eat Precaution Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture is a 2005 book edited by American author and journalist Jon", "title": "Let Them Eat Precaution" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.25, "text": "Jay Byrne Jay Byrne (born 1962) is an American writer, former senior government official and entrepreneur. Byrne is president and founder of v-Fluence Interactive, an online market research and software development firm. He is a frequent public speaker on the use of the Internet and has published several articles on new media and communications. He is a contributing author to “Let Them Eat Precaution” published by the American Enterprise Institute. As former political campaign operative Byrne is credited with executing a range of aggressive communications tactics, including the 1992 presidential campaign’s Chicken George (politics) attack on George H. W. Bush.", "title": "Jay Byrne" } ]

[ "Barry Kitson" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.2, "text": "Empire (Saylor novel) Empire is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor. It is the sequel to \"\"Roma\"\", and follows the lives of five generations of the Pinarius family from the reign of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, to the height of Rome's empire under Hadrian. Family members in different generations take very different attitudes to the current Emperor. Some of them are staunch courtiers, spending much of their time at the Imperial Court and willingly getting involved in various intrigues and power struggles. Others try to keep their distance from politics - which are often distasteful as well", "title": "Empire (Saylor novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.41, "text": "as a 478-page hardcover () and paperback (). Empire (Hardt and Negri book) Empire is a book by post-Marxist philosophers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Written in the mid-1990s, it was published in 2000 and quickly sold beyond its expectations as an academic work. In general, the book theorizes an ongoing transition from a \"\"modern\"\" phenomenon of imperialism, centered on individual nation-states, to an emergent postmodern construct created among ruling powers which the authors call \"\"Empire\"\" (the capital letter is distinguishing), with different forms of warfare: ...according to Hardt and Negri's \"\"Empire\"\", the rise of Empire is the end of", "title": "Empire (Hardt and Negri book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.36, "text": "Empire (Hardt and Negri book) Empire is a book by post-Marxist philosophers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Written in the mid-1990s, it was published in 2000 and quickly sold beyond its expectations as an academic work. In general, the book theorizes an ongoing transition from a \"\"modern\"\" phenomenon of imperialism, centered on individual nation-states, to an emergent postmodern construct created among ruling powers which the authors call \"\"Empire\"\" (the capital letter is distinguishing), with different forms of warfare: ...according to Hardt and Negri's \"\"Empire\"\", the rise of Empire is the end of national conflict, the \"\"enemy\"\" now, whoever he is,", "title": "Empire (Hardt and Negri book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.03, "text": "Empire (Vidal novel) Empire is the fourth historical novel in the \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series by Gore Vidal, published in 1987. The novel concerns the fictional newspaper dynasty of half-sibling characters Caroline and Blaise Sanford. Playing these characters against real-life figures of the years 1898 to 1907, the novel portrays the conjunction of government and mass media in the creation of modern-day America. As with Vidal's other books in his \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series, this novel offers an insight into the journalism of the time, following the exploits of William Randolph Hearst in his efforts to displace Theodore Roosevelt as", "title": "Empire (Vidal novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "Empire (Card novel) Empire is a 2006 dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of a possible Second American Civil War, this time between the Right Wing and Left Wing in the near future. It is the first of the two books in \"\"The Empire duet\"\", followed by \"\"Hidden Empire\"\" with the video game \"\"Shadow Complex\"\" bridging the two. The book follows U.S. Army Major Reuben Malich and U.S. Army Captain Bartholomew Coleman, both former Special Forces officers, as America falls into a civil war after the assassinations of both the American President and Vice President. A", "title": "Empire (Card novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "as dangerous - and still find themselves perilously entangled in one way or another. It was first published by Corsair (an imprint of Constable & Robinson) in 2010, and is now published by St Martin's Press. The book ends with the fascinus, the family heirloom passed on by countless generations since before the foundation of Rome, being given to a young Pinarius who is the companion of the future Emperor Marcus Aurelius, leaving open the option of a further sequel. However, as of 2018 Saylor has not written such. Empire (Saylor novel) Empire is a historical novel by American author", "title": "Empire (Saylor novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.19, "text": "president is killed and ends within a 24-hour period of its opening. It is also noteworthy that Orson Scott Card was approached by Chair to start the trilogy. Empire (Card novel) Empire is a 2006 dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of a possible Second American Civil War, this time between the Right Wing and Left Wing in the near future. It is the first of the two books in \"\"The Empire duet\"\", followed by \"\"Hidden Empire\"\" with the video game \"\"Shadow Complex\"\" bridging the two. The book follows U.S. Army Major Reuben Malich and U.S.", "title": "Empire (Card novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "Law's Empire Law's Empire is a 1986 text in legal philosophy by Ronald Dworkin, in which the author which continues his criticism of the philosophy of legal positivism as promoted by H.L.A. Hart during the middle to late 20th century. The book notably introduces Dworkin's Judge Hercules as an idealized version of a jurist with extraordinary legal skills who is able to challenge various predominating schools of legal interpretation and legal hermeneutics prominent throughout the 20th century. Judge Hercules is eventually challenged by Judge Hermes, another idealized version of a jurist who is affected by an affinity to respecting historical", "title": "Law's Empire" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.83, "text": "Empire Trilogy The \"\"Empire\"\" Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of political fantasy novels by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. It traces the story of Mara of the Acoma's rise to power from a convent novitiate to the most powerful woman in the fictional world of Kelewan. These three books are contemporary to Feist's original Riftwar Saga and feature some crossover characters, mainly from \"\"Magician\"\" (1982) (Pug, the protagonist of \"\"Magician\"\", appears twice in \"\"Servant of the Empire\"\" (1990) and once in \"\"Mistress of the Empire\"\" (1992)). Mara struggles to rule her family after her father and brother", "title": "Empire Trilogy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "Foundation and Empire Foundation and Empire is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov originally published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book in the \"\"Foundation\"\" Series, and the fourth in the in-universe chronology. It takes place in two halves, originally published as separate novellas. The second part, \"\"The Mule\"\", won a Retro Hugo Award in 1996. \"\"Foundation and Empire\"\" saw multiple publications—it also appeared in 1955 as Ace Double (but not actually paired with another book) D-125 under the title \"\"The Man Who Upset the Universe\"\". The stories comprising this volume were originally published", "title": "Foundation and Empire" } ]

[ "James Heneghan" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.12, "text": "The Grave (novel) The Grave is a time travel novel by Canadian author James Heneghan, set in 1970s Liverpool and in Ireland and Liverpool in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was published in 2000. The protagonist of the novel is a 13-year-old orphan named Tom Mullen. He lives in the Old Swan area of Liverpool with his hostile foster parents and his \"\"brother\"\", Brian. One night, Tom and Brian creep out to investigate a mysterious excavation near their school and discover that the workmen have uncovered an old graveyard. As Tom is examining the burial ground, he falls into the", "title": "The Grave (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.97, "text": "to his own time, only to be literally kicked out of the house by his foster parents. That night Tom goes to the grave, takes Ma's and Brendan's coffins and buries them in a church graveyard. A few months later, Tom's football coach asks him why he changed his last name to Monaghan. It turns out that the coach is Tom's long-lost father. The Grave (novel) The Grave is a time travel novel by Canadian author James Heneghan, set in 1970s Liverpool and in Ireland and Liverpool in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was published in 2000. The protagonist of", "title": "The Grave (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.5, "text": "The Grave (poem) The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Dr. Dodderidge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister, Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stating that it was composed whilst he was still a student, although \"\"probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement\"\". The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. Part of the poem's continued", "title": "The Grave (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.05, "text": "Silence of the Grave Silence of the Grave (\"\"Icelandic: Grafarþögn\"\") is a crime novel by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. Set in Reykjavík, the novel forms part of the author's regionally popular Murder Mystery Series, which star . Originally published in Icelandic in 2001, the English translation by Bernard Scudder, in 2005, won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. The novel has the distinction of being the last ever to do so, as the award was renamed in 2006. Human bones are found buried in a construction site in Grafarholt. The police", "title": "Silence of the Grave" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.05, "text": "subsequent dealing with Cromek and Thomas Stothard over the \"\"Canterbury Pilgrims\"\", is given by G. E. Bentley Jr), who relates the opinions of all parties and attempts to summarize the evidence, which is both complex and inconclusive. Blake's original watercolours were believed lost, until they were rediscovered in 2003. The Grave (poem) The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Dr. Dodderidge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister, Edinburgh", "title": "The Grave (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.81, "text": "R.R. Virdi R.R. Virdi (born February 9, 1990) is an American author best known for his urban fantasy series \"\"The Grave Report\"\" and \"\"The Books of Winter\"\". In 2016, the second novel of \"\"The Grave Report\"\" series, \"\"Grave Measures\"\", was nominated for a Dragon Award in Best Fantasy (Paranormal) Novel. In 2017, the first novel of \"\"The Books of Winter\"\" series, \"\"Dangerous Ways\"\" was also nominated for a Dragon Award in the same category. R.R. Virdi began writing at the age of 18, first publishing at the age of 23. He has written three series, all of which are ongoing,", "title": "R.R. Virdi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "rhymed version of Robert Blair's \"\"The Grave\"\". In 1791 he compiled \"\"Visits from the World of Spirits, or interesting anecdotes of the Dead … containing narratives of the appearances of many departed spirits\"\"; a second edition was published (Glasgow, 1845). In 1793 he edited a herbal on the lines of Nicholas Culpeper's, \"\"The Medical Uses of English Plants\"\". In 1795 Lemoine supplied much verse on Charlotte and Werther to the \"\"Lady's New and Elegant Pocket Magazine\"\". From 1803 to 1806, he was working on the bibliographical dictionary of Adam Clarke. He wrote a pseudonymous life of Abraham Goldsmid; most of", "title": "Henry Lemoine (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "The Unquiet Grave (book) The Unquiet Grave is a literary work by Cyril Connolly written in 1944 under the pseudonym Palinurus. It comprises a collection of aphorisms, quotes, nostalgic musings and mental explorations. Palinurus was the pilot of Aeneas's ship in the Aeneid who fell overboard as an act of atonement to the angry gods, and whose spirit wandered in the underworld. Connolly uses the theme to explore his feelings and review his situation as he approaches the age of forty presenting a very pessimistic and self-deprecating account. Into this he brings quotes from some of his favourite authors: Pascal,", "title": "The Unquiet Grave (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "prominence in scholarship involves a later printing of poems by Robert Hartley Cromek which included illustrations completed by the Romantic poet and illustrator William Blake. He completed forty illustrations for the poem, twenty of which were printed in Cromek's edition. Blake's original watercolours for the prints were believed lost, until they were rediscovered in 2003. According to that same letter to Dodderidge, two publishers rejected the poem before it was finally first published in 1743, in London by Mr. Cooper. The grounds for rejection, as related by Blair, were that he lived too far away from London to be able", "title": "The Grave (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.61, "text": "La Tumba La Tumba (\"\"The Grave\"\") is a 1964 controversial novel written in Spanish by José Agustín. It is a short novel, originally written as a series of tales (\"\"Tedium\"\") in a literary workshop. Some people rejected the novel because it freely touched (and portrayed) topics like abortion and sex, but the writers' community praised it immensely. Despite \"\"Gabriel\"\"´s intellectual tone, the book was a huge editorial success, establishing Jose Agustin as a respected and profitable writer. The novel was Agustín's first work. A distinguished writer said at the time that he liked it, but it was \"\"naively pedantic.\"\" Situated", "title": "La Tumba" } ]

[ "Aristophanes", "Father of Comedy" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.52, "text": "The Clouds The Clouds ( \"\"Nephelai\"\") is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420 and 417BC and was thereafter circulated in manuscript form. No copy of the original production survives, and scholarly analysis indicates that the revised version is an incomplete form of Old Comedy. This incompleteness, however, is not obvious in", "title": "The Clouds" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26, "text": "AD 398. The author is unknown. The English Augustinian mystic Walter Hilton has at times been suggested, but this is generally doubted. It is possible he was a Carthusian priest, though this is not certain. A second major work by the same author, \"\"The Book of Privy Counseling\"\" (originally titled \"\"Prive Counselling\"\"), continues the themes discussed in the \"\"Cloud\"\". It is less than half the size of the \"\"Cloud\"\", appears to be the author's final work, and clarifies and deepens some of its teachings. In this work, the author characterizes the practice of contemplative unknowing as worshiping God with one's", "title": "The Cloud of Unknowing" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "of the book. Clouds without Water Clouds without Water is a poetry collection by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English author, occult magician, mountaineer and founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema. \"\"Clouds without Water\"\" was one of many of Crowley's eccentric works published in his lifetime and was first issued in 1909. The title comes from a passage in Jude 1:13 which is quoted at the beginning of the book: \"\"Clouds they are without water; carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their", "title": "Clouds without Water" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "Clouds without Water Clouds without Water is a poetry collection by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English author, occult magician, mountaineer and founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema. \"\"Clouds without Water\"\" was one of many of Crowley's eccentric works published in his lifetime and was first issued in 1909. The title comes from a passage in Jude 1:13 which is quoted at the beginning of the book: \"\"Clouds they are without water; carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering", "title": "Clouds without Water" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.83, "text": "married two men who bore the same name. He embarks on a journey across the world to discover the truth behind this unusual situation. \"\"Cloud\"\" is McCormack's latest novel, published in August 2014. Eric McCormack (writer) Eric McCormack (born 3 February 1938) is a Scottish-born Canadian author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, gothic horror and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as \"\"Inspecting the Vaults\"\" (1987), \"\"The Paradise Motel\"\" (1989), \"\"The Mysterium\"\" (1992), \"\"First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women\"\" (1997) and \"\"The Dutch Wife\"\" (2002). McCormack was born", "title": "Eric McCormack (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.64, "text": "The Cloud (poem) \"\"The Cloud\"\" is a major 1820 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. \"\"The Cloud\"\" was written during late 1819 or early 1820, and submitted for publication on 12 July 1820. The work was published in the 1820 collection \"\"Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems\"\" by Charles and James Ollier in London in August 1820. The work was proof-read by John Gisborne. There were multiple drafts of the poem. The poem consists of six stanzas in anapestic or antidactylus meter, a foot with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable. The cloud", "title": "The Cloud (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.5, "text": "the protagonist, is the protagonist's cheer squad by the end of the play. In \"\"The Clouds\"\" however, the Chorus appears sympathetic at first but emerges as a virtual antagonist by the end of the play. The play adapts the following elements Old Comedy in a variety of novel ways. The Clouds The Clouds ( \"\"Nephelai\"\") is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays", "title": "The Clouds" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.39, "text": "On 20 April 1919, a silent black and white movie was released in the US entitled \"\"The Cloud\"\" which was \"\"a visual poem featuring clouds and landscapes in accompaniment to the words of Shelley's poem 'The Cloud'.\"\" The film was directed by W.A. Van Scoy and produced by the Post Nature Pictures company. The Cloud (poem) \"\"The Cloud\"\" is a major 1820 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. \"\"The Cloud\"\" was written during late 1819 or early 1820, and submitted for publication on 12 July 1820. The work was published in the 1820 collection \"\"Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in", "title": "The Cloud (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.36, "text": "Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 10 March 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. Hercule Poirot travels back to England on the midday flight from Paris", "title": "Death in the Clouds" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "The Edge of the Cloud The Edge of the Cloud is a historical novel written for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton and published in 1969. It was the second book in Peyton's original Flambards trilogy, comprising three books published by Oxford with illustrations by Victor Ambrus (1967 to 1969), a series the author extended more than a decade later. Set in England prior to the First World War, it continues the romance of Christina Parsons and Will Russell. The title alludes to Will's participation in early aviation. Peyton won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association,", "title": "The Edge of the Cloud" } ]

[ "Gore Vidal", "Eugene Luther Gore Vidal", "Gor Vidal", "Cameron Kay", "Eugene Luther Vidal", "Edgar Box", "Katherine Everard", "Eugene Vidal" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.98, "text": "Washington, D.C. (novel) Washington, D.C. is a 1967 novel by Gore Vidal. The sixth novel in his \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series of historical novels (although the first one published), it begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and influential newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford. This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. \"\"The Golden Age\"\", the seventh book in the series, takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters, and needed to be written around the events", "title": "Washington, D.C. (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.91, "text": "of \"\"Washington D.C.\"\" The novel is written in the third person and is inspired by the novels of Henry James. Washington, D.C. (novel) Washington, D.C. is a 1967 novel by Gore Vidal. The sixth novel in his \"\"Narratives of Empire\"\" series of historical novels (although the first one published), it begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and influential newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford. This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. \"\"The Golden Age\"\", the seventh book in the series, takes place during", "title": "Washington, D.C. (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.69, "text": "is the author of: \"\"Biography of Timothy B. Blackstone\"\" (Methodist Book Concern Press, 1917) and \"\"The Washington sketch book, a society souvenir\"\" (Hartman & Cadick, Printers, 1895). The latter is both a D.C. guidebook and a manual of the city's social life. It is one of the few Washington guidebooks written by a woman. \"\"The Washington sketch book\"\" was a well-known and received guide, and it was reprinted at least until 1917, when the 6th edition was released. In Washington, D.C., Hinman worked with the National Reform Association and lobbied Congress on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In", "title": "Ida Hinman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.27, "text": "wide acclaim from critics, several of whom called it the best biography of Washington ever written. In 2011, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, as well as the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize. The book's author, Ron Chernow, is a former freelance business journalist who later became a self-described \"\"self-made historian\"\". His 1990 history of financier J.P. Morgan's family, \"\"The House of Morgan\"\", won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In 2004, he published a biography of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, for which he won the inaugural $50,000 George Washington Book Prize. Chernow", "title": "Washington: A Life" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.19, "text": "part of his effort to get to know Washington D.C.:I was just really fascinated to discover that writing and writers had existed in D.C. before me. I live in the Brookland neighborhood, and was fascinated to find out that Sterling Brown lived a few blocks from me and wanted to know more about him — that kind of started a progression of interest in writers, playwrights and poets and novelists who called Washington home. Vera is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros. He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Dan", "title": "Dan Vera" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.11, "text": "centrist pundit who prides himself on his \"\"Inside the Beltway\"\" knowledge of the Washington, D.C. political scene, is the purported author of a column published at \"\"CAFE\"\" and a keen, if clueless, Twitter user. Portrayed as a smug, ignorant blowhard, the character comments on political news and delves into backstory from his personal life, particularly the details of his failed marriage and protracted family court proceedings for custody of his son Colby. Diggler also hosts The DigCast, a podcast featuring weekly guests and Carl's millennial intern. \"\"Girl Friday\"\" is a podcast hosted by Erin Gloria Ryan, co-hosted by Amanda Duarte,", "title": "CAFE (media company)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23, "text": "author of the critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, \"\"D.A. Diaries\"\", which chronicles a murder trial set in Washington, D.C. He is the associate producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, \"\"Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9.\"\" Eichner has been listed as a Super Lawyer for more than a decade and named one of 5280's top criminal lawyers. Eichner was born to a family of Jewish descent and grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. His maternal grandfather, Daniel Feuerstein, fled Russia in 1917 during the Russian Revolution and immigrated to America. In 1921, after arriving in New York City, he", "title": "Kenneth Eichner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.84, "text": "(1931–44) is a 39-volume set edited by John Clement Fitzpatrick who was commissioned by the \"\"George Washington Bicentennial Commission\"\". It contains over 17,000 letters and documents and is available online from the University of Virginia. Many places and monuments have been named in honor of Washington, most notably the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. (which is also indirectly named for Christopher Columbus, \"\"D.C.\"\" standing for \"\"District of Columbia\"\"). The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a president. George Washington appears on contemporary U.S. currency, including the one-dollar bill and the quarter-dollar coin (the Washington quarter). Washington", "title": "George Washington" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.66, "text": "money earned from the book will be donated to charities, including Read Boston, an organization that supports literacy in Boston public schools. My Senator and Me My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D.C. is a 2006 children's book by Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. It follows a Portuguese Water Dog named Splash as he tries to help his master, the senator, go about his daily life and pass an education bill. It also explains how a bill becomes a law, the roles of Congress and the Senate and other details of the U.S. system of government, plus biographies", "title": "My Senator and Me" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.64, "text": "Lost in the City Lost in the City is a 1992 collection of short stories about African-American life in Washington, D.C. by Pulitzer Prize winning-author Edward P. Jones. \"\"Lost in the City\"\" is a collection of 14 stories. The author, a native of Washington, writes about the ordinary residents of the city: \"\"I had read James Joyce's \"\"Dubliners\"\", and I was quite taken with what he had done and I set out to give a better picture of what the city is like—the other city.\"\" The book starts with the youngest character and ends with the oldest character. The structure", "title": "Lost in the City" } ]

[ "Raphael Patai" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.2, "text": "The Arab Mind The Arab Mind is a non-fiction cultural psychology book by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai, who also wrote \"\"The Jewish Mind\"\". The book advocates a tribal-group-survival explanation for the driving factors behind Arab culture. It was first published in 1973, and later revised in 1983. A 2007 reprint was further \"\"updated with new demographic information about the Arab world\"\". The book came to public attention in 2004, after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, writing for \"\"The New Yorker\"\" revealed that the book was \"\"the bible of the neocons on Arab behavior\"\" to the effect that it was the source", "title": "The Arab Mind" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.03, "text": "that he was told by an academic that the book was \"\"the bible of the neocons on Arab behaviour\"\". The book was described by \"\"The Guardian\"\" correspondent Brian Whitaker as one that presents \"\"an overwhelmingly negative picture of the Arabs.\"\" According to a 2004 \"\"The Boston Globe\"\" article by Emram Qureshi, the book's methodology is \"\"emblematic of a bygone era of scholarship focused on the notion of a 'national character,' or personality archetype\"\". The Arab Mind The Arab Mind is a non-fiction cultural psychology book by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai, who also wrote \"\"The Jewish Mind\"\". The book advocates a", "title": "The Arab Mind" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "of the idea held by the US military officials responsible for the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib scandal that \"\"Arabs are particularly vulnerable to sexual humiliation\"\". Along with prefaces, a conclusion, and a postscript, the book contains 16 chapters, including Arab child-rearing practices, three chapters on Bedouin influences and values, Arab language, Arab art, sexual honor/repression, freedom/hospitality/outlets, Islam's impact, unity and conflict and conflict resolution, and Westernization. A four-page comparison to Spanish America is made in Appendix II. The Foreword is by Norvell B. DeAtkine, Director of Middle East Studies at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare", "title": "The Arab Mind" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.98, "text": "Muslim Arab men specifically, to retrieve information from suspects, and to blackmail them into becoming informants. According to the article, the sexual humiliation techniques were based on the book, \"\"The Arab Mind\"\", written by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai in 1973. The book claimed to be a \"\"study of Arab culture and psychology\"\". According to Hersh's anonymous intelligence source, the Patai book was \"\"the bible of the neocons on Arab behavior\"\", which gave life to two themes: \"\"One, that Arabs only understand force and, two, that the biggest weakness of Arabs is shame and humiliation\"\". Hersh claims to have spoken to", "title": "Copper Green" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.77, "text": "author of the book \"\"Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid\"\" published in 2001 by Zed Books. \"\"The Invisible Arab\"\", his book about the uprising in the Arab world came out in early 2012. The Huffington Post said \"\"The Invisible Arab is an insightful and absorbing read for inquiring minds,\"\" and Publishers Weekly added, \"\"Bishara…provides a compelling and spirited history of the modern Arab nation, from colonial liberation to the recent revolutions….Fast-paced, impassioned, and eloquent.\"\" Bishara serves on the Board of Trustees of \"\"The Galilee Foundation\"\", a UK-based charity “established in 2007 to promote development and equality of the Palestinian indigenous community in", "title": "Marwan Bishara" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.28, "text": "the author seems to be saying that the 'European mind', from Homer to Karl Marx and A.H.R.Gibb, is inherently bent on distorting all human realities other than its own.\"\" Within a decade, Al-Azm became an active participant in the dialogue surrounding free speech and the 1988 publication of \"\"The Satanic Verses\"\" by Salman Rushdie. Al-Azm wrote numerous books and articles in Arabic, and some have been translated into European languages including Italian, German, Danish, French. Neither \"\"Al-Nakd al-Dhati Ba’da al-Hazima\"\" nor \"\"Naqd al-Fikr al-Dini\"\" has been translated in its entirety into English, though selections of \"\"Naqd al-Fikr al-Dini\"\" have appeared", "title": "Sadiq Jalal al-Azm" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.03, "text": "the Arab world. Schools of Arabic thought include Avicennism and Averroism. The first great Arab thinker is widely regarded to be al-Kindi (801–873 A.D.), a Neo-Platonic philosopher, mathematician and scientist who lived in Kufa and Baghdad (modern day Iraq). After being appointed by the Abbasid Caliphs to translate Greek scientific and philosophical texts into Arabic, he wrote a number of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects, from metaphysics and ethics to mathematics and pharmacology. Much of his philosophical output focuses on theological subjects such as the nature of God, the soul and prophetic knowledge. Doctrines of", "title": "Arabs" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.81, "text": "that each individual should re-build his “pyramid of thought”, and that the reader has to be an active receptor and participator in this process of developing creativity. “Empty your mind of its contents”, as he said in \"\"The Blue Light.\"\" He saw that the problem with the Arab mind was that \"\"it lost its ability to create\"\", and that's what he sought not to lose: his ability to create. In his writings, he presented new concepts to explain the mind, heart, language, psychological conflict, time, memory, cancer, blossom, occupation, love, exile, nature, passion, pain, magnitude, madness and poetry; all of", "title": "Hussein Barghouthi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.77, "text": "The Arab Awakening The Arab Awakening is a 1938 book by George Antonius, published in London by Hamish Hamilton. It is viewed as the foundational textbook of the history of modern Arab nationalism. According to Martin Kramer, \"\"The Arab Awakening\"\" \"\"became the preferred textbook for successive generations of British and American historians and their students\"\". It generated an ongoing debate over such issues as the origins of Arab nationalism, the significance of the Arab Revolt of 1916, and the machinations behind the post-World War I political settlement in the Middle East. Antonius traced Arab nationalism to the reign of Muhammad", "title": "The Arab Awakening" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.69, "text": "Tuhaf al-Uqul Tuhaf al-Uqul (Arabic: تُحَفُ العُقول في ما جاءَ مِنَ الحِکَمِ وَ المَواعِظَ مِن آلِ الرَّسول) (the masterpieces of the mind) is a hadith book written by Abu Mohammed al-Hasan bin Ali bin al-Husain bin Shu’ba al-Harrani. He is one of the Shia Islam scholars in the fourth century of Hijrah. Abu Mohammed al-Hasan bin Ali bin al-Husain ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani also known as Ibn Shu’bah is one of the Shia scholars who lived in the fourth century of Hijrah. He was the contemporary of Ibn Babawayh and one of the masters of al-Shaykh al-Mufid. He was born in", "title": "Tuhaf al-Uqul" } ]

[ "Jonathan Kellerman", "Jonathan Seth Kellerman" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.62, "text": "Therapy (Lodge novel) Therapy (1995) is a novel by British author David Lodge. The story concerns a successful sitcom writer, Laurence Passmore, plagued by middle-age neuroses and a failed marriage. His only problem seems to be an \"\"internal derangement of the knee\"\" but a mid-life crisis has struck and he is discovering angst. His familiar doses of cognitive therapy, aromatherapy, and acupuncture all offer no help, and he becomes obsessed with the philosophy of Kierkegaard. Moreover, Tubby, as Passmore is nicknamed, and referred to by several characters in the novel, undertakes a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to", "title": "Therapy (Lodge novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.78, "text": "feels, is akin to Kierkegaard's breakup with Regine. Tubby struggles to find a way out of his depression. Even though Tubby denies Christianity it may be interpreted that he undergoes the three (Kierkegaardian) existential stages of 'the Aesthetic', 'the Ethical' and 'the Religious' and takes leaps of faith to move from one stage to another. Therapy (Lodge novel) Therapy (1995) is a novel by British author David Lodge. The story concerns a successful sitcom writer, Laurence Passmore, plagued by middle-age neuroses and a failed marriage. His only problem seems to be an \"\"internal derangement of the knee\"\" but a mid-life", "title": "Therapy (Lodge novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.19, "text": "Chris Zois Chris L. Zois is an author of two short-term therapy books. Christ L. Zois graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey with a major in Philosophy. He obtained his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed a residency in psychiatry at New York Hospital. Zois is the author of two books on short term therapy: \"\"Think Like a Shrink\"\", a self-help book published by Warner Books, and a textbook, \"\"Short Term Therapy Techniques\"\", Jason Aronson Publishers. He has also written the screenplays for five films: Welcome to New York\"\" (2014), Chelsea on the Rocks\"\" (2008), Jersey", "title": "Chris Zois" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "Brian Bohrer Brian Lester Bohrer (born August 15, 1960) is a pastor and author. He is best known for his book called, “Word Therapy” a teaching on the creative power of your words. Brian L. Bohrer was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on a military base. His father was in the United States Air Force and was from Paw Paw, West Virginia. His mother was from Magnolia, Arkansas. He was led to the Lord in 1967 at a community park in Bossier City, Louisiana by a group called “Child Evangelism Fellowship” while his family was stationed at Barksdale Air", "title": "Brian Bohrer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.67, "text": "News\"\" (1991), the narration is mostly third-person point of view but there are also first-person narratives (diary and autobiography, letters, postcards, emails) and various other documents, such as theoretical writings on tourism. In \"\"Therapy\"\" (1995), the bulk of the novel is told through the protagonist's diary but there are other texts, presented as written by minor characters about the main character. It is eventually revealed that these were all written by the main character, as part of a therapy exercise. Two of Lodge's novels have been adapted into television serials: \"\"Small World\"\" (1988), and \"\"Nice Work\"\" (1989). \"\"Nice Work\"\" was", "title": "David Lodge (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.55, "text": "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics A Doctor's Report on Dianetics: Theory and Therapy is a non-fiction book analyzing Dianetics. The book was authored by physician Joseph Augustus Winter, with an introduction by German Gestalt Therapy research psychiatrist Frederick Perls. The book was first published in hardcover by the Julian Press Julian Messner, in 1951, and published again in 1987, by Crown Publishing Group. The work was the first book published that was professionally critical of L. Ron Hubbard. Joseph Augustus Winter, an American medical doctor and \"\"psychosomatacist\"\", had previously served on the board of directors and as the medical director", "title": "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.47, "text": "was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush. Gale is the author of \"\"Fiscal Therapy: Curing America’s Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future\"\" (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has also co-authored or co-editored several books, including \"\"Automatic: Changing the Way America Saves\"\" (Brookings, 2011), \"\"Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America\"\" (Century Foundation, 2006); \"\"The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform\"\" (Brookings, 2005); \"\"Private Pensions and Public Policy\"\" (Brookings, Los", "title": "William G. Gale" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.44, "text": "the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of both The American Board of Clinical Psychology and The American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He has been cited several times in USA Today and Newsweek. As an author, Verhaagen has written on a range of topics, including parenting, violence risk, and therapeutic processes. His writings are unified by a focus on the positive, resiliency-based aspects of psychology. Verhaagen has individually authored two books. Published in 2010,\"\"Therapy with Young Men: 16-24 Year Olds in Treatment\"\" (Routledge) provides a model of therapy for working with young men in", "title": "David A. Verhaagen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.41, "text": "they swore protect. Additionally, Kole Black is the author of the \"\"Sex Therapy\"\" series, a group of relationship books that provide women an honest and insightful glimpse into the mind of the modern man. Titles include; \"\"Sex-Therapy: A Woman's Guide To Understanding why men cheat\"\", \"\"Sex-Therapy: A Woman's Guide To Understanding why men fear commitment. He is the author of five novels, \"\"The Chance She Took\"\", \"\"The Risk of Chance\"\", \"\"The Game of Chance\"\", \"\"Chance & Drama' and \"\"The End of All Chance\"\". Part of \"\"The Chance Series\"\" was released in 2013 as THE RATCHET SERIES, a continuing saga that", "title": "Kole Black" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.39, "text": "who have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Schmanke is the author of Art Therapy and Substance Abuse: Enabling Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction and Bordonaro is on the board of directors for the American Art Therapy Association. Each spring, the Art Therapy program hosts the Art Therapy Discovery Day Conference which began in 1974. The conference is open to the public and includes an annual keynote speaker as well as breakout sessions, presentations over pertinent Art Therapy topics, a silent auction, and a provided lunch. A variety of individuals attend the conference including: current students, professional art therapists, counselors, therapists,", "title": "Emporia State University Teachers College" } ]

[ "Gene Kemp" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.39, "text": "Gowie Corby Plays Chicken Gowie Corby Plays Chicken () is a children's novel by Gene Kemp, set at the fictional Cricklepit Combined primary school in southern England. It was published in 1979. The central character is Gowie Corby, a young boy with an absent father, an alcoholic mother and an obsession with horror films. He is highly intelligent but shows little interest in school and exhibits a range of anti-social behaviour. His life changes when an African-American girl, Rosie Lee, comes to live next door and provides him with a positive role-model. He begins to take interest in school and", "title": "Gowie Corby Plays Chicken" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.88, "text": "his behaviour improves with the encouragement of a sympathetic teacher. His progress is threatened however, by the intervention of his older brother, who has a record of petty crime and displays racist attitudes towards Rosie and her family. The main plot is framed by two short chapters which present Gowie as an adult with a young family, the latter chapter providing a twist ending. Gowie Corby Plays Chicken Gowie Corby Plays Chicken () is a children's novel by Gene Kemp, set at the fictional Cricklepit Combined primary school in southern England. It was published in 1979. The central character is", "title": "Gowie Corby Plays Chicken" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.72, "text": "grew up in. Her best known book is \"\"The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler\"\", published by Faber's Children's Books in 1977. Set in the fictional Cricklepit School, it charts the pleasures and pains of friendship and growing up. There are several Cricklepit books, including \"\"Snaggletooth's Mystery\"\", an alternative history of the school, and \"\"Gowie Corby Plays Chicken\"\", set one year after \"\"The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler\"\" and referencing Tyke in several chapters. Kemp wrote ghost stories and fantasy as well as realistic fiction, like \"\"Seriously Weird\"\", which is told from the perspective of the sister of a young man", "title": "Gene Kemp" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.64, "text": "Beef, No Chicken Beef, No Chicken is a two-act play by Caribbean playwright Derek Walcott, written in 1981. The play is set in the Trinidadian town of Couva. It follows restaurant owner Otto Hogan, whose refusal to accept graft delays the building of a highway through the center of the town. \"\"Beef, No Chicken\"\" opens as Otto rushes into his roti restaurant, removing a dress as the sound of gunfire can be heard in the distance. It is soon revealed that he wears the dress in an attempt to create a folk legend about a spirit called \"\"The Mysterious Stranger\"\"", "title": "Beef, No Chicken" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.61, "text": "John Derevlany John A. Derevlany (born October 3, 1964) is a writer, director, and performer who most recently co-created the TV series \"\"Legends of Chima\"\" for LEGO. He also wrote every episode of the series and the \"\"Legends of Chima\"\" 4D movie playing at Legoland theme parks and Legoland Discovery Centers. Derevlany is also known for playing \"\"Crackers the Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken\"\" in Michael Moore's TV Nation. In addition, he created the preschool dance and movement show Animal Jam for Jim Henson Productions and the Discovery Channel, wrote many episodes of cartoon The Angry Beavers, and co-founded the heavy-metal", "title": "John Derevlany" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.53, "text": "the films \"\"Chicken Run\"\" and \"\"Flushed Away\"\". In 2005, Aardman announced they were working with DreamWorks on an animated caveman comedy without AAArgh!; it was to be called \"\"Crood Awakening\"\" in which a clan chief is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new inventions like fire. Co-written by John Cleese it eventually became the 2013 film \"\"The Croods\"\". The series depicts the Gogs comically as being mind-bogglingly stupid and struggling to navigate and avoid the perils of an exotic, prehistoric land inhabited by dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, giant insects, man-eating plants, and other exotica.", "title": "Gogs" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.53, "text": "also writes the series. While the character is Japanese, Evey was born in South Korea and grew up in the United States. Additional regular characters include UniCow (Payman Benz) and Cownicorn (Sean Becker), hybrid cow-unicorns; Panda (Michele Gregory), and Go-Go Dancer (Julie Wittner), who do not speak (though Go-Go Dancer can sing). Guest Rick Pope (Ryan Smith) — which Kiko mispronounces as \"\"Lick Poop,\"\" a mispronunciation that is transcribed on-screen — appeared in episodes 1, 4, 5, 13, 16, 18, and 22; several follow-up videos from Mediocre Films and distributed on C-Spot's YouTube channel are part of a series titled", "title": "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.5, "text": "Heggs' credibility is impeached by damaging testimony from his grade school teacher (Ellen Corby) who testifies that Luther was \"\"keyed up\"\" as a child, prone to telling tall tales for attention. Luther's own testimony is twisted by Simmons' attorney, suggesting that Luther concocted the story about his spooky night in the mansion in order to win a job as a full-time reporter. Luther's dramatic denial prompts the judge to order the jury and all interested parties to appear at the Simmons house at just before midnight to allow Heggs to prove his story. But with everyone now inside the mansion,", "title": "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.44, "text": "Jim Broadbent. They also contributed to the screenplay of the Aardman film \"\"Chicken Run\"\". It was announced in April 2018 that John O'Farrell was co-writing a sequel to Chicken Run. O’Farrell co-wrote the book for the original stage musical \"\"Something Rotten!\"\", which opened on Broadway in April 2015, and for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical with Karey Kirkpatrick as well as a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Circle Critics Award. The show ran for nearly two years on Broadway before going on tour across the United States. It was announced", "title": "John O'Farrell (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.34, "text": "passed him by and he decides to open a crime-fighting school to carry on his crusade. However, there is only one student: Leon Cablemouth (played by Orkin's then-partner, Bert Berdis). Orkin and Rich Koz co-authored several of the episodes, which numbered 65. In 1995, Orkin brought Chickenman out of retirement for a 30th anniversary tribute episode on \"\"Poultry Slam 1995\"\", Episode 3 of the WBEZ public radio program \"\"This American Life\"\" (then called \"\"Your Radio Playhouse\"\"). In \"\"Chickenman Challenges a Fate Named Frank,\"\" Benton Harbor realizes that he's getting older, and goes to the doctor, who tells him that his", "title": "Chickenman (radio series)" } ]

[ "Michael Hollinger" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.52, "text": "Jonathan Northcroft Jonathan Northcroft is a Scottish football journalist and author. He is the football correspondent for The Sunday Times. Northcroft was co-author of The \"\"Manchester United Opus\"\" alongside Hugh McIlvanney, Patrick Barclay and Jim White amongst others. A copy of the book signed by the Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was sold at auction for $1.6m, which was a world record price for a sporting publication. Following the surprise victory for Leicester City in the 2015–16 Premier League season Northcroft authored \"\"Fearless: How Leicester City Shook the Premier League and What it Means", "title": "Jonathan Northcroft" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.23, "text": "Opus (manga) Opus is a Japanese \"\"seinen\"\" manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Kon. The story is about a manga artist who is pulled into the world of the manga he is concluding and forced to confront his characters. The manga was serialized in the manga magazine \"\"Comic Guys\"\" from October 1995 until the magazine's cancellation in June 1996. It was collected into two volumes by Tokuma Shoten on December 13, 2010 and included a missing ending found after Kon's death. Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga in North America and released it in an omnibus edition on December", "title": "Opus (manga)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.19, "text": "opus is \"\"Katha Satisar\"\" [2001]. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Subramanya Bharati award, awarded by the President of India for her literary work. Her works have also been translated in many Indian languages, and into English. Her novel \"\"Ailan Gali Zinda Hai\"\" has been translated for the first time in English by Manisha Chaudhry, published by Zubaan Books (an imprint of 'Kaali for Women', Penguin India) as \"\"A Street in Srinagar\"\", The translation was shortlisted for the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her latest epic Hindi novel, \"\"Katha Satisar\"\" (published by Rajkamal publications),", "title": "Chandrakanta (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "opus\"\" being a \"\"Maltese–English Dictionary\"\". Joseph Aquilina Joseph Aquilina, LL.D., Ph.D. (7 April 1911 – 8 August 1997) was a Maltese author and linguist born in Munxar. Aquilina graduated first as Bachelor of Arts and later as a lawyer from the University of Malta. Between 1937 and 1940 he read comparative semitic philology at the University of London where he obtained a doctorate. Among the prominent posts which Aquilina held as a full-time professor at the University of Malta, was that as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Aquilina's numerous works include novels, philosophical essays, critical studies, drama, linguistic papers", "title": "Joseph Aquilina" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.02, "text": "Opus (comic strip) Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of five years, 2003 to 2008. It was Breathed's fourth comic strip, following \"\"The Academia Waltz\"\", \"\"Bloom County\"\" and \"\"Outland\"\". Set in Bloom County, the strip documented the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the Penguin, parodying both pop culture and politics along the way. It was launched with much fanfare on November 23, 2003, and was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. In early October 2008 the author declared he was terminating the strip because of his expectation that the United States is", "title": "Opus (comic strip)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.89, "text": "Opus Dei (book) Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church is a book written by American journalist John Allen, Jr. about the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, commonly known as Opus Dei, published in 2005. While the book received mixed reviews, there were more positive reviews than negative. Two journalists referred to it as \"\"widely considered as the definitive book on Opus Dei.\"\" On the other hand, some said Allen \"\"applied a daub of whitewash.\"\" Agenzia Giornalistica Italiana (AGI), a major Italian news agency, described", "title": "Opus Dei (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "Tripp is admittedly based on University of Pittsburgh professor, Chuck Kinder, who taught the undergraduate Chabon in the early 1980s. Kinder’s great opus, a novel inspired by his friendship with author Raymond Carver, was reportedly more than 3000 pages long at one point. It was finally published in a very slimmed-down version in 2001 as \"\"Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale\"\". Wonder Boys Wonder Boys is a 1995 novel by the American writer Michael Chabon. It was adapted into a film with the same title in 2000. Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611-page manuscript that is", "title": "Wonder Boys" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.77, "text": "French edition of the manga won the 2013 Asia Critics Prize from the \"\"Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée\"\" and was part of the \"\"Sélection Officiele\"\" at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival. It was also on the 2016 Young Adult Library Services Association's Great Graphic Novels for Teens List. Opus (manga) Opus is a Japanese \"\"seinen\"\" manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Kon. The story is about a manga artist who is pulled into the world of the manga he is concluding and forced to confront his characters. The manga was serialized in the manga", "title": "Opus (manga)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "the unsaid in the contemporary novel\"\" (Figuration du non-dit dans le roman contemporaine, 1995) at Diderot University Paris, and completed as PhD with thesis on \"\"Poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Narrative, stylistic and contextual study of opus\"\" (Poetika Michela Houellebecqa. Naratološka, stilistička i kontekstualna studija opusa, 2005) in Zagreb. Koščec is assistant professor of French literature at Department of Romance studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and he also worked as freelance editor at SysPrint publishing from 2008 to 2011. He is author of seven novels, laureate of V.B.Z. Award 2003, and Croatian translator of the novels Whatever", "title": "Marinko Koščec" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.48, "text": "Directory Opus Directory Opus (or \"\"DOpus\"\" as its users tend to call it) is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid-1990s. Development on the Amiga version ceased in 1997, but an entirely re-written version of Directory Opus is still being actively developed and sold for the Microsoft Windows operating system by GPSoftware. Directory Opus was originally developed by, and is still written by, Australian Jonathan Potter. Until 1994, it was published by well-known Amiga software company Inovatronics, when the author joined with Greg Perry and the Australian-based GPSoftware to continue", "title": "Directory Opus" } ]

[ "Jean-David Morvan" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.69, "text": "acquired by actor and director Mark Rylance. The Wake (novel) The Wake is a 2014 novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an \"\"imaginary language\"\", a kind of hybrid between Old English and Modern English, it tells of \"\"Buccmaster of Holland\"\", an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed. He begins a guerrilla war against the Norman invaders in the Lincolnshire Fens. The book, whose publication was financed through crowdfunding, was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014", "title": "The Wake (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.69, "text": "The Wake (novel) The Wake is a 2014 novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an \"\"imaginary language\"\", a kind of hybrid between Old English and Modern English, it tells of \"\"Buccmaster of Holland\"\", an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed. He begins a guerrilla war against the Norman invaders in the Lincolnshire Fens. The book, whose publication was financed through crowdfunding, was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. The film rights were", "title": "The Wake (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.36, "text": "Wake (McMann novel) Wake (Stylized \"\"WAKE\"\") is a novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams. The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer at Fieldridge High School. The book is set up in a diary like form, specifying the date and time at which each event occurs. The two books that follow \"\"Wake\"\" in the trilogy are \"\"Fade\"\" and", "title": "Wake (McMann novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.2, "text": "Wake (Sawyer novel) Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his \"\"WWW Trilogy\"\". It was first published on April 8, 2009 and was followed by \"\"Watch\"\" in 2010 and by \"\"Wonder\"\" in 2011. The novel details the spontaneous emergence of an intelligence on the World Wide Web, called Webmind, and its friendship with a blind teenager named Caitlin. Sawyer developed the initial idea for \"\"Wake\"\" in January 2003 when he wrote in his diary about the emergence of consciousness on the World Wide Web. The novel", "title": "Wake (Sawyer novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.92, "text": "Library Journal points out, “This book is ideal for reluctant readers, especially girls.” Kirkus Reviews also gave the book praise, stating, “McMann lures teens in by piquing their interest in the mysteries of the unknown, and keeps them with quick-paced, gripping narration and supportive characters.” Wake (McMann novel) Wake (Stylized \"\"WAKE\"\") is a novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams. The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and", "title": "Wake (McMann novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.69, "text": "awkward and that while they did enjoy the book, \"\"none of the characters feel fully formed yet, though hopefully this will change with the next two books of the trilogy.\"\" Wake (Sawyer novel) Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his \"\"WWW Trilogy\"\". It was first published on April 8, 2009 and was followed by \"\"Watch\"\" in 2010 and by \"\"Wonder\"\" in 2011. The novel details the spontaneous emergence of an intelligence on the World Wide Web, called Webmind, and its friendship with a blind teenager", "title": "Wake (Sawyer novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.48, "text": "Lisa McMann Lisa McMann (born February 27, 1968) is an American author. McMann was born in Holland, Michigan and now lives in the Phoenix, Arizona area. She graduated from Calvin College in 1990. Her first novel, \"\"WAKE\"\", debuted on the \"\"New York Times\"\" Best Seller list for children's chapter books. She is also the author of \"\"FADE\"\", which debuted on the New York Times best seller list and remained there eleven weeks, and of \"\"GONE\"\", the last book in the \"\"WAKE\"\" series, which was released February 2010. McMann, a mother of two, has published many short stories, including the creative", "title": "Lisa McMann" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.19, "text": "Poseidon's Wake Poseidon's Wake is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It forms the conclusion of Reynolds' \"\"Poseidon's Children\"\" future history trilogy, which follows the expansion of humanity and its transhuman descendants into the galaxy over the course of many centuries. \"\"Poseidon's Wake\"\" follows \"\"Blue Remembered Earth\"\" (2012) and \"\"On the Steel Breeze\"\" (2013), and was published by Gollancz on 30 April 2015. Reynolds submitted the manuscript of \"\"Poseidon's Wake\"\" to Gollancz in October 2014, and completed his editorial revisions in November 2014. Gollancz released the novel's cover art and announced its print and digital release date", "title": "Poseidon's Wake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.16, "text": "Finnegans Wake Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, two years before the author's death; \"\"Finnegans Wake\"\" was Joyce's final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, which blends standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words to unique effect. Many critics believe the technique was Joyce's attempt to recreate the experience of", "title": "Finnegans Wake" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.16, "text": "Hereward the Wake (novel) Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. It was Kingsley's last historical novel, and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk-hero. Hereward is, in Kingsley's novel, the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and Lady Godiva. He is introduced as an eighteen-year-old \"\"bully and the ruffian of the fens\"\" who is outlawed by", "title": "Hereward the Wake (novel)" } ]

[ "Philip Barry" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.22, "text": "Holiday (novel) Holiday is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Stanley Middleton. The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's development dealing with the painful realities of Fisher's mind and life. \"\"Holiday\"\" shared the 1974 Man Booker Prize for fiction with \"\"The Conservationist\"\", by Nadine Gordimer. In 2006, \"\"The Times\"\" re-submitted the opening chapter of the novel (along with fellow Booker winner \"\"In a Free State\"\", by V. S. Naipaul) to 20 literary agents and publishers.", "title": "Holiday (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.91, "text": "Only one agent accepted \"\"Holiday\"\", while Naipaul's novel was rejected by every house to which it was sent. Holiday (novel) Holiday is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Stanley Middleton. The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's development dealing with the painful realities of Fisher's mind and life. \"\"Holiday\"\" shared the 1974 Man Booker Prize for fiction with \"\"The Conservationist\"\", by Nadine Gordimer. In 2006, \"\"The Times\"\" re-submitted the opening chapter of the novel (along", "title": "Holiday (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.33, "text": "Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, marketer, and entrepreneur. He is a media strategist, the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the \"\"New York Observer\"\". Holiday began his professional career after dropping out of college at the age of 19. He briefly attended University of California, Riverside, where he studied political science and creative writing. He worked for Tucker Max, the controversial fratire author, to orchestrate a number of controversial media stunts including a boycott of Max's work as part of a movie launch. Later, Holiday", "title": "Ryan Holiday" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.23, "text": "was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the Curtis Center near Independence Hall. Ted Patrick was the editor beginning with the fifth issue and until his sudden death in 1964. The magazine was known as a cosmopolitan travel wishbook with photo essays in full-color overssize 11 X 13.5 package along with articles by famous authors. John Lewis Stage, a photographer for Holiday described they way that Patrick enlisted name authors, \"\"The concept was basically to get famous authors who had maybe one or two weeks in between their books or projects to go and travel and write glorious pieces. So you’d", "title": "Holiday (magazine)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "worked with Robert Greene, author of \"\"The 48 Laws of Power\"\", on Greene's 2009 \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling book, \"\"The 50th Law\"\". Holiday served as Director of Marketing for American Apparel and as an adviser to founder Dov Charney. He left the company in October 2014. He has been responsible for a number of media stunts, and written extensively on the topic of media manipulation. Holiday is the author of several books and has written for \"\"Forbes\"\", \"\"Fast Company\"\", \"\"The Huffington Post\"\", \"\"The Columbia Journalism Review\"\", \"\"The Guardian\"\", \"\"Thought Catalog\"\", \"\"Medium.com\"\" and the \"\"New York Observer\"\", where he is the", "title": "Ryan Holiday" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.08, "text": "it was located in Philadelphia and published the likes of John Steinbeck, V.S. Pritchett and Lawrence Durrell. When \"\"Holiday\"\" became a casualty of the Curtis Publishing Company's disintegration, Wright accepted a bizarre offer from composer Gian Carlo Menotti to become manager of Menotti's Spoleto Festival, then held only in Italy. Wright's job was to oversee the production of some ten events put on by the festival's U.S. side. Each of his events was successful, but the overall festival was a financial disaster. Unnerved, Wright resigned. After struggling for five years writing magazine articles, Wright accepted an offer to become the", "title": "William Wright (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.97, "text": "Holiday (comics) Holiday or the Holiday Killer is a fictional character appearing in the Batman story \"\"\"\" (1996-1997) by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale. The character is a serial killer who kills members of Gotham City's mobsters and corrupt officials on major holidays. The true identity of the killer is never definitively revealed in the story itself; both Alberto Falcone and Gilda Dent confess to being Holiday, with Gilda claiming she committed the first three murders and that her husband Harvey took over subsequently. Set shortly after the events of Frank Miller's \"\"\"\", \"\"The Long Halloween\"\" follows the", "title": "Holiday (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.7, "text": "collaboration. To these years belong the collaborations with Ben Jonson and John Marston, which presumably contributed to the War of the Theatres in 1600 and 1601. But Dekker is credited as the sole author of \"\"The Shoemaker's Holiday\"\" (1599), his acknowledged masterpiece – a boisterous, rowdy comedy of London life as seen through the eyes of a romanticist. Francis Meres includes Dekker in his list of notable playwrights in 1598. For Jonson, however, Dekker was a bumbling hack, a \"\"dresser of plays about town\"\"; Jonson lampooned Dekker as Demetrius Fannius in \"\"Poetaster\"\" and as Anaides in \"\"Cynthia's Revels\"\". Dekker's riposte,", "title": "Thomas Dekker (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "Bealby Bealby: A Holiday is a 1915 comic novel by H. G. Wells. \"\"Bealby\"\" is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the \"\"nouveau riche\"\" couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor. Bealby's week-long \"\"holiday\"\" has three phases. First, he is taken up by three women in caravan, one of whom, Madeleine Philips, is a well-known actress whose beauty inspires", "title": "Bealby" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "design a new family home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, which was named \"\"Oak Tree House\"\" - in 1888, William Gladstone himself was a visitor. In January 1874, Holiday was commissioned by Lewis Carroll to illustrate \"\"The Hunting of the Snark\"\". He remained friends with the author throughout his life. Holiday's illustration to the chapter \"\"The Banker's Fate\"\" might contain pictorial references to the etching \"\"The Image Breakers\"\" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting \"\"The Bone Player\"\" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's \"\"The Expression of Emotions in Man", "title": "Henry Holiday" } ]

[ "Brian Aldiss", "Brian Wilson Aldiss", "Brian W. Aldiss", "Jael Cracken", "Dr. Peristyle", "C. C. Shackleton" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.36, "text": "An Age An Age (published in the United States as Cryptozoic!) is a 1967 science fiction novel written by English writer Brian Aldiss. The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind. It was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1969 in the \"\"Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection\"\" category. 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", "title": "An Age" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.61, "text": "Washington Irving, under his pen name of Geoffrey Crayon. In this manner twenty-five character sketches combine to \"\"form a vivid panorama of the age\"\". Through it all, the author reflects on the Spirit of the Age as a whole, as, for example, \"\"The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements\"\". Some critics have thought the essays in \"\"The Spirit of the Age\"\" highly uneven in quality and", "title": "William Hazlitt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.52, "text": "The Coming of Age (book) The Coming of Age (\"\"La Vieillesse\"\") is a 1970 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author seeks greater understanding of the perception of elders. The book is a study spanning a thousand years and a variety of different nations and cultures to provide a clear and alarming picture of \"\"Society's secret shame\"\"—the separation and distance from our communities that the old must suffer and endure. The questions raised on the book are: what do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and", "title": "The Coming of Age (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.22, "text": "NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages, according to Reginald's Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature 1700–1974, is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized in the newspaper \"\"Equity\"\". Two editions were published in Topeka Kansas in 1900. The title page lists Jack Adams as the author. Jack Adams is a pseudonym. In the body of the work it is revealed that Jack Adams is actually a woman (Cassie) dressing in men’s clothing, who has spent several years searching for her betrothed on various", "title": "NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.05, "text": "The Age of Unreason The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes: Its title is a reference to Thomas Paine's treatise \"\"The Age of Reason\"\". The story spans the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, with the action moving between England and France, later involving Russia, Austria, the Republic of Venice, and North America. The author makes use of pseudosciences (scientific alchemy instead of our physics) that were popular at the time: using affinity and aether, for example. Some historical characters appear in important roles: Isaac Newton, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, King Louis", "title": "The Age of Unreason" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.91, "text": "applied to people who have aged past midlife. Gullette's term \"\"age autobiography\"\" is a call for individual authors to write more knowledgeably and critically about the mediated forces that insinuate themselves into our sense of \"\"aging.\"\" \"\"And once we begin to think age, a more mysterious and intangible project emerges: to discover what our own culture is serving up for us, and what each of us has consumed or resisted\"\" (Gullette 1993, 46). \"\"The term itself [\"\"the master narrative of aging\"\"] was coined by Margaret Morganroth Gullette and is designed to identify a recognizable ensemble of cultural practices. . .", "title": "Margaret Morganroth Gullette" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.78, "text": "Charles Molloy Westmacott Charles Molloy Westmacott (c. 1788 - 1868) was a British journalist and author, editor of \"\"The Age\"\", the leading Sunday newspaper of the early 1830s. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Bernard Blackmantle. Born in 1787 or 1788, Westmacott claimed to be the illegitimate son of the sculptor Richard Westmacott (the elder), although his political enemies claimed he was the son of a chimney sweep from Drury Lane. His mother was Susan Molloy, a husbandless widow, who ran a tavern \"\"The Bull and Horns\"\" in Fulham, London. He was educated at St Paul's School and Oxford University", "title": "Charles Molloy Westmacott" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.62, "text": "XIV of France, Emperor Peter the Great of Russia, King Charles XII of Sweden, and Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. The Age of Unreason The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes: Its title is a reference to Thomas Paine's treatise \"\"The Age of Reason\"\". The story spans the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, with the action moving between England and France, later involving Russia, Austria, the Republic of Venice, and North America. The author makes use of pseudosciences (scientific alchemy instead of our physics) that were popular at the", "title": "The Age of Unreason" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "drama of decrepitude between the age of the Pharaoh and the atomic age\"\" and \"\"expresses all the anguish of old people in the past and the present\"\". Lillian Rubin, active in her 80s as an author, sociologist, and psychotherapist, opens her book \"\"60 on Up: The Truth about Aging in America\"\" with \"\"getting old sucks. It always has, it always will.\"\" Dr. Rubin contrasts the \"\"real old age\"\" with the \"\"rosy pictures\"\" painted by middle-age writers. Writing at the age of 87, Mary C. Morrison delineates the heroism required by old age: to live through the disintegration of one's own", "title": "Old age" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "importance of Tooke's grammatical ideas in a way that presaged and accorded with the radical grammatical work of William Cobbett, whom Hazlitt sketched in a later essay in \"\"The Spirit of the Age\"\". Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), a Scottish lawyer and man of letters, was the most popular poet and, beginning in 1814, writing novels anonymously as \"\"The Author of \"\"Waverley\"\" \"\", the most popular author in the English language. Hazlitt was an admirer as well as a reviewer of Scott's fiction, yet he never met the man, despite ample opportunities to do so. In Hazlitt's view, the essence of", "title": "The Spirit of the Age" } ]

[ "Roald Dahl", "Wing Commander Roald Dahl" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.59, "text": "unforgettable bit of biting nonsense\"\". The Great Automatic Grammatizator The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story \"\"Katina\"\", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists. Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story \"\"The Great Automatic Grammatizator\"\"", "title": "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.44, "text": "The Great Automatic Grammatizator The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story \"\"Katina\"\", possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists. Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story \"\"The Great Automatic Grammatizator\"\" \"\"an awe-inspiring fantasy-satire ... an", "title": "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.47, "text": "Battle of Athens (1941) The Battle of Athens (also known as the Battle of Piraeus harbor) on 20 April 1941 was a dog-fighting air battle over Athens fought for half an hour between the RAF and the Luftwaffe towards the end of the Battle of Greece. Marmaduke Pattle died in the battle in which Roald Dahl also fought; he describes it in his second autobiography, \"\"Going Solo\"\" and in the short story 'Katina' which can be found in the book \"\"The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories\"\". A somewhat different account of this battle together with citations will be found", "title": "Battle of Athens (1941)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.88, "text": "in St. Petersburg. Aleksandr Grammatin Alexander Panteleimonovich Grammatin (Russian: Александр Пантелеймонович Грамматин; January 6, 1931 in Leningrad – August 28, 2014 in St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of computational optics, the developer of the theory and author of the first national program for the automated calculation of computer parameters of optical systems by criteria of image quality. He was the Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, the USSR State Prize laureate (1977) and holder of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1983). He was born in January 6, 1931 in Leningrad,", "title": "Aleksandr Grammatin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.78, "text": "Aleksandr Grammatin Alexander Panteleimonovich Grammatin (Russian: Александр Пантелеймонович Грамматин; January 6, 1931 in Leningrad – August 28, 2014 in St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of computational optics, the developer of the theory and author of the first national program for the automated calculation of computer parameters of optical systems by criteria of image quality. He was the Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, the USSR State Prize laureate (1977) and holder of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1983). He was born in January 6, 1931 in Leningrad, in the family", "title": "Aleksandr Grammatin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.03, "text": "Of Grammatology Of Grammatology () is a 1967 book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida that has been called a foundational text for deconstructive criticism. The book discusses writers such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Étienne Condillac, Louis Hjelmslev, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Roman Jakobson, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, André Leroi-Gourhan, and William Warburton. The English translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was first published in 1976. A revised edition of the translation was published in 1997. A further revised edition was published in January 2016. The work was initially submitted by Derrida as a \"\"Doctorat de spécialité\"\" thesis (directed", "title": "Of Grammatology" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.61, "text": "a series of Indo-Germanic text-books of which he was editor. He is the author of the \"\"Indogermanische Grammatik\"\", published in seven volumes between 1921 and 1937. Hirt made foundational contributions to the study of Proto-Indo-European language accent and ablaut. Hermann Hirt Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 in Magdeburg – 12 September 1936 in Gießen) was German philologist and Indo-Europeanist. Hirt wrote on German metres (\"\"Untersuchungen zur westgermanischen Verskunst\"\", 1889), edited Schopenhauer's \"\"Parerga\"\" (1890), and then devoting himself to Indo-Germanic philology made special studies on accent, writing \"\"Der indogermanische Accent\"\" (1895) and \"\"Der indogermanische Ablaut, vornehmlich in seinem Verhältnis zur Betonung\"\"", "title": "Hermann Hirt" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.17, "text": "book, by an author unknown to her, entitled \"\"De la grammatologie\"\". She decided to translate the book by an unknown author, and wrote a long translator's preface. This publication was immediately a success, and the Translator's Preface became popular across the world as an introduction to the philosophy of deconstruction launched by the author, Jacques Derrida; whom Spivak met in 1971. In 1974, at the University of Iowa, Spivak founded the MFA in Translation in the department of Comparative Literature . The following year, she became the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and was promoted to full professorship.", "title": "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.11, "text": "with J. G. V. Engelhardt, the \"\"Neues kritisches Journal der theologischen Literatur\"\", and alone from 1826 to 1832, the \"\"Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie\"\". He is well known as the author of a \"\"Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms\"\" (1821, 8th edition, revised by P. W. Schmiedel, 1894 ff.), of which several translations have appeared, one of them being by W. F. Moulton (1870, 3rd edition 1882; \"\"A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek\"\"). His other works include: Georg Benedikt Winer Georg Benedikt Winer (April 13, 1789, Leipzig – May 12, 1858, Leipzig), German Protestant theologian, known for his linguistic studies", "title": "Georg Benedikt Winer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.03, "text": "floor off Pylos. In 1990 he was elected Rector of the University of Crete, and served as Chairman of the Ionian University, Corfu. For his contributions to education and science he was honoured by the Hellenic Physical Society. He is also a successful author of popular science books on cosmology and physics: Grammatikakis has been a member of the Board of Directors of the former state-owned broadcasting corporation ERT and is vice president of the Greek National Opera. In the 2014 European Parliament election, he was elected one of two MEPs on the list of the newly founded political party", "title": "Giorgos Grammatikakis" } ]

[ "Orson Scott Card", "Brian Green", "Frederick Bliss", "Byron Walley", "Scott Richards", "Dinah Kirkham", "P.Q. Gump", "Byron S. Walley" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.47, "text": "Second Chance (Steel novel) Second Chance is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in June 2004. The book is Steel's sixty-third novel. Editor-in-chief of a successful fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lives a high flying life, flitting between cities following her passion for fashion. Fiona is content to live her life with only her dog, Sir Winston shares her bed until she met John Anderson. After a world wind romance over several continents, Fiona opens up her heart for John, a widowed father of two young adult daughters. As the two plan their life together, it all begins", "title": "Second Chance (Steel novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.09, "text": "Second Chance (short story) \"\"Second Chance\"\" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections \"\"Capitol\"\" and \"\"The Worthing Saga\"\". Card first published it in the anthology \"\"Destinies\"\" (January–February 1979). When Batta Heddis was a child her father lost his legs in an accident. Because her mother was not responsible enough to take care of the family Batta ended up taking care of everyone. While attending college she met a man named Abner Doon. They became very close and spent a lot of time together. After Batta graduated from college they went their separate", "title": "Second Chance (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.97, "text": "to unravel disastrously from being hated by John's two daughters to ruining a business dinner with John's biggest client. Just as their love seems to be down and out, a surprise event gives them a second chance. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/steel/bookshelf/display.pperl?isbn=9780385336352 Second Chance (Steel novel) Second Chance is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in June 2004. The book is Steel's sixty-third novel. Editor-in-chief of a successful fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan lives a high flying life, flitting between cities following her passion for fashion. Fiona is content to live her life with only her dog, Sir Winston shares her bed", "title": "Second Chance (Steel novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.44, "text": "the events in the story \"\"Skipping Stones\"\". The story of Abner Doon’s failed relationship with Batta Heddis also appears in a much shorter form as a part of chapter 5 in Card's novel \"\"The Worthing Chronicle\"\". Second Chance (short story) \"\"Second Chance\"\" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections \"\"Capitol\"\" and \"\"The Worthing Saga\"\". Card first published it in the anthology \"\"Destinies\"\" (January–February 1979). When Batta Heddis was a child her father lost his legs in an accident. Because her mother was not responsible enough to take care of the family Batta", "title": "Second Chance (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "A Second Chance at Sarah A Second Chance at Sarah is a fantasy graphic novel written by Neil Druckmann, with illustrations by Joysuke Wong. The novel was originally published by Ape Entertainment on February 24, 2010; Dark Horse Comics re-released the novel on August 20, 2014. The book follows Johnny, who makes a deal with a demon to go back in time and save his dying wife, who fell into a coma upon the birth of their son. Druckmann wrote the story in his spare time while working at the video game developer Naughty Dog. He considers \"\"A Second Chance", "title": "A Second Chance at Sarah" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.27, "text": "A Second Chance at Eden A Second Chance at Eden (1998) is a collection of short stories by British writer Peter F. Hamilton, set in the Night's Dawn universe. The stories in this collection form a series of snapshot glimpses into the history of the Confederation leading up to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter, two of the main characters in \"\"The Night's Dawn Trilogy\"\". During the early 1990s Hamilton wrote several short stories centered on the affinity technology - and they became the inspiration to write \"\"Night's Dawn\"\". \"\"Sonnie's Edge\"\" was first published in \"\"New Moon\"\" magazine", "title": "A Second Chance at Eden" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25, "text": "Chuck Gallagher Chuck Gallagher is an American entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is the author of \"\"Second Chances\"\" and has been featured in media outlets including \"\"Life & Health\"\", \"\"Small Business Opportunities\"\", \"\"Business Week\"\", \"\"CBS\"\", \"\"CNN\"\", \"\"Lifetime\"\" and National Public Radio. As a business ethics speaker and author his clients include Medtronic, the FBI, U.S. Navy, University of Florida, Skanska, University of North Georgia, Barclays, and United Healthcare. Gallagher serves as a Chief Operating Officer for a national private company, American Funeral Financial, and served as a Senior Vice-President for a public company, Stewart Enterprises. He is also the President", "title": "Chuck Gallagher" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.97, "text": "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower is a 2007 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's National Security advisor and a scholar of American foreign policy as a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. The book discusses the 15 years of American foreign policy where the U.S., emerging as the \"\"victor\"\" in the Cold War, has been the lone \"\"superpower.\"\" Brzezinski writes about how United States presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have demonstrated", "title": "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.67, "text": "the year 2586. In his starship \"\"Lady Macbeth\"\", he encounters a long-abandoned alien spacecraft with its escape route intact. \"\"SFSite\"\" praises its finely crafted characters and intricate plots, calling it a delightful supplement to the \"\"Night's Dawn\"\" trilogy. A Second Chance at Eden A Second Chance at Eden (1998) is a collection of short stories by British writer Peter F. Hamilton, set in the Night's Dawn universe. The stories in this collection form a series of snapshot glimpses into the history of the Confederation leading up to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter, two of the main characters", "title": "A Second Chance at Eden" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.62, "text": "2nd Chance (Patterson novel) 2nd Chance is the second novel in the Women's Murder Club series written by James Patterson with Andrew Gross. It is the sequel to \"\"1st to Die\"\". Homicide Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is still recovering from the recent loss of her partner and is just returning to the force when she is called in to investigate a series of murders that include an 11-year-old girl and an elderly woman. Through her investigations she discovers a connection to a jail-hate gang called Chimera. After another police officer is killed by a sniper and then her boss is murdered,", "title": "2nd Chance (Patterson novel)" } ]

[ "Christopher Tolkien", "Christopher Reuel Tolkien", "Christopher John Reuel Tolkien" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.91, "text": "The History of The Lord of the Rings The History of The Lord of the Rings is a four-volume work by Christopher Tolkien published between 1988 and 1992 that documents the process of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing of \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\". The \"\"History\"\" is also numbered as volumes six to nine of \"\"The History of Middle-earth\"\" (\"\"HoME\"\", as below). Some information concerning the appendices and a soon-abandoned sequel to the novel can also be found in volume twelve, \"\"The Peoples of Middle-earth\"\". The volumes include: The first volume of \"\"The History\"\" encompasses three initial stages of composition", "title": "The History of The Lord of the Rings" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.16, "text": "The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel \"\"The Hobbit\"\", but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" is one of the best-selling novels ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who had in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule", "title": "The Lord of the Rings" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.06, "text": "recorded under the pseudonym 'Shagrat the Vagrant', before forming a band called Shagrat in 1970. The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel \"\"The Hobbit\"\", but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" is one of the best-selling novels ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the", "title": "The Lord of the Rings" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.02, "text": "is also the author of the book \"\"History of the Earth and its lifeforms\"\", intended as a cutting edge biology textbook for high schools. As a fiction writer he published several books, one of the most famous being \"\"The Last Ringbearer\"\" (), an alternative retelling of J. R. R. Tolkien's \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\", as told from the point of view of Sauron's forces, based on the proverb: \"\"History is written by the victors.\"\" The book was \"\"published to acclaim in his homeland in 1999. Translations of the book have also appeared in other European nations, but fear of", "title": "Kirill Eskov" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.88, "text": "story”. Thereafter Tolkien’s problem was rather one of selecting between alternative accounts, so as to produce the best effect – two episodes in \"\"Sauron Defeated\"\" that were eventually deleted being the pardoning of Saruman, and an awards ceremony at the book’s close. The History of The Lord of the Rings The History of The Lord of the Rings is a four-volume work by Christopher Tolkien published between 1988 and 1992 that documents the process of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing of \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\". The \"\"History\"\" is also numbered as volumes six to nine of \"\"The History of", "title": "The History of The Lord of the Rings" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.62, "text": "of every \"\"History of Middle-earth\"\" volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Volume VI reads: The inscription in Volume VII reads: The inscription in Volume VIII reads: The inscription in Volume IX reads: \"\"The History of The Lord of the Rings\"\" reveals much of the slow, aggregative nature of Tolkien’s creativity. As Christopher Tolkien noted of the first two volumes, Tolkien had eventually brought the story up to Rivendell, but still “without any clear conception of what lay before him”. He also noted how, on the way, his father could get caught", "title": "The History of The Lord of the Rings" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.16, "text": "The Last Ringbearer The Last Ringbearer () is a 1999 fantasy book by Russian author Kirill Eskov. It is an alternative account of, and an informal sequel to, the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\". The novel is based on the premise that the Tolkien account is a \"\"history written by the victors\"\". In Eskov's version of the story, Mordor is described as a peaceful country on the verge of an industrial revolution, that is a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude has been described by Saruman as \"\"crafting the Final", "title": "The Last Ringbearer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.16, "text": "The Fellowship of the Ring The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It is followed by \"\"The Two Towers\"\" and \"\"The Return of the King\"\". It takes place in the fictional universe of Middle-earth. It was originally published on 29 July 1954 in the United Kingdom. The volume consists of a foreword, in which the author discusses his writing of \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\", a prologue titled \"\"Concerning Hobbits, and other matters\"\", and the main narrative in Book", "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "and appendices for \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\", during which time he received the constant support of the Inklings, in particular his closest friend C. S. Lewis, the author of \"\"The Chronicles of Narnia\"\". Both \"\"The Hobbit\"\" and \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" are set against the background of \"\"The Silmarillion\"\", but in a time long after it. Tolkien at first intended \"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\" to be a children's tale in the style of \"\"The Hobbit\"\", but it quickly grew darker and more serious in the writing. Though a direct sequel to \"\"The Hobbit\"\", it addressed an older", "title": "J. R. R. Tolkien" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "\"\"The Lord of the Rings\"\". J. R. R. Tolkien conceived the latter as a single volume comprising six \"\"books\"\" plus extensive appendices, but the original publisher split the work into three, publishing two books per volume with the appendices included in the third. The titles proposed by Tolkien for the six books were: Book I, \"\"The First Journey\"\" or \"\"The Ring Sets Out\"\"; Book II, \"\"The Journey of the Nine Companions\"\" or \"\"The Ring Goes South\"\"; Book III, \"\"The Treason of Isengard\"\"; Book IV, \"\"The Journey of the Ring-Bearers\"\" or \"\"The Ring Goes East\"\"; Book V, \"\"The War of the", "title": "The History of The Lord of the Rings" } ]

[ "Isaac Asimov", "Isaak Osimov", "Paul French", "Asimov", "Isaak Ozimov" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.2, "text": "Gold (Rhodes novel) Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in March 2007 by Canongate. It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian. It was also one of the 'best books of 2007' according to critics at \"\"The Independent\"\". 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", "title": "Gold (Rhodes novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.02, "text": "Gold (Cleave novel) Gold is a 2012 sports novel by British author Chris Cleave and was published by Simon & Schuster on July 3, 2012. The story focuses on the friendship and rivalry between two women and the effects that come from the choices they make and the events that they cannot prevent. \"\"Gold\"\" follows two friends and professional cycling rivals, Kate Meadows and Zoe Castle, through their lives until the London Olympics. Meeting at the age of nineteen at a cycling challenge, Kate chooses a family over cycling while Zoe maintains her profession, winning several medals at both Olympic", "title": "Gold (Cleave novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.97, "text": "Gold is published by Simon & Schuster in America, Canada, and Australasia; HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand; Penguin Group/New American Library in the United States; Editoriale ViaMagna in Spain; and Edition Michel LaFon in France. His books deal extensively with major historical themes from numerous time periods, as well as recreating fabulous women whose lives have been lost to history, such as Gráinne O'Malley and Jezebel. \"\"Bloodline\"\" is the first of the \"\"Heritage Trilogy\"\" co-written with Mike Jones. \"\"Bloodline\"\" charts the path from biblical Israel throughout the ages to modern-day Israel. Tracing two related families, the", "title": "Alan Gold (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.53, "text": "lesson in not taking each other for granted. Her appearance in the local pub is welcomed by all, but this year she becomes more involved in the local community than usual; the gold in the title referring to her impulsive gold spray-painting of a prominent boulder on a nearby beach, which soon attracts the attention of the local police. Gold (Rhodes novel) Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in March 2007 by Canongate. It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch,", "title": "Gold (Rhodes novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.39, "text": "PlayStation video games, including \"\"Vibes\"\". Gold is a \"\"New York Times\"\" best-selling author of numerous books published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, and is a regular contributor to \"\"The Huffington Post\"\", for which he began writing in September 2012. Gold's books have sold more than two million copies and have been published in seven languages. His first book, \"\"Open Your Mind, Open Your Life,\"\" was released in 2001 and became a perennial best seller that has been published in English, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean. The book received a strong endorsement from Arun Gandhi, director of the Gandhi Institute and", "title": "Craig Taro Gold" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.2, "text": "Mike Gold Michael \"\"Mike\"\" Gold (April 12, 1894 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich. A lifelong communist, Gold was a novelist and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel \"\"Jews Without Money\"\" (1930) was a bestseller. During the 1930s and 1940s Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of U.S. proletarian literature. Gold was born Itzok Isaac Granich on April 12, 1894, on the Lower East Side of New York City to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents, Chaim Granich and Gittel Schwartz Granich. He had two brothers, Max and George. Mike Gold published his", "title": "Mike Gold" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.08, "text": "Gold (short story) \"\"Gold\"\" is a short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It originally appeared in the September 1991 issue of \"\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\"\" and was collected in the eponymous volume \"\"Gold\"\". One of the last short stories he wrote in his life, it won a Hugo Award for best Novelette in 1992. 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", "title": "Gold (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "Gold the Man Gold the Man is a science fiction novel by Joseph L. Green, published in 1971. It combines themes of genetic engineering, Cold War politics, and sexuality with an encounter between humans and a race of humanoid giants. It was also published under the title The Mind Behind the Eye. \"\"Gold\"\" is a man created using genetic engineering. The object was to produce a person of high intelligence with superhuman reflexes and muscular coordination. He leads an unfulfilled life, despite having become rich and famous, including a career as a concert pianist. He lacks real companionship, and is", "title": "Gold the Man" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.89, "text": "Alan Gold (author) Alan David Gold (born 1945) is a novelist, columnist, and human rights activist. Born in Leicester, United Kingdom, Alan Gold began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the \"\"Leicester Mercury\"\" before becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe. He and his wife Eva moved to Australia in 1970. He has written seventeen books which have been published and translated internationally. His novels deal with a wide range of subjects, most often associated with modern and ancient history and politics and Judaism. His most recent publications are \"\"Bell of the Desert\"\" (the", "title": "Alan Gold (author)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.89, "text": "species of energy-based beings and one triad of narrative protagonists in particular. The story attributes this middle portion to an author named Gregory Laborian, saying it is a stand-alone novel entitled \"\"Three in One\"\". Laborian convinces director Jonas Willard, who had won fame for a CGI version of \"\"King Lear\"\", to create an animated version of Laborian's story. Gold (short story) \"\"Gold\"\" is a short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It originally appeared in the September 1991 issue of \"\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\"\" and was collected in the eponymous volume \"\"Gold\"\". One of the last short stories he", "title": "Gold (short story)" } ]

[ "Henry James", "Henricus James" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.73, "text": "Confidence (novel) Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in \"\"Scribner's Monthly\"\" in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending. While sketching in Siena, Bernard Longueville meets Angela Vivian and her mother. Later, Bernard's friend and self-proclaimed \"\"mad\"\" scientist Gordon Wright calls Longueville to Baden-Baden to pass judgment on whether he should marry Angela. Bernard", "title": "Confidence (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.98, "text": "she moved to sales and marketing at \"\"The New York Times\"\" in the 1980s. There she began working her way up through the management ranks. Lerner is the author of \"\"The Confidence Myth: Why Women Undervalue Their Skills and How to Get Over It\"\" (2015). They earned praise for her insights on working women. Lerner is the CEO of Creative Expansions, Inc., a multi-media company with the mission to empower women and girls. Since its conception in 1994, Lerner has produced and hosted over twenty televised specials under Creative Expansions, Inc. Lerner's website for career women, WomenWorking.com, is the most", "title": "Helene Lerner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "Mark Macdonald Mark Michael Macdonald (born June 29, 1972) is an American diet, nutrition, fitness & health expert, television star, global instructor and speaker and the author of the New York Times bestselling book \"\"Body Confidence\"\". He is also the founder of Venice Nutrition. Mark is the founder of Venice Nutrition and the IBNFC (International Board of Nutrition and Fitness Coaching), author of the New York Times Bestseller \"\"Body Confidence\"\" Venice Nutrition began in 1999 as a nutrition coaching center in Venice Beach, California for general weight loss and muscle toning programs for fitness professionals. In 2003 it developed a", "title": "Mark Macdonald" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.67, "text": "The Confidence-Man The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. \"\"The Confidence-Man\"\" portrays a \"\"Canterbury Tales\"\"–style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Scholar Robert Milder notes: \"\"Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, though it continues to resist interpretive consensus.\"\" After the novel's publication, Melville turned", "title": "The Confidence-Man" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.66, "text": "L.A. Confidentiel L.A. Confidentiel: Les secrets de Lance Armstrong (\"\"L.A. Confidential: Lance Armstrong's Secrets\"\") is a book by sports journalist Pierre Ballester and \"\"The Sunday Times\"\" sports correspondent David Walsh. The book contains circumstantial evidence of cyclist Lance Armstrong having used performance-enhancing drugs. The book has only been published in French. A key witness for the authors was Armstrong's and his teammates' masseuse and soigneur Emma O'Reilly. She revealed that she has taken clandestine trips to pick up and drop off what she concluded were doping products. Many of the incidents and allegations in the book were later featured in", "title": "L.A. Confidentiel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.33, "text": "recover the money it lost in its arbitration settlement with Armstrong. L.A. Confidentiel L.A. Confidentiel: Les secrets de Lance Armstrong (\"\"L.A. Confidential: Lance Armstrong's Secrets\"\") is a book by sports journalist Pierre Ballester and \"\"The Sunday Times\"\" sports correspondent David Walsh. The book contains circumstantial evidence of cyclist Lance Armstrong having used performance-enhancing drugs. The book has only been published in French. A key witness for the authors was Armstrong's and his teammates' masseuse and soigneur Emma O'Reilly. She revealed that she has taken clandestine trips to pick up and drop off what she concluded were doping products. Many of", "title": "L.A. Confidentiel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.08, "text": "Confidence Men Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President is a book by journalist Ron Suskind, published by HarperCollins on September 20, 2011. Having obtained an advance copy of the book, \"\"The New York Times\"\" published a review on September 15, 2011, writing that it \"\"offers a portrait of a White House operating under intense pressure as it dealt with a cascade of crises, from insolvent banks to collapsing carmakers. And it details the rivalries among figures around the president,\"\" including economic advisor Lawrence Summers; Treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner; former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel;", "title": "Confidence Men" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.8, "text": "but he was blocked by Summers. Confidence Men Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President is a book by journalist Ron Suskind, published by HarperCollins on September 20, 2011. Having obtained an advance copy of the book, \"\"The New York Times\"\" published a review on September 15, 2011, writing that it \"\"offers a portrait of a White House operating under intense pressure as it dealt with a cascade of crises, from insolvent banks to collapsing carmakers. And it details the rivalries among figures around the president,\"\" including economic advisor Lawrence Summers; Treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner;", "title": "Confidence Men" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.42, "text": "teams The 18th stage saw mistreatment of Filippo Simeoni by Lance Armstrong, after Simeoni had testified about doping and doctor Michele Ferrari. The book\"\" L. A. Confidentiel\"\", by David Walsh and Pierre Ballester, came out shortly before the 2004 Tour, accusing Lance Armstrong of doping. Lance Armstrong and his lawyers asked for an emergency hearing in French court to insert a denial into the book. The French judge denied this request. Armstrong also launched defamation suits against the publisher and the authors, as well as magazine \"\"L'Express\"\" and UK newspaper \"\"The Sunday Times\"\" which both referenced it. Subsequent to Armstrong's", "title": "2004 Tour de France" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.34, "text": "best-selling \"\"Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All\"\". CEO Tim Brown is the author of \"\"Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation\"\" (2009) in which he argues that design can transform problems into opportunities – emphasizing design thinking as a human-centered activity, he specifically prizes the feeling of empathy, where designers are capable of understanding the perspectives and problems the end users face. IDEO IDEO (pronounced „eye-dee-oh\"\") is an international design and consulting firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991. The company has locations in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Chicago, London, Munich, New York City,", "title": "IDEO" } ]

[ "Anthony van Hoboken" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.77, "text": "Symphony No. 93 (Haydn) Symphony No. 93 in D major, Hoboken I/93, one of the twelve London symphonies (numbers 93–104) written by Joseph Haydn. It was completed in 1791 as one of the set of symphonies completed for his first trip to London. It was first performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London on 17 February 1792. Of the twelve London symphonies, No. 93 appears first in the Hoboken-Verzeichnis catalogue. However, it was likely the third to be composed of the set, after No. 96 in D major and No. 95 in C minor. The work is in standard", "title": "Symphony No. 93 (Haydn)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.09, "text": "Kenneth del Vecchio Kenneth Del Vecchio is a filmmaker who has written, produced, directed and acted in over 30 films. Del Vecchio is founder and chairman of the Hoboken International Film Festival. He also is the author of several legal books, including criminal codebooks published by Prentice Hall and ALM. He is a novelist, who penned his first published novel as a 24-year-old law student. In addition, he is the owner of The Criminal Law Learning Center and a former part-time New Jersey municipal Judge. \"\"The Life Zone\"\", starring Robert Loggia, Lindsay Haun, Angela Little, Martin Kove, Blanche Baker, and", "title": "Kenneth del Vecchio" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.06, "text": "Hoboken catalogue The Hoboken catalogue is a catalogue of the musical compositions by Joseph Haydn compiled by Anthony van Hoboken. It is intended to cover the composer's entire oeuvre and includes over 750 entries. Its full title in the original German is \"\"Joseph Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis\"\" (\"\"Joseph Haydn, thematic-bibliographic catalog of works\"\"). The Haydn catalog that now bears Hoboken's name was begun in card format in 1934; work continued until the publication of the third and final book volume in 1978. Works by Haydn are often indicated using their Hoboken catalogue number, typically in the format \"\"Violin Concerto No. 1", "title": "Hoboken catalogue" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.86, "text": "in category XVI, and so on. Hoboken catalogue The Hoboken catalogue is a catalogue of the musical compositions by Joseph Haydn compiled by Anthony van Hoboken. It is intended to cover the composer's entire oeuvre and includes over 750 entries. Its full title in the original German is \"\"Joseph Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis\"\" (\"\"Joseph Haydn, thematic-bibliographic catalog of works\"\"). The Haydn catalog that now bears Hoboken's name was begun in card format in 1934; work continued until the publication of the third and final book volume in 1978. Works by Haydn are often indicated using their Hoboken catalogue number, typically in", "title": "Hoboken catalogue" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.81, "text": "96. His greatest accomplishment, the work of over forty years, was the \"\"Hoboken catalog\"\", or more formally \"\"Joseph Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis\"\". This is a catalogue, nearly 2000 pages in length, that brought order to the incompletely-grasped musical output of Joseph Haydn. The catalog proved influential and Haydn's works today are often referred to by the \"\"Hoboken number\"\" (usually abbreviated to \"\"Hob\"\" or just \"\"H\"\") by which they are designated in this catalogue. King and Gemert offer assessment of the work in the \"\"New Grove\"\": The first volume, devoted to the instrumental works, was criticized for lack of information about manuscript", "title": "Anthony van Hoboken" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.64, "text": "Perger-Verzeichnis The Perger-Verzeichnis (\"\"Perger Catalogue\"\") is a thematic-chronological catalogue of instrumental compositions by Michael Haydn, compiled by Lothar Perger in 1907. Like Ludwig von Köchel's catalog of Mozart's compositions (the Köchel-Verzeichnis), Perger's catalog uses a single range of numbers, from 1 to 136, but like Hoboken's catalog of Joseph Haydn's music, groups the pieces first into categories (symphonies, concertos, etc.) and then sorts them chronologically. Perger's attempt at figuring out the chronology is, however, so full of mistakes (including the attribution to Haydn of music by others) that later musicologists, instead of trying to amend the catalog (as they have", "title": "Perger-Verzeichnis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.58, "text": "and organ. Perger-Verzeichnis The Perger-Verzeichnis (\"\"Perger Catalogue\"\") is a thematic-chronological catalogue of instrumental compositions by Michael Haydn, compiled by Lothar Perger in 1907. Like Ludwig von Köchel's catalog of Mozart's compositions (the Köchel-Verzeichnis), Perger's catalog uses a single range of numbers, from 1 to 136, but like Hoboken's catalog of Joseph Haydn's music, groups the pieces first into categories (symphonies, concertos, etc.) and then sorts them chronologically. Perger's attempt at figuring out the chronology is, however, so full of mistakes (including the attribution to Haydn of music by others) that later musicologists, instead of trying to amend the catalog (as", "title": "Perger-Verzeichnis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.31, "text": "Silberne Ehrenzeichen from the government of Austria; later on would follow multiple honorary degrees, a knighthood, and so on. Proksch attributes some influence to Hoboken in the revival of Haydn's critical reputation in the 20th century, not only as a result of the systematizing work of his catalog, but also in his influence on his teacher Schenker (whose own influence on musical scholarship in general was very substantial). Schenker in his earliest Haydn studies had relied on inaccurate editions and benefited from his free access to Hoboken's collection of Haydn manuscripts. When Hoboken wrote to Schenker in 1927 that he", "title": "Anthony van Hoboken" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.25, "text": "Anthony van Hoboken Anthony van Hoboken (; ; 23 March 1887 – 1 November 1983) was a musical collector, bibliographer, and musicologist. He became especially well known for his scholarship on the music of Joseph Haydn and in particular for being the creator of the Hoboken catalogue, the standard scholarly catalogue of Haydn's works. He was born in Rotterdam to a family that was successful in business, banking, and shipping. He was personally very well off and throughout life his choices were generally made without regard to the need to earn a living. He trained as an engineer (1906-1909) at", "title": "Anthony van Hoboken" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.05, "text": "the Chief Rabbi of Hoboken, New Jersey, a post that included Hoboken, West Hoboken, Jersey City Heights, Union Hill and the environs (from title page of \"\"Malki Ba-Kodesh\"\", vol. 2; Hoboken, 1921) in its jurisdiction. He remained in Hoboken until his death in 1935. Rabbi Hirschensohn wrote on many subjects, including the relationship between Judaism and democracy, the status of women, and conflicts between traditional Judaism and modern scholarship and science. He is probably best known for \"\"Malki Ba-Kodesh\"\", a 6-volume work he published between 1919 and 1928, in which he explores the halakhot (Jewish laws) that might govern a", "title": "Chaim Hirschensohn" } ]

[ "David Wiesner" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.75, "text": "Tuesday (book) Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner, is a 1991 picture book published by Clarion Books. \"\"Tuesday\"\" received the 1992 Caldecott Medal for illustrations and was Wiesner's first of three Caldecott Medals that he has won during his career. Wiesner subsequently won the Caldecott Medal in 2002 for \"\"The Three Pigs\"\", and the 2007 medal for \"\"Flotsam\"\". \"\"Tuesday\"\" is an almost wordless picture book for children, written and illustrated by American author David Wiesner. The book was originally published in 1991 by Clarion Books, and then re-published in 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers. The", "title": "Tuesday (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.44, "text": "Tuesdays they meet, supplemented with Schwartz's lectures and life experiences and interspersed with flashbacks and allusions to contemporary events. Mitch Albom, is the author of Tuesdays With Morrie and serves as one of the main characters for the novel. Within the novel, Albom is a writer for a sports column in the Detroit Free Press and possess a Masters in Journalism. The book's main story revolves around his rediscovery of his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, through an episode of Nightline. After reconnecting with his old teacher, he finds himself Morrie's pupil once again as the latter passes teachings of", "title": "Tuesdays with Morrie" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.88, "text": "Monday or Tuesday Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contained eight stories: Six of the stories were later published by Leonard Woolf in the posthumous collection \"\"A Haunted House\"\", those excluded were \"\"A Society\"\" and \"\"Blue & Green\"\". In her 1919 work \"\"Modern Fiction\"\", Virginia Woolf", "title": "Monday or Tuesday" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.92, "text": "Grim Tuesday Grim Tuesday is a novel written by Garth Nix in 2004, and was first published in the USA by Scholastic Press and in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children's Books. It is the second book in the Keys to the Kingdom series, and it focuses on Arthur Penhaligon’s quest to regain his place as the rightful heir. Grim Tuesday is afflicted with the deadly sin of greed. Arthur Penhaligon has returned home when the telephone that the first part of the Will (now known as Dame Primus) gave him starts ringing. Dame Primus informs him that in the six", "title": "Grim Tuesday" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.88, "text": "Lobsang Rampa Lobsang Rampa is the pen name of an author who wrote books with paranormal and occult themes. His best known work is \"\"The Third Eye\"\", published in Britain in 1956. Following the publication of the book, newspapers reported that Rampa was Cyril Henry Hoskin (8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981), a plumber from Plympton in Devon who claimed that his body hosted the spirit of a Tibetan lama going by the name of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who is purported to have authored the books. The name Tuesday relates to a claim in \"\"The Third Eye\"\" that Tibetans", "title": "Lobsang Rampa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.81, "text": "indicators. Lively is the author of more than 20 books on subjects including constitutional law, race, gender, and civil rights, freedom of speech, and the judicial process. Several of his books have won awards. He has authored more than 50 law review articles and essays, has lectured extensively domestically and overseas, and is a recipient of the Florida Supreme Court Professionalism Award. He is the creator of Law Tuesday, a legal services program that serves disadvantaged persons who otherwise would have no meaningful access to the legal system. The Ohio State Bar Association in 2004 named Law Tuesday the state's", "title": "Donald Lively" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.81, "text": "are international activists from private organizations, NGO’s, universities, and governmental agencies who come to Project COMMON BOND to learn Tuesday's Children's Long-Term Healing Model and bring this knowledge and training back to their communities. The Legacy Letters were published by Tuesday’s Children, edited by New York Times best-selling author Brian Curtis, and feature a compilation of a hundred letters of family members to their loved ones lost in 9/11. The ISBN number is 0399537082. Major sponsors for Tuesday’s Children include Allstate Insurance, American Red Cross, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Mets,", "title": "Tuesday's Children" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.69, "text": "Morrie Schwartz Morris \"\"Morrie\"\" S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book \"\"Tuesdays with Morrie\"\", which was written by Mitch Albom, a sportswriter who was a former student of his, and published in 1997. The book was followed by a film version based on the book that was made for television in which he was portrayed by Jack Lemmon. Morrie's father, Charlie Schwartz, was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who left Russia to escape the Russian Army. His mother died when he was", "title": "Morrie Schwartz" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.61, "text": "Tuesdays with Morrie Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American writer Mitch Albom. The story was later recreated by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on December 5, 1999 and starred Hank Azaria. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers of 2000. However, according to Amazon, this title is listed under fiction, biographical fiction, philosophical fiction, and memoir. An unabridged audiobook was also published, narrated by Albom himself. The appendix of the audiobook contains several minutes of excerpts from the audio recordings Albom made in his conversations", "title": "Tuesdays with Morrie" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.44, "text": "Peter Tuesday Hughes Peter Tuesday Hughes (1940?-2005?) was an American science fiction and mystery author. He was an early exponent of the \"\"gay gothic\"\" subgenre. Though published primarily by Greenleaf Classics, a firm known for insisting that its authors include graphic sex in their works, his novels \"\"[depict] gay relationships with a depth surprising for the markets he published for.\"\" However, some of his contemporaries objected to the pessimism Hughes occasionally expressed. He was the creator of fictional detective Bruce Doe, who featured in six mystery novels that are now considered to \"\"have an unexpected resonance in a post-9/11 world.\"\"", "title": "Peter Tuesday Hughes" } ]

[ "Franz Kafka", "František Kafka", "Kafka" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.34, "text": "A Report to an Academy \"\"A Report to an Academy\"\" (German: \"\"Ein Bericht für eine Akademie\"\") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly \"\"Der Jude\"\", along with another of Kafka's stories, \"\"Jackals and Arabs\"\" (\"\"Schakale und Araber\"\"). The story appeared again in a 1919 collection titled \"\"Ein Landarzt\"\" (\"\"A Country Doctor\"\"). The narrator, speaking before", "title": "A Report to an Academy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.61, "text": "briefly suggests in his 2004 biography of Kafka that the story is a satirization of Jews' assimilation into Western culture. The story's references to the protagonist's \"\"apish past\"\" (\"\"äffisches Vorleben\"\") have led some literary theorists to associate the story with evolutionary theory. In J.M. Coetzee's novel \"\"Elizabeth Costello\"\", the title character gives a central place to \"\"A Report to an Academy\"\" in her speech about vegetarianism and animal rights. She also suggests that Kafka may have been influenced by German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler's \"\"The Mentality of Apes\"\", also published in 1917. However, historian Gregory Radick suggests that a more likely", "title": "A Report to an Academy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.75, "text": "centre since. Furthermore, the IAS - through Prof. Adnan Badran FIAS and Moneef Zou’bi, DG-IAS - was commissioned to author the ‘Arab States Chapter’ of the UNESCO Science Report 2010, a task that has been successfully accomplished. The IAS also has been invited through Dr Moneef Zou’bi to author the ‘Arab States Chapter’ of the UNESCO Science Report for 2015. In its effort to establish scientific and academic relations with similar Islamic organisations, the Academy signed a co-operation agreement with the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO), in 1989. The Academy signed a co-operation agreement with The World Academy", "title": "Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.66, "text": "story was staged in Montreal under the name of \"\"Kafka's Ape\"\", presented by independent theater company Infinitheatre. Guy Sprung directed actor Howard Rosenstein in the role of Red Peter. In the 2014 story collection \"\"Only the Animals\"\" by Ceridwen Dovey, the short story \"\"Red Peter's Little Lady (Soul of Chimpanzee)\"\" uses \"\"A Report to an Academy\"\" as the jumping off point for her tale of a dead chimpanzee who recounts his experiences as an animal trained to act human. A Report to an Academy \"\"A Report to an Academy\"\" (German: \"\"Ein Bericht für eine Akademie\"\") is a short story by", "title": "A Report to an Academy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.23, "text": "Observe and Report Observe and Report is a 2009 American black comedy film written and directed by Jody Hill, starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and Ray Liotta. The plot follows a mentally unstable vigilante mall cop who wants to join the police academy. The film was released on April 10, 2009 and grossed $27 million. An anonymous flasher exposes himself to shoppers in the Forest Ridge Mall parking lot. The head of mall security, Ronald \"\"Ronnie\"\" Barnhardt (Rogen), makes it his mission to apprehend the offender. However, while Ronnie is ostensibly well-intentioned and valiant in his own mind, in reality", "title": "Observe and Report" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.14, "text": "report produced by committee undergoes extensive review and evaluation by a group of external experts who are anonymous to the committee, and whose names are revealed only once the study is published. Victor Dzau is President and Chairman of the Council. His six-year term began on July 1, 2014. The Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer is J. Michael McGinnis. The majority of studies and other activities are requested and funded by the federal government. Private industry, foundations, and state and local governments also initiate studies, as does the academy itself. Reports are made available online for free by the publishing", "title": "National Academy of Medicine" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.88, "text": "Latrielle, wrote to Cuvier to deny his participation in the report presented to the Academy, as well as to disassociate himself from Geoffroy's unity of composition theory. This was likely a strategical move as Cuvier had just the year before helped Latrielle, a rather old man of sixty-seven, replace Lamarck as a professor in the Museum. Both authors of the original cephalopod paper wrote to Cuvier as well to apologize for the trouble their paper had caused. However, the damage on Meyranx and Laurencet's careers may already have been done, as no future works by the authors have been recorded,", "title": "Cuvier–Geoffroy debate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.88, "text": "human, but only to provide himself with a means of escape from his cage. Upon arriving in Europe, the ape realizes that he is faced with a choice between \"\"the Zoological Garden or the Music Hall,\"\" and devotes himself to becoming human enough to become an able performer. He accomplishes this, with the help of many teachers, and reports to the academy that his transformation is so complete that he can no longer properly describe his emotions and experiences as an ape. In concluding, the ape expresses a degree of satisfaction with his lot. Walter Herbert Sokel has suggested that", "title": "A Report to an Academy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.62, "text": "a scientific conference, describes his former life as an ape. His story begins in a West African jungle, in which a hunting expedition shoots and captures him. Caged on a ship for his voyage to Europe, he finds himself for the first time without the freedom to move as he will. Needing to escape from this situation, he studies the habits of the crew, and imitates them with surprising ease; he reports encountering particular difficulty only in learning to drink alcohol. Throughout the story, the narrator reiterates that he learned his human behavior not out of any desire to be", "title": "A Report to an Academy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.56, "text": "(author of the famous environmental report on the Limits to Growth), Fundación Cultura de Paz (Madrid, established by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director General of UNESCO), Green Cross International (established by former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev to promote global ecology), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin), Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (international consortium of 170 leading universities), Library of Alexandria (Egypt), The Mother’s Service Society (social science research institute based in Pondicherry, India), Nizami Ganjavi International Centre (cultural institute in Baku, Azerbaijan), Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (on nuclear disarmament). The Academy is managed by a 22-member board of trustees and", "title": "World Academy of Art and Science" } ]

[ "Giambattista Vico", "Gianbattista Vico", "Giovan Battista Vico" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.78, "text": "The New Science The New Science (original Italian title Scienza Nuova ) is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, published in 1725. It has been highly influential in the philosophy of history, sociology, anthropology, and for historicists like Isaiah Berlin and Hayden White. The central concepts were highly original, and prefigured the Age of Enlightenment. The original full title is \"\"Principi di Scienza Nuova d'intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni\"\", which may be literally translated as \"\"Principles/Origins of New/Renewed Science About/Surrounding the Common Nature of Nations\"\". In 1720, Vico began work on the \"\"Scienza Nuova\"\" as part of", "title": "The New Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.55, "text": "A New Kind of Science A New Kind of Science is a best-selling, controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published by his own company in 2002. It contains an empirical and systematic study of computational systems such as cellular automata. Wolfram calls these systems \"\"simple programs\"\" and argues that the scientific philosophy and methods appropriate for the study of simple programs are relevant to other fields of science. The thesis of \"\"A New Kind of Science\"\" (\"\"NKS\"\") is twofold: that the nature of computation must be explored experimentally, and that the results of these experiments have great relevance to understanding the", "title": "A New Kind of Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "often generate great complexity is already an established idea in science, particularly in chaos theory and complex systems. A New Kind of Science A New Kind of Science is a best-selling, controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published by his own company in 2002. It contains an empirical and systematic study of computational systems such as cellular automata. Wolfram calls these systems \"\"simple programs\"\" and argues that the scientific philosophy and methods appropriate for the study of simple programs are relevant to other fields of science. The thesis of \"\"A New Kind of Science\"\" (\"\"NKS\"\") is twofold: that the nature of", "title": "A New Kind of Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.09, "text": "a treatise on Universal rights. Although a full volume was originally to be sponsored by Cardinal Corsini (the future Pope Clement XII), Vico was forced to finance the publication himself after the Cardinal pleaded financial difficulty and withdrew his patronage. The first edition of the \"\"New Science\"\" (\"\"Scienza Nuova\"\", rather than \"\"Nuova Scienza\"\", for which Galileo had been known) appeared in 1725, and a second, reworked version was published in 1730; neither was well received during Vico’s lifetime. Vico himself worked on two revisited editions, that were published under new titles, the first in 1730 and the second posthumously in", "title": "The New Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "February 2011. The book was created through a working model for collaborative book authorship known as a book sprint, derived from code sprinting. The project was led by Andrea Grover, recipient of a 2010 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, along with three other authors (Régine Debatty, Claire L. Evans and Pablo Garcia) and two designers (Luke Bulman and Jessica Young of Thumb). \"\"As a ‘snapshot’ created on the run over seven days, it necessarily portrays a quite particular moment and choice.\"\" The publication is not a complete history of the interstices of art, technology, and science, although there is a timeline", "title": "New Art/Science Affinities" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "was published in 2009. The book expands an article that Brooks wrote for \"\"New Scientist\"\". Brooks' next book, \"\"The Big Questions: Physics\"\", was released in February 2010. It contains twenty 3,000-word essays addressing the most fundamental and frequently asked questions about science. Brooks appeared as a regular guest on George Lamb's BBC Radio 6 Music show. His slot on the show, entitled \"\"Weird Science,\"\" features weird and wonderful stories from the world of science. The Science Party is a UK political party that was launched on April 20, 2010 by Brooks and Sumit Paul-Choudhury, an editor of \"\"New Scientist\"\". A", "title": "Michael Brooks (science writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.61, "text": "Chaos: Making a New Science Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989. The book was published on October 29, 1987 by Viking Books. The first popular book about chaos theory, it describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate", "title": "Chaos: Making a New Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.55, "text": "thinkers and artists, including Karl Marx and Montesquieu. Later his work was received more favourably as in the case of Lord Monboddo to whom he was compared in a modern treatise. Isaiah Berlin has devoted attention to Vico as a critic of the Enlightenment and a significant humanist and culture theorist. \"\"Scienza Nuova\"\" was included by Martin Seymour-Smith in his book \"\"The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written\"\". The historical cycle provides the structure for James Joyce's book, \"\"Finnegans Wake\"\". The intertextual relationship between \"\"Scienza Nuova\"\" and \"\"Finnegans Wake\"\" was brought to light by Samuel Beckett in his essay \"\"Dante...", "title": "The New Science" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.33, "text": "E. L. Young Emma L. Young is a science journalist and writer, who currently works in Sydney as the Editor for \"\"New Scientist\"\" magazine. She has the chance to find out about the latest science and technology because of this job, knowledge she uses in her novels. Young is the author of the STORM series, a series that includes the following novels. The series follows a group of highly intelligent teenagers who band together to form STORM (Science and Technology to Over-Rule Misery) a covert organisation who use their brainpower to rid the world of various evil threats. The books", "title": "E. L. Young" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.22, "text": "The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a general guide to the sciences written by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in 1960 by Basic Books. Revised versions were published as \"\"The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science\"\" (1965), \"\"Asimov's Guide to Science\"\" (1972), and \"\"Asimov's New Guide to Science\"\" (1984). The book received positive reviews, praising it as a well-written work on science. Asimov was first contacted by Leon Svirsky of Basic Books in 1959 about the possibility of writing a book that would provide an overview of science, and the two met", "title": "The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science" } ]

[ "Walter Jon Williams" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.38, "text": "Metropolitan (novel) Metropolitan is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1995. A sequel, \"\"City on Fire\"\", was published in 1997. \"\"Metropolitan\"\" is set on an unnamed world where, in the distant past, some agency or agencies enclosed the planet in a barrier known as the \"\"Shield\"\". The Shield emits light and heat, incinerates all matter that rises above a certain altitude, and absorbs all electromagnetic energy directed into it. As a result, the world has no day, night, or seasons (although it does have weather phenomena like clouds and rain). Its inhabitants divide", "title": "Metropolitan (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.28, "text": "own high standards, unsatisfying\"\", with a \"\"curious, fascinating yet disconnected scenario\"\". Metropolitan (novel) Metropolitan is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1995. A sequel, \"\"City on Fire\"\", was published in 1997. \"\"Metropolitan\"\" is set on an unnamed world where, in the distant past, some agency or agencies enclosed the planet in a barrier known as the \"\"Shield\"\". The Shield emits light and heat, incinerates all matter that rises above a certain altitude, and absorbs all electromagnetic energy directed into it. As a result, the world has no day, night, or seasons (although it", "title": "Metropolitan (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.7, "text": "primate. Hugh the Chanter, who was a member of the York community, stated that the metropolitan title was used. Modern historical opinion is divided, with Frank Barlow, author of \"\"The English Church 1066–1154\"\" inclined towards the primatial title, but with Richard Southern, in his biography of Anselm, leaning towards the metropolitan title. The whole affair is probably subject to much duplicity and dishonesty, with both sides presenting biased accounts. Herbert de Losinga was appointed a papal legate in 1093 by Pope Urban II to investigate the matter of Thomas' profession of obedience to Lanfranc. Herbert seems to have done nothing", "title": "Thomas of Bayeux" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "The Metropolitan Touch \"\"The Metropolitan Touch\"\" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in \"\"The Strand Magazine\"\" in London in September 1922, and then in \"\"Cosmopolitan\"\" in New York that same month. The story was also included in the 1923 collection \"\"The Inimitable Jeeves\"\". In the story, Bingo Little tries to impress his latest love interest, Mary Burgess, by producing a series of performances at a school Christmas show. Back in London, Bertie receives a telegram from Bingo Little, who is still at Twing", "title": "The Metropolitan Touch" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.84, "text": "The Metropolitan Magazine The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London monthly journal founded by Thomas Campbell, which began publication in May 1831. Campbell and Cyrus Redding were the first editors of the \"\"Metropolitan\"\". Frederick Marryat became editor in 1832. From vol. 6 (1833) onwards the magazine went under the name The Metropolitan Magazine. Marryat appointed the novelist Edward Howard (1793–1841) as a sub-editor in 1833: Howard serialized his semi-autobiographical \"\"Life of a Sub-Editor\"\" in the \"\"Metropolitan\"\" in 1834. Though Marryat resigned the editorship in 1835, he kept a connection with the \"\"Metropolitan\"\"", "title": "The Metropolitan Magazine" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.61, "text": "current issues in cultural politics.\"\" Whit Stillman wrote the screenplay for \"\"Metropolitan\"\" between 1984 and 1988 while he was running an illustration agency in New York, and financed it by selling his apartment for $50,000 as well as with a few contributions from family members and friends. Stillman claims the movie is based on events from his life in late 1970, while he was living with his divorced mother in Washington, D.C. While on Christmas break during his first year at Harvard University, he met a group of like-minded college students from various universities around the country. Each night, he", "title": "Metropolitan (1990 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.59, "text": "their nephew, was added to the company. They established a publishing company in 1930 under the name of Metropolitan Press, and published Northwest books, primarily history titles. Some of these books were re-prints of titles that were no longer protected by copyright, while others were new titles by Oregon authors. Early authors included Thomas Nelson Strong, Charles Henry Carey, Howard McKinley Corning, and Frederic Homer Balch among others. The company became the first large publisher in Oregon. During the Great Depression, the company acquired the rights to print the American Guide Series guidebooks created by the Works Progress Administration's Writers", "title": "Binford & Mort" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.55, "text": "a bureaucrat in Jaspeer, Aiah leaves her job, family, and marriage behind and travels to Caraqui to help Constantine achieve his dream. \"\"Metropolitan\"\" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in the same year. The \"\"SF Site\"\"s Donna McMahon praised Williams for \"\"creat(in)g a complex world and plot\"\" and \"\"successfully weaving (its) details into his narrative without resorting to any awkward contrivances\"\", noting as well that the \"\"(h)is descriptions are excellent, and his characters are strong\"\"; ultimately, she judged that although the book \"\"unsatisfying\"\", it was nevertheless \"\"worth reading\"\". \"\"Kirkus Reviews\"\" similarly felt that it was \"\"by Williams's", "title": "Metropolitan (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.44, "text": "for another year. Contributors included the poet Maria Abdy (c. 1800–1867), the novelist and poet Isa Blagden (1816/17 – 1873), Eliza Cook, Antonio Gallenga, the mesmerist Spencer Timothy Hall (1812 – 1885), Hargrave Jennings (1817? – 1890), the philosopher Thomas Charles Morgan (c. 1780–1843), and the poet and novelist Annie Tinsley (1808–1885). Frederick Crouch, musician and composer (1808–1896), was the music reviewer until he emigrated to the United States in 1849. The magazine ceased publication in 1850. The Metropolitan Magazine The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London monthly journal founded by Thomas", "title": "The Metropolitan Magazine" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.17, "text": "children's books, including \"\"Metropolitan\"\" (1932), \"\"The Moon and the Lazy Fellow\"\" (1933), \"\"The Seagull\"\" (1965, dedicated to Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, the first woman to go into space). She is the author of poems for grown-ups: \"\"The Violin Clef\"\" (1958), \"\"The Bird\"\" (1965). The verses of Tarakhovskaya are lyrical, thoughtful, and almost always full of humor, with most of them being the poetry of ordinary and everyday things around. Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya translated into Russian many poems for children written by various Soviet and foreign authors: verses of Polish poet Julian Tuwim, Uzbek poet Kuddus Muhammadi (Muhammadiev), Azerbaijani poet Mirvari", "title": "Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya" } ]

[ "Gail Jones" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.94, "text": "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (published in the UK as My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises) is a book written by Fredrik Backman. It was published in Swedish (as \"\"Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt\"\") in 2013. The English translation was published in 2015. The rights for translation have been sold in more than 40 countries In 2017 it was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Ireland. The story takes place in Sweden and follows Elsa, a 7 year old who knows she is different", "title": "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.86, "text": "Sorry, Right Number \"\"Sorry, Right Number\"\" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series \"\"Tales from the Darkside\"\". It was later included in King's short story collection \"\"Nightmares & Dreamscapes\"\", and is the only such work that King has included in any of his anthologies. It appears in script format, and begins with an authors' guide for screenplays and abbreviations. The \"\"Tales from the Darkside\"\" episode originally aired in 1987, and starred Deborah Harmon and Arthur Taxier as Katie and Bill Weiderman, with Rhonda Dotson as Katie's sister Dawn and Katherine Britton,", "title": "Sorry, Right Number" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "Patty Yumi Cottrell Patty Yumi Cottrell (born 1981) is an American writer. She is the author of \"\"Sorry to Disrupt the Peace\"\" and the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award. Cottrell was born in Korea in 1981 and was adopted, along with two biologically unrelated younger Korean boys, into a family from the Midwestern United States. She was raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Cottrell started writing her first novel while in her early thirties. In 2012 she received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After moving from New York to Los Angeles, she completed", "title": "Patty Yumi Cottrell" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "ease the tension and turn the sleuthing relatives into real people. A winning amateur sleuth tale that showcases a new talent.\"\"— \"\"Midwest Book Review\"\" \"\"Contemporary Authors Online\"\". The Gale Group, 2006. Never Sorry \"\"For the film about the Chinese artist see \"\" Never Sorry: A Leigh Koslow Mystery is a crime novel by the American writer Edie Claire set in contemporary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow, who when her fledgling advertising business is short on cash, takes a part-time job at the Pittsburgh Zoo, where she stumbles onto a grisly crime scene. The novel", "title": "Never Sorry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.39, "text": "released in 2015 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. It was read by Joan Walker . http://books.simonandschuster.com/My-Grandmother-Asked-Me-to-Tell-You-Shes-Sorry/Fredrik-Backman/9781501115066 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (published in the UK as My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises) is a book written by Fredrik Backman. It was published in Swedish (as \"\"Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt\"\") in 2013. The English translation was published in 2015. The rights for translation have been sold in more than 40 countries In 2017 it was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Ireland. The story", "title": "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.34, "text": "Sorry House Sorry House is an independent, small press publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York that was founded by writer Spencer Madsen in 2012. Sorry House publishes poetry and fiction in print only. Sorry House's debut publication was \"\"I will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together\"\" by Mira Gonzalez. It was released on 31 January 2013. Gonzalez is a close friend of Madsen, and the editing process was notably intimate. The book was named a \"\"Dazed\"\" poetry book of the week, a Flavorwire book of the year, and was excerpted at \"\"Vice\"\". It was a finalist", "title": "Sorry House" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.28, "text": "Feeling Sorry for Celia Feeling Sorry for Celia is a young adult novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. It was first published in 2000 by Pan Macmillan. The story is told in a series of letters. Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of everything else, because her English teacher wants to rekindle the \"\"Joy of the Envelope,\"\" a Complete and Utter Stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. But Elizabeth is on", "title": "Feeling Sorry for Celia" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.2, "text": "Fredrik Backman Fredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish columnist, blogger and writer. He is the author of \"\"A Man Called Ove\"\" (2012), \"\"My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry\"\" (2013), \"\"Britt-Marie Was Here\"\" (2014), \"\"Beartown\"\" (2017), and \"\"Us Against You\"\" (2018). They were number one bestsellers in his native Sweden. They have been published around the world in more than twenty-five languages. Backman grew up in Helsingborg. He has been writing for \"\"Helsingborgs Dagblad\"\" and \"\"Moore Magazine.\"\" He debuted as a novelist in 2012 with \"\"A Man Called Ove.\"\" It was adapted as a film", "title": "Fredrik Backman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.97, "text": "Never Sorry \"\"For the film about the Chinese artist see \"\" Never Sorry: A Leigh Koslow Mystery is a crime novel by the American writer Edie Claire set in contemporary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow, who when her fledgling advertising business is short on cash, takes a part-time job at the Pittsburgh Zoo, where she stumbles onto a grisly crime scene. The novel is the second in a series of five Leigh Koslow mysteries. \"\"Edie Claire is a bright new mystery writer. The fast-paced story line retains a serious tone with humorous interludes to", "title": "Never Sorry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.94, "text": "A Better Safe Than Sorry Book A Better Safe Than Sorry Book, published in Israel in 2012, is a children's book aimed at Haredi Jewish children addressing the issue of child sexual abuse and warning children to stay away from sex abusers. The book is a collaboration between Ella Bargai, a secular Jew, and Nitai Melamed, an Orthodox rabbi. The book has generally been well-received, selling out of its first printing soon after being released. Rabbis from the Hasidic, Lithuanian, and Sephardic communities have endorsed it. However, the Gur Hasidim have rejected the book because it includes women and girls", "title": "A Better Safe Than Sorry Book" } ]

[ "Elizabeth Jolley", "Monica Elizabeth Jolley", "Monica Elizabeth Knight" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27, "text": "The Well (novel) The Well is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian-English author Elizabeth Jolley. It tells the story of two women, Hester and her young ward Katherine, and their relationship with one another. Hester, who has lived alone on a farm with her father for many years, is possessive of the much younger Katherine. The relationship between the two women becomes strained after an incident where Katherine hits a mysterious creature with the roo bar on their four-wheel drive. It is left unclear whether the creature is an animal or an intruder who has stolen a large sum", "title": "The Well (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.58, "text": "The Well at the World's End The Well at the World's End is a high fantasy novel by the British artist, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably in two parts as the 20th and 21st volumes of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, in August and September 1970. Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Peter, King of Upmeads, and his four sons, Blaise, Hugh, Gregory, and Ralph. These four sons decide one day that", "title": "The Well at the World's End" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.33, "text": "contributor to Listverse.com. She has a popular website and blog at www.myspace.com/jackiefuchs and was the first guest blogger for the Environmental Working Group’s Pets for the Environment website. She is the author of \"\"The Well\"\", an unpublished work of young adult historical fiction, and is currently working on her second novel. In July 2015, after Fowley's death, Fox revealed publicly that she was raped by Fowley on New Year’s Eve 1975 at an after-party following a Runaways performance at an Orange County club. Sixteen years old at the time, Fox was reportedly given Quaaludes by a man who she thought", "title": "The Runaways" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.75, "text": "of money from the house. When Katherine begins to hear voices from the well and becomes racked with guilt, Hester goes to extreme measures to maintain her influence over her young ward. In 1997, a film of the same name was adapted from this novel. The film was directed by Samantha Lang, from a screenplay by Laura Jones and featured Pamela Rabe and Miranda Otto. Middlemiss.org The Well (novel) The Well is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian-English author Elizabeth Jolley. It tells the story of two women, Hester and her young ward Katherine, and their relationship with one", "title": "The Well (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "Coonardoo Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard. The novel evocatively depicts the Australian landscape as it was in the late 1920s, in an age when white settlers tried to control more and more of the bare plains of northwest Australia. Originally submitted to \"\"The Bulletin\"\" novel competition in 1928 under the pseudonym Ashburton Jim, this novel was joint winner. It shared the award with \"\"A House is Built\"\" by M. Barnard Eldershaw. It was first serialised in The Bulletin magazine in 15 weekly instalments from 5 September 1928. The", "title": "Coonardoo" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "The Well of the Unicorn The Well of the Unicorn is a fantasy novel by the American writer Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in 1948, under the pseudonym George U. Fletcher, in hardcover by William Sloane Associates. All later editions have appeared under the author's actual name with the exception of the facsimile reprint issued by Garland Publishing in 1975 for its Garland Library of Science Fiction series. The novel was first issued in paperback in 1967 by Lancer Books, which reprinted it in 1968; subsequent paperback editions were issued by Ballantine Books. The first Ballantine edition was in", "title": "The Well of the Unicorn" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.2, "text": "with goose or The Well () The fountain called \"\"The Well\"\" () was unveiled on October 4, 1909. The author was a sculptor, Karol Kowalczewsky, whose name appears at the bottom of the sculpture. The commissioner was Alfred Kupffender, the owner of the pharmacy \"\"Under the golden eagle\"\" (), who intended to celebrate the 100th anniversary the Kupffender's family business. The sculpture was set on the Old Market Square, in front of the entrance to the pharmacy. After its destruction in 1940, Franciszek Górski, a warehouse manager, rescued many of the bronze fragments, preventing them to be melted away for", "title": "Old Market square, Bydgoszcz" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.14, "text": "used by Scottish writer Neil Gunn for his book, \"\"The Well at the World's End, Folk Tales of Scotland, Retold by Norah and William Montgomerie\"\" published in 1956 by the Hogarth Press. A later edition , retitled \"\"The Folk Tales of Scotland. The Well at the World's End and Other Stories, Retold by Norah and William Montgomerie\"\", was published in 2005 by the Mercat Press. The Well at the World's End The Well at the World's End is a high fantasy novel by the British artist, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been", "title": "The Well at the World's End" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.09, "text": "became Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. In 2012 he was promoted to Reader. Among his former students there are Kit de Waal (\"\"My Name is Leon\"\") and Catherine Chanter (\"\"The Well\"\"). \"\"Englanders and Huns: how fifty years of enmity led to the First World War\"\", published by Simon & Schuster, focused on the Anglo-German rivalry of the later nineteenth century. The book received positive reviews and was shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political Books of the Year. One chapter - on the long-forgotten murder of Queen Victoria's personal chef in Bonn in 1865 - became the", "title": "James Hawes (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25, "text": "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 Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard. The novel evocatively depicts the Australian landscape as it was in the late 1920s, in an age when white settlers tried to control more and more of the bare plains of northwest Australia. Originally submitted to \"\"The Bulletin\"\" novel competition in 1928 under the pseudonym Ashburton Jim,", "title": "Coonardoo" } ]

[ "John Galsworthy", "John Sinjohn" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.55, "text": "Escape (Jessop and Palmer book) Escape is a book by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. It discusses Jessop's upbringing in the FLDS polygamous community. Her childhood was affected by the sect's suspicion of outsiders, the division that took place in that FLDS in the 1970s and '80s and by the increasing strictness of the sect her family belonged to. She experienced life with a mother who suffered from depression and was violent with her children. She observed conflict between her parents over celebrating Christmas and the effect of her surroundings and the strictness of the sect on her mother's mental", "title": "Escape (Jessop and Palmer book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.34, "text": "Escape! \"\"Escape!\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published as \"\"Paradoxical Escape\"\" (a publisher's change in the title) in the August 1945 issue of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" and reprinted as \"\"Escape!\"\" (Asimov's choice of title) in the collections \"\"I, Robot\"\" (1950) and \"\"The Complete Robot\"\" (1982). Many research organizations are working to develop the hyperspatial drive. The company U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., is approached by its biggest competitor that has plans for a working hyperspace engine that allows humans to survive the jump (a theme which would be further developed", "title": "Escape!" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.17, "text": "life. The book reveals how others rallied round and helped Carolyn, and how the sect did its best to get her and the children back. The book is published by Random House under the Doubleday/Broadway Books imprint and is also available in an audio format. Escape (Jessop and Palmer book) Escape is a book by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. It discusses Jessop's upbringing in the FLDS polygamous community. Her childhood was affected by the sect's suspicion of outsiders, the division that took place in that FLDS in the 1970s and '80s and by the increasing strictness of the sect", "title": "Escape (Jessop and Palmer book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.08, "text": "a ministry tool for local churches. Anthony uses his escapes as a metaphor for escaping eternal death through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Martin is the author of the book \"\"Escape or Die an escape artist unlocks the secret to cheating death\"\" which was released in 2013. Anthony Martin (escape artist) Anthony Martin is a professional escape artist, locksmith and Christian Evangelist most known for his daredevil skydiving and underwater escapes on network television. Todd Anthony Martin is of German Russian descent and was born March 4, 1966 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin U.S.A. His great grandfather fled Russia just prior", "title": "Anthony Martin (escape artist)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "the impression that the author lived a very interesting and varied life but not a happy one. Ways of Escape Ways of Escape is ostensibly the second volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1980, but it is not a conventional autobiography, concentrating more on the author's work than his life and often blurring the line between the two. \"\"Ways of Escape\"\" is the autobiography of a writer rather than a man. Instead of recounting the details of his life he gives the histories of his novels. How they came to be written, what he had", "title": "Ways of Escape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library is a children's novel by author Chris Grabenstein. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for Middle Grade novels for 111 weeks between 2013 and 2016, peaking at #8 in hardback and #2 in paperback. Grabenstein has stated that the book contains a secret puzzle that readers can decode. To solve it, he offers some advice given by Mr. Lemoncello in the book: \"\"Forget the Industrial Revolution, my first idea might be your best solution.\"\" The code is used with the first letters of each chapter. The answer", "title": "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.72, "text": "The Escape (Applegate novel) The Escape is the 15th book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Marco. The cover quote reads, \"\"The Yeerks are out there...\"\" The book starts off with the four human Animorphs helping four parrots in a new mall cafe by telling the customers disgusting things about the cafe's food. After this, Marco's old acquaintance, Erek King, who was watching at the room's back, has some disturbing news about his mother, Eva (Visser One). She has returned to Earth, overseeing a Yeerk bio-weapons program to allow them to venture into deep", "title": "The Escape (Applegate novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.69, "text": "Ways of Escape Ways of Escape is ostensibly the second volume of autobiography by British novelist Graham Greene, first published in 1980, but it is not a conventional autobiography, concentrating more on the author's work than his life and often blurring the line between the two. \"\"Ways of Escape\"\" is the autobiography of a writer rather than a man. Instead of recounting the details of his life he gives the histories of his novels. How they came to be written, what he had intended to convey in those novels and whether or not he believed he succeeded. He also details", "title": "Ways of Escape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "The One Who Got Away The One Who Got Away: Escape from the Kill Room (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ) is a non-fiction book by first time author Gilles Tetreault. The book is a true crime novel based on true events. The One Who Got Away is a remarkable personal account from the original intended target of convicted murderer, Mark Twitchell. Tetreault recounts his personal journey of the assault, the highly publicized court case, the resulting media fallout, and life as 'The One Who Got Away'. On October 3, 2008 in Edmonton, Canada, computer company contractor Gilles Tetreault logged onto", "title": "The One Who Got Away" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "The Great Escape (book) The Great Escape is an insider's account by Australian writer Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the actual escape 'along with three or four others on grounds of claustrophobia'. The introduction to the book is written by George Harsh, an American POW at Stalag Luft III. This book was made into the 1963 film \"\"The Great Escape\"\". The book covers the planning, execution and", "title": "The Great Escape (book)" } ]

[ "Agatha Christie", "Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie", "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller", "Mary Westmacott", "Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.77, "text": "The Mysterious Mr Quin The Mysterious Mr Quin is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 14 April 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Each chapter or story involves a separate mystery that is solved through the interaction between the characters of Mr Satterthwaite, a socialite, and the eponymous Mr Quin who appears almost magically at the most opportune moments and disappears", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.39, "text": "was the reader of the unabridged recording of \"\"The Mysterious Mr Quin\"\" released in 2006 by BBC Audiobooks America () and HarperCollins in 2005 () and 2007 (). ISIS Audio Books released an unabridged recording in 1993 read by Geoffrey Matthews (). The first UK magazine publication of all the stories has not been fully documented. A partial listing is as follows: The five stories in \"\"The Story-teller\"\" magazine above were part of a six-story sequence titled \"\"The Magic of Mr Quin\"\". The sixth story in the sequence (and the first to be published) was \"\"At the Crossroads\"\" in issue", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.23, "text": "a young artist who is a cousin to her. She was involved with a young writer who, the year before, was accused of stealing jewellery and imprisoned. Mr Satterthwaite likes her art, and buys a drawing from her. The three arrange a picnic for the next day with a fourth person, Mr Tomlinson, who has a car. At the appointed time they drive up into the mountains and eventually stop where the road finishes at an isolated coastal village of the name of Coti-Chiavari, which Naomi Smith terms \"\"the World's End\"\". There, Satterthwaite is delighted to see Mr Quin sitting", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "first, few of her short story collections carried a dedication and, second, it is the only time that Christie dedicated a book to one of her fictional creations. The blurb of the first edition (which is carried on both the back of the dustjacket and opposite the title page) reads: Mr Satterthwaite is a dried-up elderly little man who has never known romance or adventure himself. He is a looker-on at life. But he feels an increasing desire to play a part in the drama of other people – especially is he drawn to mysteries of unsolved crime. And here", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.11, "text": "Mr. Harley Quin Harley Quin is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie and the most mysterious of all her detectives. His name is a word play on \"\"Harlequin\"\" which may be a clue to his personality. Mr. Quin helps his older friend Mr. Satterthwaite solve crimes using his extraordinary skills and instincts. He appears in the 12 short stories appearing in \"\"The Mysterious Mr Quin\"\", first published in 1930, and in an additional two short stories, \"\"The Love Detectives\"\" and \"\"The Harlequin Tea Set\"\" from \"\"Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories\"\". Mr. Quin's emissary Mr. Satterthwaite, who appears", "title": "Mr. Harley Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.03, "text": "fairy tales.\"\" The anonymous reviewer described Mr Satterthwaite and Mr Quin and their relationship to the stories and each other, and then concluded, \"\"The book offers a rare treat for the discriminating reader.\"\" In the \"\"Daily Express\"\" (25 April 1930), Harold Nicolson said, \"\"Mr. Quinn and Mr. Satterthwaite are, to me, new characters, and I should like much more of them. Mrs. Christie always writes intelligently, and I enjoyed these stories as much as any she has written.\"\" Robert Barnard wrote: \"\"An odd collection, with the whimsical-supernatural element strong, though not always unpleasing. There are some notably dreadful stories (\"\"Bird", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "236 in December 1926. The story was published in the US in Flynn's Weekly in October 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 3). Retitled \"\"The Love Detectives\"\", the story appeared in book form in the US in 1950 in \"\"Three Blind Mice and Other Stories\"\" and in the UK in \"\"Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories\"\" in 1991. No UK magazine printing \"\"The Bird with the Broken Wing\"\" has yet been traced. A partial listing of the first US magazine publications is as follows: Christie's dedication in the book reads: \"\"To Harlequin the invisible\"\". This dedication is unusual for two reasons;", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "(London Book Company, 1929). The (unpublished) play \"\"Someone at the Window\"\" (1934) was adapted by Christie from the short story \"\"The Dead Harlequin\"\". A series of abridged readings of three of the stories (\"\"The Coming of Mr Quin\"\", \"\"The Soul of the Croupier\"\", \"\"At the 'Bells and Motley'\"\") were broadcast 15–17 September 2009 on BBC Radio 4 as part of the \"\"Afternoon Readings\"\" program and performed by Martin Jarvis. A second series of abridged readings (\"\"The World's End\"\", \"\"The Face of Helen\"\", \"\"The Sign in the Sky\"\") was broadcast 15–17 September 2010 on BBC Radio 4 and again performed by", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.66, "text": "he has a helper – the mysterious Mr Quin – the man who appears from nowhere – who 'comes and goes' like the invisible Harlequin of old. Who is Mr Quin? No one knows, but he is one who 'speaks for the dead who cannot speak for themselves', and he is also a friend to lovers. Prompted by his mystic influence, Mr Satterthwaite plays a real part in life at last, and unravels mysteries that seem incapable of solution. In Mr Quin, Agatha Christie has created a character as fascinating as Hercule Poirot himself. The Mysterious Mr Quin The Mysterious", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.47, "text": "opal to a thief. The thief was Alec Gerard, a young playwright, who took it from her when she showed it to him at the theatre. Although the jewel was not found on him, he was unable to satisfactorily account for a large sum of money that appeared in his bank account the next day. Mr Quin comes to the shelter to keep Miss Smith part of the group; he will not let her wander off alone. Miss Nunn has cause to empty her bag; from it comes a wooden box that Mr Tomlinson recognises as an Indian Box. Realising", "title": "The Mysterious Mr Quin" } ]

[ "Aaro Hellaakoski", "Aaro Antti Hellaakoski" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.92, "text": "Jääpeili Jääpeili is a 1928 poetry collection by Finnish poet Aaro Hellaakoski, considered by contemporary Finnish literature critics to be one of his best works. The poetry's innovative pictorial typography in the poems \"\"Sade\"\" and \"\"Dolce far niente\"\" recalled Apollinaire's \"\"Calligrammes\"\" (1918); \"\"Sade\"\" especially recalls his \"\"Il pleut\"\", and both are classified as visual poetry. Other sources of inspiration for the poems were extracted from Cubism and the works of the Italian poet F.T. Marinetti, writer of the Manifeste du futurisme (1912). Hellaakoski's enthusiasm about urban visual landscape is present in the poems that also had connections with the youthful", "title": "Jääpeili" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.48, "text": "romanticism of other Finnish writers such as Mika Waltari and Olavi Paavolainen. Jääpeili Jääpeili is a 1928 poetry collection by Finnish poet Aaro Hellaakoski, considered by contemporary Finnish literature critics to be one of his best works. The poetry's innovative pictorial typography in the poems \"\"Sade\"\" and \"\"Dolce far niente\"\" recalled Apollinaire's \"\"Calligrammes\"\" (1918); \"\"Sade\"\" especially recalls his \"\"Il pleut\"\", and both are classified as visual poetry. Other sources of inspiration for the poems were extracted from Cubism and the works of the Italian poet F.T. Marinetti, writer of the Manifeste du futurisme (1912). Hellaakoski's enthusiasm about urban visual landscape", "title": "Jääpeili" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.45, "text": "Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin stylized as \"\"Aatamin puvussa... ja vähän Eevankin\"\" is a novel by the Finnish writer Yrjö Soini under his pen name Agapetus. It was published in 1928. The popular book has been subject to a number of film adaptations. The first was by Finnish film director Jaakko Korhonen in 1931 becoming the first Finnish sound film. The second was in 1940 directed by Finnish director Ossi Elstelä. In 1959, a version destined for the West German market was released. The film was directed by Franz M. Lang. A more recent adaptation", "title": "Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.08, "text": "was in 1071 when Matti Kassila wrote a storyline based on the novel and directed the film starring Heikki Kinnunen and Juha Hyppönen. Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin stylized as \"\"Aatamin puvussa... ja vähän Eevankin\"\" is a novel by the Finnish writer Yrjö Soini under his pen name Agapetus. It was published in 1928. The popular book has been subject to a number of film adaptations. The first was by Finnish film director Jaakko Korhonen in 1931 becoming the first Finnish sound film. The second was in 1940 directed by Finnish director Ossi Elstelä. In", "title": "Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.64, "text": "Suktimuktavali Suktimuktavali (IAST: Sūktimuktāvalī, 1257 CE) is an anthology of Sanskrit-language verses composed in the Seuna (Yadava) kingdom of present-day India. It was either authored or commissioned by the Yadava general Jalhana. One of the concluding verses of the text mentions that it was composed in the year 1179 of the Shaka Era, which corresponds to the year 1257 of the Common Era. The authorship of the text is not clear. One of its introductory verses name its author as Jalhana (IAST: Jalhaṇa), the commander of the elephant force of the Yadava ruler Krishna. The introductory portion of the text", "title": "Suktimuktavali" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.59, "text": "was commissioned by his master Jalhana. Suktimuktavali Suktimuktavali (IAST: Sūktimuktāvalī, 1257 CE) is an anthology of Sanskrit-language verses composed in the Seuna (Yadava) kingdom of present-day India. It was either authored or commissioned by the Yadava general Jalhana. One of the concluding verses of the text mentions that it was composed in the year 1179 of the Shaka Era, which corresponds to the year 1257 of the Common Era. The authorship of the text is not clear. One of its introductory verses name its author as Jalhana (IAST: Jalhaṇa), the commander of the elephant force of the Yadava ruler Krishna.", "title": "Suktimuktavali" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.44, "text": "\"\"Badshahi Angti\"\", actor Sourav Das played the role. Lalmohan Ganguli is a close friend of Prodosh Chandra Mitra, and is described as the author of a series of Bengali crime thrillers written under the pseudonym 'Jatayu'. His crime stories and novels are usually derided as unbelievable, considering that his main character is always the superhero Prakhar Rudra, and in his words, Height:6 ft 3 1/2 inches, waist:36, chest:46, shoulders:22 and wrist:8 1/2. Though all his novels seem to have become best-sellers, he often tends to make extremely silly mistakes such as spelling igloos as 'ilgoos'. In \"\"Baksho Rahasya\"\" or \"\"Incident", "title": "Feluda" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.23, "text": "The novel Taivaanpallo (The Celestial Sphere, Otava 2018) tells about the rays of the Enlightenment and life on St. Helena and London in the 1680s. Olli Jalonen Olli Jalonen (born February 21, 1954 in Helsinki, is a Finnish author. He lives in Hämeenlinna, Finland. He has studied Social Sciences (M.A. and L.Soc.Sc) and Literature (Ph.D) and has worked in journalism before becoming a full-time writer in 1981. The debut book came out in 1978 and since that he has published over 20 books (mostly novels and short story collections) and drama. Some of his novels have been translated into German,", "title": "Olli Jalonen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.08, "text": "themselves.” Jatta (novel) Jatta is a fantasy novel by Australian author and illustrator Jenny Hale. Set in an alternate world, its heroine Jatta discovers in the days before her fourteenth birthday that she is a werewolf. As the wolf inside Jatta grows, it continues to morph. When it impinges on her waking hours, Jatta realises her personality will disintegrate. Eventually none of her gentle humanity will be left. The novel deals with themes of forgiveness and how we are sculpted by family and culture. It investigates societies by contrasting Jatta’s pacifist, compassionate and vulnerable ‘Alteeda’ with the brutal, militarily successful", "title": "Jatta (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.98, "text": "Jatta (novel) Jatta is a fantasy novel by Australian author and illustrator Jenny Hale. Set in an alternate world, its heroine Jatta discovers in the days before her fourteenth birthday that she is a werewolf. As the wolf inside Jatta grows, it continues to morph. When it impinges on her waking hours, Jatta realises her personality will disintegrate. Eventually none of her gentle humanity will be left. The novel deals with themes of forgiveness and how we are sculpted by family and culture. It investigates societies by contrasting Jatta’s pacifist, compassionate and vulnerable ‘Alteeda’ with the brutal, militarily successful Kingdom", "title": "Jatta (novel)" } ]

[ "Jon Klassen" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.72, "text": "This is Not My Hat This Is Not My Hat is a 2012 children's picture book by the Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen. It was originally published in 2012 by Candlewick Press. Klassen won the annual Caldecott Medal in 2013 for illustration and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration. Klassen is the first person to win both awards for the same work. \"\"This is Not My Hat\"\" is a small format paperback book measuring 11.3 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches in dimension. \"\"This is Not My Hat\"\" received favorable reviews including Kirkus Reviews describing it as", "title": "This is Not My Hat" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.81, "text": "Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012). In 2014, \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\" by Jon Klassen won both the Greenaway Medal and the American Caldecott Medal, which recognises a picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. This is the first time the same book has won both medals. The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible. Indeed, \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\" was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by Walker Books and its American subsidiary Candlewick Press. Gail E. Haley was the first illustrator to", "title": "Kate Greenaway Medal" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.38, "text": "demand as demonstrated by recent The New York Times bestsellers \"\"I Want My Hat Back\"\" and \"\"This is Not My Hat\"\" (also winner of the 2012 Caldecott Medal) by Jon Klassen and \"\"Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made\"\" by Stephan Pastis. Candlewick Press is home to author Kate DiCamillo, having published her first novel, \"\"Because of Winn-Dixie\"\" (a Newbery Honor Book), along with \"\"The Tiger Rising\"\" (a National Book Award finalist), \"\"The Tale of Despereaux\"\" and \"\"\"\" (Newbery Medal winners), \"\"The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane\"\" (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner), the Mercy Watson series and \"\"Tales from Deckawoo Drive\"\"", "title": "Candlewick Press" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.3, "text": "by Lemony Snicket, which made the Greenaway Medal shortlist of eight books alongside \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\".He teamed up with Mac Barnett again in 2014, on a picture book published by Candlewick, \"\"Sam and Dave Dig a Hole\"\". Jon Klassen Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\", which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for", "title": "Jon Klassen" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.19, "text": "Jon Klassen Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\", which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for the same work. \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\" is a companion to Klassen's preceding picture book, \"\"I Want My Hat Back\"\" (2011), and his first as both writer and illustrator. Both books were on the New York Times Best", "title": "Jon Klassen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "later, \"\"This Is Not My Hat\"\" (Candlewick, 2012). It features a little fish who steals and wears the hat of a big fish, whom the little one evades until the last pages. Finally the big fish swims back into the book, wearing the hat, with no sign of the thief. This one won the Caldecott and Greenaway Medals, from the American and British professional librarians respectively. The Caldecott annually recognizes the illustrator of the previous year's \"\"most distinguished American picture book for children\"\". According to the award committee, \"\"With minute changes in eyes and the slightest displacement of seagrass, Klassen's", "title": "Jon Klassen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.31, "text": "a \"\"darkly comic haberdashery whodunit\"\" with \"\"sublime book design\"\", Common Sense Media calling it \"\"slyly funny\"\", and Publishers Weekly writing \"\"Klassen excels at using pictures to tell the parts of the story his unreliable narrators omit or evade.\"\" and concluding \"\"Tough times call for tough picture books.\"\" The School Library Journal wrote \"\"This not-to-be-missed title will delight children again and again.\"\" It was the winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal and of the 2014 Kate Greenaway Medal. From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale. A", "title": "This is Not My Hat" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.66, "text": "The Hat (book) The Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by French artist and author Tomi Ungerer. Published in 1970 by Parents' Magazine Press, the book tells the story of a poor veteran, Benito Badoglio, who becomes rich after he unwittingly gains possession of a magic hat. The book is richly illustrated and the text contains numerous vivid and mellifluous descriptions and dialog. For example, upon meeting the hat, the protagonist cries, \"\"Thunder of Sebastopole!\"\"; in another scene, he shouts, \"\"A thousand Potemkins!\"\" Other characters in the book are \"\"cutthroats\"\", \"\"brigands\"\", a \"\"fainting contessa\"\", and a \"\"dashing cadet\"\".", "title": "The Hat (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.58, "text": "small fish has stolen a hat from a big sleeping fish, and boasts about how easy it will be for him to get away with the theft, because the big fish will not wake up any time soon. Except it does. The story echoes the plot of Klassen's earlier book, \"\"I Want My Hat Back\"\", in which a bear is looking for his missing hat, and finally finds it on the head of the rabbit who has stolen it. \"\"This is Not My Hat\"\" reverses the viewpoint of the story, but with similar results. This is Not My Hat This", "title": "This is Not My Hat" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.28, "text": "a person drowning in a river can be seen far off in the distance; perhaps this is the new owner of the hat The characters in the book are: The Hat (book) The Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by French artist and author Tomi Ungerer. Published in 1970 by Parents' Magazine Press, the book tells the story of a poor veteran, Benito Badoglio, who becomes rich after he unwittingly gains possession of a magic hat. The book is richly illustrated and the text contains numerous vivid and mellifluous descriptions and dialog. For example, upon meeting the hat,", "title": "The Hat (book)" } ]

[ "Jens Lapidus", "Jens Jacob Lapidus" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.08, "text": "Easy Money (novel) Easy Money (Swedish title: Snabba cash) is a 2006 novel by Jens Lapidus. The paperback was the fourth bestselling Swedish novel of 2007. JW is a young man originally from the countryside who now lives in Stockholm. JW feigns the appearance of a \"\"stekare\"\" (in Swedish parlance, a lifestyle based on flaunting one's apparent wealth; a jetsetter), actually leading a double life driving taxi illegally to finance his expensive life on Stureplan. Abdulkarim, who runs the taxi business, offers JW a job selling cocaine instead. JW accepts the offer and enters the criminal underground of Stockholm. Jorge", "title": "Easy Money (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.14, "text": "that Jorge got very knowledgeable about the cocaine trade while he was in prison and thus JW gets an assignment to hire him. Simultaneously Jorge has tried to blackmail the Yugoslav mafia boss. The hitman Mrado has been contracted to dissuade him. When JW finally finds Jorge he is laying beaten-up in a forest, courtesy of Mrado. Easy Money (novel) Easy Money (Swedish title: Snabba cash) is a 2006 novel by Jens Lapidus. The paperback was the fourth bestselling Swedish novel of 2007. JW is a young man originally from the countryside who now lives in Stockholm. JW feigns the", "title": "Easy Money (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.5, "text": "published by the British Film Institute, London, 1983 Easy Money (1948 film) Easy Money, a satirical 1948 British film about one of the most beloved traditions of the English middle class, the football pool, is composed of four tales about the effect a major win has on four different groups in the postwar period. Written by Muriel and Sydney Box and directed by Bernard Knowles, it was released by Gainsborough Pictures. In the first story, a comedy, a content suburban family, headed by Jack Warner, is turned into an unhappy lot when they believe that they have the winning coupon", "title": "Easy Money (1948 film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.47, "text": "Easy Money (2010 film) Easy Money () is a Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa that was released on 15 January 2010. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Jens Lapidus. Joel Kinnaman stars in the lead role of Johan \"\"JW\"\" Westlund, a rather poor man living a double life in the upper class areas of Stockholm. After meeting a wealthy girl, he is enticed into the world of organized crime and begins to sell cocaine to afford his expensive lifestyle. \"\"Easy Money\"\" was well received by critics and was a hit at the", "title": "Easy Money (2010 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.22, "text": "Easy Money (album) Easy Money is the nineteenth studio album of country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 2007 under the Warner Bros. Records label and was his first album for the label since 1986's \"\"Countrified\"\". The album produced the singles: \"\"If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me\"\" (previously a single in 2002 for Aaron Tippin from his album \"\"Stars & Stripes\"\") and \"\"A Woman Knows\"\". \"\"Easy Money\"\" peaked at 36 for country albums and reached 170 on the United States Billboard 200. Allmusic stated that Anderson pulled the album off \"\"with ease\"\" and that most of the album", "title": "Easy Money (album)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.2, "text": "Barbara Wright (author) Barbara Wright is an American writers. She is the author of three books: \"\"Plain Language\"\", \"\"Easy Money\"\", and \"\"Crow\"\". \"\"Plain Language\"\" received the Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel in 2004. Her latest book, \"\"Crow\"\", a historical fiction novel for children, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, The Horn Book Magazine, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Wright grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband. In addition to being a writer, Wright has worked as a fact-checker and screenwriter. She has traveled around the world and has lived", "title": "Barbara Wright (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.09, "text": "Easy Money (1948 film) Easy Money, a satirical 1948 British film about one of the most beloved traditions of the English middle class, the football pool, is composed of four tales about the effect a major win has on four different groups in the postwar period. Written by Muriel and Sydney Box and directed by Bernard Knowles, it was released by Gainsborough Pictures. In the first story, a comedy, a content suburban family, headed by Jack Warner, is turned into an unhappy lot when they believe that they have the winning coupon in the football pool. But when it's discovered", "title": "Easy Money (1948 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.03, "text": "Easy Money (1983 film) Easy Money is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by James Signorelli and written by Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P. J. O'Rourke and Dennis Blair. The original music score was composed by Laurence Rosenthal. The theme song \"\"Easy Money\"\" is performed by Billy Joel and was featured on his album \"\"An Innocent Man\"\". Montgomery \"\"Monty\"\" Capuletti is a hard-living, heavy-drinking, pot-smoking, gambling family man who makes his living as a baby photographer in New Dorp, Staten Island. He loves his wife Rose", "title": "Easy Money (1983 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "blank paper then appears to turn into paper money. This is a type of \"\"Bill Switch\"\" published as a DVD and in the book \"\"Magic Page by Page\"\". Easy Money has been re-released by Greg Wilson, in the DVD Wilson attributes his method to Page. Pat Page (magician) Patrick \"\"Pat\"\" Page (17 March 1929 – 11 February 2010) was a stage magician born in Dundee, Scotland. He became a professional magician at the age of 26 and worked at Davenport's magic shop for fifteen years. In 1950, he married Margaret Manzie, who died in 2003. Pat was the youngest of", "title": "Pat Page (magician)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.73, "text": "in a series of articles written by future \"\"The Wire\"\" creator David Simon. \"\"Easy Money: Anatomy of a Drug Empire\"\", a series of five articles, was published in the \"\"Baltimore Sun\"\" in 1987. Williams was released on parole in 1996. In March 1999, he pistol-whipped a man over a $500 debt. Williams, who at the time was on parole and had an extensive criminal record, was sentenced to 22 years in prison in December 2000 after one mistrial. However, his sentence was reduced by the same judge who imposed the original 22-year term. He was released from prison in September", "title": "Melvin Williams (actor)" } ]

[ "Mark Twain", "Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Samuel L. Clemens", "Samuel Clemens" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.8, "text": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as \"\"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog\"\" (its original title) and \"\"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: \"\"If he even seen a straddle bug start to", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.77, "text": "the book suffered from lackluster sales. The collection included: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as \"\"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog\"\" (its original title) and \"\"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him:", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.03, "text": "Adventures of Mark Twain\"\" (1985), in which Mark Twain retells the story in short to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher. The short story collection \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches\"\", Twain's first book, contains 27 short stories and sketches. It was released by the American News Company in 1867 under the editorship of Twain's friend Charles Henry Webb. Privately, to his colleague Bret Harte, Twain wrote it was \"\"full of damnable errors of grammar and deadly inconsistencies of spelling in the Frog sketch because I did not read the proofs\"\". After its May release,", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.7, "text": "story at the request of his friend Artemus Ward, for inclusion in an upcoming book. Twain worked on two versions, but neither was satisfactory to him—neither got around to describing the jumping frog contest. Ward pressed him again, but by the time Twain devised a version he was willing to submit, that book was already nearing publication, so Ward sent it instead to \"\"The New York Saturday Press\"\", where it appeared in the November 18, 1865, edition as \"\"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog\"\". Twain's colorful story was immensely popular, and was soon printed in many different magazines and newspapers.", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.7, "text": "provided material for \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\" (1865). Twain moved to San Francisco in 1864, still as a journalist, and met writers such as Bret Harte and Artemus Ward. He may have been romantically involved with the poet Ina Coolbrith. His first success as a writer came when his humorous tall tale \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\" was published on November 18, 1865, in the New York weekly \"\"The Saturday Press\"\", bringing him national attention. A year later, he traveled to the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii) as a reporter for the \"\"Sacramento Union\"\". His letters", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.53, "text": "go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.\"\" \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches\"\" is also the title story of an 1867 collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was Twain's first book and collected 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers. Twain first wrote the title short", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "Twain developed the idea further, and Bret Harte published this version in \"\"The Californian\"\" on December 16, 1865; this time titled \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\", and Smiley's name was changed to Greeley. Further popularity of the tale led Twain to use the story to anchor his own first book, which appeared in 1867 with a first issue run of only 1,000 copies. The first edition was issued in seven colors (with no priority): blue, brown, green, lavender, plum, red, and terra-cotta, and is sought after by book collectors, as it fetches thousands of dollars at auctions. In", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "of sketches, Webb offered to take on the project himself. Webb served as both editor and publisher for \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches\"\" When it was released under the American News Company imprint in 1867, Twain reported to a newspaper, \"\"[Webb] has gotten it up in excellent style, and has done everything to suit his own taste, which is excellent. I have made no suggestions.\"\" In 1867, Webb wrote \"\"St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga\"\", a parody of the novel \"\"St. Elmo\"\" by Augusta Evans Wilson which had sold over a million copies", "title": "Charles Henry Webb" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.03, "text": "tale—in particular, his surprise to find that the story bore a striking resemblance to an ancient Greek tale. He wrote: Later, however, in November 1903, Twain noted: But in A. Sidgwick's \"\"Note To The Thirteenth Edition\"\" (1907), among \"\"hearty... thanks for... help received\"\", Prof. Sidgwick still failed to acknowledge his use of the Twain tale. Lukas Foss composed \"\"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\", an opera in two scenes with libretto by Jean Karsavina, based on Twain's story. The opera premiered on May 18, 1950, at Indiana University. The story was also adapted as a scene in the film \"\"The", "title": "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.86, "text": "Angels Hotel The Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story \"\"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\"\". The hotel was originally a canvas tent erected by C. C. Lake in 1851, and replaced by a one-story wooden structure. It was rebuilt with stone in 1855, and a second story was added in 1857. In front of the building is the \"\"Frog Hop of Fame\"\", where commemorative plaques are embedded in the sidewalk for the winners of the annual Jumping Frog Jubilee", "title": "Angels Hotel" } ]

[ "Harlan Ellison", "Harlan Jay Ellison" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.83, "text": "abusers in North East England. Masters is also the author of \"\"The Genius In My Basement\"\" (), a biography of mathematician Simon P. Norton. In 2016, Masters published \"\"A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash\"\" () Alexander Masters has been portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in \"\"\"\", the 2007 BBC dramatization of his biography of Stuart Shorter. Alexander Masters Alexander Masters is an author, screenwriter, and worker with the homeless. He lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady. He was educated at Bedales School, and took a first in physics", "title": "Alexander Masters" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.38, "text": "The Discarded Image The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is non-fiction and the last book written by C. S. Lewis. It deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe, and portrays the medieval conception of a \"\"model\"\" of the world. This model formed \"\"\"\"the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe.\"\"\"\" The book includes such concepts as the structure of the medieval universe, the nature of its inhabitants, the notion of a finite universe, ordered and maintained by a celestial hierarchy,", "title": "The Discarded Image" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "York. He was celebrated in life in an amusing poem called \"\"The Discarded,\"\" written by Halleck, but it was upon Walt Whitman that he made the greatest impression. He penned a lengthy eulogy for Clarke in the \"\"Aurora\"\", another article four days later praising him, and on March 16 published a poem, \"\"The Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke: A Parody\"\", in the same magazine. A fragment of autobiography in his own handwriting, penned two months before his death, is still preserved. It reads: \"\"Begotten among the orange-groves, on the wild mountains of Jamaica, West Indies. Born in Bath, on", "title": "McDonald Clarke" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.72, "text": "Most reviews of the book were positive: However, some reviewers have noted Lewis' \"\"tendency to oversimplify...and to overcategorize\"\" The Discarded Image The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is non-fiction and the last book written by C. S. Lewis. It deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe, and portrays the medieval conception of a \"\"model\"\" of the world. This model formed \"\"\"\"the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe.\"\"\"\" The book includes such concepts as the structure of the medieval universe,", "title": "The Discarded Image" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.67, "text": "The House of Discarded Dreams The House of Discarded Dreams is a 2010 fantasy novel by Ekaterina Sedia about a college student who experiences many fairy tales and legends as she finds her place in the world. The main character, Vimbai, is a young college student studying invertebrate zoology who is trying to escape her Zimbabwean culture and her overbearing immigrant mother. After skipping class and taking a walk on the beach, Vimbai finds an ad for a house to rent in the sand dunes. The opportunity comes at the perfect time and Vimbai decides it is time to leave", "title": "The House of Discarded Dreams" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.16, "text": "\"\"Publishers Weekly\"\" called it a \"\"quirky, joyous fantasy\"\", criticising plotting but praising Sedia's lyrical style. The \"\"Denver Post\"\" described it as \"\"a beguiling, surrealistic fantasy wonderfully brought to logic-defying life\"\". Locus magazine noted that the book avoided being simply an allegory of African-American experience by the weight it gave to fantastical elements. The House of Discarded Dreams The House of Discarded Dreams is a 2010 fantasy novel by Ekaterina Sedia about a college student who experiences many fairy tales and legends as she finds her place in the world. The main character, Vimbai, is a young college student studying invertebrate", "title": "The House of Discarded Dreams" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.14, "text": "Josh Olson Josh Olson is an American screenwriter and director. Olson began his career working as a production assistant in the art department on the 1987 film \"\"Masters of the Universe\"\". In 2006, he was nominated for the British Academy Award, the Writer's Guild Award, the USC Scripter Award and the Academy Award for his adapted screenplay for \"\"A History of Violence\"\". In 2006, Olson was invited by author Harlan Ellison to collaborate with Ellison on an adaptation of the author's short story \"\"The Discarded\"\" for ABC's series, \"\"Masters of Science Fiction.\"\" The episode stars Brian Dennehy and John Hurt,", "title": "Josh Olson" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23, "text": "Outwitting History Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky is a book about the author's efforts to rescue a large number of books in the Yiddish language from destruction. According to the book, at age 23 Lansky read that thousands of the few remaining Yiddish books in North America were being discarded by the children of the books' original Yiddish-speaking owners. The books meant nothing to many of those who had inherited them, as they had no knowledge of Yiddish. Thousands of volumes were thus being consigned to dumpsters and a whole literature was in danger of being lost. Lansky felt compelled", "title": "Outwitting History" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.98, "text": "given, but it was stated that they would be included in the dream-world. Maya spoke of how she wanted more literary figures, therefore including Octavia Butler, who is an African-American science fiction writer. Sticking with their occurring theme of literary figures, Vimbai says that Amos Tutuola, a Nigerian fantasy writer would be included in their dream-world next. Not only are literary figures included in their dream-world but Vimabi insisted that they included Wangari Maathai, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Ekaterina Sedia's novel The House of Discarded Dreams was published by Prime Books and distributed by Diamond Book Distributors.", "title": "The House of Discarded Dreams" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.55, "text": "discarded fragments. Being that there are six partbooks, there should have been twelve pastedowns (two for each volume, one each for the front and back endpapers), but only nine were found. These were first documented by John Stevens (who said that they were brought to his attention by Thurston Dart). Of these nine fragments (some of which contain more than one composition), Stevens counted fifteen separate works, four which appear in the British Library manuscript Add. 5465, the \"\"Fayrfax manuscript\"\" (F19, F24, F37, F40), and one (\"\"The bella, the bella\"\") with the 1530 publication \"\"XX Songes\"\". Two of the numbers", "title": "Drexel 4180–4185" } ]

[ "Mike Tucker" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.44, "text": "book entitled \"\"Prime Time\"\" which includes many backstage stories from the author's times as a producer. Lewis was also a founder of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Both Lewis and Sullivan shared the George Foster Peabody Award for humanitarian activities. In 1992, Lewis was elected to the Television Producers Hall of Fame. In 1993, he died of heart failure at a hospital in Palm Springs, California. Marlo Lewis Marlo Lewis (September 15, 1915 – June 8, 1993) was an American executive producer of variety and comedy shows for CBS and is well known for co-producing the famous \"\"Ed", "title": "Marlo Lewis" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.41, "text": "involve learning to manage one's time, energy and attention. Among other productivity tactics, Bailey discusses the benefits of finding one's Biological Prime Time (the unique time of day when a person has their highest energy level) and dedicating that time to performing important tasks, through the creation of a daily to-do list limited to the three most important things that need to be accomplished that day. In addition to a \"\"to-do\"\" list, Bailey recommends keeping a \"\"done\"\" list of one's largest accomplishments, adding to it each week and reviewing it every Sunday to gain inspiration for the week ahead. He", "title": "Chris Bailey (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.25, "text": "The Jews of Prime Time The Jews of Prime Time is a 2003 book by David Zurawik. David Bianculli, a TV critic at the time for National Public Radio’s \"\"Fresh Air\"\" and the \"\"New York Daily News\"\", wrote in his review, \"\"(Zurawik's) own thorough and thoroughly entertaining insights about so many TV shows, from 'The Goldbergs' and 'Rhoda' to 'Seinfeld' and 'The Nanny,' make this one of the most important, well-researched and addictively readable television books ever written.\"\" Book reviewer Joe Rosenberg wrote in the \"\"Baltimore Chronicle\"\", \"\"According to Zurawik, the Jewish heads of pre-cable television at CBS, NBC, and", "title": "The Jews of Prime Time" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.08, "text": "David Zurawik David L. Zurawik (born ) is an American journalist, author, professor, and media critic. He has been the TV and media critic at \"\"The Baltimore Sun\"\" since 1989 and is an assistant professor of communications and media studies at Goucher College. Before that, Zurawik was a TV critic/columnist at the \"\"Dallas Times Herald\"\". Zurawik is the author of \"\"The Jews of Prime Time\"\". David L. Zurawik earned a master's degree in specialized reporting from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. His dissertation in 2000 was titled \"\"The", "title": "David Zurawik" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.97, "text": "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present is a trade paperback reference work by the American television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, first published by Ballantine Books in 1979. That first edition won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category General Reference (paperback). The ninth edition came out in 2007 (). The title of early editions did not include the words \"\"and cable\"\". In 2007, co-author Tim Brooks stated that the ninth edition may be the last one released", "title": "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.62, "text": "by the major networks. Operation Prime Time was launched in May 1977, with Testimony of Two Men, a six-hour series based on Taylor Caldwell’s best-selling novel, debuting on 93 stations. Another early program, David Frost’s conversations with Richard Nixon, drew 45 million viewers. Among the early executives to sign on were Frank Price of Universal Television, who offered the Caldwell novel, and Archa Knowlton, media-services director for General Foods. Operation Prime Time specials include many Emmy Award nominees and several Emmy winners, such as Ingrid Bergman in “A Woman Called Golda,” about Israeli Prime minister Golda Meir; Alec Guinness in", "title": "Al Masini" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.56, "text": "of the top twenty films of the decade (2000–2010). Science fiction author Greg Egan described it as \"\"an ingenious, tautly constructed time-travel story\"\". Primer (film) Primer is a 2004 American science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth, who also stars. \"\"Primer\"\" is of note for its extremely low budget, experimental plot structure, philosophical implications, and complex technical dialogue, which Carruth, a college graduate with a degree in mathematics and a former engineer, chose not to simplify for the sake of the audience. The film collected", "title": "Primer (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.48, "text": "When She's Angry\"\". Sander’s book (Co-written with Marcia Rock, 2-time Emmy award winning producer of NY documentaries), “Waiting for Prime Time: the women of television news” was published in 1988. Marlene Sanders Marlene Sanders (January 10, 1931 – July 14, 2015) was an American television news correspondent, anchor, producer and executive who worked for ABC News in the 1960s and 1970s and moved to CBS News in 1978. She is known for being the first woman to achieve several milestones in the then male-dominated field of television news. Shortly after joining ABC News as a correspondent in 1964, Sanders became", "title": "Marlene Sanders" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.45, "text": "Free Press in the late-'70-s-early 80s, where he was a feature writer and TV critic. Zurawik has been a guest on the CNN public affairs talk show \"\"Reliable Sources\"\", and has also appeared on Fox News shows such as \"\"Fox & Friends,\"\" \"\"The O’Reilly Factor\"\" and \"\"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.\"\" In addition to his position with the \"\"Baltimore Sun\"\", Zurawik is a communications and media studies assistant professor at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. He is also an editor for SAGE Publications. Zurawik is the author of \"\"The Jews of Prime Time\"\" (2003). After that book was", "title": "David Zurawik" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.25, "text": "Prime Time (Deion Sanders album) Prime Time is the debut album by National Football League Hall of Famer and Major League Baseball star, Deion Sanders. It was released on December 26, 1994 by Capitol Records via Hammer's label, Bust It Records. Despite universally negative reviews, the album managed to make it to #70 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #14 on the Top Heatseekers. One single was released titled \"\"Must Be the Money\"\", but it failed to make it to the charts. On February 18, 1995, during the twentieth season of \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\", Sanders performed a medley of songs,", "title": "Prime Time (Deion Sanders album)" } ]

[ "William Wordsworth", "Wordsworth" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.03, "text": "My Heart Leaps Up \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\", also known as \"\"The Rainbow\"\", is a poem by the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Noted for its simplicity of structure and language, it describes the joy that he feels when he sees a rainbow and notes that he has felt this way since his childhood. He concludes the poem by noting how his childhood has shaped his current views and stating that \"\"the child is father of the man\"\". Wordsworth wrote \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\" on the night of March 26, 1802. Earlier that day, he had written \"\"To The Cuckoo\"\".", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.83, "text": "he's the father of man\"\". In the 2007 film \"\"Control\"\", Ian Curtis, portrayed by Sam Riley, recites the poem. My Heart Leaps Up \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\", also known as \"\"The Rainbow\"\", is a poem by the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Noted for its simplicity of structure and language, it describes the joy that he feels when he sees a rainbow and notes that he has felt this way since his childhood. He concludes the poem by noting how his childhood has shaped his current views and stating that \"\"the child is father of the man\"\". Wordsworth wrote \"\"My", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.47, "text": "He was in Dove Cottage, Grasmere with his sister, Dorothy. After he wrote it he often thought about altering it, but decided to leave it as it was originally written. It was published as part of \"\"Poems, in Two Volumes\"\" in 1807. The day after he wrote \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\" Wordsworth began to write his more ambitious \"\"\"\". The last three lines from \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\" are used as an epigraph to \"\"Intimations of Immortality\"\". Some scholars have noted that \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\" indicates Wordsworth's state of mind while writing the larger poem and provides clues to", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.38, "text": "of his joy as a child. William Blake disliked Wordsworth's use of the phrase \"\"natural piety\"\". Blake believed that man was naturally impious and therefore Wordsworth's phrase contradicted itself. The Beach Boys' songs \"\"Surf's Up\"\" (1971) and \"\"Child Is Father of the Man\"\" (2011) quote the poem. Blood, Sweat & Tears named their 1968 studio album \"\"Child Is Father to the Man\"\". The first page of Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian paraphrases Wordsworth. McCarthy writes, \"\"the child the father of the man.\"\" Michael Jackson's poem \"\"Magical Child\"\", included in the 1992 book \"\"Dancing the Dream\"\", recites: \"\"Don't stop this child,", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.14, "text": "poet William Blake. Thematic links to \"\"Songs of Innocence and of Experience\"\" by concept of childhood and spirituality carry throughout other songs and tracks. However, the piece \"\"My Heart Leaps Up\"\" by William Wordsworth originated the idiom \"\"\"\"Child Is Father of the Man\"\"\"\" later recycled by Wilson and Parks. Other general \"\"Smile\"\" themes have been recited by \"\"Smile\"\" visual artist Frank Holmes to have included \"\"travel, nature, history, communications, love stories, virtue, betrayal, bucolic splendor, astrology, [and] mystery\"\". \"\"Smile\"\" drew heavily on American popular music of the past; Wilson's original compositions were interwoven with snippets of significant songs of yesteryear", "title": "Smile (The Beach Boys album)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.06, "text": "and used the same, geometrical pun on ‘piety’ twice elsewhere. Many commentators also draw parallels to the rainbow of Noah and the covenant that it symbolised. Wordsworth's use of the phrase \"\"bound each to each\"\" in the poem also implies the presence of a covenant. Some commentators have drawn further parallels with the story of Noah. Harold Bloom has suggested that Wordsworth casts the rainbow as a symbol of the survival of his poetic gift, just as the rainbow symbolised to Noah the survival of mankind. Bloom suggests that Wordsworth's poetic gift relied on his ability to recall the memories", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.95, "text": "Heart Leaps Up\"\". The album was re-released in the UK in 1973, entitled \"\"The First Album\"\" on Embassy Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records (catalogue number EMB 31028) with an identical track listing and the same picture on the front of the sleeve. The rear had new sleeve notes written by English DJ, Noel Edmonds. Writing for AllMusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was \"\"Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements (including strings and horns), all without losing the", "title": "Child Is Father to the Man" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 20.86, "text": "its interpretation. Some commentators have speculated that Wordsworth felt such joy because the rainbow indicates the constancy of his connection to nature throughout his life. Others have said that it celebrates \"\"the continuity in Wordsworth's consciousness of self\"\", Because the rainbow is part of a circle, Fred Blick has been able to demonstrate that the word ‘piety’ at the end of the last line makes an intentional, geometrical pun (signalled by the phrase ‘bound each to each’), symbolising continuity and infinity. The pun blends ‘a state of infinite pi / π’ with the normal meaning of ‘reverence’. Wordsworth loved geometry", "title": "My Heart Leaps Up" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.81, "text": "newspaper, \"\"The Diamondback\"\", serving as the sports page editor. Olesker is the author of \"\"Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore\"\" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, ) and co-authored \"\"Leap into Darkness\"\", a 1998 memoir of a Holocaust survivor. His other books include: He was an extra in the 5th season of HBO's The Wire. Michael Olesker Michael Olesker (born 1945) is a former syndicated columnist for the \"\"Baltimore Sun\"\" newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, and a book author. Olesker resigned from the \"\"Sun\"\" on January 4, 2006, after it was alleged that his columns contained passages plagiarized from articles at other", "title": "Michael Olesker" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.64, "text": "my heart than anything I have written”. He went on to publish two other non-fiction works, one in English: \"\"Where Silver Salmon Leap\"\" (1976), and the other translated into Welsh: \"\"Gwanwyn Serch\"\" (1982), which contained more memories of his childhood and was a sequel to \"\"Y Tincer Tlawd\"\". A further novel was published in Welsh with the title \"\"Y Nos Na Fu\"\" (1974), whilst his first English novel was also translated into Welsh as \"\"Croesi’r Bryniau\"\" (1980). Tom Macdonald finally returned to Wales in 1965 after his retirement, briefly living at Plas Cwmcynfelyn before settling at ‘Y Nyth’ in Capel", "title": "Tom Macdonald (writer)" } ]

[ "Ivan Kotliarevskyi", "Ivan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky", "Ivan Kotliarevsky", "Ivan Kotlyarevsky", "Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevskyi", "Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.98, "text": "Natalka Poltavka (opera) Natalka Poltavka (English: Natalka from Poltava) is an opera in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, based on the play \"\"Natalka Poltavka\"\" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, first performed in 1889. The original version of Kotlyarevsky's play in 1819 contained a number of Ukrainian folk songs which were sung at different points throughout the work. The first known musical adaptation of the play was made by Kharkiv musician A. Barsytsky and was published in 1833. Simultaneously the play starring M. Shchepkin as Vyborny was premiered in Moscow in the 1830s with music arranged by the head violinist", "title": "Natalka Poltavka (opera)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.56, "text": "Natalka Poltavka The play was written in 1819 in the Ukrainian language, and first performed in 1821 in the city of Kharkiv, though it was not available in print until 1838. The play served as the basis for the operetta \"\"Natalka Poltavka\"\" by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, and it has also been made into a number of films in Ukraine and abroad. The play has the features of classicist poetics and also, in keeping with the spirit of Ukrainian national rebirth of the period in which it was written, a distinct interest in the lives of the common Ukrainian people", "title": "Natalka Poltavka" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.44, "text": "This film was the first adaptation of an opera produced in the former Soviet Union. Natalka Poltavka (opera) Natalka Poltavka (English: Natalka from Poltava) is an opera in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, based on the play \"\"Natalka Poltavka\"\" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, first performed in 1889. The original version of Kotlyarevsky's play in 1819 contained a number of Ukrainian folk songs which were sung at different points throughout the work. The first known musical adaptation of the play was made by Kharkiv musician A. Barsytsky and was published in 1833. Simultaneously the play starring M. Shchepkin as", "title": "Natalka Poltavka (opera)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "from Poltava) and \"\"Moskal-Charivnyk\"\" (The Muscovite-Sorcerer), became the impetus for the creation of the Natalka Poltavka opera and the development of Ukrainian national theater. Partial translations of Eneyida date back to 1933 when a translation of first few stanzas of Kotlyarevsky's Eneyida by Wolodymyr Semenyna was published in the American newspaper of Ukrainian diaspora Ukrainian Weekly on October 20, 1933. However, the first full English translation of Kotliarevsky's magnum opus Eneida was published only in 2006 in Canada by a Ukrainian-Canadian Bohdan Melnyk, most well known for his English translation of Ivan Franko's Ukrainian fairy tale Mikita the Fox ()", "title": "Ivan Kotliarevsky" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.7, "text": "number of Ukrainian folk songs which were sung at different points throughout the work, the first known musical adaptation of the play was made by Kharkiv musician A. Barsytsky and was published in 1833. Simultaneously the play starring M. Shchepkin as Vyborny was premiered in Moscow in the 1830s with music arranged by the head violinist and later conductor A. Gurianov. Later arrangements were made by A. Yedlichka, M. Vasyliev and others. In 1889 a version by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko premiered. This version upstaged all the previous versions of the work. Lysenko took the original songs from the", "title": "Natalka Poltavka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.34, "text": "and later conductor A. Gurianov. Later arrangements were made by A. Yedlichka, M. Vasyliev and others. Lysenko began to work on the opera in 1864 but put it aside, lacking experience in writing for the opera stage. His eventual 1889 version upstaged all the previous versions of the work. Lysenko took the original songs from the play, which were lengthened, and wrote orchestral accompaniments to the folk songs and dances in the play. He enlarged the musical tapestry, producing background music to some parts. The songs were transformed into arias, and an overture and musical entracts were added which stayed", "title": "Natalka Poltavka (opera)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.16, "text": "and peasants. This latter element accounts for its great popularity in Ukraine both at the time of its writing and in the present day, and also its influence on the development of Ukrainian dramatic literature in the 19th century. The play follows the trials and tribulations of Natalka and Peter \"\"(Petro)\"\". The sweethearts plan to get married; however, Natalka's father does not approve of the marriage because Petro is not affluent enough to keep Natalka in the manner he thought that she should be kept. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune. In the meantime, Natalka's father passes away,", "title": "Natalka Poltavka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "who speaks in a broken language trying to unsuccessfully emulate the language of the Russian officials of the day. The play was made into a film that was released on December 24, 1936 in Ukraine. The film was directed by Ivan Kavaleridze. This film was the first adaptation of an operetta produced in the former Soviet Union. Another film, directed by Ukrainian American Vasyl Avramenko, was released a year later on February 14, 1937 in the United States. This was the first Ukrainian language film produced in the U.S. Although the first version of the play in 1819 contained a", "title": "Natalka Poltavka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.8, "text": "play, which were lengthened and wrote orchestral accompaniments to these folk songs and dances in the play. He enlarged the musical tapestry producing background music to some parts. The songs were transformed into arias, an overture and musical entracts were added which stayed true to the spirit of Kotliarevsky's play. Although Lysenko's version is usually categorised as an operetta, it is more close to an opera-comique, containing long stretches of spoken dialogue. Natalka Poltavka The play was written in 1819 in the Ukrainian language, and first performed in 1821 in the city of Kharkiv, though it was not available in", "title": "Natalka Poltavka" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.61, "text": "true to the spirit of Kotlyarevsky's play. Although Lysenko's version is usually categorised as an opera, it is more comparable to an opera-comique, containing as it does long stretches of spoken dialogue. Attempts were made to transform the work into \"\"Grand Opera\"\" with the addition of music by V. Iorish were not successful. The Kiev State Opera returned to Lysenko's original version. The opera was first performed in Odessa (in Russian), on 12/24 November 1889. An early exponent of the role of Mykola was Fyodor Stravinsky, father of the composer Igor Stravinsky. The opera has been performed by the Ukrainian", "title": "Natalka Poltavka (opera)" } ]

[ "Samuel Beckett", "Samuel Barclay Beckett", "Andrew Belis", "Sam Beckett", "Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe", "Samuel Beḳeṭ" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "Come and Go Come and Go is a short play (described as a \"\"dramaticule\"\" on its title page) by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in January 1965 and first performed (in German) at the Schillertheater, Berlin on 14 January 1966. Its English language premiere was at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin on 28 February 1966, and its British premiere was at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 9 December 1968. It was written for and dedicated to the publisher John Calder. Some critics consider this one of Beckett's most \"\"perfect\"\" plays: Beckett agonized over each individual line until", "title": "Come and Go" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "Come and Go Come and Go is a short play (described as a \"\"dramaticule\"\" on its title page) by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in January 1965 and first performed (in German) at the Schillertheater, Berlin on 14 January 1966. Its English language premiere was at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin on 28 February 1966, and its British premiere was at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 9 December 1968. It was written for and dedicated to the publisher John Calder. Some critics consider this one of Beckett's most \"\"perfect\"\" plays: Beckett agonized over each individual line until", "title": "Come and Go" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.78, "text": "featured many previously unreleased photographs. On April 5, 2016, HarperCollins Publishers released a new book, coauthored by Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper, titled \"\"The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss.\"\" The book was described as: \"\"A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives.\"\" On April 9, 2016, HBO premiered \"\"Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper,\"\" a two-hour documentary, produced and directed by Liz Garbus, that featured", "title": "Gloria Vanderbilt" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.7, "text": "poor women dabbling in witchcraft living off the countryside of Scotland with their children. While they appear amidst battles and make strangely accurate prophecies, they do not manifest anything supernatural otherwise. \"\"Come and Go\"\", a short play written in 1965 by Samuel Beckett, recalls the Three Witches. The play features only three characters, all women, named Flo, Vi, and Ru. The opening line: “When did we three last meet?” recalls the “When shall we three meet again?” of \"\"Macbeth\"\": Act 1, Scene 1. \"\"The Third Witch\"\", a 2001 novel written by Rebecca Reisert, tells the story of the play through", "title": "Three Witches" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.53, "text": "of this is to be published in Ruby Cohn's \"\"Just Play\"\" and was later made more widely available in \"\"Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment\"\" edited by Cohn. \"\"When the curtain rises, three women are seated, presumably encircled by the long gowns of the time [18th Century]. Mrs Williams is meditating, Mrs Desmoulins is knitting and Miss Carmichael is reading. During the course of the scene the latter two rise and temporarily leave their seats, but Mrs Williams's actions are confined to striking the floor with her stick.\"\" Beckett may have been \"\"motivated by the theme he clearly wishes", "title": "Come and Go" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.38, "text": "Press, 2008) and \"\"Joy Dogs\"\" (Press on Scroll Road, 2013). were published in handset letterpress limited editions. Her first novel \"\"Come and Go, Molly Snow\"\" (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) (W.W. Norton & Company, 1995) was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her second novel \"\"At The Breakers\"\" was published in 2009 by the University Press of Kentucky. Her collection of short fiction, \"\"How She Knows What She Knows about Yo-Yos\"\", (Sarabande Books, 2000) was a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year. Her work has been published in \"\"The Paris Review\"\", \"\"The Kenyon Review\"\", \"\"The Sewanee Review\"\",", "title": "Mary Ann Taylor-Hall" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.84, "text": "You've Got It Coming You've Got It Coming is a 1955 thriller novel by British author James Hadley Chase. Harry Griffin, ace Californian Air Transport Corporation pilot, is fired from service and is in a relationship with ex model and actress Glorie Dane, who has seen many a man come and go in her life, but loves Harry more than herself and does not want to lose him.Harry soon decides to steal a set of diamonds worth 3 million dollars from a passenger plane leaving CATC,which he was supposed to fly before being dismissed,to which Gloria reluctantly agrees.Soon they rope", "title": "You've Got It Coming" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.56, "text": "Joe Turner's Come and Gone Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, \"\"The Pittsburgh Cycle\"\". The play was first staged 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and opened on Broadway on 27 March 1988 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—running for 105 performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast included Delroy Lindo as Herald Loomis and television and movie star Angela Bassett, as Loomis's wife, Martha. The original working title of the play was \"\"Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket\"\",", "title": "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.28, "text": "Manager: Elliott Woodruff Casting Consultants: Meg Simon/ Fran Kumin Joe Turner's Come and Gone Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, \"\"The Pittsburgh Cycle\"\". The play was first staged 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and opened on Broadway on 27 March 1988 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—running for 105 performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast included Delroy Lindo as Herald Loomis and television and movie star Angela Bassett, as Loomis's wife, Martha. The original working", "title": "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.25, "text": "Joan Abelove Joan Abelove (born 1945) is an American writer of young adult novels. She attended Barnard College and has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York. She spent two years in the jungles of Peru as part of her doctoral research and used the experience as background for her first novel, \"\"Go and Come Back\"\" (1998). \"\"Go and Come Back\"\", about a young Peruvian girl's encounter with anthropologists, earned numerous awards and citations, including a \"\"Best Books for Young Adults\"\" selection of the American Library Association and \"\"Book Prize Finalist\"\" selection of the \"\"Los", "title": "Joan Abelove" } ]

[ "Friedrich Nietzsche", "Frîdrîk Nîtşe", "Fridrih Wilhelm Niče", "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche", "Federico Nietzsche", "Frédéric Nietzsche", "Friederich Nietzsche", "Fryderyk Nietzsche", "Fridrikh Nitche", "Frederic Nietzsche", "Phreiderikos Nitse" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.64, "text": "The Will to Power (manuscript) The Will to Power () is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains (or \"\"Nachlass\"\") of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing. The work was first translated into English by Anthony M. Ludovici in 1910, and it has since seen several other translations and publications. After Nietzsche's breakdown in 1889, and the passing of control over his literary estate to his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Nietzsche's friend Heinrich Köselitz, also known as Peter Gast, conceived", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.75, "text": "M. Ludovici in 1910, and was published in Oscar Levy's edition of Nietzsche's papers. Ludovici held that the text, incomplete though it was, represented Nietzsche's intended magnum opus. Another translation was published by Kaufmann with Hollingdale in 1968: The latest translation was published by Scarpitti and Hill for Penguin Classics: Paperback (English) The Will to Power (manuscript) The Will to Power () is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains (or \"\"Nachlass\"\") of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing.", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.45, "text": "of All Values\"\". The first German edition, containing 483 sections, published in 1901, was edited by Köselitz, Ernst Horneffer, and August Horneffer, under Elisabeth's direction. This version was superseded in 1906 by an expanded second edition containing 1067 sections. This later compilation is what has come to be commonly known as \"\"The Will to Power\"\". While researching materials for the Italian translation of Nietzsche's complete works in the 1960s, philologists Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari decided to go to the Archives in Leipzig to work with the original documents. From their work emerged the first complete and chronological edition of", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.33, "text": "evolves the will to power that Nietzsche saw driving all human behavior,\"\" Denson writes. \"\"When entering public discourse, the will to power, the self (the auto, the author) reifies itself over time and with material and linguistic (some might say metaphysical) persuasions, establishes itself as a worldly authority, an authority of opinion that is shared or widely consented to. For the rhetoric of a skilled author can summon a single, common mind from among the masses, especially those prone to give up their own points of view for a slogan or method.” Denson goes on to demonstrate that the autonomy", "title": "G. Roger Denson" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.31, "text": "the one chosen by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Mazzino Montinari and Giorgio Colli have called \"\"The Will to Power\"\" a \"\"historic forgery\"\" artificially assembled by Nietzsche's sister and Köselitz/Gast. Although Nietzsche had in 1886 announced (at the end of \"\"On the Genealogy of Morals\"\") a new work with the title, \"\"The Will to Power: An Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values\"\", the project under this title was set aside and some of its draft materials used to compose \"\"The Twilight of the Idols\"\" and \"\"The Antichrist\"\" (both written in 1888); the latter was for a time represented as the first part", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.86, "text": "the notion of publishing selections from his notebooks, using one of Nietzsche's simpler outlines as a guide to their arrangement. As he explained to Elisabeth on November 8, 1893: Between 1894 and 1926, Elisabeth arranged the publication of the twenty volume \"\"Großoktavausgabe\"\" edition of Nietzsche's writings by C. G. Naumann. In it, following Köselitz' suggestion she included a selection from Nietzsche's posthumous fragments, which was gathered together and entitled \"\"The Will To Power\"\". She claimed that this text was substantially the \"\"magnum opus\"\", which Nietzsche had hoped to write and name \"\"The Will to Power, An Attempt at a Revaluation", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.58, "text": "the reading of Karl Löwith, been identified as a key component of Nietzsche's philosophy although many believe so erroneously, so much so that Heidegger, under Löwith's influence, considered it to form, with the \"\"thought of the eternal recurrence\"\", the basis of his thought. In fact, according to Montinari, not only did the \"\"Will To Power\"\" impose its own order on the fragments, but many individual fragments were themselves cut up or stitched together in ways not made clear to the reader. Gilles Deleuze himself saluted Montinari's work declaring: Drawing on this research for support, Montinari also called into question the", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.5, "text": "his father at the church in Röcken bei Lützen. His friend and secretary Gast gave his funeral oration, proclaiming: \"\"Holy be your name to all future generations!\"\" Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche compiled \"\"The Will to Power\"\" from Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks and published it posthumously. Because his sister arranged the book based on her own conflation of several of Nietzsche's early outlines and took great liberties with the material, the scholarly consensus has been that it does not reflect Nietzsche's intent. (For example, Elisabeth removed aphorism 35 of \"\"The Antichrist\"\", where Nietzsche rewrote a passage of the Bible.) Indeed, Mazzino Montinari, the editor", "title": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.48, "text": "Nietzsche's writings, including the posthumous fragments from which Förster-Nietzsche had assembled \"\"The Will To Power\"\". The complete works comprise 5,000 pages, compared to the 3,500 pages of the \"\"Großoktavausgabe\"\". In 1964, during the International Colloquium on Nietzsche in Paris, Colli and Montinari met Karl Löwith, who would put them in contact with Heinz Wenzel, editor for Walter de Gruyter's publishing house. Heinz Wenzel would buy the rights of the complete works of Colli and Montinari (33 volumes in German) \"\"after\"\" the French Gallimard edition and the Italian Adelphi editions. Before Colli and Montinari's philological work, the previous editions led readers", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.17, "text": "of a new four-part magnum opus, which inherited the subtitle \"\"Revaluation of All Values\"\" from the earlier project as its new title. Although Elisabeth Förster called \"\"The Will to Power\"\" Nietzsche's unedited \"\"magnum opus\"\", in light of Nietzsche's collapse, his intentions for the material he had not by that time put to use in \"\"The Twilight of the Idols\"\" and \"\"The Antichrist\"\" are simply unknowable. So \"\"The Will to Power\"\" was not a text completed by Nietzsche, but rather an anthology of selections from his notebooks misrepresented as if it were something more. Nevertheless, the concept remains, and has, since", "title": "The Will to Power (manuscript)" } ]

[ "Harold Brighouse" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.06, "text": "game \"\"Red November\"\" in 2008. Bruno Faidutti Bruno Faidutti (born 23 October 1961) is a historian and sociologist, living in France, who is best known as an author of board games. Bruno Faidutti studied law, economics, and sociology, eventually earning a doctorate in History by writing about the scientific debate in the Renaissance on the reality of the unicorn. His favorite authors are Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Salman Rushdie, and Umberto Eco, his favorite movie, Andrei Tarkovsky's \"\"Andrei Roublev\"\". He came into the world of hobby gaming through \"\"Cosmic Encounter\"\" and roleplaying games, and was one of the", "title": "Bruno Faidutti" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.03, "text": "Charles S. Grant, who is also a published wargamer. Charles Grant (game designer) Charles Grant (died 1979) was a Scottish game author who helped popularize the hobby of tabletop wargaming. He is best known as the author of \"\"The War Game\"\". Grant was born in Scotland, and served in the Royal Air Force in World War II. Later in Scotland Yard's Special Branch. Contributor to \"\"Military Modelling\"\" and \"\"Battle\"\". Sometime editor of \"\"Slingshot\"\" the Journal of the Society of Ancients. He has had influence among the designers of Warhammer Ancient Battles. Jeff Jonas describes his writings as inspirational. Grant died", "title": "Charles Grant (game designer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.97, "text": "and Gauguin of Games. Steve Ryan (author) Steve Ryan (born February 15, 1949 in San Diego, California) is an American author who specializes in the creation of games and puzzles. Ryan is also a television game show historian and creator. Ryan was a long-standing staff member of Goodson-Todman Productions and Mark Goodson Productions, where he created the concept for the game show \"\"Blockbusters\"\". Ryan also created the rebus puzzles for the game show \"\"Classic Concentration\"\". He was also a writer and creator of puzzles for the game shows \"\"Body Language\"\", \"\"Catch Phrase\"\", \"\"Password Plus\"\" and \"\"Trivia Trap\"\". As senior games", "title": "Steve Ryan (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.95, "text": "Games Project and what has become The National Academic Games Tournament. He and his brother, Professor Layman E. Allen of the University of Michigan, are the authors of the seven games that are played at the National Academic Games Tournament. Bob Allen is the author of The LinguiSHTIK Game, The Presidents’ Game (originally called “A Man called Mr. President”), World Card (originally called “Americard-Euorocard”), and the principal author of The Propaganda Game, while Layman Allen is the author of WFF 'N PROOF: The Game of Modern Logic, EQUATIONS: The Game of Creative Mathematics, and the principal author of ON-SETS: The", "title": "National Academic Games Project" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.94, "text": "player with the most sets. The game is the creation of Anne Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman's daughter and editor of a young people's literary journal. Abbott also designed the hugely popular mid-19th century card game, \"\"Dr. Busby.\"\" Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are: Similar playing card games have been developed with decks having similar rules and set building mechanics. Some of these are: Authors (card game) Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first \"\"Game of Authors\"\" was published by G. M. Whipple", "title": "Authors (card game)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "Authors (card game) Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first \"\"Game of Authors\"\" was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861. In 1897 it was also published by Parker Brothers, which also was in Salem, Massachusetts at the time. The deck of cards consists of eleven sets of four cards each representing the works of eleven famous authors. The object of the game is to form complete sets of the four cards comprising the works of a particular author. The winner is the", "title": "Authors (card game)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "title of this book is an apt description of the author. In the business of creating hard-to-put-down bestsellers, Sidney Sheldon is indeed the master of the game.\"\", while \"\"USA Today\"\" praises Sheldon by saying that he is\"\"a master storyteller at the top of the game.\"\" In Europe, the \"\"London Review of Books\"\" categorizes the main protagonist of the novel, Kate Blackwell as being \"\"presented as some kind of role model, but it is the sort of role made popular in olden times by Joan Crawford\"\". The \"\"Los Angeles Times\"\" concludes the book review with \"\"This book is really a number", "title": "Master of the Game (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.81, "text": "The Royal Game The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, \"\"Chess Novella\"\") is a novella by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1941, just before the author's death by suicide. In some editions, the title is used for a collection that also includes \"\"Amok\"\", \"\"Burning Secret\"\", \"\"Fear\"\", and \"\"Letter From an Unknown Woman\"\". Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the National Socialists, Dr B, a monarchist hiding valuable assets of the nobility from the new regime, maintains his sanity only through the theft of a book of past", "title": "The Royal Game" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "The Game (Dryden book) The Game is a book written by former ice hockey goaltender Ken Dryden. Published in 1983, the book is a non-fiction account of the 1978-79 Montreal Canadiens, detailing the life of a professional hockey player. The book describes the pressures of being a goaltender in the NHL, and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at a team that would eventually win the 1979 Stanley Cup. Dryden writes about the life of an athlete, coping with the demands of a demanding sport and reconciling these pressures with life outside the arena. Ken Dryden's book \"\"The Game\"\" received praise", "title": "The Game (Dryden book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.73, "text": "as the author of \"\"Game\"\" under the soubriquet of \"\" Hawkeye.\"\" His uncle was Captain George Peevor of His Majesty's Royal Leicestershire Regiment, who served in the Nepal Campaign of 1815-16 and in the Mahratta and Pindari wars, 1817–18, including the capture of Jubbulpore in 1839-40. In 1834 Douglas Hamilton went to the East India Company's Addiscombe Military Seminary, and received his commission in the East India Company's Army in 1837, being gazetted to the 21st Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry. He embarked at Portsmouth in the \"\"Duke of Argyle\"\" on 1 September of the same year, arriving in", "title": "Douglas Hamilton" } ]

[ "Ann Radcliffe", "Ann Ward", "Anne Radcliffe", "Anne Ward", "Ann Ward Radcliffe", "Ann Ward, Mrs. Radcliffe", "Ann Radcliffe, née Ward" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.64, "text": "The Italian (novel) The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel \"\"Gaston de Blondeville\"\", which was published posthumously in 1826). \"\"The Italian\"\" has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotion and persecution by the Holy Inquisition. The novel also deals with issues prevalent at the time of the French Revolution, such as religion, aristocracy, and nationality. Radcliffe's renowned use of veiled imagery is", "title": "The Italian (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.09, "text": "The Italian (Sebastiano Vassalli) The Italian (in the original, \"\"L'italiano\"\") is a novel by the Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli. It was published in 2007 by the publishing house Einaudi. It is dedicated to the publisher Giulio Bollati. The title is \"\"L’Italiano\"\" because it deals with eleven different stories of Italian people. According to WorldCat, the Italian edition is held book is held in 137 libraries During the Doomsday, God called all the man of the world: the English, the Chinese, the Turkish, the Potoguese,… He assign a place in Hell or Heaven to everyone until he called the Italian. At", "title": "The Italian (Sebastiano Vassalli)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.62, "text": "him in the limbo, place for children. Vassalli thinks that the Italian people are changing a lot and he writes about lacks and qualities of Italy. The Italian (Sebastiano Vassalli) The Italian (in the original, \"\"L'italiano\"\") is a novel by the Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli. It was published in 2007 by the publishing house Einaudi. It is dedicated to the publisher Giulio Bollati. The title is \"\"L’Italiano\"\" because it deals with eleven different stories of Italian people. According to WorldCat, the Italian edition is held book is held in 137 libraries During the Doomsday, God called all the man of", "title": "The Italian (Sebastiano Vassalli)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.55, "text": "of the scientific nature and social usefulness of the movement. Instead \"\"Decadentism\"\" was based mainly on the Decadent style of some artists and authors of France and England about the end of the 19th century. The main authors of the Italian version were Antonio Fogazzaro, Giovanni Pascoli, best known by his \"\"Myricae\"\" and \"\"Poemetti\"\", and Gabriele D'Annunzio. Although differing stylistically, they championed idiosyncrasy and irrationality against scientific rationalism. Gabriele d'Annunzio produced original work in poetry, drama and fiction, of extraordinary quality. He began with some lyrics distinguished no less by their exquisite beauty of form than by their licence, and", "title": "Italian literature" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.27, "text": "(\"\"Our Ancestors\"\", 1952–1959) and post-modernism in the novel \"\"Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore...\"\" (\"\"If on a Winter's Night a Traveller\"\", 1979). Carlo Emilio Gadda was the author of the experimental \"\"Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana\"\" (1957). Pier Paolo Pasolini was a controversial poet and novelist. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote only one novel, \"\"Il Gattopardo\"\" (\"\"The Leopard\"\", 1958), but it is one of the most famous in Italian literature; it deals with the life of a Sicilian nobleman in the 19th century. Leonardo Sciascia came to public attention with his novel \"\"Il giorno della civetta\"\" (\"\"The Day of", "title": "Italian literature" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "esteemed in Italy. Among the dramatists, Pietro Cossa in tragedy, Ferdinando Martini, and Paolo Ferrari in comedy, represent the older schools. More modern methods were adopted by Giuseppe Giacosa. In fiction, the historical romance fell into disfavour, though Emilio de Marchi produced some good examples. The novel of intrigue was cultivated by Salvatore Farina. Important early-20th-century writers include Italo Svevo, the author of \"\"La coscienza di Zeno\"\" (1923), and Luigi Pirandello (winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature), who explored the shifting nature of reality in his prose fiction and such plays as \"\"Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore\"\" (\"\"Six", "title": "Italian literature" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.09, "text": "poetic prose. This poetic element was referred to in multiple reviews of Radcliffe's The Italian and is considered to be the defining characteristic of the author's many Gothic works. This unique characteristic of her writing set the author apart from other writers of the time and earned her a reputation through the appraisal she received from many well-respected literary voices of the time. In general praise for the author, Sir Walter Scott called her 'the first poetess of romance fiction’; while Nathan Drake wrote that she was, 'the Shakespeare of Romance writers'. He believed that her readers valued her unrivaled", "title": "The Italian (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.08, "text": "Sebastiano Vassalli Sebastiano Vassalli (24 October 1941 – 26 July 2015) was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel \"\"The Italian (L'italiano)\"\". Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother are from Tuscany and father were from Lombardy. At a very young age, he was abandoned to relatives in Novara for some flour and oil. He went on to complete his Bachelor of arts degree in Milan. Soon after, Vassalli partnered with Casare Musatti and wrote a book on \"\"Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Art\"\" which ultimately began his career as a notable author. Vassalli devoted himself to teaching", "title": "Sebastiano Vassalli" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.98, "text": "the pseudonym of Lorenzo Stecchetti) is the chief representative of \"\"verismo\"\" in poetry, and, though his early works obtained a \"\"succès de scandale\"\", he is the author of many lyrics of intrinsic value. Alfredo Baccelli and Mario Rapisardi are epic poets of distinction. Felice Cavallotti is the author of the stirring \"\"Marcia de Leonida\"\". Among dialect writers, the great Roman poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli found numerous successors, such as Renato Fucini (Pisa) and Cesare Pascarella (Rome). Among the women poets, Ada Negri, with her socialistic \"\"Fatalità\"\" and \"\"Tempeste\"\", achieved a great reputation; and others, such as Annie Vivanti, were highly", "title": "Italian literature" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.98, "text": "and their source is ultimately human rather than demonic. The direction in which Gothic literature was moving, from terror to horror, may have inhibited Radcliffe from continuing her career. A gender comparison can also be seen between \"\"The Italian\"\" and \"\"The Monk\"\"; Radcliffe indirectly depicts the desires that Lewis investigates explicitly. \"\"The Italian\"\", Oneworld Classics, 2008 \"\"The Italian\"\", Penguin Classics, 2001 The Italian (novel) The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to", "title": "The Italian (novel)" } ]

[ "Martin Amis", "Martin Louis Amis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.02, "text": "Experience (Martin Amis) Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis. The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000. Upon publication, \"\"Experience\"\" was serialized in the U.K.s \"\"The Guardian\"\" in four parts. Critical response to Amis's memoir was very warm. The critic James Wood wrote in the \"\"Guardian\"\", \"\"\"\"Experience\"\" is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected. One feared a trough of plaint: either a sad, Gosse-like reckoning with the father; or an", "title": "Experience (Martin Amis)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.36, "text": "a shattering string of pearls; an unknown daughter emerging at 18 – are unbeatable, and Amis makes of them a loving, perceptive, comic portrait.\"\" \"\"Experience\"\" was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. Experience (Martin Amis) Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis. The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000. Upon publication, \"\"Experience\"\" was serialized in the U.K.s \"\"The Guardian\"\" in four parts. Critical response to Amis's memoir was very warm. The critic James", "title": "Experience (Martin Amis)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "appropriate concepts (i.e., the \"\"ideas\"\") about the objects that are being experienced. American author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay entitled \"\"Experience\"\" (published in 1844), in which he asks readers to disregard emotions that could alienate them from the divine; it provides a somewhat pessimistic representation of the transcendentalism associated with Emerson. Experience Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it. Terms in philosophy such as \"\"empirical knowledge\"\" or \"\"\"\"a posteriori\"\" knowledge\"\" are used to refer to knowledge based on experience. A person with considerable experience in a specific", "title": "Experience" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "Work: A Story of Experience Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of \"\"Little Women\"\", set in the times before and after the American Civil War. It is one of \"\"several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work\"\". The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end", "title": "Work: A Story of Experience" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "Mayhew is also the author of the sermon \"\"Grace Defended.\"\" It was said of him, \"\"Had he been favored with the advantages of education he would have ranked among the first worthies of New England.\"\" Experience Mayhew Experience Mayhew (1673-1758) was a New England missionary to the Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard and adjacent islands. He is the author of Massachusett Psalter (a rare book like Bay Psalm Book and Eliot Indian Bible). He married Thankful, daughter of Thomas Hinckley, Governor of Plymouth Colony. Experience was born on January 27, 1673, in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, the oldest son of Rev.", "title": "Experience Mayhew" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "Vivencias (book) Vivencias (Spanish for \"\"experiences\"\" or \"\"life experiences\"\") is the title of an autobiography and biography written by the Colombian writer María Luisa Piraquive de Moreno that was published in 2001 (first edition) and 2007 (second and revised edition). It has a hard cover with a gray hue and in an image of flowers along with the title, author's name, and the logo of the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International. The book is printed in Colombia. The title and author names are printed on the back while there is a description on the back. The font", "title": "Vivencias (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.62, "text": "of her story marks \"\"the beginning of a new career as a voice and activist for other working women\"\". The character David Sterling is loosely based on Alcott's friend, Henry David Thoreau. Work: A Story of Experience Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of \"\"Little Women\"\", set in the times before and after the American Civil War. It is one of \"\"several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that", "title": "Work: A Story of Experience" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "Experience and Education (book) Experience and Education is a short book written in 1938 by John Dewey, a pre-eminent educational theorist of the 20th century. It provides a concise and powerful analysis of education. In this and his other writings on education, Dewey continually emphasizes experience, experiment, purposeful learning, freedom, and other concepts of progressive education. Dewey argues that the quality of an educational experience is critical and stresses the importance of the social and interactive processes of learning. Dewey was critical of both traditional and progressive education, that is he saw challenges within both educational approaches because they lacked", "title": "Experience and Education (book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.47, "text": "The Experience of Literature The Experience of Literature: A Reader with Commentaries is an anthology of short stories and poems, divided into four parts, and edited in 1967 by Lionel Trilling of Columbia University. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-15654. Sophocles, \"\"Oedipus Rex\"\" William Shakespeare, \"\"The Tragedy of King Lear\"\" Henrik Ibsen, \"\"The Wild Duck\"\" Anton Chekhov, \"\"The Three Sisters\"\" George Bernard Shaw, \"\"The Doctor's Dilemma\"\" Luigi Pirandello, \"\"Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making\"\" William Butler Yates, \"\"Purgatory\"\" Bertolt Brecht, \"\"Galileo\"\" Nathaniel Hawthorne, \"\"My Kinsman, Major Molineux\"\"", "title": "The Experience of Literature" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.31, "text": "within this contextualized experience-based assimilative model of student learning. The difficulty in this challenge lies in continually adapting subject matter to the growing sphere of individual experiences as students progress. Experience and Education (book) Experience and Education is a short book written in 1938 by John Dewey, a pre-eminent educational theorist of the 20th century. It provides a concise and powerful analysis of education. In this and his other writings on education, Dewey continually emphasizes experience, experiment, purposeful learning, freedom, and other concepts of progressive education. Dewey argues that the quality of an educational experience is critical and stresses the", "title": "Experience and Education (book)" } ]

[ "Emily Dickinson", "Emily Elizabeth Dickinson", "Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen", "Emilia Dickinson", "Emily Dickinson" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.25, "text": "A Bird came down the Walk \"\"A Bird came down the Walk\"\" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) that tells of the poet's encounter with a worm-eating bird. The poem was first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems. The poet encounters a bird on the walk who eats a worm, drinks a dew from the grass, and steps aside to let a beetle pass. The bird then glances about, apparently frightened. The poet offers the bird a crumb but the bird takes flight. The poet observes that the flight of the bird is \"\"softer\"\"", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.05, "text": "the bird taking flight lightly suggests the same potential ease of journey for the soul to heaven, in spite of imperfection, such as killing to eat, as the bird eats the angle worm. A Bird came down the Walk \"\"A Bird came down the Walk\"\" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) that tells of the poet's encounter with a worm-eating bird. The poem was first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems. The poet encounters a bird on the walk who eats a worm, drinks a dew from the grass, and steps aside to let", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.89, "text": "the poem typifies Dickinson's \"\"cool eye, her unsparing factuality, her startling similes and metaphors, her psychological observations of herself and others, her capacity for showing herself mistaken, and her exquisite relish of natural beauty\"\". Harold Bloom notes that the bird displays a \"\"complex mix of qualities: ferocity, fastidiousness, courtesy, fear, and grace\"\", and writes that the description of the bird's flight is that seen by the soul rather than the \"\"finite eyes\"\". Vendler observes that Dickinson wrote two versions of the middle portion of the poem. The version she sent to her literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson has no punctuation", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "other evil forces.Then the narrator offers the bird a piece of crumb,but the bird neglects it and then it flies away. Helen Vendler regards the poem as a \"\"bizarre little narrative\"\" but one that typifies many of Dickinson's best qualities. She likens the poet to a reporter observing a murderer in the act, and later, pretending fear that the murderer may be dangerous to herself and must be mollified by a \"\"crumb\"\". The bird takes flight and Vendler regards what follows - the description of the bird in flight - as \"\"the astonishing part of the poem\"\". Vendler notes that", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.83, "text": "than that of a boat being rowed on the water or that of butterflies plunging soundlessly into space,this is said ironically.In this poem Emily describes about the bird which came down to the walk .she watched the bird when it came down to the walk. The bird didn't know the poetess was watching it. It caught the angle-worm and it pecked it into two parts. Then it ate the raw flesh of the worm and drank a drop of dew from a near by grass.Then the bird looks around quickly with its darting eyes in order to protect it from", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.45, "text": "after \"\"Head\"\" and a period after the word \"\"Cautious\"\". In Dicksinson's personal copy, there is a comma (not a period) after \"\"Cautious\"\". In the first version then, the bird is cautious, but in the second version, it is the poet who is cautious. In the fair copy, both a period and a dash follow \"\"Head\"\", and a comma follows \"\"Cautious\"\". The fair copy version is the one usually printed, and, as Vendler notes, this version accords with Dickinson's comic sense. Dr. Chuck Taylor, poet and professor, believes this naturalistic description of a bird to be also symbolic. The description of", "title": "A Bird came down the Walk" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.39, "text": "Walk Like a Peasant\"\"). Brosgol didn't finish the story, but enjoyed drawing \"\"that character with her fat little legs and cigarettes.\"\" Then, after reading Haruki Murakami's novel \"\"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\"\", she decided her unnamed character should fall down a well. The rest of the story came later, drawn from the author's own life and other inspiration. Brosgol started work on \"\"Anya's Ghost\"\" in 2007. As \"\"Anya's Ghost\"\" was her first book, Brosgol said that its production was an exercise in trial and error. Brosgol does not work from a script, saying that \"\"the art and the dialogue come at", "title": "Anya's Ghost" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.33, "text": "the \"\"\"\" episode \"\"\"\". Dan organizes the two-day event known as \"\"bigparadeLA\"\". It is a public walk starting at Downtown Los Angeles' Angels Flight, ends at the Hollywood Sign, above Hollywood and covers 35 miles and 101 sets of public stairways. He is perhaps best known for his first book, \"\"To See Every Bird on Earth\"\", touted as his attempt to understand his father's obsession with listing birds. His second book, \"\"\"\", was released in December 2007. Dan Koeppel Dan Koeppel (born 1962) is an American author and columnist. He has written columns for \"\"The New York Times Magazine\"\" and", "title": "Dan Koeppel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.92, "text": "Hathaway Inc.,\"\" (page 20) Buffett revealed his instructions in his will (in addition to his investment strategy, as a professional, while alive) to the trustee for his wife's benefit: A Random Walk Down Wall Street A Random Walk Down Wall Street, written by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton economist, is a book on the subject of stock markets which popularized the random walk hypothesis. Malkiel argues that asset prices typically exhibit signs of random walk and that one cannot consistently outperform market averages. The book is frequently cited by those in favor of the efficient-market hypothesis. As of 2015, there", "title": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.91, "text": "Burton Malkiel Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book \"\"A Random Walk Down Wall Street\"\" (now in its 12th edition, 2015). He is a leading proponent of the efficient-market hypothesis, which contends that prices of publicly traded assets reflect all publicly available information, although he has also pointed out that some markets are evidently inefficient, exhibiting signs of non-random walk. Malkiel in general supports buying and holding index funds as the most effective portfolio-management strategy, but does think it is viable to actively manage \"\"around the edges\"\"", "title": "Burton Malkiel" } ]

[ "Daniel Defoe", "Daniel Foe" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.64, "text": "story of the captain of a ship who committed suicide rather than drown, only to have his ship rescued but too late for him. The Storm (Daniel Defoe) The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by", "title": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.52, "text": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe) The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as \"\"The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of", "title": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.44, "text": "Storm (novella) Storm is a novella and picture book written by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Alan Marks, and published by Heinemann in 1985. It was the first children's book for Marks. The story features modern cottagers near a marshland with a renowned ghost. The younger daughter must cross the marsh alone in a family emergency, with telephone service down during a storm. Crossley-Holland won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007, \"\"Storm\"\" was named one of the top ten winning", "title": "Storm (novella)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.06, "text": "Storm (novel) Storm is a novel written by George Rippey Stewart and published in 1941. The book became a best-seller and helped lead to the naming of tropical cyclones worldwide, even though the titular storm is extratropical. The book is divided into twelve chapters: one chapter for each day of the storm's existence. In January 1935, a cyclone develops in the Pacific Ocean near Japan, and becomes a significant storm as it moves toward California. The storm, named \"\"Maria\"\" by the (unnamed) Junior Meteorologist at the San Francisco Weather Bureau Office, becomes a blizzard that threatens the Sierra Nevada range", "title": "Storm (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.92, "text": "The Storm (short story) \"\"The Storm\"\" is a short story written by the American writer Kate Chopin in 1898. The story takes place during the 19th century in the South of the United States, where storms are frequent and dangerous. It did not appear in print in Chopin's lifetime, but it was published in \"\"The Complete Works of Kate Chopin\"\" in 1969. This story is the sequel to Chopin's \"\"At the 'Cadian Ball\"\". Bobinôt and his four-year-old son, Bibi, are at Friedheimer's store when a particularly violent storm begins. The two decide to remain at the store until the storm", "title": "The Storm (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.45, "text": "Storm (Angler novel) Storm is an apocalyptic fiction novel by Evan Angler and is aimed at a middle grade audience. The third book in the Swipe series, it was published in 2013. Storm finds the Global Union, and particularly its American component, in chaos. The Markless, non-citizens who have refused to undergo the Pledging process, are protesting their treatment. In the past, it has been easier for Marked citizens to simply ignore the Markless and go on with their comfortable lives. Now the Markless are forcing them to confront what they really believe about the government and its leaders—Chancellor Cylis,", "title": "Storm (Angler novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.36, "text": "Howard Storm (author) \"\"For the film, television director and actor, see Howard Storm (director)\"\" Howard Storm (born October 26, 1946) is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored \"\"My Descent Into Death\"\", which chronicles his alleged near-death experience. Storm's near-death experience has been cited in literature on near-death studies, and his book has garnered endorsement by gothic fiction writer Anne Rice before it was acquired by Doubleday and republished in 2005. Storm has retold his story on NBC's \"\"Today Show\"\", \"\"The", "title": "Howard Storm (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.23, "text": "The Storm (Ostrovsky) The Storm (, sometimes translated as \"\"The Thunderstorm\"\") is a drama in five acts by the 19th-century Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky. As with Ostrovsky's other plays, \"\"The Storm\"\" is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class. Ostrovsky wrote the play between July and October 1859. He read it in Lyubov Nikulina-Kositskaya's Moscow flat to the actors of the Maly Theatre to a great response. To make sure the play makes it through censorship barrier the author made a trip to the capital where he had hard time convincing censor Nordstrom", "title": "The Storm (Ostrovsky)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.19, "text": "to the bottom of social hierarchy. The Storm (Ostrovsky) The Storm (, sometimes translated as \"\"The Thunderstorm\"\") is a drama in five acts by the 19th-century Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky. As with Ostrovsky's other plays, \"\"The Storm\"\" is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class. Ostrovsky wrote the play between July and October 1859. He read it in Lyubov Nikulina-Kositskaya's Moscow flat to the actors of the Maly Theatre to a great response. To make sure the play makes it through censorship barrier the author made a trip to the capital where he", "title": "The Storm (Ostrovsky)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.08, "text": "Atlantic hurricane naming list after Hurricane Maria killed 3,057 people in 2017. Stewart's novel \"\"Fire\"\" (1948) was a sequel to \"\"Storm,\"\" again featuring the life of the (former) Junior Meteorologist, who was now a World War Two veteran and had been promoted. Dealing with a California wildfire, it also used the backdrop of an environmental catastrophe to disclose the personal struggles and triumphs of individual human beings. Storm (novel) Storm is a novel written by George Rippey Stewart and published in 1941. The book became a best-seller and helped lead to the naming of tropical cyclones worldwide, even though the", "title": "Storm (novel)" } ]

[ "Janet Morris", "Janet Ellen Morris", "Janet E. Morris" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.5, "text": "Territory (novel) Territory is a fantasy western or Weird West novel by Emma Bull, published in 2007. It placed 4th in the 2008 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category. The territory is the vicinity of Tombstone, Arizona in 1881, but also refers to the magicians' power struggle. Most of the characters are named for historical individuals from the era; the aim is a tale that parallels recorded events, but places those in a context where magic is real. The principal male character, Jesse Fox, is", "title": "Territory (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.48, "text": "The Map and the Territory The Map and the Territory (, ) is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq. The narrative revolves around a successful artist, and involves a fictional murder of Houellebecq. It was published on 4 September 2010 by Flammarion and received the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious French literary prize, in 2010. The title is a direct quote from Jean Baudrillard's text \"\"Simulacra and Simulation\"\", which itself refers to the Jorge Luis Borges short story \"\"On Exactitude in Science\"\". \"\"The Map and the Territory\"\" is Michel Houellebecq's fifth novel. It was published five years after his", "title": "The Map and the Territory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.39, "text": "\"\"it is a strange feeling, but I am deeply happy\"\" (\"\"C'est une sensation bizarre mais je suis profondément heureux\"\"). The Map and the Territory The Map and the Territory (, ) is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq. The narrative revolves around a successful artist, and involves a fictional murder of Houellebecq. It was published on 4 September 2010 by Flammarion and received the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious French literary prize, in 2010. The title is a direct quote from Jean Baudrillard's text \"\"Simulacra and Simulation\"\", which itself refers to the Jorge Luis Borges short story \"\"On Exactitude", "title": "The Map and the Territory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.39, "text": "that lays claim to the whole neighborhood. Jesse escorts Mildred to a ball, where the pair witness the magical dimensions of an altercation between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. By the closing pages Jesse has come to accept and is learning to manage his magical abilities, applying them to block Earp's deadly excesses in his efforts to defend and enlarge the well-being of his clan. Territory (novel) Territory is a fantasy western or Weird West novel by Emma Bull, published in 2007. It placed 4th in the 2008 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also nominated for", "title": "Territory (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.09, "text": "a Trust Territory by the United Nations, under Italian administration, starting from 1 April 1950. During the 1950s, with UN aid money pouring in and the presence of experienced Italian administrators who had come to see the region as their home, infrastructural and educational development blossomed in the region. The decade passed relatively without incident, and was marked by positive growth in virtually all aspects of local life. Indro Montanelli wrote in the late 1990s (when Somalia was devastated by civil war) that the ten years of Italian Trusteeship were the \"\"Golden age\"\" of Somalia: the population nearly doubled, illiteracy", "title": "Trust Territory of Somaliland" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20, "text": "the work with author Cherith Baldry and Holmes herself, to keep up with the publishing schedule. Since then, she's said that Loch Lomond gave her the inspiration for ThunderClan's territory. Another book published under her name - \"\"Bloodline\"\" - was written in 2005. Kate Cary created a blog for her part of the \"\"Warriors\"\" series. She posts on there nearly everyday and has drawn attention from many Warriors fans. The blog has had two wikis and a few roleplay sites based on it. Kate Cary Kate Cary (born 4 November 1967 in Birmingham, England) is one of the authors of", "title": "Kate Cary" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.92, "text": "In Milton Lumky Territory In Milton Lumky Territory is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick. Originally written in 1958, but rejected by prospective publishers, this book was eventually published posthumously in 1985 by Dragon Press. It was published in two editions. Fifty copies were bound in quarter leather and included a signature from one of the author's canceled checks but were not jacketed. Nine hundred fifty copies were published with a cloth binding and included a dust jacket. It was reprinted in paperback in 2006. It's 1958 and Bruce Stevens is a buyer for a national", "title": "In Milton Lumky Territory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.88, "text": "He is the author of a best selling book on International Law (first published in 1977; 6th edition released in 2008). He also edited \"\"Title to Territory\"\", a collection of articles on title and sovereignty in international law. Shaw's published writings encompass 20 works in 54 publications in 3 languages and 2,999 library holdings. Malcolm Shaw Malcolm Nathan Shaw QC (born 1947) is a British legal academic, author, editor and lawyer. Shaw studied at the University of Liverpool (LLB), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LLM) and Keele University (PhD). Shaw was the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at", "title": "Malcolm Shaw" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.83, "text": "The Forbidden Territory The Forbidden Territory is a novel written by Dennis Wheatley and published by Hutchinson in 1933. This was Wheatley's first published novel and was an instant success. It was translated into a number of languages and Alfred Hitchcock quickly bought the film rights. The Duke de Richleau receives a letter that is a code from his missing friend the young American Rex Van Ryn who, while hunting for treasure lost during the Soviet takeover of Russia, is now in prison somewhere in that vast country. He shares the letter with another young friend, Simon Aron, who agrees", "title": "The Forbidden Territory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.7, "text": "ever after. In Milton Lumky Territory In Milton Lumky Territory is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick. Originally written in 1958, but rejected by prospective publishers, this book was eventually published posthumously in 1985 by Dragon Press. It was published in two editions. Fifty copies were bound in quarter leather and included a signature from one of the author's canceled checks but were not jacketed. Nine hundred fifty copies were published with a cloth binding and included a dust jacket. It was reprinted in paperback in 2006. It's 1958 and Bruce Stevens is a buyer for", "title": "In Milton Lumky Territory" } ]

[ "Gillian Rubinstein" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.42, "text": "Galax-Arena Galax-Arena, by Gillian Rubinstein, is a 1995 science fiction novel following 3 children who are kidnapped by aliens. It deals with issues of slavery, what we know versus what we believe to be true, the difference between children and adults, street people (children), and spirituality, to an extent. A sequel, \"\"Terra-Farma\"\", was also published. It continues the story of Joella and her siblings after they leave Galax-Arena, and follows their further brushes with Project Genesis Five, the organization who created the Galax-Arena. There was going to be a third novel called Universercus that would conclude the trilogy, but it", "title": "Galax-Arena" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.14, "text": "body into thinking it is young and not close to death. Problematic children are killed. Seven of the Peb manage to escape Galax-Arena, though only because they believe that there is hope. Galax-Arena Galax-Arena, by Gillian Rubinstein, is a 1995 science fiction novel following 3 children who are kidnapped by aliens. It deals with issues of slavery, what we know versus what we believe to be true, the difference between children and adults, street people (children), and spirituality, to an extent. A sequel, \"\"Terra-Farma\"\", was also published. It continues the story of Joella and her siblings after they leave Galax-Arena,", "title": "Galax-Arena" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.16, "text": "was never published. After their mother leaves and their father loses his mind, Joella, Peter, and Liane are traveling to their Aunt Jill when a stranger named Hythe entices, drugs, and kidnaps the trio. He takes them to a remote place and launches them into space, where they are forced to become performers for aliens known as Vexa in Galax-Arena, on the planet Vexak. The Galax-Arena itself is a stadium-type place where human children perform death-defying stunts of gymnastics for a crowd. There are no safety nets, in fact death is sometimes encouraged by their trainer Hythe. As they perform,", "title": "Galax-Arena" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.36, "text": "elaborate set up to make the children believe there is no way out, and because they believe it, it becomes true. They are actually still on Earth, but refuse to believe it when faced with the evidence. As a pet, Joella manages to expose the Vexa who she has become the pet of, as an elderly woman, Emmeline. Emmeline reveals to Joella and Mariam that Galax-Arena is part of a massive experiment called ‘Genesis 5’ to give the extremely rich clientele of Genesis 5 like Emmeline immortality by channeling the Peb’s adrenalin into the old people’s bodies to trick the", "title": "Galax-Arena" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.41, "text": "Galaxion Galaxion is a science fiction comic book and webcomic series written and drawn by Canadian Tara Tallan (née Jenkins). The story follows the crew of an interstellar ship, the \"\"Galaxion\"\", as they test a new experimental hyperdrive engine. The story's narrative presents the \"\"Galaxion\"\"'s geologist Aria Schafer's point of view. There have been three versions of the \"\"Galaxion\"\" story. Around 1993, the story first appeared as one half of a photocopied, digest size flip comic book \"\"Salmagundi\"\". This lasted seven issues. In the late 1990s the story was relaunched in a self-published full-sized comic. There were also two \"\"special", "title": "Galaxion" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.38, "text": "author of several studies, articles and commentaries on the \"\"New Testament\"\", as well as completing a celebrated translation of William Shakespeare's \"\"The Merchant of Venice\"\". He contributed regularly to \"\"Viața Românească\"\" and \"\"Adevărul\"\", as well as to \"\"Sămănătorul\"\", but was on exceptionally bad terms with the latter's founder, Nicolae Iorga. In 1936, he was the subject of a denunciation for \"\"communist activities\"\" and alleged links with the Comintern, which he dismissed as slander. Nevertheless, in 1938–1940, Galaction, like other figures on the Poporanist and socialist Left (among them Armand Călinescu, Petre Andrei, Mihai Ralea, Ioan Flueraș, and Mihail Ghelmegeanu), was", "title": "Gala Galaction" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.08, "text": "the Vexa are connected to devices that allow them to feel the adrenaline and danger that the children experience. The children are forced to grow up very quickly in order to survive, but most of them already have, as they were street kids before they were kidnapped. Joella emphasizes the similarities that her, Peter, Liane and all the rest of the children caught on Vexak, share with animals in captivity on Earth. Hythe is their care-taker so the children may hate him for keeping them there, but show something akin to love for him because he feeds and cares for", "title": "Galax-Arena" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.94, "text": "fiction reviewers. The game is considered to aspire to a new level of art in interactive fiction, and thereby to have revolutionized the genre, establishing its author, Emily Short, as one of the key figures in the modern interactive fiction scene. Fellow award-winning IF author, Adam Cadre has called Galatea \"\"the best NPC ever\"\"—a view that was echoed by Joystiq's John Bardinelli. Cadre also describes the game as an example of an alternative kind of puzzle where \"\"interactivity comes in deciding where to go, what to see, what to say. Rather than having to open gates along a path, you", "title": "Galatea (video game)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.81, "text": "Arena Publishing Co. Arena Publishing Company was an American book and magazine publishing firm of the late 19th century, founded by author and editor B. O. Flower. Headquartered in Copley Square in Boston, the firm specialized in fiction and non-fiction books on the progressive causes of the 1890s. Though in existence for only a short period, from 1890 to 1896, Arena issued books by several important progressive figures of the time. The firm has been called \"\"the notoriously radical Arena Publishing Company.\"\" Arena released books on political and economic reform and progressive religious movements (including books written by Flower). The", "title": "Arena Publishing Co." }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.81, "text": "Dimitri Semenikhin Dimitri Semenikhin (born December 15, 1996) is a Russian businessman and writer. Semenikhin is the founder of the Yacht Harbour media holding and author of 5 science-fiction novels. Semenikhin was born in Moscow, Russia on December 15, 1996 and moved to the Principality of Monaco in 1999 with his parents, Vladimir Semenikhin and Ekaterina Semenikhin. In 2010 he published Galaxie Envahie at the Editions Persée which was followed by Galaxie Envahie II (2011), Galaxie Envahie III (2012) and Le Bien de l'Humanité (2012). Semenikhin switched publishers in 2014 and released The Ghost and the Storyteller with US-based, LOF.", "title": "Dimitri Semenikhin" } ]

[ "Alberto Moravia", "Alberto Pincherle" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.48, "text": "Two Women (novel) Two Women (original title in Italian: La Ciociara) is a 1957 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are raped, the daughter suffers a nervous breakdown. A film based on the novel starred Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. A daughter and her mother fight to survive in Rome during the Second World War. Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta, a naive teenager of beauty and devout faith. When the German army prepares", "title": "Two Women (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.17, "text": "morality. The title story, \"\"Two New Women,\"\" is by far the longest. The title alludes to Victorian debates over women's emancipation and the concept of the New Woman. The story is set in Italy, where an English engineer named Edward Molyneux meets two young women named Daphne Musgrave and Betty Chorley. He also meets Daphne's relative, the aristocratic Sir Reginald Musgrave. The two women plan to pursue independent careers, Daphne as a landscape gardener and Betty as a doctor. Speaking to Edward, Daphne expresses her opinion that marriage is not necessary for a happy life, and she suggests that she", "title": "Mary Beaumont (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.75, "text": "The Adventure of the Two Women \"\"The Adventure of the Two Women\"\" is a Sherlock Holmes crime story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, \"\"The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes\"\". Holmes is called upon to save the widow of a distinguished family from shame. Her noble husband, Henry Gladsdale, the late Duke of Carringford served his country well, but now the Duchess Carringford and her betrothed daughter, Lady Mary Gladsdale, are facing ruin. A blackmailer threatens to expose a prior marriage by Henry Gladsdale that would nullify his marriage to the current Duchess. The price", "title": "The Adventure of the Two Women" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.66, "text": "this strike you as curious?\"\" The Adventure of the Two Women \"\"The Adventure of the Two Women\"\" is a Sherlock Holmes crime story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, \"\"The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes\"\". Holmes is called upon to save the widow of a distinguished family from shame. Her noble husband, Henry Gladsdale, the late Duke of Carringford served his country well, but now the Duchess Carringford and her betrothed daughter, Lady Mary Gladsdale, are facing ruin. A blackmailer threatens to expose a prior marriage by Henry Gladsdale that would nullify his marriage to", "title": "The Adventure of the Two Women" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "to working as filmmaker Browne has also worked as curator and media arts instructor. Browne's first novel, \"\"Two Women\"\", a cautionary tale about two women who share the same soul, was released in 2013. Christene Browne Christene Browne (born 1965 in Saint Kitts) is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada. Born in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, Browne moved with her family to Canada in 1970. She spent her formative years in Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest low-income community. It was in this Toronto community where the seeds of Browne's filmmaker", "title": "Christene Browne" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.47, "text": "Two Women Two Women ( , roughly translated as \"\"The Woman from Ciociaria\"\") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events of July 1943 in Rome and rural Lazio, and during what the Italians", "title": "Two Women" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.38, "text": "Two Old Women Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival is a 1993 novel by Velma Wallis, set in northeastern Alaska. In archaic times: Two old women spend the winter abandoned by their tribe in the wilderness. Long before the Europeans came, nomads roamed the polar region of Alaska in constant search for game. The people of the Gwich'in, who belong to the Athabaska tribes, wander the areas around the Yukon River, the Porcupine River, the Tanana River and their tributaries. Because of a lack of food and an upcoming strict winter, one of these Gwich'in", "title": "Two Old Women" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.3, "text": "Two Women (1999 film) Two Women (Do zan) is a 1999 Iranian motion picture written and directed by Tahmineh Milani. \"\"Two Women\"\" charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic, creating a portrait of traditions that conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential. In an extensive interview, Tahmineh Milani stated that the name \"\"Two Women\"\" alluded to \"\"two\"\" different potential life-stories of \"\"one\"\" woman. The film won the best screenplay award at Iran's Fajr Film Festival in 1999 as well as Best Actress", "title": "Two Women (1999 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.17, "text": "from expressing their feminist ideas freely and finally her style has become a canon against which other feminist works would be evaluated. Two Women (1999 film) Two Women (Do zan) is a 1999 Iranian motion picture written and directed by Tahmineh Milani. \"\"Two Women\"\" charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic, creating a portrait of traditions that conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential. In an extensive interview, Tahmineh Milani stated that the name \"\"Two Women\"\" alluded to \"\"two\"\" different potential life-stories", "title": "Two Women (1999 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "Zapponi. It was directed by Risi and starred Loren, Robert Loggia, Leonardo Ferrantini, Dario Ghirardi and Sydney Penny. San Francisco Opera commissioned an operatic treatment of \"\"La Ciociara\"\", with music and libretto by Italian composer Marco Tutino and additional contributions to the libretto by Luca Rossi. Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci headlined the cast as Cesira, with American artists soprano Sarah Shafer as Rosetta, tenor Dimitri Pittas as Michele, and baritone Mark Delavan as Giovanni. The opera received its world premiere on June 13, 2015. Two Women (novel) Two Women (original title in Italian: La Ciociara) is a 1957 Italian-language", "title": "Two Women (novel)" } ]

[ "Nick Dear" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.91, "text": "The Power (Alderman novel) The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender. In June 2017, \"\"The Power\"\" won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named \"\"The Power\"\" as one of his favorite books of 2017. \"\"The Power\"\" is a book within a book: a", "title": "The Power (Alderman novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.56, "text": "The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: \"\"For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen.\"\" It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to", "title": "The Power and the Glory" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.53, "text": "The Power (Robinson novel) The Power is a 1956 science fiction novel by Frank M. Robinson. It first appeared in the March 1956 edition of \"\"Blue Book (magazine)\"\" and then in a standalone book published by J. B. Lippincott in May that year. Its protagonist, a researcher named Tanner, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his coworkers. As he tries to uncover the superhuman, his existence is erased and his associates murdered, until he faces a showdown with an apparently invincible opponent. The novel was made into a \"\"Studio One\"\" television episode and a 1968 film under", "title": "The Power (Robinson novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.25, "text": "manuscript of an imagined history of the tumultuous era during which women across the world developed and shared the power to emit electricity from their hands. The manuscript is submitted by Neil Adam Armon to another author named Naomi, approximately five thousand years after the power emerges and revolution reassembles the world into a matriarchy. This fictional historical fiction chronicles the experiences of Allie, Roxy, Margot, Jocelyn, and Tunde, as they navigate their rapidly changing world. \"\"The Power\"\" is Alderman’s fourth novel and was influenced by her relationship with Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood. The mentorship was arranged through the Rolex", "title": "The Power (Alderman novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25, "text": "hope to those in true need of more conventional assistance in their lives. The Power (self-help book) The Power is a 2010 self-help and spirituality book written by Rhonda Byrne. It is a sequel to the 2006 book \"\"The Secret\"\". The book was released on 17 August 2010 along with an audio-book based on it. \"\"The Power\"\"'s mission statement is, \"\"The philosophy and vision of the Secret is to bring joy to billions. To bring joy to the world, the Secret creates life-transforming tools in the mediums of books, films, and multi-media. With each creation from the Secret, we aim", "title": "The Power (self-help book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.91, "text": "The Power (self-help book) The Power is a 2010 self-help and spirituality book written by Rhonda Byrne. It is a sequel to the 2006 book \"\"The Secret\"\". The book was released on 17 August 2010 along with an audio-book based on it. \"\"The Power\"\"'s mission statement is, \"\"The philosophy and vision of the Secret is to bring joy to billions. To bring joy to the world, the Secret creates life-transforming tools in the mediums of books, films, and multi-media. With each creation from the Secret, we aim to share knowledge that is true, simple, and practical, and that will transform", "title": "The Power (self-help book)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "years in the history of power, drawing on the lives of strategists and historical figures like Niccolò Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Haile Selassie I, Carl von Clausewitz, Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, and P.T. Barnum. Each law has its own chapter, complete with a \"\"transgression of the law,\"\" \"\"observance of the law,\"\" and a \"\"reversal.\"\" \"\"The 48 Laws of Power\"\" has sold more than 1.2 million copies. It is popular with well-known rappers, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes and actors including 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, DJ Premier, Drake, Dov Charney, Brian Grazer, Andrew Bynum, Chris Bosh, Michael Jackson, Courtney", "title": "Robert Greene (American author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "The Power of One (novel) The Power of One is a novel by Australian author Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an English boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the nickname of Peekay. (In the movie version, the protagonist's given name is Peter Phillip Kenneth Keith, but not in the book. The author identifies \"\"Peekay\"\" as a reference to his earlier nickname \"\"Pisskop\"\": Afrikaans for \"\"Pisshead.\"\") It is written from the first person perspective, with Peekay narrating (as an adult, looking back) and", "title": "The Power of One (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "The 48 Laws of Power The 48 Laws of Power (1998) is the first book by American author Robert Greene. The book is a bestseller, selling over 1.2 million copies in the United States, and is popular with prison inmates and celebrities. Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in \"\"The 48 Laws of Power\"\" while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history. In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers. Greene pitched", "title": "The 48 Laws of Power" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.39, "text": "a single instant, I realized that the horrific world Dashiell Hammett described so perfectly was alive and well and always would be.\"\" Ellis began working on \"\"Access to Power\"\", the screenplay that would later become his first novel, the following day. Robert Ellis is the international bestselling author of \"\"Access to Power\"\", \"\"The Dead Room\"\", the critically acclaimed Lena Gamble novels, \"\"City of Fire\"\", \"\"The Lost Witness\"\", and \"\"Murder Season\"\", and the Detective Matt Jones series \"\"City of Echoes\"\" (2015) and \"\"The Love Killings\"\" (2016). His novels have been translated into ten languages and selected as top reads by \"\"Booklist\"\",", "title": "Robert Ellis (author)" } ]

[ "Danielle Steel", "Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel", "Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.23, "text": "Miracle (novel) Miracle is a novel written by Danielle Steel and published by Random House in June 2005. The book is Steel's sixty-sixth novel. It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs", "title": "Miracle (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.12, "text": "http://www.randomhouse.com/features/steel/bookshelf/display.pperl?isbn=9780385336338 Miracle (novel) Miracle is a novel written by Danielle Steel and published by Random House in June 2005. The book is Steel's sixty-sixth novel. It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she", "title": "Miracle (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.77, "text": "John L'Heureux John Clarke L'Heureux (born October 26, 1934) is an American author. L'Heureux is the author of such works of fiction as \"\"The Miracle\"\", \"\"Having Everything\"\", \"\"The Shrine at Altamira\"\", \"\"Comedians\"\", \"\"An Honorable Profession\"\", and \"\"A Woman Run Mad\"\". A former Jesuit priest (he left the order in 1971) and contributing editor to \"\"The Atlantic Monthly\"\", he has taught at Georgetown, Tufts, Harvard, and been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1973. John Clarke L'Heureux was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, on 26 October 1934; his parents were Wilfred and Mildred L'Heureux. After two years at the", "title": "John L'Heureux" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.67, "text": "Father Malachy's Miracle Father Malachy's Miracle is a 1931 novel by the Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. To understand this wonderful little book you have to understand the people and places that appear in the book. The book sits in a small collection of Anglo-Catholic/Catholic novels alongside, The Chalice and the Sword by Ernest Raymond. Twenty years at St Hilary by Bernard Walke. All the authors knew each other through their discovery of Catholicism via Anglo-Catholicism. One of their group being Compton Mackenzie. The names of people and places in the book are only slightly changed. The Church of St Margaret", "title": "Father Malachy's Miracle" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.59, "text": "Miracle on 34th Street (novella) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is a best-selling novella by Valentine Davies, based on the story he wrote for the 1947 film with the same name, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Story. After having written the story for the film, Valentine Davies did a novelization of it, which was published as a 120-page novella by Harcourt Brace & Company in conjunction with the film release. The inspiration for the story, about a disillusioned woman, her skeptical daughter and a mysterious man who believes he is the real Santa Claus, came when Valentine", "title": "Miracle on 34th Street (novella)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.58, "text": "The Miracle Game The Miracle Game (originally \"\"Mirákl\"\") is a Czech novel by Josef Škvorecký published in 1972 by Sixty Eight Publishers in Toronto, Canada. It was translated into English in 1990 by Paul Wilson, and according to \"\"The Times\"\" is Skvorecky's masterpiece. It was his response to Prague Spring events of 1968 Czechoslovakia. and contains unflattering references to real people, Future Czech President Václav Havel becomes \"\"the world-famous playwright Hejl\"\", the writer Bohumil Hrabal appears as the \"\"gifted non-party novelist Nabal\"\". In a Bohemian church in 1948 an apparent miracle is denounced as a hoax by the Communist party.", "title": "The Miracle Game" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.53, "text": "Miracle: A Celebration of New Life Miracle: A Celebration of New Life is a book resulting from the collaboration of Anne Geddes with Canadian singer Céline Dion. The project is a combination of music and photos revolving around the themes of new life and babies. The book was published in nine languages in 22 countries simultaneously, and remained in \"\"The New York Times\"\" bestseller list for six weeks. \"\"Miracle\"\" appeared on \"\"The Wall Street Journal\"\" nonfiction bestseller list, as well as the \"\"Publishers Weekly\"\", Barnes & Noble, amazon.com Canada, and BookSense nonfiction hardcover bestseller lists and was #1 on the", "title": "Miracle: A Celebration of New Life" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.47, "text": "Miracle in the Andes Miracle in the Andes (in Spanish \"\"\"\"Milagro en los Andes\"\"\"\") is a 2006 non-fiction account of a rugby team's survival on a glacier in the Andes for 72 days by survivor Nando Parrado and co-author Vince Rause. It was published by Crown. Nando Parrado co-wrote the 2006 book \"\"Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home\"\", with Vince Rause. In \"\"Miracle in the Andes\"\", Nando Parrado returns to the events described in Piers Paul Read's 1974 book, \"\"\"\" (which tells the story of the people, most of whom were part", "title": "Miracle in the Andes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.47, "text": "Miracle in the Andes Miracle in the Andes (in Spanish \"\"\"\"Milagro en los Andes\"\"\"\") is a 2006 non-fiction account of a rugby team's survival on a glacier in the Andes for 72 days by survivor Nando Parrado and co-author Vince Rause. It was published by Crown. Nando Parrado co-wrote the 2006 book \"\"Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home\"\", with Vince Rause. In \"\"Miracle in the Andes\"\", Nando Parrado returns to the events described in Piers Paul Read's 1974 book, \"\"\"\" (which tells the story of the people, most of whom were part", "title": "Miracle in the Andes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.47, "text": "potential breaches of security were asked in either interview. The DOE officials instead focused on a seemingly innocent Islamic book entitled, “The Miracle of the Ant,” authored by Turkish Islamic publisher and author Harun Yahya; unbeknownst to El-Ganayni, the content of Yahya’s book was largely, if not completely duplicated from a Pulitzer Prize winning work entitled, “Journey to the Ants” published by Harvard University Press. Dr. El-Ganayni distributed excerpts from book to prisoners (both Muslim and non-Muslim) while serving as an Imam at Forest State Correctional Institution. DOE officials expressed concern over a purely scientific description of ants’ biological defense", "title": "Abdel-Moniem El-Ganayni" } ]

[ "Malaclypse the Younger", "Gregory Hill", "Greg Hill", "Mal-2", "Kerry Wendell Thornley", "Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst", "Ho Chi Zen", "Kerry Thornley" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.59, "text": "Principia Discordia The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). The first edition was printed using Jim Garrison's Xerox printer in 1963. The second edition was published under the title \"\"Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost\"\" in a limited edition of five copies in 1965. The phrase \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", reminiscent of Newton's \"\"Principia Mathematica\"\", is presumably intended to mean \"\"Discordant Principles\"\", or \"\"Principles of Discordance\"\". The \"\"Principia\"\" describes the Discordian Society and its Goddess Eris, as well as the basics of the POEE", "title": "Principia Discordia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.52, "text": "exist. Among those that have been published are \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", first published in 1965 (which includes portions of \"\"The Honest Book of Truth\"\"); and \"\"The Illuminatus! Trilogy\"\", which had its first volume published in 1975. The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).The phrase \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", reminiscent of Newton's \"\"Principia Mathematica\"\", is presumably intended to mean \"\"Discordant Principles\"\", or \"\"Principles of Discordance\"\". \"\"Summa Universalia\"\" was another work by Malaclypse the Younger, purported to be a summary of the universe. It was excerpted in the first", "title": "Discordianism" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.23, "text": "010857. Adam Gorightly, author of \"\"The Prankster and the Conspiracy\"\" about Kerry Thornley and the early Discordians, said the copy in the JFK collection was not a copy of the first edition but a later and altered version containing some of the original material. In an interview with researcher Brenton Clutterbuck, Gorightly said he had been given Greg Hill's copy of the first edition. This appeared in its entirety in \"\"Historia Discordia\"\", a book on Discordian history released in spring of 2014. The \"\"Principia\"\" includes a notice which purports to disclaim any copyright in relation to the work: \"\"Ⓚ All", "title": "Principia Discordia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.09, "text": "The \"\"Principia Discordia\"\" is the founding text of Discordianism written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). It was originally published under the title \"\"Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost\"\" in a limited edition of five copies in 1965. The title, literally meaning \"\"Discordant Principles\"\", is in keeping with the tendency of Latin to prefer hypotactic grammatical arrangements. In English, one would expect the title to be \"\"Principles of Discord.\"\" The lasting impact, including unintended consequences, creative output and general legacy of the counterculture era continue to be actively discussed, debated,", "title": "Counterculture of the 1960s" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "of Eris (who was born pregnant), and starts making existent things non-existent. This explains why life begins, and later ends in death. The names of Eris and Aneris (who are later given a brother, \"\"Spirituality\"\"), are used to show some fundamental Discordian principles in \"\"Psycho-Metaphysics\"\": Principia Discordia The Principia Discordia is a Discordian religious text written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). The first edition was printed using Jim Garrison's Xerox printer in 1963. The second edition was published under the title \"\"Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost\"\" in a", "title": "Principia Discordia" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.56, "text": "\"\"The Honest Book of Truth\"\" and the first edition of \"\"Principia Discordia\"\". It features a blurb by famed comic book writer Alan Moore. Discordianism Discordianism is a paradigm based upon the book \"\"Principia Discordia,\"\" written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley in 1963, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. The \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", if read literally, encourages the worship of Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the goddess of disorder, or archetypes and or ideals associated with her. Depending on the version of Discordianism, Eris might be considered the goddess exclusively of disorder or the goddess", "title": "Discordianism" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.31, "text": "Malaclypse the Younger Gregory Hill (21 May 1941 – 20 July 2000), better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was one of the two writers of the \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", along with Kerry Wendell Thornley (a.k.a. Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). He was also adapted as a character in \"\"The Illuminatus! Trilogy\"\". During the early years of circulation of the \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", rumors claimed that the author of the book was Richard Nixon, Timothy Leary, or Robert Anton Wilson; or that the book and Malaclypse the Younger were both fictional inventions of Robert Anton Wilson, as with Abdul Alhazred's \"\"Necronomicon\"\".", "title": "Malaclypse the Younger" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.3, "text": "Discordianism Discordianism is a paradigm based upon the book \"\"Principia Discordia,\"\" written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley in 1963, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. The \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", if read literally, encourages the worship of Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the goddess of disorder, or archetypes and or ideals associated with her. Depending on the version of Discordianism, Eris might be considered the goddess exclusively of disorder or the goddess of disorder and chaos. Both views are supported by the \"\"Principia Discordia\"\". The \"\"Principia Discordia\"\" holds three core principles: the Aneristic (order), the", "title": "Discordianism" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "fourth edition of the \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", a Discordian religious text written by Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley. It was also an early publisher of the infamous booklet on drug manufacturing, \"\"Psychedelic Chemistry\"\". The company was founded January 17, 1969, in San Francisco by four \"\"expatriate\"\" Texans: Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, and cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson. The initial plan was to print rock band promotional posters on an old press and do comix on the side — in some ways the company was formed as a sort of cartoonists' cooperative, as an alternative publishing venue to burgeoning Bay Area", "title": "Rip Off Press" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.61, "text": "is an encouragement to form schisms and cabals. The foundational document of Discordianism is the \"\"Principia Discordia\"\", fourth edition, written by Malaclypse the Younger, an alias of Greg Hill. The \"\"Principia Discordia\"\" often hints that Discordianism was founded as a dialectic antithesis to more popular religions based on order, although the rhetoric throughout the book describes chaos as a much more underlying impulse of the universe. This may have been done with the intention of merely \"\"balancing out\"\" the creative forces of order and disorder, but the focus is on the more disorderly aspects of the world – at times", "title": "Discordianism" } ]

[ "Dafydd ab Hugh" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "to Jerry Bruckheimer and the Walt Disney Company. The book was based on an obscure clause in the U.S. Constitution that had captured Huston's imagination—Congress's power to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal—and he had found his voice. Balance of Power set the tone for his subsequent novels, which feature politics, law and military action. Huston's favorite author was Patrick O'Brian, who wrote the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He also admired the works of Ernest Hemingway and Marilynne Robinson—Hemingway for his crisp prose and captivating stories, and Robinson for her use of", "title": "James W. Huston (author)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.3, "text": "Balance of Power (Star Trek) Balance of Power is a \"\"\"\" novel by Dafydd Ab Hugh. When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder—whether Federation, Klingon, Romulan or Cardassian. Among the items at auction are medical devices, engineering advances—and a photon pulse cannon capable of punching through a starship's shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, at the Academy, Wesley Crusher comes to the aid of his best friend—and finds himself kidnapped by outlaw Ferengi bent on controlling the universe through commerce. When they also set their sights on the photon", "title": "Balance of Power (Star Trek)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.3, "text": "plot where someone discovered how to. He believed that such a plot would eventually appear elsewhere by another writer, and so decided to use it himself. Balance of Power (Star Trek) Balance of Power is a \"\"\"\" novel by Dafydd Ab Hugh. When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder—whether Federation, Klingon, Romulan or Cardassian. Among the items at auction are medical devices, engineering advances—and a photon pulse cannon capable of punching through a starship's shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, at the Academy, Wesley Crusher comes to the aid", "title": "Balance of Power (Star Trek)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.78, "text": "era: Expecting anti-American balancing, Waltz drew a much-cited analogy: \"\"As nature abhors vacuum, so international politics abhors unbalanced power.\"\" Craig paraphrased: US National Security Strategy of 2002 uses repeatedly the term ‘balance of power’ favoring freedom. The author of the \"\"Preponderance of Power…\"\" (1992), Melvyn Leffler, was puzzled: A balance of power is linked historically to the evolution of the Westphalian state system and \"\"envisions equilibrium, while the Bush administration yearns for hegemony.\"\" When they invoke the language of power balancing, Bush's advisers obfuscate more than they clarify: According to Leffler's exegesis, Bush has invoked a balance of power vocabulary", "title": "Balance of power (international relations)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "U.S. in a bid for power, dominance and ultimately hegemony. For robust critics on soft balancing and unipolar stability, see Dall'Agnol. The author's main argument is that balance of power, as proposed by Waltz, still applies to the post-Cold War era. China is undoubtedly surfacing as the most credible power, one with the greatest potential over the next decade or two to alter the balance of power away from U.S. primacy. China has come through as a \"\"formidable political, strategic and economic competitor\"\" to the United States, increasingly challenging its regional and global leadership. Despite claims of peaceful rise mainly", "title": "Balancing (international relations)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.52, "text": "talented person working on the Atari 400/800 computer today\"\", and his name was well enough known that Avalon Hill's advertising for a revised version of \"\"Legionnaire\"\" mentioned Crawford as author. Laid off in the Atari collapse during the video game crash of 1983-1984, Crawford went freelance and produced \"\"Balance of Power\"\" for the Apple Macintosh in 1985, which was a best-seller, reaching 250,000 units sold. Additional strategy games followed. The Game Developers Conference, which in 2013 drew over 23,000 attendees, began in 1987 as a salon held in Crawford's living room with roughly 27 game design friends and associates. The", "title": "Chris Crawford (game designer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.88, "text": "Balance of Power (Red Dwarf) \"\"Balance of Power\"\" is the third episode of science fiction comedy \"\"Red Dwarf\"\" series one. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 29 February 1988. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. The story revolves around Lister's desire to bring his one true love, Kristine Kochanski, back as a hologram. Considered to be one of the weakest from the first series, the episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998. This was an attempt to change the standard of the", "title": "Balance of Power (Red Dwarf)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.73, "text": "to famous authors and a controversial game from Tom Snyder Productions called \"\"Sub Mission\"\". The latter required gamers to purchase a replacement disk if they lost the mission three times. Under creative director Sandy Schneider, the company became one of the earliest publishers of software for the Macintosh, publishing the seminal Chris Crawford game \"\"Balance of Power\"\". It also received accolades for its publishing of the innovative Apple Macintosh adventure games, the MacVentures, which were developed by ICOM Simulations, and included \"\"Déjà Vu\"\", \"\"Uninvited\"\", and \"\"Shadowgate\"\". It also published several of the early Macromind products, namely Graphic Works and Comic", "title": "Mindscape" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.72, "text": "numerous high-profile cases. On September 2, 2010, Huston was named one of the top ten product liability litigators in the country by the legal newswire Law 360. Writing op-eds for a local newspaper kick-started Huston's literary interests in the early 1990s. After two years of writing editorial pieces for the \"\"Escondido Times-Advocate\"\" and the \"\"San Diego Union-Tribune\"\", he decided to try fiction. His first and second novels met with \"\"hundreds\"\" of rejection letters, and were never published. His third, \"\"Balance Of Power\"\", combined Huston's military and legal expertise with political intrigue and was an instant success, with film rights sold", "title": "James W. Huston (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.62, "text": "by \"\"The Wall Street Journal\"\" and the Heritage Foundation, and is the author of the book \"\"Bleeding Talent: How the U.S. Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution\"\". Kane co-authored the book, \"\"Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America\"\" with Glenn Hubbard. Kane was a Republican candidate in Ohio's 12th congressional district special election in 2018. Kane was born in Lansing, Michigan, and was raised in Columbus, Ohio. Kane attended public schools from K-12 in Columbus, and received his appointment to the United States Air Force Academy from Congressman Chalmers P.", "title": "Tim Kane" } ]

[ "Jackie Collins", "Jacqueline Jill Collins" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "The Stud (novel) The Stud is the second novel by the British novelist Jackie Collins, first published in 1969 by W.H. Allen with the jacket featuring photography by Lewis Morley. When originally published in 1969, the names of the central characters were different from those in later editions following the release of the film. The stud of the title, Tony Burg was renamed Tony Blake for example. The character who became Fontaaine Khaled was originally named Fontaine Damon. The original novel was also edited in later editions to make it appear more contemporary. Collins also re-wrote the book, re-issuing it", "title": "The Stud (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.5, "text": "and was also made into a film, again starring sister Joan. The Stud (novel) The Stud is the second novel by the British novelist Jackie Collins, first published in 1969 by W.H. Allen with the jacket featuring photography by Lewis Morley. When originally published in 1969, the names of the central characters were different from those in later editions following the release of the film. The stud of the title, Tony Burg was renamed Tony Blake for example. The character who became Fontaaine Khaled was originally named Fontaine Damon. The original novel was also edited in later editions to make", "title": "The Stud (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.48, "text": "Studs Lonigan Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: \"\"Young Lonigan\"\" (1932), \"\"The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan\"\" (1934), and \"\"Judgment Day\"\" (1935). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the Studs Lonigan trilogy at 29th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The trilogy was adapted into a minor 1960 film and a 1979 television miniseries, both of which were simply titled \"\"Studs Lonigan\"\". Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to", "title": "Studs Lonigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.34, "text": "was nicknamed after Studs Lonigan. Studs Lonigan Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: \"\"Young Lonigan\"\" (1932), \"\"The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan\"\" (1934), and \"\"Judgment Day\"\" (1935). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the Studs Lonigan trilogy at 29th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The trilogy was adapted into a minor 1960 film and a 1979 television miniseries, both of which were simply titled \"\"Studs Lonigan\"\". Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted", "title": "Studs Lonigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.84, "text": "early as 1887 (\"\"New York Times\"\", 1887). He is best known as the author of \"\"Studer's Popular Ornithology\"\". This work had several editions, published over the period 1874 to 1903 (Cornell University). It was illustrated with chromolithographs after paintings by Theodore Jasper. Studer died in his office (Manhattan Building, 96th 5th Avenue), where he also lived at the time. A son, James Studer, survived him (\"\"New York Times\"\", 1904). Other members of his family predeceased him: Caroline Buss Studer (died 2 September 1871, age 30), daughters Mary Francisca and Anna Regina (both died April, 1876, ages 11 and 13), and", "title": "Jacob H. Studer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "Studs Terkel Louis \"\"Studs\"\" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for \"\"The Good War\"\", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was born to Russian Jewish immigrants, Samuel Terkel, a tailor, and Anna (Annie) Finkel, a seamstress, in New York City. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben", "title": "Studs Terkel" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.58, "text": "isn't even a tough guy- just a fat alcoholic who is scorned by the rough crowd whose respect he wanted so desperately. The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a 1934 novel by James T. Farrell, and the second part of Farrell's trilogy based on the life of William \"\"Studs\"\" Lonigan. This novel covers about 12 years in Studs Lonigan's life, from 1917 through 1928. In this time, we witness the physical and spiritual deterioration of a boy whose life once held a great deal of promise. At the end of \"\"Young Lonigan\"\", Studs", "title": "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.56, "text": "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a 1934 novel by James T. Farrell, and the second part of Farrell's trilogy based on the life of William \"\"Studs\"\" Lonigan. This novel covers about 12 years in Studs Lonigan's life, from 1917 through 1928. In this time, we witness the physical and spiritual deterioration of a boy whose life once held a great deal of promise. At the end of \"\"Young Lonigan\"\", Studs had completed elementary school, and was set to attend a prestigious Catholic high school. But as \"\"The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan\"\"", "title": "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.2, "text": "Young Lonigan Young Lonigan is a 1932 novel by James T. Farrell. It is the first part of a trilogy about William \"\"Studs\"\" Lonigan, a young Irish-American growing up in Chicago. The story begins in 1916, as 14-year-old Studs is graduating from a Catholic elementary school. Studs is the eldest of Patrick and Mary Lonigan's four children. Patrick Lonigan, a genial undemanding father, is a successful painting contractor. He plans to send Studs to a prestigious Catholic high school, where he hopes his athletic son will become a football star. Studs' mother, on the other hand, wants desperately for her", "title": "Young Lonigan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "Award and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Terkel, despite not being black, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Black Writers at the insistence of Haki Madhubuti. Studs Terkel Louis \"\"Studs\"\" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for \"\"The Good War\"\", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was born to Russian Jewish immigrants, Samuel Terkel, a tailor, and", "title": "Studs Terkel" } ]

[ "Archibald MacLeish" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.56, "text": "Panic (novel) Panic is a 2005 thriller by Jeff Abbott about an unsuspecting young documentary film maker, Evan, whose life is turned upside down when he realizes that his parents have been working as spies throughout their lives. One morning his mother phones him and asks him to come to her urgently, but when he arrives at her home she has just been murdered and he barely manages to escape with his life. Evan is suspected of having received from his mother a copy of a list of members and clients of a secret organisation called \"\"The Deeps\"\" and the", "title": "Panic (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "The Panic Zone The Panic Zone is a thriller novel by Canadian author Rick Mofina released on June 30, 2010. It is a Globe and Mail Canadian bestseller. Dean Koontz calls \"\"The Panic Zone\"\" \"\"a headlong rush toward Armageddon.\"\" Cheryl Tardif, a fellow suspense author, calls the book \"\"gripping and mesmerizing from the very first chapter. With a storytelling talent comparative to Michael Crichton and Robert Ludlum, Mofina expertly weaves the plot with intricate, terrifying and believable details.\"\" Larry W. Chavis of Crimespace says the book \"\"takes the standard world-in-danger device of the genre to a higher level, at times", "title": "The Panic Zone" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "the book as an \"\"absorbing thriller\"\" that is \"\"a fast, furious and fun read\"\". Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said that Abbott takes the novel \"\"just to the boundaries of disbelief\"\", but still manages to make it \"\"credible\"\" and \"\"still a shocker\"\". Panic (novel) Panic is a 2005 thriller by Jeff Abbott about an unsuspecting young documentary film maker, Evan, whose life is turned upside down when he realizes that his parents have been working as spies throughout their lives. One morning his mother phones him and asks him to come to her urgently, but when he arrives", "title": "Panic (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.84, "text": "leaving the reader breathless at its implications.\"\" The Panic Zone The Panic Zone is a thriller novel by Canadian author Rick Mofina released on June 30, 2010. It is a Globe and Mail Canadian bestseller. Dean Koontz calls \"\"The Panic Zone\"\" \"\"a headlong rush toward Armageddon.\"\" Cheryl Tardif, a fellow suspense author, calls the book \"\"gripping and mesmerizing from the very first chapter. With a storytelling talent comparative to Michael Crichton and Robert Ludlum, Mofina expertly weaves the plot with intricate, terrifying and believable details.\"\" Larry W. Chavis of Crimespace says the book \"\"takes the standard world-in-danger device of the", "title": "The Panic Zone" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "few seconds of panic.\"\" \"\"A Few Seconds of Panic\"\" has been compared to George Plimpton's \"\"Paper Lion\"\", a 1966 book wherein the author joins the Detroit Lions as a backup quarterback. A Few Seconds of Panic A Few Seconds of Panic is a nonfiction first-person narrative by Stefan Fatsis, published in 2008. The book chronicles Fatsis, a professional 43-year-old sportswriter working for the \"\"Wall Street Journal\"\", and his attempt to play in the National Football League. Along the way, he relates the personal stories and struggles that professional football players face in the league. After some setbacks, Fatsis eventually finds", "title": "A Few Seconds of Panic" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "Called Panic\"\". He is the author of \"\"Genius Now!\"\". He also wrote one episode of \"\"Animal Stories\"\" (in which he narrated the American dubbed version for The Disney Channel), several comedy sketches for CBC and a short film called \"\"Teeth\"\" and worked as a voice director for the \"\"BKN Classic Series\"\" trilogy where he directed the voices for all six of their films including \"\"\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"\"\" and \"\"A Christmas Carol\"\". Alan also had onscreen appearances on several British television series including \"\"Wake Up in the Wild Room\"\", \"\"The Bootleg Broadway Show\"\", \"\"The All New Alexei Sayle Show\"\",", "title": "Alan Marriott (voice actor)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.2, "text": "Lauren Oliver Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of numerous young adult novels including \"\"Panic;\"\" the Delirium trilogy: \"\"Delirium\"\", \"\"Pandemonium,\"\" and \"\"Requiem;\"\" and \"\"Before I Fall,\"\" which became a major motion picture in 2017. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel \"\"Liesl & Po\"\", as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel \"\"The Spindlers\"\". Oliver graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and also received a Master of", "title": "Lauren Oliver" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.08, "text": "1971 film \"\"The Panic in Needle Park\"\", starring Al Pacino in his second film appearance, was based on Mills' book of the same name about the heroin culture at Verdi Square and Sherman Square on New York City's Upper West Side near 72nd Street and Broadway. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The \"\"Harvard Crimson\"\" review stated of \"\"Report to the Commissioner\"\" that: \"\"James Mills has created just such an interloper: a story of deep suspense which moves on several planes of confrontation, ambition and human interaction. Slickly written, carefully strung together, Report to the", "title": "James Mills (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.08, "text": "Panic Spring Panic Spring is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1937 by Faber and Faber in Britain and Covici-Friede in the United States under the pseudonym Charles Norden. It is set on a fictional Greek Island, Mavrodaphne, in the Ionian Sea somewhere between Patras, Kephalonia, and Ithaca. The island, however, resembles Corfu strongly, and in at least one inscribed copy of the novel, Durrell includes a map of Corfu identified as Mavrodaphne. The novel progresses through multiple perspectives in the successive chapters, each focusing on a different character. As a whole, the novel shows Durrell's myriad influences of", "title": "Panic Spring" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.92, "text": "Doree Lewak \"\"Doree Lewak\"\" is an American writer and humorist. Lewak lives in New York City and has written for The New York Post, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Newsday, and New York Daily News. Lewak is best known as the author of the 2008 book \"\"The Panic Years: A Guide to Surviving Smug Married Friends, Bad Taffeta, and Life on the Wrong Side of 25 without a Ring.\"\" The Panic Years offers advice on how to change one's relationship strategy to find a marriage partner. Library Journal", "title": "Doree Lewak" } ]

[ "Isaac Asimov", "Isaak Osimov", "Paul French", "Asimov", "Isaak Ozimov" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.64, "text": "The Rest of the Robots The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the \"\"Robot\"\" series, most of which take place in the \"\"Foundation\"\" universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, \"\"I, Robot\"\", was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\". None of the short stories in this collection were in \"\"I, Robot\"\", however all of them were later included", "title": "The Rest of the Robots" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.58, "text": "named the book \"\"the single most useful publishing idea of the year\"\". The Rest of the Robots The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the \"\"Robot\"\" series, most of which take place in the \"\"Foundation\"\" universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, \"\"I, Robot\"\", was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\". None of the short stories in this", "title": "The Rest of the Robots" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.08, "text": "novels with detective Elijah Baley, whom Asimov affectionately calls Lije. While the original hardcover edition of this book included the two novels, some paperback editions have included only the eight short stories. Some of these shorter paperback editions, but not all, have been called \"\"Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots\"\". Algis Budrys of \"\"Galaxy Science Fiction\"\" in June 1965 praised the collection as \"\"a fine book of entertainment,\"\" but faulted Asimov's extensive annotations, saying they \"\"[suck] the juice out of some very vivacious writing indeed, and [embalm] one of science fiction's most ebullient personalities.\"\" In February 1966 he", "title": "The Rest of the Robots" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.88, "text": "The Complete Robot The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books \"\"I, Robot\"\" and \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\", while four had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies. They share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. The stories are grouped into categories. Stories that are", "title": "The Complete Robot" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.34, "text": "Robots and Empire Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday Books in 1985. It is part of Asimov's \"\"Robot\"\" series, which consists of many short stories (collected in \"\"I, Robot\"\", \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\", and \"\"The Complete Robot\"\") and several novels (\"\"The Caves of Steel\"\", \"\"The Naked Sun\"\", and \"\"The Robots of Dawn\"\"). \"\"Robots and Empire\"\" is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels: his \"\"Robot\"\" series, his \"\"Galactic Empire\"\" series and his \"\"Foundation\"\" series. (Asimov also carried out this", "title": "Robots and Empire" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.28, "text": "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray \"\"Robot AL-76 Goes Astray\"\" is a humorous science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the February 1942 issue of \"\"Amazing Stories\"\" and included in the collections \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\" (1964) and \"\"The Complete Robot\"\" (1982). Asimov selected the story for inclusion in the 1949 anthology \"\"My Best Science Fiction Story\"\". AL-76 (also known as Al) is a robot designed for mining work on the Moon, but as a result of an accident after leaving the factory of US Robots and Mechanical Men, it gets lost and finds itself in", "title": "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.17, "text": "First Law \"\"First Law\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the October 1956 issue of \"\"Fantastic Universe\"\" magazine and later collected in \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\" (1964) and \"\"The Complete Robot\"\" (1982). The title of the story is a reference to the first of the Three Laws of Robotics. In 1941 John W. Campbell of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" began a new department, \"\"Probability Zero\"\", for very short stories. He hoped to publish new writers, but wanted experienced authors early on, including Isaac Asimov. To Asimov's surprise, Campbell rejected \"\"Big Game\"\" and", "title": "First Law" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.02, "text": "\"\"Foundation\"\" stories and novelettes as the three books of the \"\"Foundation trilogy\"\". More positronic robot stories were republished in book form as \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\". Books and the magazines \"\"Galaxy\"\", and \"\"Fantasy & Science Fiction\"\" ended Asimov's dependence on \"\"Astounding\"\". He later described the era as his \"\"'mature' period\"\". Asimov's \"\"The Last Question\"\" (1956), on the ability of humankind to cope with and potentially reverse the process of entropy, was his personal favorite story. In 1972, his novel \"\"The Gods Themselves\"\" (which was not part of a series) was published to general acclaim, and it won the Hugo", "title": "Isaac Asimov" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.72, "text": "Let's Get Together (short story) \"\"Let's Get Together\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was originally published in the February 1957 issue of \"\"Infinity Science Fiction\"\", and included in the collections \"\"The Rest of the Robots\"\" (1964) and \"\"The Complete Robot\"\" (1982). The robots in this tale are very different from Asimov's norm, being quite happy to work as war machines. The tale is also based on a continuation of Cold War hostility, rather than the peaceful unified world of most of the robot stories. The Cold War has endured for a century and", "title": "Let's Get Together (short story)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.69, "text": "in \"\"The Complete Robot\"\", and both novels about Elijah Baley were also published separately. The texts in the collection were grouped into 4 chapters, differentiating their central themes. The first chapter, \"\"The Coming of the Robots\"\", included some of Asimov's earliest robot stories, where the Three Laws of Robotics were not yet explicitly defined. The following chapter, \"\"The Laws of Robotics\"\", included stories that were written after the explicit formulation of the three laws, however both stories include elements that place them outside the Foundation universe. In the story \"\"First Law\"\", aliens and direct disobedience of the First Law of", "title": "The Rest of the Robots" } ]

[ "Georges Sari" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.38, "text": "Arne Brun Lie Arne Brun Lie (February 2, 1925 - April 11, 2010) was a Norwegian-American author and Holocaust survivor, best known for the book \"\"Night and Fog: A Survivor's Story\"\" (1990). Born in Oslo, Norway, Lie was a member of the Norwegian Resistance during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 for resistance activity at sixteen years of age. He spent a year in Nazi concentration camps, including Natzweiler-Struthof and Dachau. He was released in 1944. Following his release, Lie moved back to Norway. He immigrated to the United States in", "title": "Arne Brun Lie" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.38, "text": "The Lie (poem) The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably written by Sir Walter Raleigh circa 1592. Speaking in the imperative mood throughout, he commands his soul to go \"\"upon a thankless errand\"\" and tell various people and organizations of their misdeeds and wrongdoings. And if they object, Raleigh commands, publicly accuse them to be lying, or \"\"give them the lie.\"\" To \"\"give the lie\"\" was a common phrase in Raleigh's time of writing. <poem> Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go,", "title": "The Lie (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.2, "text": "especially in the socially elite, although he knows his doing so will not be well received. From there the poem moves quickly through a variety of scenes and situations of falsehood and corruption, all of which Raleigh condemns. The second and third stanzas accuse the court of being arrogant and yet wholly rotten, the church of being inactive and apathetic despite its teachings, and those in government of favoritism and greed, respecting only those in large numbers. Scholars are not certain that Raleigh is the true author of the poem — which was published after Raleigh's death — though he", "title": "The Lie (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25, "text": "remains the most likely candidate. This is one of Raleigh's most anthologized poems. The Lie (poem) The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably written by Sir Walter Raleigh circa 1592. Speaking in the imperative mood throughout, he commands his soul to go \"\"upon a thankless errand\"\" and tell various people and organizations of their misdeeds and wrongdoings. And if they object, Raleigh commands, publicly accuse them to be lying, or \"\"give them the lie.\"\" To \"\"give the lie\"\" was a common phrase in Raleigh's time of writing. <poem> Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand;", "title": "The Lie (poem)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.92, "text": "The Book of Lies (Moloney novel) The Book of Lies, is the first fantasy novel by Australian novelist James Moloney, who has written more than thirty books, most of them realistic fiction for children. Published in 2004, the fantasy novel is set in a land known as Elster and tells of the story of the main character, Marcel, after he wakes up in a foundling home with no memory of who he is. His struggle to reclaim his identity, along with close allies Nicola, Bea and Fergus, centres on uncovering the truth from amid a sea of lies, where few", "title": "The Book of Lies (Moloney novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.8, "text": "Pamela Meyer Pamela Meyer is an American author, certified fraud examiner, and entrepreneur. Described by \"\"Reader's Digest\"\" as \"\"the nation's best known expert on lying,\"\" Meyer is the author of the 2010 book \"\"Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception.\"\" Her 2011 TED talk, \"\"How to Spot a Liar,\"\" has exceeded 16 million views and is one of the 20 most popular TED talks of all time. Meyer is the CEO of Calibrate, a company which trains financial institutions, insurance providers, law firms and human resource professionals on verbal and non-verbal cues to deception, facial micro-expression interpretation, advanced interrogation techniques and", "title": "Pamela Meyer" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.64, "text": "increasing the sales of the book, an example of the Streisand effect. \"\"Lies\"\" is one of several books published in 2003 written by American liberals challenging the viewpoints of conservatives such as Bernard Goldberg, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. These books by Franken and fellow authors such as Joe Conason, Michael Moore and Jim Hightower were described by columnist Molly Ivins as the \"\"great liberal backlash of 2003.\"\" \"\"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them\"\" largely targets prominent Republicans and conservatives, highlighting what Franken asserts are documentable lies in their claims. A significant portion of the book", "title": "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.42, "text": "The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel) The Book of Lies is a novel written by Brad Meltzer which assumes a connection between the story of Cain and Abel and the superhero Superman, written by Jerry Siegel. According to WorldCat, the book is in 2133 libraries. The book has been translated into Polish, Hebrew, Italian, German, and Korean. The book of Genesis tells the story of the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain; the world's first recorded murder. But the Bible doesn't say what weapon Cain used. That detail is lost to history. In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by", "title": "The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.36, "text": "Neil Sheehan, author of \"\"A Bright Shining Lie\"\", in September 1988. The interview itself resulted from Lamb having viewed a short commercial television interview with Sheehan and wanting to hear more. According to Lamb, a strong viewer response to the program led to the decision to start producing a weekly author interview program. Each \"\"Booknotes\"\" episode devoted one full hour to an interview with the author of a recently released non-fiction book. In order to avoid duplicate appearances by any one author, each guest appeared only once on the program, thus allowing for over 800 different authors to be interviewed", "title": "Booknotes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.28, "text": "Trygve Lie Trygve Halvdan Lie (; ; 16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968) was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian Foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lie earned a reputation as a pragmatic, determined politician. Lie was born in Kristiania on 16 July 1896. His father, carpenter Martin Lie, left the family to emigrate to the United States in 1902, and was never heard from again. Trygve", "title": "Trygve Lie" } ]

[ "Robert Cormier", "Robert Edmund Cormier" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.47, "text": "be produced by Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick, Ted Hamm and Ilene Staple. Fade (novel) Fade is a 1988 young adult novel written by Robert Cormier. In the summer of 1938, the young Paul Moreaux, who lives in a town outside of Boston called Monument, discovers he can \"\"fade,\"\" become invisible. His family has had this ability generation after generation; it is somehow passed down from uncle to nephew. Bewildered and then thrilled with the possibilities of invisibility, Paul experiments with his \"\"gift.\"\" He sees things that he should not witness. His power soon overloads him, shows him shocking secrets, pushes", "title": "Fade (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.38, "text": "Fade (novel) Fade is a 1988 young adult novel written by Robert Cormier. In the summer of 1938, the young Paul Moreaux, who lives in a town outside of Boston called Monument, discovers he can \"\"fade,\"\" become invisible. His family has had this ability generation after generation; it is somehow passed down from uncle to nephew. Bewildered and then thrilled with the possibilities of invisibility, Paul experiments with his \"\"gift.\"\" He sees things that he should not witness. His power soon overloads him, shows him shocking secrets, pushes him over the edge, and drives him toward some chilling and horrible", "title": "Fade (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.41, "text": "Fade Away (novel) Fade Away is a novel by author Harlan Coben. It is the third novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar. \"\"Fade Away\"\" is a novel featuring Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, hired by the New Jersey Dragons to find a missing basketball star. Myron and his team of associates, work together to puzzle out the disappearance of Greg Downing, drawing Myron into danger, both physical and emotional. Myron Bolitar is a sports agent and sometimes investigator, called by Clip Arnstein, the owner of the New Jersey Dragons. Clip's star player", "title": "Fade Away (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.12, "text": "Fade to Black (novel) Fade to Black is a Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Robert Goldsborough, the fifth of seven Nero Wolfe books extending the Rex Stout canon. It was first published by Bantam in hardcover in 1990. \"\"Fade to Black\"\" is set in the advertising world, and as such is a nice counterpoint to Stout's Wolfe novel \"\"Before Midnight\"\" (1955). Whereas the earlier book centres on jealousies within a large and established agency, and a nationwide perfume contest, the Goldsborough book is concerned with a mid-sized boutique agency coping with issues such as idea theft between ad agencies and", "title": "Fade to Black (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.86, "text": "Fadeout (novel) Fadeout (1970) is a mystery novel by American crime writer Joseph Hansen, and the first to feature his popular character Dave Brandstetter, an openly gay detective. Following the discovery of his car, destroyed beneath a narrow wooden bridge, police assume that Fox Olson, once beloved pop star, died in a road accident, despite there being no sign of a body. When Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator and no-nonsense gumshoe, arrives on the scene, he soon begins collecting evidence that indicates otherwise. For instance, what lies behind the seemingly innocent friendship between Fox's wife and his manager? And just", "title": "Fadeout (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.73, "text": "since his mandate is simply to stop industrial espionage, he can (arguably) collect his fee. The rest is left for the reader to discover. Fade to Black (novel) Fade to Black is a Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Robert Goldsborough, the fifth of seven Nero Wolfe books extending the Rex Stout canon. It was first published by Bantam in hardcover in 1990. \"\"Fade to Black\"\" is set in the advertising world, and as such is a nice counterpoint to Stout's Wolfe novel \"\"Before Midnight\"\" (1955). Whereas the earlier book centres on jealousies within a large and established agency, and a", "title": "Fade to Black (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "The Fade Out The Fade Out is a crime comics series created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips with the help of colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser and research assistant Amy Condit. Twelve issues were published by Image Comics between August 2014 and January 2016. The story has been collected into three trade paperback volumes and a single hardcover collection. The story, partly inspired by the life of Brubaker's uncle, is set in 1948 and stars Charlie Parish, a Hollywood screenwriter suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fronting for his blacklisted best friend, Gil. When Charlie wakes from a", "title": "The Fade Out" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "Michael Hogan, John O'Brien, Michael Ventura and Rupert Thomson. Clevenger has completed work on a third novel, \"\"Mother Howl\"\", based on his short story \"\"The Fade\"\", which he has recently adapted into a short film with director Scott Krinsky. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Stephen Graham Jones. Clevenger's debut novel, \"\"The Contortionist's Handbook\"\", was first published in 2002. It is the story of John Dolan Vincent, a prodigious forger who has been detained for a psychiatric interview following a near-fatal painkiller overdose. As the narrator bluffs his way through the interview in order", "title": "Craig Clevenger" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.38, "text": "detail.\"\" - \"\"Gay News\"\" Fadeout (novel) Fadeout (1970) is a mystery novel by American crime writer Joseph Hansen, and the first to feature his popular character Dave Brandstetter, an openly gay detective. Following the discovery of his car, destroyed beneath a narrow wooden bridge, police assume that Fox Olson, once beloved pop star, died in a road accident, despite there being no sign of a body. When Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator and no-nonsense gumshoe, arrives on the scene, he soon begins collecting evidence that indicates otherwise. For instance, what lies behind the seemingly innocent friendship between Fox's wife and", "title": "Fadeout (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.36, "text": "La Petite Fadette La Petite Fadette, also published in English under the titles Little Fadette. A Domestic Story (1849), Fadette. A Domestic Story (1851) and Little Fadette (1967), is an 1849 novel by French novelist George Sand, née Amantine Dupin. Sand wrote the rural story together with \"\"François le Champi\"\" in the 1840s as she left behind her life as a glamorous writer in Paris to return to the countryside of Châteauroux. The novel is one of Sand's best known today. It was translated into English and published in 1900 by Henry Holt and Company, and an updated critical translation", "title": "La Petite Fadette" } ]

[ "John Keats" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.03, "text": "When I Have Fears \"\"When I Have Fears\"\" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the poem between January 22 and 31, 1818 . It was published (posthumously) in 1848 in \"\"Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats\"\" by Richard Monckton Milnes. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.41, "text": "at the time of filming and remains a place of pilgrimage for fans of the film. However, some of the urban scenes were shot in London or at Denham or Beaconsfield near Denham Studios where the film was made. The poem that Fred asks Laura to assist him with is by John Keats: \"\"When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be\"\". The quote Fred recites is, \"\"When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high Romance...\"\" In addition to the verbal reference to Keats, there is a visual reference to an Arabic love", "title": "Brief Encounter" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.11, "text": "you were when first your eye I ey'd\"\" and John Keats' poem 'When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be'. On the night of 14/15 of March 1917, Owen received a concussion after a fall at Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre. On the same night he was evacuated to a Military Hospital at Nesle. On the 17th of March, Owen was moved to 13th Casualty Clearing Station at Gailly. While recovering, Owen sent a letter to his younger brother Colin, \"\"Perhaps you will think me clean mad and translated by my knock on the head. How shall I prove that my", "title": "With an Identity Disc" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.92, "text": "novelists' works in the genre, it still \"\"never ceases to entertain\"\". Mounting Fears Mounting Fears is the seventh novel in the \"\"Will Lee series\"\" by Stuart Woods. It was first published in 2009 by Putnam. The novel takes place in Washington D.C. and other states, some years after the events of \"\"Capital Crimes\"\". The book continues the story of the Lee family of Delano, Georgia. Will Lee is now the President of the United States. It is also the fourth appearance of recurring villain Teddy Faye. The novel is also a New York Times bestseller. Jon Land of the Providence", "title": "Mounting Fears" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.7, "text": "night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.- \"\"When I Have Fears\"\" primarily explores death, the fear of it, and what it prevents Keats from doing. Using the phrase \"\"cease to be\"\" shows an", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.58, "text": "lawn that was once a lookout for Henry Morgan, then converted to a bar by Sir Noël, is now a gift shop and restaurant. On one of Firefly's walls is written his last poem. It begins:<br> \"\"When I have fears, as Keats had fears,\"\"<br> \"\"Of the moment I'll cease to be,\"\"<br> \"\"I console myself with vanished years,\"\"<br> \"\"Remembered laughter, remembered tears,\"\"<br> \"\"And the peace of the changing sea.\"\" Firefly Estate Firefly Estate, located east of Oracabessa, Jamaica, is the burial place of Sir Noël Coward and his former vacation home. It is now listed as a National Heritage Site by", "title": "Firefly Estate" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.89, "text": "a passive acceptance that life must end. Love and fame do not matter and cannot be achieved anyway once Keats dies. \"\"When I Have Fears\"\" follows a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Shakespeare Sonnet). Shahidha Bari notes the rhyme scheme may reflect expectation. Readers expect the lines to rhyme with each other, as Keats anticipates the end of his life. The couplet and rhyme signals the end of the poem, as death signals the end of life. Keats, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, is often cited as fearing his own death. The fear may", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 19.14, "text": "the poem which describe \"\"the shore\"\" and state, \"\"Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink\"\" may relate to the reference to water in Keats' epitaph. His name will sink in water as the fame of writing will. William Flesch notes the poem's echoes of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Comparisons have also been made to Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 for references to time, endings, and the sea and to Sonnet 64 for references to time destroying man-made creations. When I Have Fears \"\"When I Have Fears\"\" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 19.05, "text": "things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was, when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter,", "title": "Zora Neale Hurston" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.64, "text": "to trace or understand how fate functions. The \"\"fair creature of an hour,\"\" according to Richard Woodhouse, the man who advised Keats' publishers on legal and literary matters , refers to a woman Keats encountered at Vauxhall Gardens. Keats' reflection on this woman may represent his preoccupation with beauty and his fear of no longer witnessing beauty, in the form of a woman or nature, once he dies. She also represents Keats' fear of loss and being unable to experience love once he dies. The final three lines where Keats stands alone and contemplates the end of life may represent", "title": "When I Have Fears" } ]

[ "Enid Blyton", "Enid Mary Blyton", "Mary Pollock" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.09, "text": "Five Get into Trouble Five Get into Trouble is the eighth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1949. In this novel, Dick gets kidnapped, mistaken for another boy whose name is Richard. The Famous Five track him down to a lonely, out-of-the-way house, but they are seized and imprisoned too. The five are allowed to go on a cycling holiday after a lot of argument. While there, they meet a boy called Richard Kent. His father is rich but fierce and once had a bodyguard named Rookie, whom Richard didn't like and", "title": "Five Get into Trouble" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.95, "text": "and in 2013 as a German film, \"\"Fünf Freunde 2\"\". Five Get into Trouble Five Get into Trouble is the eighth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1949. In this novel, Dick gets kidnapped, mistaken for another boy whose name is Richard. The Famous Five track him down to a lonely, out-of-the-way house, but they are seized and imprisoned too. The five are allowed to go on a cycling holiday after a lot of argument. While there, they meet a boy called Richard Kent. His father is rich but fierce and once", "title": "Five Get into Trouble" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "Richard proves his worth by volunteering to do this. He escapes in the boot and goes to the police. When the police arrive, Julian shows them the secret room which contains an escaped convict. The gang planned to help him leave the country in return for a share of the goods he stole and hid. Richard is taken home where his worried parents waiting for him and five join them for a treat from Richard's parents for helping him. It all ends with happy faces. The novel was adapted in 1970 as a Danish-German film production, \"\"De 5 i fedtefadet\"\"", "title": "Five Get into Trouble" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.03, "text": "Five Get into a Fix Five Get into a Fix is a children's novel written by Enid Blyton and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1958. It is the seventeenth book in the Famous Five series. The novel begins with the four and their dog Timmy, having the worst Christmas holidays ever with coughs and colds at Julian’s house. To recover Julian’s mother sends them to a farmhouse in the Welsh mountains for the last week of their holiday. The Five had nearly reached their destination, when they get lost in the dark and drive up a dead-end driveway leading", "title": "Five Get into a Fix" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.73, "text": "De 5 i fedtefadet De 5 i fedtefadet () is a Danish-German film directed by Katrine Hedman based on Enid Blyton's \"\"Five Get into Trouble\"\". It was released in 1970. Julius, Richard and Anne spend the holidays with their cousin Georgina, called George. But the gathering designed to be rather boring, because Uncle Quentin has to prepare for a conference and so has this loud romp and play football prohibited. Nothing must disturb him. Condemned to silence, the four children, along with George Shepherd Tim, on the lawn in the garden of the house. Bored, they ponder what they could", "title": "De 5 i fedtefadet" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.64, "text": "the rescue. When all of them return to the farm they find a party being arranged as it is Morgan’s birthday. The gamebook \"\"The Shuddering Mountain Game\"\" (1987) was based on this novel. Five Get into a Fix Five Get into a Fix is a children's novel written by Enid Blyton and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1958. It is the seventeenth book in the Famous Five series. The novel begins with the four and their dog Timmy, having the worst Christmas holidays ever with coughs and colds at Julian’s house. To recover Julian’s mother sends them to a", "title": "Five Get into a Fix" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.5, "text": "Trouble (comics) Trouble is a five-issue romance comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics as a part of its mature Epic Comics imprint. Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Terry and Rachel Dodson, the series deals with teen pregnancy. The basic concept was created by Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada. \"\"Trouble\"\" was considered by Marvel's editorial group as the possible origin of Spider-Man. It was also meant to re-popularize romance comics (which were very popular in the 1950s, selling millions of copies), but failed. A trade paperback collecting the five issues was originally scheduled to be", "title": "Trouble (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.11, "text": "attacks the police hurrying into the action. She takes the gangster definitively. Finally, the children still show the police a secret hiding place behind a bookcase in which resides an escaped convict. Thus, one of the executive officers concluded: \"\"Since we have made a good catch.\"\" De 5 i fedtefadet De 5 i fedtefadet () is a Danish-German film directed by Katrine Hedman based on Enid Blyton's \"\"Five Get into Trouble\"\". It was released in 1970. Julius, Richard and Anne spend the holidays with their cousin Georgina, called George. But the gathering designed to be rather boring, because Uncle Quentin", "title": "De 5 i fedtefadet" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.83, "text": "Troubletwisters series Troubletwisters is an ongoing series of young adult fantasy novels by Garth Nix and Sean Williams. The first novel in the series, \"\"Troubletwisters\"\" was released on May 1, 2011 through Scholastic Press and Allen & Unwin. Williams and Nix have stated that the series will comprise five novels. The series follows siblings Jaide and Jack as they discover that they are both \"\"troubletwisters\"\" and as such, possess strange abilities. Initially unaware of this fact, this revelation becomes apparent after they are sent to Portland to live with a grandmother they've never met after their house is destroyed in", "title": "Troubletwisters series" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.75, "text": "Trouble (American Authors song) \"\"Trouble\"\" is a song by American indie rock band American Authors. The song was written by band members Zachary Barnett, David Rublin, Matthew Sanchez and James Shelley with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman and originally recorded for the band's debut studio album \"\"Oh, What a Life\"\", appearing as the fifth track on the album. The track was released by Mercury Records and Island Records as a promotional single on February 18, 2014. \"\"Trouble\"\" has been described as a folk rock song, borrowing musical elements from Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers and Edward Sharpe and the", "title": "Trouble (American Authors song)" } ]

[ "Jim Starlin" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.89, "text": "Adam's Breed Adam's Breed was a 1926 novel by the English writer Radclyffe Hall. On its publication it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for best English novel. It tells the story of a British-Italian waiter, a member of the Lost Generation disillusioned by life during and after World War One, who becomes a hermit. It concerns Teresa Boselli, a strong, perhaps Amazonian, woman, and her orphaned grandson Gian-Luca who as a young man works as a waiter in London, before joining the army during World War One which he survives", "title": "Adam's Breed" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.7, "text": "Breed (comics) Breed is the title of three limited series of comic books published in the USA, written and drawn by Jim Starlin. The first two were published by Malibu Comics under its Bravura imprint; the third limited series was published by Image Comics. The original six-issue limited series was published from January to June 1994, and \"\"'Breed II\"\" ran from November 1994 to April 1995. The subtitle \"\"Book of Revelation\"\" appeared only on the interior indicia of the second series. \"\"'Breed III\"\" was planned and started in 1995 but Starlin couldn't get a publisher interested in it after Malibu", "title": "Breed (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.59, "text": "the PGA Championship, PGA Professional National Championship, and the Ryder Cup. Breed's first book (co-authored with Greg Midland), \"\"Picture Perfect Golf Swing: The Complete Guide to Golf Swing Video Analysis\"\", was released by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books on May 13, 2008. Breed is the inventor of the putting and chipping brace for golfers. He also hosts a radio show called \"\"Tee Time\"\". Breed also contributed to writing \"\"No More Slice for Dummies\"\". In September 2011, his second instructional book \"\"The 3-Degree Putting Solution\"\" was released through Penguin Group. In 2014 he released the video series \"\"Effect to Cause\"\". Breed has", "title": "Michael Breed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.53, "text": "William J. Breed William J. \"\"Bill\"\" Breed (August 3, 1928 - January 22, 2013) was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist and author in Northern Arizona. He was a renowned expert on the geology of the Grand Canyon. William J. Breed was born August 3, 1928 in Massillon, Ohio, son of Grace Amelia (née Snyder) and Earl Fremont Breed. After graduating from Massillon Washington High School, he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Military Police in South Korea and Japan (1946–48). He received his B.A. from Denison University, then his B.S. and M.S. from University of Arizona, finishing in 1960.", "title": "William J. Breed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.3, "text": "The Best Ye Breed The Best Ye Breed is a science fiction novella by American writer Mack Reynolds. It is the third in a sequence of near-future stories set in North Africa, which also includes \"\"Black Man's Burden\"\" (1961-1962), \"\"Border, Breed nor Birth\"\" (1962), and \"\"Black Sheep Astray\"\" (1973). \"\"The Best Ye Breed\"\" and the North Africa series have been called a \"\"notable exception\"\" to the indirect treatment of racial issues in 1960s science fiction magazines. In parallel stories, four operatives are given conflicting missions in response to the North African war of liberation headed by black American sociologist Homer", "title": "The Best Ye Breed" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.28, "text": "Breeds There a Man...? \"\"Breeds There a Man...?\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1951 issue of \"\"Astounding\"\" and was reprinted in science fiction anthologies such as \"\"Beachheads in Space\"\" (1952) and \"\"The Great SF Stories #13 (1951)\"\" (published in 1985), as well as in Asimov-only collections such as \"\"Through a Glass, Clearly\"\" (1967), \"\"Nightfall and Other Stories\"\" (1969). and \"\"Robot Dreams\"\" (1986). Elwood Ralson, a brilliant but psychologically disturbed physicist, becomes convinced that humanity is a kind of genetics experiment being run by an alien intelligence. His", "title": "Breeds There a Man...?" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "Pierre Ouellette Pierre Ouellette (born 1945) is a science fiction author. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He wrote the science fiction thrillers \"\"The Deus Machine\"\" (Villard Books, 1994) and \"\"The Third Pandemic\"\" (Pocket Books, 1996). Writing under the name of Pierre Davis, his third novel \"\"A Breed Apart\"\" was published in 2009 by Bantam-Dell. A fourth book, entitled \"\"Origin Unknown \"\"was published in July 2011. His fifth book, titled \"\"The Forever Man\"\", was published in January 2014 by Alibi Books, a Random House imprint. His latest novel, \"\"Bakersfield\"\", a crime story set in mid-1950s California, is due out in September", "title": "Pierre Ouellette" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.12, "text": "Lora Leigh Lora Leigh (born March 6, 1965 in Ohio and raised in Martin County, Kentucky, US) is a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling author of erotic romance novels. Leigh started publishing with electronic publisher Ellora's Cave in 2003. Leigh longest run series is \"\"The Breeds\"\". She won the 2009 RT Award for erotica. Critical reception for Leigh's books have been mixed over the years. Romantic Times reviewed \"\"Soul Deep (Breed Series)\"\" giving it two stars out of five for an overabundance of plot contrivances, but giving \"\"Lion's Heat\"\" a four and a half star rating. Publishers Weekly has both praised", "title": "Lora Leigh" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.06, "text": "A Breed of Heroes A Breed of Heroes is a 1981 novel by Alan Judd. It narrates in third person the experiences of a young British Army officer as he is deployed on his first tour of duty, a four-month operation in Armagh and Belfast at the height of The Troubles. Set in the 1970s, ‘’A Breed of Heroes’’ follows the deployment of young British Army officer Charles Thoroughgood on a four-month emergency tour of Northern Ireland. Charles is new to the army and the difficulty he has with adjusting to army life adds to the complications faced in Northern", "title": "A Breed of Heroes" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.02, "text": "Breed\"\", formed the basis for the HBO series \"\"The Pacific\"\" (2010), the follow-on series to \"\"Band of Brothers\"\". Leckie is portrayed in the miniseries by James Badge Dale; Vera is portrayed by Caroline Dhavernas. According to World Catalogue, Robert Leckie, writing as 'Roger Barlow', also wrote six juvenile boy adventure books called \"\"The Sandy Steele\"\" series, three available at Gutenberg.org. Leckie was entitled to campaign participation credit (\"\"battle stars\"\") for Guadalcanal-Tulagi Landings, Capture and Defense of Guadalcanal, Eastern New Guinea Operations, Cape Gloucester New Britain, and Capture and Occupation of the Southern Palau Islands (Peleliu). Robert Leckie (author) Robert Leckie", "title": "Robert Leckie (author)" } ]

[ "Isaac Asimov", "Isaak Osimov", "Paul French", "Asimov", "Isaak Ozimov" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.19, "text": "No Connection \"\"No Connection\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1948 issue of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" and reprinted in the 1972 collection \"\"The Early Asimov\"\". Written in May 1947, \"\"No Connection\"\" was the first non-Foundation, non-robot series story in more than two years. John W. Campbell of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" purchased it that month. In the Earth of the far distant future, humans have died out and have been replaced, at least in the Americas, by a race descended from bears. Known to themselves as \"\"Gurrow sapiens\"\", they", "title": "No Connection" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.73, "text": "and that they have developed nuclear weapons. Raph suspects that nuclear war may have been the reason why the original primates became extinct. No Connection \"\"No Connection\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1948 issue of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" and reprinted in the 1972 collection \"\"The Early Asimov\"\". Written in May 1947, \"\"No Connection\"\" was the first non-Foundation, non-robot series story in more than two years. John W. Campbell of \"\"Astounding Science Fiction\"\" purchased it that month. In the Earth of the far distant future, humans have died", "title": "No Connection" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "No Connection (band) No Connection are an English classic rock music group based in Reading, Berkshire. No Connection were formed in May 1997 in Reading, Berkshire by Graham Young (lead vocals, guitar), Simon Whenlock (bass, backing vocals), and Jon Hill (drums, backing vocals). The group claims as their inspirations the likes of Aerosmith, AC/DC, Deep Purple, George Michael, Public Enemy, Queen, The Cult, Van Halen, and U2. No Connection released their first album, titled \"\"Justified\"\", in January 2000. The album included ten songs, including \"\"Victory Girl\"\", which was featured in the teaser of an episode of \"\"First Wave\"\" titled \"\"Ohio", "title": "No Connection (band)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.12, "text": "liner notes. Books No Earthly Connection No Earthly Connection is a studio album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in April 1976 on A&M Records. After touring worldwide in late 1975 in support of his previous studio album \"\"The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table\"\" (1975), Wakeman retreated to Herouville, France to record a new studio album with his rock band, the English Rock Ensemble. He based its material on a part fictional and non-fictional autobiographical account of music that incorporates historical, futuristic, and science-fiction themes. \"\"No Earthly Connection\"\" peaked at number 9", "title": "No Earthly Connection" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.75, "text": "\"\"Red Light Fever\"\". No Connection's music has been featured in two games of the \"\"FlatOut\"\" video game series: three songs—\"\"Burnin'\"\", \"\"Living American\"\", and \"\"Love to Hate to Love\"\"—were included in the original game (\"\"see FlatOut (video game)\"\") and two songs—\"\"The Last Revolution\"\" and \"\"Feed the Machine\"\"—were present in \"\"\"\". No Connection (band) No Connection are an English classic rock music group based in Reading, Berkshire. No Connection were formed in May 1997 in Reading, Berkshire by Graham Young (lead vocals, guitar), Simon Whenlock (bass, backing vocals), and Jon Hill (drums, backing vocals). The group claims as their inspirations the likes", "title": "No Connection (band)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.25, "text": "No Earthly Connection No Earthly Connection is a studio album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in April 1976 on A&M Records. After touring worldwide in late 1975 in support of his previous studio album \"\"The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table\"\" (1975), Wakeman retreated to Herouville, France to record a new studio album with his rock band, the English Rock Ensemble. He based its material on a part fictional and non-fictional autobiographical account of music that incorporates historical, futuristic, and science-fiction themes. \"\"No Earthly Connection\"\" peaked at number 9 on the UK", "title": "No Earthly Connection" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.08, "text": "Players\"\". Two more songs off the album—\"\"Ain't Foolin'\"\" and \"\"Love for Free\"\"—reached No. 1 on MP3.com's Classic Rock chart. The band released \"\"Deal With It\"\", co-produced with John Mitchell, in 2001 through their indie record label No Connection Music. In October 2002, the group toured the United States, performing in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York City (including at the CBGB club). They also subsequently performed in the Czech Republic and Poland in 2005, and in Lithuania in 2006. In 2004, No Connection released \"\"Love To Hate To Love\"\", followed in 2005 by \"\"Feed The Machine\"\" and in 2008 by", "title": "No Connection (band)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.36, "text": "local news coverage on the following day. Wakeman used the incident to write musical themes that entered his mind as he thought of it, much of which was put down during flights on the 1975 tour. Wakeman also wrote some passages in the airplane toilet. Wakeman ended up writing a considerable amount of music during the making of the album as he was determined to record everything that came to mind, but had to throw out approximately sixty percent of the material. He later revealed that he wrote it without playing any of it back to listen. Wakeman said he", "title": "No Earthly Connection" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.27, "text": "they all connect, even though on first blush it is--it's hard to see the connection, but I think there is a connection.\"\" Neil Baldwin (writer) Neil Baldwin is the author of a variety of books on various topics related to history and culture, and a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University. Baldwin earned a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the editor of \"\"The Niagara Magazine\"\" between 1974 and 1982, and worked in fundraising", "title": "Neil Baldwin (writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.14, "text": "rock style in his music, but made a conscious decision to make a more serious album without the comedic and tongue in cheek elements he had incorporated in his previous works. He wished to write something \"\"that I believed in fervently\"\". Wakeman said it is a part fictional and non-fictional musical autobiography based on things people know exist but unsure as to why or cannot explain, the question of life and its different forms, evolution, and flying saucers. He took a human soul as his main narrative and explained it in musical terms, which involves the idea of everyone born", "title": "No Earthly Connection" } ]

[ "Carolyn Keene", "Caroline Quine" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 27.31, "text": "Race Against Time (novel series) Race Against Time is a series of juvenile action/adventure books published from 1984 to 1985, by an author listed only as J. J. Fortune. Most of the action are narrated through a young New York teen named Stephen Lane, who is a movie buff, who always get caught up in some madcap adventures of his uncle, Richard Duffy. Until mother's younger brother moved in with the family into their brownstone on 224½ East 61st Street one day, Stephen spent most of his weekends and other free time watching videos, from old movies to the latest", "title": "Race Against Time (novel series)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.05, "text": "Race Against Time (Nancy Drew) Race Against Time is the 66th novel in the Nancy Drew mystery series by Carolyn Keene. It was published by Wanderer Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in 1982. It has 20 chapters and over 200 pages. In \"\"Race Against Time\"\", Nancy Drew is a \"\"movie star.\"\" Ned's college film club is making a spooky vampire movie set in an old deserted mansion — and Nancy is the star! The popular detective has also been asked to model in a series of TV commercials for a new beauty product. As if that were not", "title": "Race Against Time (Nancy Drew)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa is a non-fiction book written by Stephen Lewis for the Massey Lectures. Lewis wrote it in early to mid-2005 and House of Anansi Press released it as the lecture series began in October 2005. Each of the book's chapters was delivered as one lecture in a different Canadian city, beginning in Vancouver on October 18 and ending in Toronto on October 28. The speeches were aired on CBC Radio One between November 7 and 11. The author and orator, Stephen Lewis, was", "title": "Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.8, "text": "Richard when he had the chance (chapter seven). In chapter eleven of The Secret of the Third Watch, Richard and Stephen were held captive by the Mole, who told them that it was his idea, as Wolfmann's assistant, to introduce many features into the design of the Kronom K-D2, which he would later use in his crime spree. Race Against Time (novel series) Race Against Time is a series of juvenile action/adventure books published from 1984 to 1985, by an author listed only as J. J. Fortune. Most of the action are narrated through a young New York teen named", "title": "Race Against Time (novel series)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.78, "text": "horror film — before some mysterious force ruins everything! Race Against Time (Nancy Drew) Race Against Time is the 66th novel in the Nancy Drew mystery series by Carolyn Keene. It was published by Wanderer Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in 1982. It has 20 chapters and over 200 pages. In \"\"Race Against Time\"\", Nancy Drew is a \"\"movie star.\"\" Ned's college film club is making a spooky vampire movie set in an old deserted mansion — and Nancy is the star! The popular detective has also been asked to model in a series of TV commercials for", "title": "Race Against Time (Nancy Drew)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "constructive and the writing sincere. His style focuses less on numbers and statistics, and more on connecting decisions by UN officials and western diplomats to consequences on the ground in Africa. His eyewitness accounts are said to be candid and emotional. The book spent seven weeks at #1 on \"\"The Globe and Mail\"\"'s Nonfiction Bestseller List. A second edition was released in June 2006. The Canadian Booksellers Association awarded its Libris Award for non-fiction book of the year to \"\"Race Against Time\"\" and its Author of the Year Award to Lewis in 2006. At the time of publication, the author,", "title": "Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "Revenge in the Silent Tomb The Revenge in the Silent Tomb is book 1 of the Race Against Time series written by J. J. Fortune. The book opened at a Saturday, 2:47pm, with a New York teen Stephen Lane, and his uncle Richard Duffy, in a car chase over the Saharan desert in Al-Karesh, a fictional country in North Africa. They were pursued by gunmen. The chase ended with Richard Duffy about to be knifed by one of their pursuers. This was followed by a flashback to a recent past, specifically, Friday 9:00pm in New York, which showed that the", "title": "Revenge in the Silent Tomb" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "The Secret of the Third Watch The Secret of the Third Watch is book 7 of the Race Against Time series written by J. J. Fortune. Unlike other books in the series, this one does not take the adventuring duo (Stephen Lane and Richard Duffy) into exotic places faraway from the United States. It is the only time when the events take place wholly in their home city of New York. This is also the only instance when the day of the action can be dated - on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17. Richard received an urgent plea from an", "title": "The Secret of the Third Watch" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.77, "text": "edge over other users of the Kronom. The Secret of the Third Watch The Secret of the Third Watch is book 7 of the Race Against Time series written by J. J. Fortune. Unlike other books in the series, this one does not take the adventuring duo (Stephen Lane and Richard Duffy) into exotic places faraway from the United States. It is the only time when the events take place wholly in their home city of New York. This is also the only instance when the day of the action can be dated - on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17.", "title": "The Secret of the Third Watch" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.67, "text": "Trapped in the USSR Trapped in the U.S.S.R. is book 8 of the Race Against Time series written by J. J. Fortune. It is notable for poor characterization, and ludicrous plot involving a teenage boy who has to escape the Russians, but seems more worried that his parents might find out he's away. At one point due to his lack of Russian fluency he has to pretend to be deaf and mute, but keeps talking anyway. Richard Duffy promised Stephen an uneventful week when the latter's parents went for a week-long trip to Clearwater, Florida, for business. Reasoning if they", "title": "Trapped in the USSR" } ]

[ "Ruth Rendell", "Ruth Grasemann", "Barbara Vine", "Baroness Rendell of Babergh", "Ruth Barbara Grasemann", "Ruth Barbara Rendell" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.8, "text": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel) A Sight For Sore Eyes is a psychological thriller by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" tells three stories of very different people, whose lives converge with horrifying consequences. Teddy is raised by a neglectful family with little concern for his welfare or emotional development, so that he grows into a reclusive young man without compassion or empathy. Fonder of objects than people, he becomes a talented carpenter who enjoys making beautiful things to contrast with the ugliness he sees around him. Francine is a beautiful young woman who was traumatised", "title": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.47, "text": "loveless marriage to a rich older man. She assuages her loneliness by having affairs with handymen whom she brings to her house. She considers herself an extremely beautiful middle-aged woman and believes that she does not look a day over 25. She is portrayed as delusional, jealous and self-absorbed to the point of obsession. A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel) A Sight For Sore Eyes is a psychological thriller by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" tells three stories of very different people, whose lives converge with horrifying consequences. Teddy is raised by a neglectful family with", "title": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.03, "text": "Sight for Sore Eyes \"\"Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" is the tenth overall single from British band M People released as the lead single from their multi-platinum album \"\"Bizarre Fruit\"\" (1994). Written by Mike Pickering, Paul Heard and Heather Small, and produced by M People, it was released on 7 November 1994. The song peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart. The band had scored four consecutive Top 10 singles from the previous album \"\"Elegant Slumming\"\" and toured the UK and Europe twice, but over the summer of 1994, worked quickly to record new album \"\"Bizarre Fruit\"\", for which", "title": "Sight for Sore Eyes" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.61, "text": "The Vault (novel) The Vault is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2011. The novel is the 23rd in the Inspector Wexford series. It is a sequel to her previous standalone novel \"\"A Sight For Sore Eyes\"\". The novel is the first sequel Rendell has written, and the first to feature Wexford in retirement. Reg and Dora Wexford have moved from Kingsmarkham to a renovated London Coachhouse owned by their daughter Sheila. Although Wexford has retired he acts as a consultant to a friend who works for the Metropolitan Police. Together they investigate the mystery of the", "title": "The Vault (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.28, "text": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (film) A Sight for Sore Eyes is a 2005 dramatic short film directed by Shane Stanley and starring Hayden Adams, Deborah Zoe, and Gary Busey. The screenplay concerns a man who is reunited with a former high school flame who is now blind. An overconfident young executive with a matching ego thinks he's a know-it-all with the ladies until he's reunited with Amie; his former high school flame who is now blind. The encounter causes him to rethink his relationships with everyone from the women he dates to his father, whom he hasn't seen in", "title": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.02, "text": "in her childhood by the murder of her mother. After the incident, her father got remarried to a psychotherapist, who promises Francine that she will do anything to keep her out of harm's way. True to her word, she keeps such a close eye on Francine that it reaches overprotection to the point of obsession. Teddy meets Francine by chance and falls for her flawless beauty and physical perfection. He presents to her, in her eyes, an opportunity for freedom at last. Meanwhile, Harriet is a woman who has used her looks to get ahead and found herself in a", "title": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.89, "text": "several years. In 2005, \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" was honored with the Gold Special Jury Award at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival before winning three Aurora Awards for writing, original screenplay and directing. The film was honored with two Telly Awards for writing and directing and won several renown international film festivals including the International Film Festival for best dramatic short film. The film was invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. A Sight for Sore Eyes (film) A Sight for Sore Eyes is a 2005 dramatic short film directed by Shane Stanley and starring Hayden Adams,", "title": "A Sight for Sore Eyes (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.89, "text": "In 2005, Stanley's film \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" was honored with the Gold Special Jury Award at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival before winning three Prix Aurora Awards for writing, original screenplay and directing. The film was honored with two Telly Awards for writing and directing and won several renown international film festivals including the International Film Festival for best dramatic film. In 2006, along with Lee Stanley, Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, Sean Porter and Glenn Bell received Los Angeles County's Enriching Lives honors for the positive impact their work has had on society. In 2008 \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\"", "title": "Shane Stanley" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.8, "text": "movement in Paris in 1938. His second critically acclaimed feature, \"\"Inquietudes\"\" (2003), is based on the Ruth Rendell novel \"\"A Sight for Sore Eyes\"\" and stars Gregoire Colin and Julie Ordon. His first English language film, \"\"Afterwards\"\" (2008), featured Evangeline Lilly, John Malkovich, and Romain Duris, and was based on the French bestseller \"\"Et Après...\"\" by Guillaume Musso. His widely acclaimed 2012 film \"\"Renoir\"\" competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the forgotten story of Andree Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was the last model of the impressionist painter", "title": "Gilles Bourdos" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.62, "text": "remains of four bodies which have been discovered in Orcadia Cottage, an old house situated in the suburb of St. John's Wood. The Vault (novel) The Vault is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2011. The novel is the 23rd in the Inspector Wexford series. It is a sequel to her previous standalone novel \"\"A Sight For Sore Eyes\"\". The novel is the first sequel Rendell has written, and the first to feature Wexford in retirement. Reg and Dora Wexford have moved from Kingsmarkham to a renovated London Coachhouse owned by their daughter Sheila. Although Wexford has", "title": "The Vault (novel)" } ]

[ "Jason Lutes" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.83, "text": "Ira Berlin Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as \"\"Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America\"\" (1998) and \"\"Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves\"\" (2003). Berlin grew up in The Bronx, New York, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. He wrote extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries. Berlin has", "title": "Ira Berlin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.81, "text": "Berlin is the co-author and co-editor of the 2012 book, \"\"Freedom Sailors, The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza movement and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves.' In 2012, Berlin was accused of antisemitism following a tweet, originating from her Facebook account, and published under the Twitter account of the Free Gaza Movement. The tweet read \"\"Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews\"\" and contained a link to a video of that name, a speech by conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins asserting that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. The Free Gaza Movement later deleted the", "title": "Greta Berlin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816 in Mir, Russia – August 10, 1893 in Warsaw, Poland), also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania. Berlin was born in Mir, today in Belarus, in 1816 into a family of Jewish scholars renowned for its Talmudic scholarship. His father Jacob, while not a rabbi, was a Talmudic scholar descendant of a German rabbinic family; his mother was directly descended from Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt. According", "title": "Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.73, "text": "The Berlin Stories The Berlin Stories is a book consisting of two novellas by Christopher Isherwood: \"\"Goodbye to Berlin\"\" and \"\"Mr Norris Changes Trains\"\". It was published in 1945. \"\"The Berlin Stories\"\" was chosen as one of the \"\"Time\"\" 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century. The two novellas are set in Berlin between 1930 and 1933, just as Adolf Hitler was moving into power. Berlin is portrayed by Isherwood during this transition period of cafes and quaint avenues, grotesque nightlife and dreamers, and powerful mobs and millionaires. \"\"The Berlin Stories\"\" was the inspiration for the John Van Druten", "title": "The Berlin Stories" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.69, "text": "Berlin (comics) Berlin is a comic book series by Jason Lutes, published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn and Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, since reduced to 22, then re-released in book form, it describes life in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the Weimar Republic. The first eight issues were compiled into a book titled \"\"Berlin: City of Stones\"\", published in 2000. It starts with Marthe Müller, an art student, arriving in Berlin. One story arc details the start of her life in Berlin, focusing on her relationship to journalist Kurt Severing.", "title": "Berlin (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.64, "text": "on streetscapes, but his studio work undertaken at the Atelier Karl Schenker was often of entertainment personalities of Weimar period stage and screen. Amongst his most notable books were Berlin, Das Gesicht Der Stadt (Berlin, Portrait of a City) and Paris (with a forward by Paul Morand). The Paris book included photos by Germaine Krull. The Berlin book published originally by Albertus Verlag, a publishing house he founded in 1928, had a forward written by the author Alfred Döblin. He had a base in Berlin during his most productive years between the wars, being linked to the Atelier Schenker. During", "title": "Mario von Bucovich" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.56, "text": "in their list of \"\"50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels\"\". Berlin (comics) Berlin is a comic book series by Jason Lutes, published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn and Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, since reduced to 22, then re-released in book form, it describes life in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the Weimar Republic. The first eight issues were compiled into a book titled \"\"Berlin: City of Stones\"\", published in 2000. It starts with Marthe Müller, an art student, arriving in Berlin. One story arc details the start of her life in", "title": "Berlin (comics)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.45, "text": "Goodbye to Berlin Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood set in Weimar Germany. It is often published together with \"\"Mr Norris Changes Trains\"\" in a collection called \"\"The Berlin Stories\"\". The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met. It is episodic, dealing with a large cast over a period of several years from late 1930 to early 1933. It is written as a connected series of six short stories and novellas. These are: \"\"A Berlin Diary (Autumn 1930)\"\", \"\"Sally Bowles\"\", \"\"On Ruegen Island (Summer 1931)\"\",", "title": "Goodbye to Berlin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.42, "text": "Berlin Now Berlin Now: The City After the Wall (also published as Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall) is a 2014 book by German writer Peter Schneider. Published on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, \"\"Berlin Now\"\" is a story of how Berlin has changed since reunification to become Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. \"\"Berlin Now\"\" is described as a \"\"longtime Berliner's bright, bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city.\"\" The book combines memoir, history, anecdote and reportage on subjects", "title": "Berlin Now" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "der Heyden is the author of the memoir \"\"Surviving Berlin, An Oral History\"\". He has two children and five grandchildren, and lives with his wife, Mary Ellen, in New York City. Karl von der Heyden Karl von der Heyden is a German-American businessman best known for his former roles as the Co-Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco, and CFO of PepsiCo. Karl von der Heyden was born in 1936 in Berlin, Germany and attended the Free University of Berlin. He graduated from Duke University in 1962 and obtained an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania", "title": "Karl von der Heyden" } ]

[ "Anton Chekhov", "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov", "Antón Pávlovič Čéhov", "Antón Pávlovich Chékhov", "Chekhov" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.78, "text": "A Marriage Proposal A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as simply \"\"The Proposal\"\", ) is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888–1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humour. Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov, a long-time neighbor of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, has come to propose marriage to Chubukov's 25-year-old daughter, Natalia. After he has asked and received joyful permission to marry Natalia, she is invited into the room, and he tries to convey to her the proposal. Lomov is a hypochondriac, and, while trying to make clear his reasons for being there,", "title": "A Marriage Proposal" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.38, "text": "morning he locked up his house in Windsor Castle, which no one entered but himself, and went forth to purchase provisions. Specimens of these marriage proposals, printed after the rudest fashion with the author's own hands, are given in Bernard Burke's \"\"Romance of the Aristocracy\"\" Occasionally he advertised for wives in the newspapers. He also printed some extraordinary rhymes under the title of \"\"Methods to get Husbands. Measure in words and syllables ... With the advertised marriage offer of Sir John Dineley, Bart., of Charleton, near Worcester, extending to 375,000l., to the Reader of this Epistle, if a single lady,", "title": "Sir John Dineley-Goodere, 5th Baronet" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.31, "text": "will start a family by adopting a child. In a parallel conversation with Sir Reginald, Betty states that idle aristocrats who do not work for a living are parasitical. However, once Sir Reginald proves that he is not content to pursue a life of idleness, Betty accepts his proposal of marriage. Daphne refuses a marriage proposal from Edward, but he decides to remain her friend in the hope that she will eventually change her mind. Mary Beaumont (author) Mary Beaumont was the pseudonym of Rosa Oakes (\"\"née\"\" Mellor, 1849–1910), a minor Victorian author. Beaumont was from Halifax in Yorkshire, England.", "title": "Mary Beaumont (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.31, "text": "visits his old friends and their wives who he finds in unenviable relationships. Still not convinced that the life of a bachelor is one for him, he returns home, and without further ado proposes to his housekeeper. The following marriage proposal is, according to Busch biographer Joseph Kraus, one of the shortest in the history of German literature: <poem> \"\"Mädchen\"\", spricht er, \"\"sag mir ob...\"\" Und sie lächelt: \"\"Ja, Herr Knopp!\"\" </poem> <poem> \"\"Wench,\"\" he stammers, \"\"if I were...\"\" And she smiles: \"\"With pleasure, Sir!\"\" </poem> According to Wessling, Busch became skeptical of marriage after writing the story. To Marie", "title": "Wilhelm Busch" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.28, "text": "as a \"\"comedy of society\"\". A Marriage Has Been Arranged A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904) is a one-act play by British author and dramatist Alfred Sutro. The play premiered at the Garrick Theatre, in London, on March 27, 1904, with Arthur Bourchier playing the role of \"\"Mr. Harrisson Crockstead\"\" and Violet Vanbrugh as \"\"Lady Aline de Vaux\"\". The play presents a single scene in which Mr. Crockstead, a self-made millionaire, proposes marriage to the noble but pennyless young Lady Aline de Vaux, who refuses to marry him but eventually changes her mind after Crockstead makes the girl a strange,", "title": "A Marriage Has Been Arranged" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.22, "text": "The Proposal (novel) The Proposal is the 35th book in the Animorphs series, authored by K.A. Applegate. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Jeffrey Zuehlke. It is narrated by Marco. Marco's mother, the host to Visser One, is revealed to have survived the events of Book #30. Marco's father Peter, still believing her dead from the \"\"boating accident\"\" several years earlier, marries Nora Robbinette, Marco's math teacher. The stress from his father's actions cause Marco's morphs to go haywire, the results from his morphs are (in order of appearance): an osprey crossed with a lobster, a trout with", "title": "The Proposal (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.09, "text": "suits in a playground, tossing a ball between them. In 1935 in the Soviet Union, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold combined \"\"The Proposal\"\" with Chekhov's other short plays \"\"The Bear\"\" and \"\"The Anniversary\"\" to form a three-act play called \"\"33 Swoons\"\" that demonstrated the weakness of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia. In late June and early July, 2016, three performances of the play were performed at St. Werburgh's Church Parish Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. It was adapted for Australian TV in 1957. A Marriage Proposal A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as simply \"\"The Proposal\"\", ) is a one-act farce by", "title": "A Marriage Proposal" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.06, "text": "Wanna Be a Bride Wanna be a bride (; ) alternately translated as Wanna-B-A-Bride or \"\"literally\"\": I Want to Get Married is the title of a popular Egyptian book based on a blog of the same name about the several (failed) marriage proposals the author \"\"Ghada Abdel Aal\"\" has gone through. The book was published by the Egyptian printing house \"\"Shorouk\"\" in 2008. It has been translated into Italian by \"\"Barbara Teresi\"\" and released under the title Che il velo sia da sposa! by the Italian printing house \"\"Epoché Edizioni\"\". It has also been translated into English by \"\"Nora Eltahawy\"\",", "title": "Wanna Be a Bride" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.98, "text": "A Marriage Has Been Arranged A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904) is a one-act play by British author and dramatist Alfred Sutro. The play premiered at the Garrick Theatre, in London, on March 27, 1904, with Arthur Bourchier playing the role of \"\"Mr. Harrisson Crockstead\"\" and Violet Vanbrugh as \"\"Lady Aline de Vaux\"\". The play presents a single scene in which Mr. Crockstead, a self-made millionaire, proposes marriage to the noble but pennyless young Lady Aline de Vaux, who refuses to marry him but eventually changes her mind after Crockstead makes the girl a strange, unusual offer. It is classified", "title": "A Marriage Has Been Arranged" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.97, "text": "School and later received an MA from New York University. Shulman first emerged as the author of the controversial \"\"A Marriage Agreement,\"\" (see it under \"\"External links\"\" below) which proposes that men and women split childcare and housework equally and details a method for doing so. Originally published in the feminist journal \"\"Up From Under\"\" in 1969, it was widely reproduced in magazines (\"\"Life\"\", \"\"Redbook\"\", \"\"Ms.\"\", \"\"New York\"\") and anthologies, including a Harvard textbook on contract law. It continues to be debated, for instance in January 2007 in a \"\"Washington Post Blog\"\". Three years later, following several children's books, Shulman", "title": "Alix Kates Shulman" } ]

[ "Quintin Jardine" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.39, "text": "27th International I-Ching Conference 2015 in Singapore, Skinner gave a lecture on the Hexagrams and Song Dynasty Feng Shui (14 November 2015).In 2010 he married Navaneeta Das, and moved to Singapore, where he currently lives. Skinner is an author of books on the Western Esoteric Tradition, magic and feng shui. His first book (with co-author Nevill Drury) was \"\"Search for Abraxas\"\" published in 1972, and subsequently re-published in 2013 and 2016. With the publication of the \"\"Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui\"\" in 1976, the first book on feng shui in English written in the 20th century Skinner was \"\"credited", "title": "Stephen Skinner (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.23, "text": "his ideas to the design of a human community in his utopian novel, \"\"Walden Two\"\", and his analysis of human behavior culminated in his work, \"\"Verbal Behavior\"\". Skinner was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles. Contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism, along with John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov. A June 2002 survey listed Skinner as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, to Grace and William Skinner. His father was a lawyer. He became an atheist after a Christian teacher tried to assuage his fear", "title": "B. F. Skinner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.12, "text": "Stephen Skinner (author) Dr Stephen Skinner (born 22 March 1948) is an Australian author, editor, publisher and lecturer. He is known for authoring books on magic, feng shui, sacred geometry and alchemy. He has published more than 46 books in more than 20 languages. Born in Sydney, Australia in March 1948, he lived there till 1972. He attended Trinity Grammar Preparatory School (Strathfield) and Sydney Grammar Secondary School from 1959 to 1964, matriculating with First Class Honors in English, and honors in Geography. He earned his BA (Arts) at Sydney University from 1965 to 1968, majoring in English Literature and", "title": "Stephen Skinner (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.03, "text": "magical writings of Dr. John Dee, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley. In 1976 he helped in the production of the Crowley Thoth Tarot card pack by arranging the re-photography of the original paintings in the Warburg Institute, which were later used in the revised edition published by U.S. Games Inc in that year. In 1998 he launched and published \"\"Feng Shui for Modern Living\"\" magazine. Skinner organised and ran the \"\"London International Feng Shui Conference\"\" (co-sponsored by the \"\"Daily Express\"\" newspaper) at the Islington Exhibition Centre, London on 21–23 May 1999. In 2000, he was nominated", "title": "Stephen Skinner (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23, "text": "Colchester, on 8 August 1679. Skinner was the author of: Thomas Skinner (historical writer) Thomas Skinner (1629? – 1679) was a Colchester physician and historical writer. Skinner was probably the son of Nicholas Skinner, who was educated at Bishops Stortford and was admitted sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, on 29 May 1646, at the age of sixteen. He proceeded doctor of medicine from St. John's College, Oxford, on 17 July 1672, and is described as sometime of Cambridge University. Skinner practised at Colchester, and is stated to have been \"\"physician to [George Monck] Duke of Albemarle, when residing at", "title": "Thomas Skinner (historical writer)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.97, "text": "B. F. Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, the probability of the action being repeated becomes stronger. Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement. To", "title": "B. F. Skinner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.95, "text": "Brimstone (Skinner novel) Brimstone is the title of the first book in the alchemy-themed Earth, Air, Fire and Water series by British author Alan Skinner. It was published in 2010. Before \"\"Brimstone\"\", Skinner had published the first two books in The Land's Tale series, \"\"Blue Fire and Ice\"\" and \"\"Furnaces of Forge\"\". Like \"\"Brimstone\"\", these are aimed at the young adult market. Skinner claims that he decided to write \"\"Brimstone\"\" because he was \"\"quite fed up with young adult books about wizards, witches, werewolves and vampires.\"\" It was time for a book that dealt with the other end of the", "title": "Brimstone (Skinner novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.91, "text": "a Ph.D. in history from the University of Denver. Prior to joining the faculty of Brigham Young University, Skinner was a religion instructor at Ricks College for four years. Skinner is a co-author of \"\"Jerusalem: The Eternal City\"\". He has written several books related to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ including \"\"The Garden Tomb\"\". Among Skinner's works are several articles on LDS doctrinal topics in the \"\"Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History\"\", as well as the article on Abraham Lincoln in that volume. He wrote an article for the LDS magazine \"\"Ensign\"\" entitled \"\"The Book of Abraham: A Most", "title": "Andrew C. Skinner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.89, "text": "Cyriack Skinner Cyriack Skinner (1627–1700) was a friend, pupil and amanuensis of the English poet John Milton, and the author of an anonymous biography of the poet. Cyriack Skinner was the third son of William Skinner, a Lincolnshire squire who died in 1627. His mother was Bridget Coke, daughter of the famous jurist Sir Edward Coke. Skinner was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 31 July 1647, and became a lawyer by profession. He came to live near Milton in 1654, and probably began to help the poet at that time. After the Rump Parliament had been reconstituted in 1659 following", "title": "Cyriack Skinner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.64, "text": "Opening Skinner's Box Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, ), is a book by Lauren Slater. In this book, Slater sets out to describe some of the psychological experiments of the twentieth century. Controversially, the author also describes the urban legend that B.F. Skinner raised his child in a Skinner box in a way which many perceived as being poorly researched and lending credit to a false claim. Throughout the chapter, Lauren Slater gives the impression that she is an investigator trying to solve the mystery of B.F. Skinner and", "title": "Opening Skinner's Box" } ]

[ "Juliet Marillier" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.02, "text": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy The Sevenwaters Trilogy is a historical fantasy series by Juliet Marillier which was first published as a series of three novels between 1999 and 2001, and then later extended. The six novels are: The novels are set in ninth century Ireland and Britain. Set mainly in ancient Ireland, the series covers four generations in the family of Sevenwaters, which enjoys a special relationship with the people of the Otherworld. As well as battles between the Irish Celts and the Britons, internal conflicts between neighbouring landholders are integral to the plots. However, all six books carry a strong", "title": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.86, "text": "of a strange struggle, the heart of which lies in the Otherworld. And only Maeve and her little brother Finbar have the ability to save their family, their clan, and perhaps all of Erin. The Sevenwaters Trilogy The Sevenwaters Trilogy is a historical fantasy series by Juliet Marillier which was first published as a series of three novels between 1999 and 2001, and then later extended. The six novels are: The novels are set in ninth century Ireland and Britain. Set mainly in ancient Ireland, the series covers four generations in the family of Sevenwaters, which enjoys a special relationship", "title": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.88, "text": "romance element. All the books are narrated in the first person by young women of the family. Daughter of the Forest is based loosely on \"\"The Six Swans\"\" (a story that has many versions, one of which is recounted by Hans Christian Andersen). A 13-year-old girl, Sorcha, (pronounced Sor-ka or sometimes Ser-ha) must sew six shirts from a painful nettle plant in order to save her brothers from a witch's enchantment. They have been turned into swans and can only be returned to their true forms if she creates a shirt for each brother with her own hands - and", "title": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.77, "text": "Child of the Prophecy Child of the Prophecy is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier and the third book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy first published in 2001. Book Three steps slightly out of the tradition of Sevenwaters, with the young heroine Fainne being raised far from the homestead, in Kerry. Fainne is the daughter of Niamh and Ciaran, and is a dangerous combination of four races. The sacred island were taken by the Britons, the prophecy states that it will take a child that was neither of Britain nor or Erin but at the same time both, who is", "title": "Child of the Prophecy" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.28, "text": "Son of the Shadows Son of the Shadows is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier and the second book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy first published in 2000. It follows the path of Sorcha and Red's third child, Liadan, a girl who lives outside the pattern of the 'Fair Folk', also known as Túatha Dé Danann. \"\"Son of the Shadows\"\" won the 2001 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel. In this novel, Liadan grows up in Sevenwaters with her twin brother Sean and her older sister Niamh. They are the offspring of Sorcha and Iubdan (formerly Hugh of Harrowfield). Liadan follows", "title": "Son of the Shadows" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.89, "text": "events, but adds fantasy elements such as supernatural creatures and sorcery. His posthumous \"\"Troy Series\"\" features a fictional version of the Trojan War. \"\"The Sevenwaters Trilogy\"\" (later expanded) by Juliet Marillier is set in 9th-century Ireland. A prominent subgenre within historical fiction is the children's historical novel. Often following a pedagogical bent, children's historical fiction may follow the conventions of many of the other subgenres of historical fiction. A number of such works include elements of historical fantasy or time travel to facilitate the transition between the contemporary world and the past in the tradition of children's portal fiction. Sometimes", "title": "Historical fiction" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.72, "text": "fantasies\"\". Spellings shown below are the one used in the novel \"\"Son of the Shadows\"\" won the 2001 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel Son of the Shadows Son of the Shadows is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier and the second book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy first published in 2000. It follows the path of Sorcha and Red's third child, Liadan, a girl who lives outside the pattern of the 'Fair Folk', also known as Túatha Dé Danann. \"\"Son of the Shadows\"\" won the 2001 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel. In this novel, Liadan grows up in Sevenwaters with", "title": "Son of the Shadows" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.55, "text": "this an excellent conclusion to a fine trilogy.\"\" The Library Journal said that Marillier \"\"captures the feel of myth in this Celtic-laced saga that belongs in most fantasy collections\"\". Spellings shown below are the one used in the novel \"\"Child of the Prophecy\"\" was a finalist for the 2002 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel Child of the Prophecy Child of the Prophecy is an historical fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier and the third book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy first published in 2001. Book Three steps slightly out of the tradition of Sevenwaters, with the young heroine Fainne being raised far", "title": "Child of the Prophecy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.06, "text": "selfless, and caring young woman. Clodagh shares a psychic mind-link with her twin sister Deirdre (\"\"Dair-dra\"\"), just as her father, Sean, shares with his twin Liadan. Though Clodagh isn't gifted as a seer or with magical abilities, she is perceptive to the Otherworldly beings that share the forest around her home, sometimes seeing things others can't. Clodagh's twin is being wed to a young nobleman, and Sevenwaters is filled with visitors, including the handsome Aidan, and his best friend and foster-brother, Cathal (\"\"Ka-hall\"\"), both young men in her cousin's retinue. Aidan is the picture of a perfect future-husband; charming and", "title": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "of the Shadows is the story of Sorcha's younger daughter, Liadan (Lee-a-dan). Liadan is an exceptionally talented healer who is also supernaturally gifted; receiving sporadic visions of the present and future, able to hear and see beings of the Otherworld, and she has also inherited her mother's ability to communicate silently, mind-to-mind, with her twin brother Sean. While traveling through a small village, Liadan is taken by a pair of men belonging to a notorious band of outlaws. Despite a fearsome reputation, these strange warriors aren't abusive or even rude to her--all they want is for her to heal their", "title": "The Sevenwaters Trilogy" } ]

[ "Margit Sandemo" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.33, "text": "Visst katten har djuren själ! Visst katten har djuren själ - En samling historier av och för djurvänner in Swedish and Jovisst har dyrene sjel in Norwegian (in English \"\"Sure an Animal Has a Soul - An Anthology of Tales about and for our Animal Friends\"\"; this book has not been translated into English) is a non-fictional theme book about animals written by Norwegian-Swedish author Margit Sandemo. There is a word play in the original Swedish title of book, because the word \"\"katten,\"\" in addition to meaning \"\"cat,\"\" is also used in the Swedish phrase which means \"\"damn it!\"\" As", "title": "Visst katten har djuren själ!" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.98, "text": "wild animals. The stories quote from reader responses, and the book contains very little text by the author herself—primarily the foreword, the afterword and a few casual comments. Margit Sandemo has always loved animals, and it stands out in her novels. She is an honorary member of the Kjemp för Dyrene, the Norwegian animal rights organization. Visst katten har djuren själ! Visst katten har djuren själ - En samling historier av och för djurvänner in Swedish and Jovisst har dyrene sjel in Norwegian (in English \"\"Sure an Animal Has a Soul - An Anthology of Tales about and for our", "title": "Visst katten har djuren själ!" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.09, "text": "literally translated, the title of book is \"\"An Animal Has a Soul, (a Cat) Damn It!\"\" This book was created in the same way as \"\"Vi är inte ensamma\"\", a book about guardian angels. Sandemo asked readers of the Norwegian weekly magazine \"\"Hjemmet\"\" and the Swedish \"\"Hemmets Journal\"\" if they believed that animals have souls. She received over 1500 letters from magazine readers, without a single negative answer among them. These answers were used as the primary material of the book. \"\"Visst katten har djuren själ\"\" consists of several humorous short stories and photographs chiefly about pets, as well as", "title": "Visst katten har djuren själ!" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 18.42, "text": "Elina Karjalainen Aili Elina Karjalainen (née. Saraste, 3 June 1927 Viipuri – 14 August 2006 Kuopio) was a journalist and author from Finland. She is best known for books for children. The protagonist of many of Karjalainen's books is Uppo-Nalle, a teddybear who loves poetry. The first Uppo-Nalle book was published in 1977. It was followed by 21 other Uppo-Nalle books. Karjalainen wrote also biographies, a crime novel and other books, in total around 40 books. As a journalist Karjalainen worked for Savon Sanomat and Suomen Kuvalehti as well as a freelancer. She was interested in people, and wrote many", "title": "Elina Karjalainen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.36, "text": "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (23 September 1848 – 4 October 1895) was a Norwegian-American author and college professor. He is best remembered for his novel \"\"Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life\"\", which is generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America He was born at the Norwegian naval base Fredriksvern, near the village of Stavern in Vestfold County, Norway. Boyesen grew up in Fredriksvern, then in Kongsberg, and, from 1854, at Systrand in Sogn. From 1860, he went to Drammen Latin School, and, after his final exams, he took another exam at", "title": "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.23, "text": "in Helsinki. Since then, she has published \"\"Asfaltsänglar\"\" ('Asphalt Angels', 2013), \"\"Hush Baby\"\" (2015) and \"\"Själarnas ö\"\" (\"\"Island of Souls\"\", 2017). \"\"Själarnas ö\"\" tells the stories of three of the inmates of a women-only mental hospital on the island of Själö near Turku. Johanna Holmström Johanna Holmström (born 1981) is a Finland-Swedish author. Holmström was born in Sipoo and lives in Helsinki. Her first publication was the short-story collection \"\"Inlåst och andra noveller\"\" (2003), from which the short story \"\"Inlåst\"\" ('Locked Up') was nominated for the Swedish Radio Short-story Prize in 2004. This was followed by the short story collection", "title": "Johanna Holmström" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.19, "text": "were released to cassette tape in 1989 Änglatroll entitled \"\"Sunes första party\"\". och \"\"Sunes självklarheter\"\". Självklart, Sune Självklart, Sune () is a children's novel, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson and originally published in 1986. It continues the story of the fictional schoolboy Sune Andersson. The tetanus needle stories told by the children in one of the chapters have been used within higher education to describe children's fear of tetanus needles. The book cover depicts Sune pointing at an object dropped to the floor, while Håkan is behind Sune. Sune now has a little sister, Isabelle. Sune thinks she", "title": "Självklart, Sune" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.19, "text": "reportages about life of ordinary people outside of big cities. Karjalainen got the passion to read from her childhood home in Viipuri. Her need to write emerged from series of crisis she encountered in age of eleven: First her mother died, then Winter war started and all Finns had to leave Viipuri. Elina Karjalainen Aili Elina Karjalainen (née. Saraste, 3 June 1927 Viipuri – 14 August 2006 Kuopio) was a journalist and author from Finland. She is best known for books for children. The protagonist of many of Karjalainen's books is Uppo-Nalle, a teddybear who loves poetry. The first Uppo-Nalle", "title": "Elina Karjalainen" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 17.16, "text": "Þorgils gjallandi Þorgils gjallandi (1 June 1851 – 23 June 1915) was an Icelandic author born in the hamlet of Skútustaðir by Mývatn, a lake in the Skútustaðahreppur rural municipality. His name at birth was Jón Stefánsson, but he adopted the name \"\"Þorgils gjallandi\"\" as his \"\"nom de plume\"\". The name is taken from the epic Egils Saga. The original Þorgils gjallandi was a servant in the household of Þórólfr, who was the elder son of Kveldúlfr and the paternal uncle of Viking poet Egill Skallagrímsson; \"\"gjallandi\"\" is not a proper name but an epithet meaning \"\"the yelling\"\" or \"\"the", "title": "Þorgils gjallandi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 16.95, "text": "the 18th and 19th centuries and still used by older people until the 1960s. The street was officially renamed in 1925. The film \"\"Den vita katten\"\" directed by Hasse Ekman in 1950 was shot at this location. Själagårdsgatan Själagårdsgatan (Swedish: \"\"The Charitable Institution Street\"\") is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching south from Köpmangatan to Tyska Brunnsplan, it forms a parallel street to Baggensgatan. It crosses the small triangular square Brända Tomten and is intercepted by Kindstugatan, Tyska Skolgränd, and Svartmangatan. The street, appearing as \"\"Siela gardz gatan\"\" in 1487, \"\"Sielegatenn\"\" in 1593,", "title": "Själagårdsgatan" } ]

[ "Harlan Ellison", "Harlan Jay Ellison" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.36, "text": "A Boy and His Dog A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of a boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The original 1969 novella was adapted into the 1975 film \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\" directed by L. Q. Jones. Both the story and the film were well received by critics and science fiction fans, but the film was not successful commercially. The original novella was followed by short stories and", "title": "A Boy and His Dog" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.22, "text": "A Boy and His Dog (1946 film) A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Academy Award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux who died twenty-four years earlier, in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\". However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky, closely parallels Derieux's short story \"\"The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store\"\", suggesting", "title": "A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.14, "text": "a three-story graphic novel collection illustrated by Richard Corben, who also illustrated for this collection two other short stories featuring Vic and Blood: \"\"Eggsucker\"\" (a prequel to \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\", first published in Thomas Durward, ed., \"\"The Ariel Book of Fantasy Volume Two\"\", 1977) and \"\"Run, Spot, Run\"\" (which was originally published in \"\"Amazing Stories\"\", in 1980). Ellison's introduction to the collection explains that 1969's \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\" is part of a larger novel that he has been writing for over 30 years and that story is finished, but the last, longest part is written as", "title": "A Boy and His Dog" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated) story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered. A Boy and His Dog (1946 film) A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Academy Award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux who died twenty-four years earlier, in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\". However,", "title": "A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.41, "text": "survive. Blood thanks Vic for the food, and they both comment on Quilla June, with Vic stating it was her fault to follow him, and Blood joking that she did not have bad \"\"taste\"\". The film ends with the boy and his dog walking off into the wasteland together. Harlan Ellison, the author of the original novella \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\", started the screenplay but encountered writer's block, so producer Alvy Moore and director L. Q. Jones wrote the script, with Wayne Cruseturner, who was uncredited. Jones' own company, LQ/Jaf Productions (L. Q. Jones & Friends), produced the film.", "title": "A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.34, "text": "A Boy and His Dog (1975 film) A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 American science fiction comedy thriller film produced and directed by L.Q. Jones, who co-wrote the script with Alvy Moore. The film stars Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Ron Feinberg, and Jason Robards. The film was distributed in the United States by LQ/JAF Productions and in the United Kingdom by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors. The film's script is based on the 1969 cycle of narratives by fantasy author Harlan Ellison titled \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\". The film concerns a teenage boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood),", "title": "A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.73, "text": "the \"\"Chicago Tribune\"\" early supporters. In September 2014, Weingarten published \"\"Me & Dog\"\", a picture book, in collaboration with illustrator Eric Shansby. The book is about a young boy Sid and his dog, Murphy. It is said to be the first atheist-themed children's book. Weingarten said he wrote the book in response to the lack of literature geared towards children and atheism − and a counterbalance to the prevalence of books like \"\"Heaven Is for Real.\"\" Weingarten has written three screenplays, one in collaboration with humorist Dave Barry and two in collaboration with David Simon, including \"\"B Major,\"\" about a", "title": "Gene Weingarten" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.47, "text": "author's files, versions of the novella and short stories that have been expanded and revised, material from Corben's graphic novel, and previously unpublished material from the 1977 NBC television series \"\"Blood’s a Rover\"\", which was never produced. The novella and the film adaptation have the same alternate timeline setting, diverging with the failed assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Instead of concentrating on the Space Race, technological advancements in robotics, animal intelligence, and telepathy take place. A more heated Cold War takes place, culminating in a conventional World War III. A truce is signed, lasting another 25 years, though mounting", "title": "A Boy and His Dog" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.42, "text": "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison, published in 1969. It contains one of the author's most famous stories, \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\", adapted into a film of the same name. \"\"The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World\"\" won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, while \"\"A Boy and His Dog\"\" was nominated for the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novella and won the 1970 Nebula Award for", "title": "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.36, "text": "Dogger (book) Dogger is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published by The Bodley Head in 1977. It features a boy and his stuffed dog, who is lost, showing \"\"the distress the loss of a toy causes a child\"\". The boy's sister has an opportunity to earn Dogger back. Prentice-Hall published the first U.S. edition in 1978 under the title \"\"David and Dog\"\". 'Dogger' has received positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews found that \"\"The loss and retrieval of a favorite toy animal is agreeably handled\"\" and \"\"Pleasant, if unoriginal—as usual, Hughes' rumpled tots and general clutter make", "title": "Dogger (book)" } ]

[ "Maxim Gorky", "Alexei Maximovich Peshkov", "Maksim Gor'ky", "Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov", "Aleksey Peshkov", "Maksim Gorky", "Gorky", "Maxim Gorki" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.42, "text": "deal with Russian author Maxim Gorky to produce his play \"\"The Lower Depths\"\". According to the agreement, the majority of the play's proceeds were to go to the Russian Social Democratic Party (and approximately 25% to Gorky himself). Parvus' failure to pay (despite the fact that the play had over 500 showings) caused him to be accused of stealing 130,000 German gold marks. Gorky threatened to sue, but Rosa Luxemburg convinced Gorky to keep the quarrel inside the party's own court. Eventually, Parvus paid back Gorky, but his reputation in party circles was damaged. Soon afterwards Parvus moved to Istanbul", "title": "Alexander Parvus" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.75, "text": "a student theatre festival in Zadar, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). It was produced in London as \"\"The Scarecrow\"\" in 1964, and won the Foyle award. In 1962 Marlowe adapted Maxim Gorki's book The Lower Depths for the London stage. Marlowe also wrote nine novels and a fragment of a tenth. Alex Hamilton believes that \"\"the notion of the successful man who loses his way is the key preoccupation in Marlowe's books.\"\" He published his first novel \"\"A Dandy in Aspic\"\" in 1966. The idea for the book began when he travelled to Berlin on a Ford Foundation grant to attend a", "title": "Derek Marlowe" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.55, "text": "The Lower Depths (1936 film) The Lower Depths () is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the play of the same title by Maxim Gorky. Its scenes contrast the life of the upper and lower classes to comedic effect. A wealthy baron (Jouvet) becomes bankrupt through gambling. Contemplating suicide, he finds his gun missing and confronts the thief Pépel (Gabin) who plans to rob him. Instead they share \"\"a drink between colleagues\"\" in a scene played as light comedy and become friends. The baron allows Pépel to leave with a bronze sculpture. Creditors seize the", "title": "The Lower Depths (1936 film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.55, "text": "The Lower Depths The Lower Depths (, \"\"Na dne\"\", literally: 'At the bottom') is perhaps the best known of Maxim Gorky's plays. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled \"\"Scenes from Russian Life,\"\" it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902, Konstantin Stanislavski directed and starred. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism. The characters of \"\"The Lower Depths\"\" are said to have been inspired by the denizens of the Bugrov", "title": "The Lower Depths" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.55, "text": "of the poetic realism. It received the first Louis Delluc Prize in 1937. The National Board of Review in the United States considered it a Top Ten Foreign Film for 1937. The Lower Depths (1936 film) The Lower Depths () is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the play of the same title by Maxim Gorky. Its scenes contrast the life of the upper and lower classes to comedic effect. A wealthy baron (Jouvet) becomes bankrupt through gambling. Contemplating suicide, he finds his gun missing and confronts the thief Pépel (Gabin) who plans to rob", "title": "The Lower Depths (1936 film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 24.45, "text": "popular theater directors in Bulgaria. His original version of “The Decameron, or Passion and Blood” after Boccaccio, also bears the traits of his stylistics. “The Lower Depths” by Maxim Gorky is Morfov’s way of sharply stating his civil opinion without betraying his typical theatricality. “\"\"Exiles\"\"” (2004) after a novel by Ivan Vazov, the national poet and writer, is the logical continuation to the latter. Among others, his productions on the leading stage in the country include: “Night of Miracles” after Beckett, Mrozek and Ionesco; “\"\"Dom Juan\"\"” by Moliere; “\"\"One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest\"\"”, “\"\"Life Is Beautiful\"\"” after Nikolai Erdman’s", "title": "Alexander Morfov" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.83, "text": "and the Tramp\"\"'s dog pound scene, the incarcerated and homeless Russian Wolfhound Boris quotes a passage from the play: \"\"Miserable being must find more miserable being. Then is happy.\"\" The Lower Depths The Lower Depths (, \"\"Na dne\"\", literally: 'At the bottom') is perhaps the best known of Maxim Gorky's plays. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled \"\"Scenes from Russian Life,\"\" it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902, Konstantin Stanislavski directed and starred. It became", "title": "The Lower Depths" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.81, "text": "It is not clear whether he ever formally joined, and his relations with Lenin and the Bolsheviks would always be rocky. His most influential writings in these years were a series of political plays, most famously \"\"The Lower Depths\"\" (1902). While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play \"\"Children of the Sun\"\", nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events. He was released from the prison after a European-wide campaign, which included Marie Curie, Auguste Rodin and Anatole France. In 1906, the Bolsheviks", "title": "Maxim Gorky" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.78, "text": "young thief. In the kitchen live Kvashnya (Dough), a vendor of meat pies, the decrepit Baron, and the streetwalker Nastya. All around the room are bunks occupied by other lodgers. Nastya, her head bent down, is absorbed in reading a novel titled Fatal Love. The Baron, who lives largely on Nastya’s earnings, seizes the book and reads its title aloud. Then he bangs Nastya over the head with it and calls her a lovesick fool. Satine raises himself painfully from his bunk at the noise. His memory is vague, but he knows he took a beating the night before, and", "title": "The Lower Depths" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.59, "text": "Homeless Shelter (, \"\"Bugrovskaya nochlezhka\"\") in Nizhny Novgorod, which had been built in 1880–83 by the Old Believer grain merchant and philanthropist Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov () (1837–1911) in memory of his father, A. P. Bugrov. When the actors of the Moscow Arts Theatre were preparing the play for its first run in 1902, Maxim Gorky supplied them with photographs of the Nizhny Novgorod underclass taken by the famous local photographer, Maxim Dmitriev (Максим Дмитриев), to help with the realism of the acting and costumes. When it first appeared, \"\"The Lower Depths\"\" was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message.", "title": "The Lower Depths" } ]

[ "Donald Margulies" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.67, "text": "Dinner with Friends Dinner with Friends is a play written by Donald Margulies. It premiered at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays and opened Off-Broadway in 1999. The play received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gabe and Karen, a happily married, middle-aged couple, live in Connecticut. They have been friends with Tom and Beth, another married couple, for many years. In fact, it was Gabe and Karen who introduced their friends in the first place. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been", "title": "Dinner with Friends" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "has had other regional productions, including the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California; the Old Globe Theatre; the Portland Stage, Maine (2005); and the Philadelphia Theatre Company (2001). Elyse Sommer, the \"\"CurtainUp\"\" reviewer, in writing of the original 1999 production, wrote: \"\"Happily the author of 'Collected Stories' and 'Sight Unseen' has once again marshaled his ability to free character and situation prototypes from their cookie cutter mold familiarity. Just as happily, director Daniel Sullivan has given the script a handsome, smoothly orchestrated production and four actors who fuse Margulies' words with the finesse of a finely tuned string quartet.\"\"", "title": "Dinner with Friends" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.86, "text": "Dinner with Friends (film) Dinner with Friends is a 2001 HBO comedy/drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation of the 1998 play of the same name by Donald Margulies. Gabe, Karen, Tom, and Beth have been friends for years. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful. The \"\"Variety\"\" reviewer wrote: \"\"What makes 'Dinner With Friends' such an impressive work is Margulies’ ability to bring feelings of loss and the fear of change to the forefront in a truly honest fashion, without", "title": "Dinner with Friends (film)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.75, "text": "Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends is a 2014 American television special created and written by Brett Gelman and Jason Woliner for Adult Swim. The special features Brett Gelman as a demented version of himself, along with several guests, who also play fictionalized characters of themselves. Gelman and Woliner had frequently collaborated on other projects before producing the special. On its broadcast on April 24, 2014, the special was positively received by critics. A sequel, entitled \"\"Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family\"\", aired February 13, 2015,", "title": "Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.67, "text": "by Brett Gelman and Jason Woliner (the latter is also the director). The two had been frequent collaborators for several years since they met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Gelman stars on \"\"Eagleheart\"\", for which Woliner writes and directs. On the set of the show, Woliner came up with the plot of the special, which had Gelman deliver a stand-up to a table of six. When they pitched the idea to Adult Swim, they suggested to scrap the stand-up part. The half-hour special was filmed in two days. Gelman and \"\"friends\"\" star as fictionalized characters of themselves. Gelman considered", "title": "Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.64, "text": "forcing the issues too bluntly.\"\" It was nominated for two Emmys, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Dinner with Friends (film) Dinner with Friends is a 2001 HBO comedy/drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation of the 1998 play of the same name by Donald Margulies. Gabe, Karen, Tom, and Beth have been friends for years. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful. The \"\"Variety\"\" reviewer wrote: \"\"What makes 'Dinner With Friends' such an impressive work is Margulies’ ability to bring", "title": "Dinner with Friends (film)" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.44, "text": "richly flavored dialogue and characterizations, the dinner served up at the Laura Pels doesn't resonate as quite the gourmet meal it once was. It's a well structured, insightful play but it leaves you hungry for seeing Mr. Margulies apply his considerable gifts to more currently significant themes.\"\" The play was adapted into a 2001 HBO TV movie starring Dennis Quaid as Gabe, Andie MacDowell as Karen, Greg Kinnear as Tom, and Toni Collette as Beth. The movie was directed by Norman Jewison with the screenplay by Margulies. Dinner with Friends Dinner with Friends is a play written by Donald Margulies.", "title": "Dinner with Friends" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 23.3, "text": "Donald Margulies Donald Margulies (born September 2, 1954) is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play \"\"Dinner with Friends\"\". Margulies attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Purchase College where he received a BFA in Visual Arts. Margulies lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University. Margulies' notable works include \"\"The Country House\"\" (2014), \"\"Time Stands", "title": "Donald Margulies" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.92, "text": "co-wrote the live-action version of Robert Smigel's \"\"Ambiguously Gay Duo\"\" starring Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Steve Carell, and Stephen Colbert for NBC's \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\". He has collaborated with writer-performer Brett Gelman on a series of horror/comedy specials for Adult Swim. The first of these, titled \"\"Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends\"\", aired in April 2014, and the most recent special, titled \"\"Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family\"\", aired in February 2015. Woliner and Gelman wrote the specials together; Gelman stars and Woliner directed. Jason Woliner Jason Woliner (born June 1, 1980) is an", "title": "Jason Woliner" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.86, "text": "Laura Calder Laura Calder is the author of \"\"French Food at Home.\"\" She also wrote the bestselling \"\"French Taste: Elegant, Everyday, Eating\"\", which won the 2010 Taste Canada gold medal for Cookbook. Her latest release is \"\"Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends\"\". Calder was host of the James Beard Award-winning series \"\"French Food at Home\"\", airing on Food Network Canada, The Cooking Channel, and other international stations. She is also a judge on \"\"Recipe to Riches\"\", a reality series on Food Network Canada, and has been a guest judge on both \"\"Top Chef Canada\"\" and \"\"Iron Chef", "title": "Laura Calder" } ]

[ "Connie Willis", "Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.2, "text": "Passage (Willis novel) Passage is a science fiction novel by Connie Willis, published in 2001. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 2002, was shortlisted for the Nebula Award in 2001, and received nominations for the Hugo, Campbell, and Clarke Awards in 2002. \"\"Passage\"\" follows the efforts of Joanna Lander, a research psychologist, to understand the phenomenon of near-death experiences (or NDEs) by interviewing hospital patients after they are revived following clinical death. Her work with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has discovered a way to chemically induce an artificial NDE and conduct an \"\"RIPT\"\" brain", "title": "Passage (Willis novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.14, "text": "The Passage (Cronin novel) The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. \"\"The Passage\"\" debuted at #3 on the \"\"New York Times\"\" hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks. It is the first novel of a completed trilogy; the second book \"\"The Twelve\"\" was released in 2012, and the third book \"\"\"\"The City of Mirrors\"\"\"\" released in 2016. The novel and its sequels were to be adapted into a film trilogy; however, they will now be written for television.", "title": "The Passage (Cronin novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.06, "text": "Passage (Morley novel) Passage (2007) is a historical novel by John David Morley, the story of one man’s journey through five centuries of existence in the New World. Abducted by conquistadors in the year 1500, the merchant’s ward Pablito (alias White Water Bird, alias Paul Zarraté, alias Paul Straight, alias “the World’s Greatest Living Wonder”) passes through five books and five ages of man, as he travels from the primordial forests of the Amazon to the Incan empire of Tahuantin-Suyu, to the slave-plantations of colonial Pernambuco, via antebellum New Orleans, to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, before witnessing the birth", "title": "Passage (Morley novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.98, "text": "Passage (Bujold novel) Passage is a novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2008. It is the third in the tetralogy \"\"The Sharing Knife\"\". \"\"Passage \"\"is the immediate sequel to \"\"Legacy\"\" in The Sharing Knife series. It takes farmer's daughter Fawn and Lakewalker maverick Dag back to her home farm as a first step on their 'honeymoon trip' to the Southern Sea, which is analogous to the Gulf of Mexico in The Sharing Knife series' alternate-world setting. At the farm they add the first of a considerable list of fellow-travelers: Fawn's older brother Whit. Once on their way", "title": "Passage (Bujold novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.84, "text": "The Passage (novel series) The Passage is a novel series by Justin Cronin. There are three published books in the series. The novel series was to be adapted into a film trilogy; however, it will now be written for television. \"\"The Passage\"\" was published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. \"\"The Passage\"\" debuted at #3 on the \"\"New York Times\"\" hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list 7 additional weeks. It is the first novel of the trilogy. \"\"The Twelve\"\" is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Cronin and is", "title": "The Passage (novel series)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "the second novel in the trilogy. The novel was published on October 16, 2012 by Ballantine Books. \"\"The City of Mirrors\"\" was released in the United States on May 24. 2016. The Passage (novel series) The Passage is a novel series by Justin Cronin. There are three published books in the series. The novel series was to be adapted into a film trilogy; however, it will now be written for television. \"\"The Passage\"\" was published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. \"\"The Passage\"\" debuted at #3 on the \"\"New York Times\"\" hardcover fiction", "title": "The Passage (novel series)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.19, "text": "and their mixture of magic and mundane. At its best, the book bears comparison with those masters.” The critic Frank Kermode hailed \"\"Passage\"\" as \"\"a remarkable feat of imagination and sheer narrative energy, the apotheosis of the \"\"picaro\"\".\"\" In 2011, \"\"Passage\"\" was published in Spanish as \"\"La Noche Será Larga\"\" in a translation by Claudia Conde. Passage (Morley novel) Passage (2007) is a historical novel by John David Morley, the story of one man’s journey through five centuries of existence in the New World. Abducted by conquistadors in the year 1500, the merchant’s ward Pablito (alias White Water Bird, alias", "title": "Passage (Morley novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.03, "text": "University, and he lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas. In July 2007, \"\"Variety\"\" reported that Fox 2000 had bought the screen rights to Cronin's vampire trilogy. The first book of the series, \"\"The Passage\"\", was released in June 2010. It garnered mainly favorable reviews. Justin Cronin Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written five novels: \"\"Mary and O'Neil\"\" and \"\"The Summer Guest\"\", as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of \"\"The Passage,\"\" \"\"The Twelve\"\" and \"\"City of Mirrors\"\". He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a Whiting Award.", "title": "Justin Cronin" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.97, "text": "Random Passage Random Passage is a 1992 novel by Newfoundland author Bernice Morgan. It was published by Breakwater Books Ltd. of St. John's, NL. It was followed by a sequel, \"\"Waiting for Time\"\". It is a historical novel about the inhabitants of Cape Random, a small outport where survival was dependent on catching and selling fish in exchange for supplies. It is set in colonial Newfoundland, over the span of many years. The main characters include Mary \"\"Bundle\"\" Sprig, Lavinia \"\"Vinnie\"\" Andrews and family, Thomas Hutchings, the Vincents, and the Norris family. In 2002, a television miniseries, based on the", "title": "Random Passage" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.72, "text": "triple negative breast cancer on May 24, 2012. In 2014, Barry oversaw the posthumous publication of Goldmark's novel \"\"Her Wild Oats\"\" (Untreed Reads Publications). Barry is the Author Services Liaison at Book Passage, where he heads the Path to Publishing Program. He is a contributing editor at the literary magazine Zyzzyva, and serves on the board of San Francisco’s literary festival, Litquake. For many years he wrote the Author Enabler column for the national book review publication \"\"BookPage\"\", offering information and encouragement to aspiring authors. He has previously worked for the San Francisco-based imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, HarperOne. Barry is", "title": "Sam Barry (author)" } ]

[ "Carl Thomas Anderson", "Carl Anderson" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.94, "text": "Gerrit Henry Gerrit Henry (b. May 30, 1950, New York City, New York - d. May 1, 2003, New York City, New York) was an American art critic, author and poet. Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic. His books include \"\"Janet Fish: A Monograph\"\" (Burton & Skira, Geneva, 1987), \"\"The Mirrored Clubs of Hell: Poems by Gerrit Henry\"\" (Little, Brown and Company, 1991), \"\"Poems & Ballades\"\" (Dolphin, Baltimore, 1998) and \"\"Ian", "title": "Gerrit Henry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.88, "text": "A Star Called Henry A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of \"\"The Last Roundup\"\" series. The second installment of the series, \"\"Oh, Play That Thing\"\", was published in 2004. The third, \"\"The Dead Republic\"\", was published in 2010. The book follows the early life of Henry Smart, from his childhood in the slums of early 20th century Dublin to his involvement in the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence. The novel is set in Ireland in the era of political upheaval between the 1916 Easter Rising and", "title": "A Star Called Henry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "Henry of Huntingdon Henry of Huntingdon (; 1088 – AD 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian, the author of a history of England, the \"\"Historia Anglorum\"\", \"\"the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy\"\". He served as archdeacon of Huntingdon. The few details of Henry's life that are known originated from his own works and from a number of official records. He was brought up in the wealthy court of Robert Bloet of Lincoln, who became his patron. At the request of Bloet's successor, Alexander of Lincoln,", "title": "Henry of Huntingdon" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.72, "text": "1363. Its author was the magister Heinrich Taub, or Heinrich der Taube (Heinrich the Deaf), or Henricus Surdus of Selbach, who officiated as chaplain at St. Willibald's in Eichstätt and died about 1364. Practically nothing has been learned of his life. We only know that he journeyed to Rome in 1350, for the purpose of gaining the jubilee indulgence, and that in 1361 in Nuremberg he admired the crown jewels then exhibited in honour of the christening of the newborn imperial prince, Wenceslaus. Various conjectures have been made as to the personality of the author, but nothing certain has been", "title": "Henry of Rebdorf" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.7, "text": "Eneis\"\". These were embodied, with alterations and additions, in the \"\"Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis\"\" (1873-1892), of which only the notes on the first book were published during the author's lifetime. As a textual critic Henry was exceedingly conservative. His notes, written in a racy and interesting style, are especially valuable for their wealth of illustration and references to the less-known classical authors. Henry was also the author of five collections of verse plus two long narrative poems describing his travels, and various pamphlets of a satirical nature. At its best his poetry has something", "title": "James Henry (poet)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.64, "text": "Henry and Cato Henry and Cato is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1976, it was her eighteenth novel. Set in London and the English countryside, the plot centres on two childhood friends who have not seen each other for several years. Henry is an art historian who returns to England from the United States upon inheriting his family estate, and Cato is a Roman Catholic priest who is losing his faith and has secretly fallen in love with a seventeen-year-old boy . Their stories, separate at the beginning of the novel, converge as it progresses. The complex story", "title": "Henry and Cato" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.44, "text": "April Henry April Henry (born April 14, 1959) is an American \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling author of mysteries, thrillers, and young adult novels. Born in Portland, Oregon, April 14, 1959, Henry grew up in the small southern Oregon city of Medford where her father, Hank Henry, was a KTVL television newscaster, and her mother, Nora Henry, was a florist. Author Roald Dahl helped Harry Potter take his first step as mfm. When Henry was twelve, she sent Dahl a short story about a frog who loved peanut butter. Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and", "title": "April Henry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.41, "text": "S. M. I. Henry S. M. I. Henry (pen name, Dina Linwood; November 4, 1839 – January 16, 1900) was an American evangelist, temperance reformer, poet and author. She married James W. Henry in 1861, but was widowed by 1871. There were a trio of children born from this union: Mary, Alfred, and Arthur. Henry was among the first to join the Women's Crusade. From the beginning of the organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she was associated with the national body as superintendent of evangelical work and as evangelist. For seven years, she was associated with gospel", "title": "S. M. I. Henry" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.39, "text": "lines of the family that emigrated through Pennsylvania and New York). Henry's story was published by William Everett Brockman in many books through small publishers, or privately, that are now out of print. His first, \"\"The Brockman Family Scrapbook\"\" was the most widely circulated and contained any anecdote or record that the author could find. He subsequently refuted many of these anecdotes and published a more accurate account in \"\"History of the Families of Virginia vol. IV\"\" and other works. However, the first book seems to have been one of the most widely circulated and has generated a lot of", "title": "Henry Brockman (colonist)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.31, "text": "Henry Hart (author) Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. In addition to three books of poetry (\"\"The Ghost Ship\"\" (1990), \"\"The Rooster Mask\"\" (1998), and \"\"Background Radiation\"\" (2007)) he has written critical works on such poets as Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Robert Lowell. He edited \"\"The James Dickey Reader\"\" (1999) and his biography \"\"James Dickey: The World as a Lie\"\" (2000), was a finalist in nonfiction for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He also edited \"\"The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature Series\"\" (2009). (2009)", "title": "Henry Hart (author)" } ]

[ "Shirow Miwa" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.31, "text": "Dog\"\" was awarded a Newbery Honor on January 23, 2017. Adam Gidwitz Adam Gidwitz (born February 14, 1982) is the author of the best selling children's books \"\"A Tale Dark and Grimm\"\" (2010), \"\"In a Glass Grimmly\"\" (2012), and \"\"The Grimm Conclusion\"\" (2013), all published by Dutton Penguin. He received a Newbery Honor for \"\"The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog\"\" (2016). He was born in San Francisco in 1982 but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Columbia University where he majored in English Literature and spent his junior year abroad in the University's", "title": "Adam Gidwitz" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.75, "text": "hold after 689 editions. A Dog's Purpose Ruddy McCann Standalone Novels For Young Readers Nonfiction W. Bruce Cameron William Bruce Cameron (born 1960 in Petoskey, Michigan) is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel \"\"A Dog's Purpose\"\", which spent 19 weeks on the \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller list and is the first book in a two book series that concludes with \"\"A Dog's Journey\"\". The book is the basis for the movie version starring Dennis Quaid, Britt Robertson, Peggy Lipton, K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz and Pooch Hall, and released in", "title": "W. Bruce Cameron" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.36, "text": "W. Bruce Cameron William Bruce Cameron (born 1960 in Petoskey, Michigan) is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel \"\"A Dog's Purpose\"\", which spent 19 weeks on the \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller list and is the first book in a two book series that concludes with \"\"A Dog's Journey\"\". The book is the basis for the movie version starring Dennis Quaid, Britt Robertson, Peggy Lipton, K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, John Ortiz and Pooch Hall, and released in theaters on January 27, 2017. Cameron is also the author of the best-selling self-improvement book", "title": "W. Bruce Cameron" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.22, "text": "The Dog Who Came in from the Cold The Dog Who Came in from the Cold is the second online novel by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting on 15 Sep 2008, the series running for 20 weeks and totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters, read by Andrew Sachs were also available as an audio download. The second and third series were published online, running from Monday 21 September 2009 and Monday 13 September 2010, respectively. The concept for \"\"The Dog Who", "title": "The Dog Who Came in from the Cold" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.12, "text": "A Dog's Purpose A Dog's Purpose is a 2010 novel written by American W. Bruce Cameron, author of \"\"8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter\"\" and \"\"How to Remodel a Man\"\". The book chronicles a dog's journey through four lives via reincarnation and how he looks for his purpose through each of his lives. The novel stayed a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller for forty-nine weeks, garnering critical praise from such sources as Temple Grandin, famous for her study of cattle behavior; \"\"Kirkus Reviews\"\"; and Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on the early-morning television show, \"\"Good Morning America\"\". A sequel followed", "title": "A Dog's Purpose" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.03, "text": "James Horvath James Horvath is a children’s writer, illustrator and author of \"\"Dig, Dogs, Dig: A Construction Tail\"\", \"\"Build, Dogs, Build: A Tall Tail\"\" and \"\"Work, Dogs, Work: A Highway Tail\"\". He is also head of Jamestoons Studios, a design company that has illustrated images for ad, marketing and branding agencies as well as other writers. Horvath was born in South Amherst, Ohio. Though he was interested in drawing as a child, he did not know what to do with his hobby. He held down a number of jobs after high school, including a stint in the Navy, in construction", "title": "James Horvath" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.94, "text": "Heart of a Dog Heart of a Dog (, \"\"Sobachye syerdtsye\"\") is a novel by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of the Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It's generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and \"\"the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind.\"\" Its publication was initially prohibited in the Soviet Union, but it circulated in samizdat until it was officially released in the country in 1987. It is \"\"one of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's most beloved stories\"\"", "title": "Heart of a Dog" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.91, "text": "People and dogs People and dogs (\"\"El nas we El Kelab\"\", ) is a book of short stories written by the Egyptian physician Dr Moawad GadElrab (15 September 1929 – 23 August 1983), published by The National Publishing and Printing house in Cairo, Egypt 1964. Many of his work been adapted for television production. The Demon, Another woman, Because my brother, Do not speed up the pace, Witness on the Nile, The rest of life, It's also For me, In hand of God, Flesh of a friend, Sakka's daughter, The cup, I'll be back tomorrow, People and dogs, Images from", "title": "People and dogs" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.83, "text": "Shakespeare's Dog Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. A 20th-anniversary edition of the novel was reissued in 2003 by Dundurn Press. It was later adapted", "title": "Shakespeare's Dog" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.78, "text": "Journey\"\". \"\"Library Journal\"\" called it a \"\"multi-hanky read\"\". The third book in the series, although not a direct sequel, \"\"The Dogs of Christmas,\"\" was released October 15, 2008 A Dog's Purpose A Dog's Purpose is a 2010 novel written by American W. Bruce Cameron, author of \"\"8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter\"\" and \"\"How to Remodel a Man\"\". The book chronicles a dog's journey through four lives via reincarnation and how he looks for his purpose through each of his lives. The novel stayed a \"\"New York Times\"\" bestseller for forty-nine weeks, garnering critical praise from such sources", "title": "A Dog's Purpose" } ]

[ "Rumi", "Jalālauddīna Rūmī", "Ǧalāladdīn Rūmī", "Dzhalaliddin Rumi", "Jalaluʼddin Rumi", "Gialâl ad-Dîn Rûmî", "Jalálu-ʼd-ʼDín Muhammad i Rúmí", "Dzhaloluddin Rumi", "Celâleddin Rûmî", "Ŷalāl al-Dīn Rūmī", "Jalāluddīn Balkhī Rumī", "Jolalud-Din Rumi", "Zhaloliddin Rumiĭ", "Jalaladdin Rumi", "Dschelal-Eddin Rumi", "Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī", "Rum", "Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī", "Dschalaluddin Rumi", "Jalal-ud-din Rumi", "Jaláluddin Rumi", "Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Balkhī", "Jalāladdīn Rūmī", "Rūmī", "Dzhaloluddin Balkhii Rumi", "Dschelaleddin Rumi", "Jalal-e Din Rumi", "Jallal ed-Din Muhammad Balkhy", "Mawlana Rumi", "Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī", "Celâleddin-i Rûmî", "Dschelaladdin Rumi", "Mevlâna", "Tzalalountin Roumi", "Djalâl-od-Dîn Rûmî", "Jaloliddin Rumiy", "Mevlana Jaláluddin Rumi", "Jelaluddin Rumi", "Mowlavi", "Ḏjalāl al-Dīn Rūmī", "Mowlana", "Mawlana", "Maulana", "Molavi", "Mevlevi", "Mawlawi", "Mevlana", "Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi", "Gialal ad-Din Rumi", "Celaleddin Rumi", "Jalaluddin Rumi", "Celaleddin-i Rumi", "Djalal-od-Din Rumi", "Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.02, "text": "Fihi Ma Fihi The Fihi Ma Fihi (; from ), \"\"It Is What It Is\"\" or \"\"In It What Is in It\"\") is a Persian prose work of a famous 13th century writer, Rumi. The book has 72 short discourses. According to J. M. Sadeghi the title \"\"Fihi ma fihi\"\" has appeared on a copy dated 1316. Another copy of the book dated 1350 has the title Asrar al-jalalieh. Rumi himself in the fifth volume of \"\"Masnavi-i Ma'navi\"\" mentions that which most likely refers to this book. The title Maghalat-e Mowlana of copies of the book published in Iran follows", "title": "Fihi Ma Fihi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.02, "text": "Fihi Ma Fihi The Fihi Ma Fihi (; from ), \"\"It Is What It Is\"\" or \"\"In It What Is in It\"\") is a Persian prose work of a famous 13th century writer, Rumi. The book has 72 short discourses. According to J. M. Sadeghi the title \"\"Fihi ma fihi\"\" has appeared on a copy dated 1316. Another copy of the book dated 1350 has the title Asrar al-jalalieh. Rumi himself in the fifth volume of \"\"Masnavi-i Ma'navi\"\" mentions that which most likely refers to this book. The title Maghalat-e Mowlana of copies of the book published in Iran follows", "title": "Fihi Ma Fihi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.89, "text": "between 1260 and 1273 by Rumi himself. This book is one of the first Persian prose books after the so-called Persian literature revolution (enghelāb-e adabi). Moreover, the book has become an introduction to the \"\"Masnavi\"\". Also many concepts in Sufism are described in this book in simple terms. The book has been (freely) translated into English under the title Discourses of Rumi by A. J. Arberry in 1961 and consists of 71 discourses. An authoritative translation by Dr. Bankey Behari was published in 1998 under the title Fiha Ma Fiha, Table Talk of Maulani Rumi (DK Publishers, New Delhi), .", "title": "Fihi Ma Fihi" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.88, "text": "this. Not much is known about the publication time and the writer of the book. According to B. Forouzanfar, the editor of the most reliable copy of the book, it is likely that the book was written by Sultanwalad, the eldest son of Rumi, based on manuscripts and notes taken by himself or others from the lectures of his father on \"\"Masnavi-i Ma'navi\"\". In the \"\"Essence of Rumi\"\", John Baldock states that Fihi Mafihi was one of Rumi's discourses written towards the end of his life. Rumi lived from 1207 to 1273 so \"\"Fihi Mafihi\"\" was likely written some time", "title": "Fihi Ma Fihi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.83, "text": "Urwa al-Wuthqa Urwa al-Wuthqa (Arabic: العروة الوثقي) is Mohammed Kazem Yazdi's book which is considered as the most prominent compilation and Fiqhi book of him so that it is mentioned there are many --Islamic-- scholars who hold this book with themselves. This compilation's author is known as the Sahib-Urwa (the owner of Urwa). The mentioned book includes diverse chapters of Fiqh, and expresses (Islamic) legal rulings/problems. On the whole, Urwa al-Wuthqa consists of 3260 problems in three volumes; its first volume includes the matters of Ijtihad and Taqlid, the books of: al-Taharah, al-Salah, al-Sawm, al-E'tekaf, al-Zakat, al-Khoms, al-Haj, al-Ijarah, al-Mudharebah,", "title": "Urwa al-Wuthqa" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.3, "text": "Leilah Mahi Leïlah Mahi (born September 1890 in Beyrouth, Lebanon, died 12 August 1932 in Paris) was a French writer. Her first work, \"\"En Marge du Bonheur\"\" (\"\"On the Margins of Happiness\"\"), was published in 1929. Her second book, \"\"La Prêtresse sans Dieu\"\" (\"\"The Priestess without God\"\") appeared in 1931, the year before her death. Both titles were published by Louis Querelle (26 Rue Cambon, Paris) as numbered, limited edition print runs. Leïlah's death certificate records her as unmarried and gives her domicile as 13 rue Shakespeare, Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) but she died in Paris at 59 Rue Geoffroy Saint Hillaire.", "title": "Leilah Mahi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.17, "text": "Her memorial can be found in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Leilah Mahi Leïlah Mahi (born September 1890 in Beyrouth, Lebanon, died 12 August 1932 in Paris) was a French writer. Her first work, \"\"En Marge du Bonheur\"\" (\"\"On the Margins of Happiness\"\"), was published in 1929. Her second book, \"\"La Prêtresse sans Dieu\"\" (\"\"The Priestess without God\"\") appeared in 1931, the year before her death. Both titles were published by Louis Querelle (26 Rue Cambon, Paris) as numbered, limited edition print runs. Leïlah's death certificate records her as unmarried and gives her domicile as 13 rue Shakespeare, Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) but she", "title": "Leilah Mahi" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.5, "text": "including during the Lebanese civil war, and during the rise to power of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Daisy al-Amir is the author of five published works including: Al Balad al-Baid Alladhi Tuhibbuhu (The Distant Country that You Love), 1964, Thumma Tauda al-Mawja (Then the Wave Returns), 1969, Fi Dawwamat al-Hubb wa al-Karahiya (In the Vortex of Love and Hate), 1979 and Wu'ud li-l-bay' (Promises for Sale, 1981) about the Lebanese civil war, and Ala la’ihat al-intizar, (The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman’s Tales of Alienation), 1994. Here the alienation is that of a cultural refugee, a divorced woman who is", "title": "Daisy Al-Amir" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.31, "text": "Mary de Morgan Mary de Morgan (24 February 1850 – 1907) was an English writer and the author of three volumes of fairytales: \"\"On a Pincushion\"\" (1877); \"\"The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde\"\" (1880); and \"\"The Windfairies\"\" (1900). These volumes appeared together in the collection \"\"The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde – The Complete Fairy Stories of Mary de Morgan\"\", published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1963, with an introduction by Roger Lancelyn Green. Though de Morgan is one of the lesser known authors of literary fairytales, her works, heavily influenced by Hans Christian Andersen, are remarkable in deviating from the fairytale", "title": "Mary de Morgan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.28, "text": "Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi (born 23 August 1959 in Tonga) is a Tongan artist who has lived in New Zealand since 1978. He has exhibited in major exhibitions in New Zealand and abroad. Several major collections include his work. The 2010 \"\"Art and Asia Pacific Almanac\"\" describes him as \"\"Tongan art's foremost ambassador\"\". Tohi's earlier sculptures were mainly in stone and wood. More recently he has achieved recognition for large contemporary sculptures in aluminium and steel that are inspired by lalava – the Tongan word for traditional coconut sennit lashing. This lashing or binding has been described as", "title": "Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi" } ]

[ "Laxmi Prasad Devkota", "Lakshmi Prasad Devkota", "Maha Kavi", "Laxmi Devkota", "Laxmi P. Devkota", "Maha Kavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 25.83, "text": "Muna Madan Muna Madan (Nepali: मुनामदन) is a short epic narrating the tragic story of Muna & Madan written by Nepalese poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota and one of the most popular works in Nepali literature. Muna Madan is based on an 18th-century ballad in Nepal Bhasa entitled Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni (it has not been a month since I came). The song, which is popular in Newar society, tells the story of a merchant from Kathmandu who leaves for Tibet on business leaving behind his newly wed bride. The wife is concerned for his safety as the journey to", "title": "Muna Madan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.05, "text": "in the history of Nepalese literature. Being pictured as a movie, Muna Madan was able to get selected for the Oscar Award, which also signifies the level of the creation. The work received immediate recognition from the Ranas – the country's rulers at the time. Muna Madan tells the story of Madan—a traveling merchant—who departs from his wife Muna to Tibet in a bid to earn some money. The poem describes the thematic hardships of the journey: the grief of separation, the itching longing, and the torment of death. The ballad Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni is a tragic song", "title": "Laxmi Prasad Devkota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.92, "text": "made his famous statement, \"\"It would be all right if all my works were burned, except for \"\"Muna Madan\"\".\"\" It is the most commercially successful Nepali book ever published. The poem has been adapted into a movie of the same name. The film was directed by [[Gyanendra ] and Aviyana Dhakal starred national award nominated actress, [[Usha Poudel]] who made a debut in the role of Muna. \"\"Muna Madan\"\" was Nepal's official entry at the 2004 [[Academy Awards]]. [[Category:Nepalese culture]] [[Category:Epic poetry]] Muna Madan Muna Madan (Nepali: मुनामदन) is a short epic narrating the tragic story of Muna & Madan", "title": "Muna Madan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.91, "text": "दिलले हुन्छ जातले हुँदैन ।\"\" </poem> <poem> A Kshatriya touches your feet not with hatred but with love. Great is a man with a great heart; not with great caste, creed. </poem> Considered his magnum opus, Muna Madan has remained widely popular among the lay readers of Nepali literature. Laxmi Prasad, inspired by his five-month stay in mental asylum in 1939, wrote free-verse poem \"\"Pagal (The Lunatic)\"\".The poem deals with his usual mental ability and is considered one of the best Nepali language poems. <poem> \"\"जरुर साथी म पागल ! यस्तै छ मेरो हाल । म शब्दलाई देख्दछु ! दृश्यलाई", "title": "Laxmi Prasad Devkota" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.11, "text": "grief. Finally he is rescued by a man who is considered to be of lower caste in Nepal. That is why it is said that a man is said to be great not by caste or race but by a heart full of love and humanity. When Madan returns to Kathmandu after regaining his health, he discovers that his wife is dead and becomes grief-stricken. Madan comes to realize that money is of no value at that point. In this poem, Devkota has written about the biggest problems of the then Nepalese society. Just before his death in 1959 he", "title": "Muna Madan" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.09, "text": "Department, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. Devkota contributed to Nepali literature by starting a modern Nepali language romantic movement in the country. Born in Nepal, he was the first to begin writing epic poems in Nepali literature. Nepali poetry soared to new heights with Devkota's innovative use of language. Departing from the Sanskrit tradition that dominated the Nepali literary scene at the time, being inspired from the Newar language (a Sino-Tibetan language) ballad song Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni, he wrote Muna Madan (1930), a long narrative poem in popular \"\"jhyaure bhaka\"\" folk tune. Muna Madan is undoubtedly the most sold book", "title": "Laxmi Prasad Devkota" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.62, "text": "Gyanendra Deuja Gyanendra Deuja (born 5 May 1967) () is a Nepali film writer and director. He directed his first movie in 1997, \"\"Rakshak\"\" where the first underwater action scene was directed. He then started a trend of adding one extra feature in his all movies that had never been shot before. He is known for his movie \"\"Muna Madan\"\" () based on the poem written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota and Muna Madan. This movie was Nepal's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2004. He is known for his shooting with different camera angles and a", "title": "Gyanendra Deuja" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.25, "text": "Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni \"\"Ji Wayā Lā Lachhi Maduni\"\" (Devanagari: जि वया ला लछि मदुनि) (\"\"It hasn't been a month since I came\"\") is a traditional Nepalese song about a Tibet trader and his newly wed bride. The ballad in Nepal Bhasa dates from the late 18th century. This tragedy song has been cited as the source of \"\"Muna Madan\"\", a short epic story in the Nepali language composed by Laxmi Prasad Devkota in 1936. The ballad \"\"Ji Wayā Lā Lachhi Maduni\"\" is in the form of a dialogue. There are three persons, husband, wife and mother-in-law. The man", "title": "Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.22, "text": "society. Rakshak was a highly controversial movie as it had picked maoist issues and was released during the civil war. Rakshak was followed by ‘gorkhali’ and ‘daghbatti’ in the late nineties and early 2000’s. Then he did ‘muna – madan’ based on an epic love poem by the great poet lakshmi prasad devkota (nepali: महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटा). It was the biggest movie of its time, which was nominated for the 76th academy awards of 2004 on foreign language category and was also screened on palm springs film festival the same year. Muna madan was a highly talked about movie in", "title": "Gyanendra Deuja" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 22.2, "text": "Usha Poudel Usha Poudel (born 18 July, in Janakpur) is a Nepalese dancer and movie actress. Usha debuted in Nepali movie industry as an actress in Nepali movie \"\"Karma\"\". Her second movie \"\"Muna Madan\"\" made on a popular book titled Muna Madan, by Laxmi Prasad Devkota in 1999. Usha Poudel married a Nepali actor Sudhanshu Joshi in a ceremony held in Virginia, USA on 24 November 2016. Rukmani Kumari Paudel (Usha) is a highly renowned actress from Nepal with over 40 feature films including \"\"Karma\"\", \"\"Muna Madan\"\", \"\"Godhuli\"\", \"\"Timro Maya\"\", \"\"Pyari Bahini\"\", \"\"Ganga\"\", \"\"Jetho Kancho\"\", \"\"Ram Laxman\"\", \"\"Baaz\"\", \"\"Krodh\"\" and", "title": "Usha Poudel" } ]

[ "Antjie Krog" ]

[ { "hasanswer": false, "score": 26.39, "text": "to, inspired by, and grounded in the TRC (see President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu). Third, it is biographical, in terms of the author being extremely honest, open, and self-analytical about her own position and experience relative to the TRC - racially as a white Afrikaner, professionally as a radio journalist, emotionally as someone grappling with her nation's bloody past, and personally as her experiences covering the TRC affect her intimate life. \"\"Country of My Skull\"\" is written as an amalgamation of journalism, prose, personal narrative, and poetry - all of which Krog has been celebrated for - with", "title": "Country of My Skull" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.39, "text": "Country of My Skull Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The book is, in reality, an intersectional, interdisciplinary analysis of the Commission's potential and realized effects on post-Apartheid South Africa. The book can be understood as having three main elements: First, it is a collection of accounts from the TRC hearings - direct testimony of the terrible human rights violations on all sides of the struggle against Apartheid. Second, it is an exploration and analysis of political and moral philosophy relevant", "title": "Country of My Skull" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 26.08, "text": "the goal of capturing the overwhelming moral, emotional, and historical complexity of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. In 2004, the book was adapted into the film \"\"In My Country\"\" by director John Boorman starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. Country of My Skull Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The book is, in reality, an intersectional, interdisciplinary analysis of the Commission's potential and realized effects on post-Apartheid South Africa. The book can be understood as having three", "title": "Country of My Skull" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.86, "text": "United Nations and signifies that the issue of corrective rape is becoming more discussed on an international level. Some novels and movies have also delved into this issue in its connection to the Apartheid. Antjie Krog’s \"\"Country of My Skull\"\" delves into the Truth and Reconciliatory Commission and the reports of women that were victims of sexual violence during the Apartheid. J.M. Coetzee’s novel, \"\"Disgrace\"\", has been accused of racism as it depicts a young white woman being raped by three black men in her house in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The book, \"\"The Writing Circle\"\", by Rozena", "title": "Sexual violence in South Africa" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.7, "text": "In My Country In My Country is a 2004 drama film directed by John Boorman, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. The movie is centered around the story of Afrikaner poet Anna Malan (Binoche) and an American journalist, Langston Whitfield (Jackson), sent to South Africa to report about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. The screenplay, written by Ann Peacock, was based on Antjie Krog's memoir \"\"Country of My Skull\"\". A special screening of the film was held for Nelson Mandela in December 2003 in the presence of John Boorman, Juliette Binoche and Robert Chartoff. The film", "title": "In My Country" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 21.33, "text": "South Africans. Berlin Film Festival 2004 In My Country In My Country is a 2004 drama film directed by John Boorman, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. The movie is centered around the story of Afrikaner poet Anna Malan (Binoche) and an American journalist, Langston Whitfield (Jackson), sent to South Africa to report about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. The screenplay, written by Ann Peacock, was based on Antjie Krog's memoir \"\"Country of My Skull\"\". A special screening of the film was held for Nelson Mandela in December 2003 in the presence of John Boorman, Juliette", "title": "In My Country" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 21.2, "text": "Michael Irwin (author) Thomas Arthur Michael Irwin, (born 3 May 1934) is a British Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent and author of several works of fiction, as well as scholarly books. His 2013 novel, \"\"The Skull and the Nightingale\"\" is, according to WorldCat, held in more than 500 libraries. Irwin was born in London, and was educated at William Ellis School, Camden and Exeter College, Oxford. He earned a BLitt and MA. Irwin taught at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (1958–59), the University of Tokyo (1961-63), the University of Lodz (1963–65) and Smith College,", "title": "Michael Irwin (author)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.97, "text": "A novelization by Ryder Windham was released in April 2008 by Scholastic to tie in with the release of \"\"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\"\". A previous novelization by Scottish author Campbell Armstrong (under the pseudonym Campbell Black) was concurrently released with the film in 1981. A book about the making of the film was also released, written by Derek Taylor. The film was released on VHS, Betamax and VideoDisc in pan and scan only, and on laserdisc in both pan and scan and widescreen. For its 1999 VHS re-issue, the film was remastered in THX and made available in widescreen.", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.88, "text": "The Jewel in the Skull The Jewel in the Skull is a fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, first published in 1967. The novel is the first in the four volume \"\"The History of the Runestaff\"\". 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. Count Brass, Lord Guardian of the Kamarg (a territory that had once been a part of a nation called France), inspects his territories. On his return journey to his castle at Aigues-Mortes he", "title": "The Jewel in the Skull" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 20.73, "text": "The Skull (short story) \"\"The Skull\"\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 in \"\"If\"\", and later in \"\"The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick\"\". It has since been republished several times, including in \"\"Beyond Lies the Wub\"\" in 1988. Conger, the protagonist, is given a chance to get out of jail if he agrees to travel back in time and kill a man. Conger's target appeared in 1960 in a small town and spawned a new religious movement which radically changed the world over the next few hundred years. Conger", "title": "The Skull (short story)" } ]

[ "Eleanor Arnason", "Eleanor Atwood Arnason", "Eleanor A. Arnason" ]

[ { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.39, "text": "A Woman of the Iron People A Woman of the Iron People is an anthropological science fiction novel by Eleanor Arnason, originally published in 1991. It is a first contact story between peoples from a future Earth and an intelligent, furred race of \"\"people\"\" who live on an unnamed planet far from Earth. Along with \"\"White Queen\"\", \"\"A Woman of the Iron People\"\" won the inaugural James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1991. The later paperback edition consisted of two separate volumes, \"\"In the Light of Sigma Draconis\"\" and \"\"Changing Women\"\", split at the natural dividing point of the novel. \"\"A", "title": "A Woman of the Iron People" }, { "hasanswer": true, "score": 27.39, "text": "A Woman of the Iron People A Woman of the Iron People is an anthropological science fiction novel by Eleanor Arnason, originally published in 1991. It is a first contact story between peoples from a future Earth and an intelligent, furred race of \"\"people\"\" who live on an unnamed planet far from Earth. Along with \"\"White Queen\"\", \"\"A Woman of the Iron People\"\" won the inaugural James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1991. The later paperback edition consisted of two separate volumes, \"\"In the Light of Sigma Draconis\"\" and \"\"Changing Women\"\", split at the natural dividing point of the novel. \"\"A", "title": "A Woman of the Iron People" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 25.11, "text": "The Iron Woman (novel) The Iron Woman is a novel of manners by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community that represents Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel tells the story of Mrs. Maitland, a leathery old widow who owns and operates an iron mill. Her devotion to a Puritanical work ethic alienates her son Blair, who though he stands to inherit the business, is headstrong and in love with Elizabeth Ferguson, a match Mrs. Maitland disapproves of. It was first published in installments in \"\"Harper's Monthly\"\" from November 1910", "title": "The Iron Woman (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.95, "text": "through October 1911. The Iron Woman (novel) The Iron Woman is a novel of manners by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community that represents Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel tells the story of Mrs. Maitland, a leathery old widow who owns and operates an iron mill. Her devotion to a Puritanical work ethic alienates her son Blair, who though he stands to inherit the business, is headstrong and in love with Elizabeth Ferguson, a match Mrs. Maitland disapproves of. It was first published in installments in \"\"Harper's Monthly\"\"", "title": "The Iron Woman (novel)" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.62, "text": "The Iron Woman The Iron Woman is a science fiction novel by British writer Ted Hughes, published in 1993. It is a sequel to \"\"The Iron Man\"\". \"\"The Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind for its thoughtless polluting of the seas, lakes and rivers\"\" says the introduction to the novel. It references sexism, in that the iron woman exacts her revenge on a seemingly ignorant/uncaring male community (in the waste disposal plant) for polluting the area in which she lives; however, the book is more of an attack on society for the oblivious ways in which for", "title": "The Iron Woman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 24.14, "text": "taken away by the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon from the first novel, \"\"The Iron Man\"\". When the Iron Woman turns the men back to their human forms, all their hair is white, as though it has been bleached or they have aged. The Iron Woman The Iron Woman is a science fiction novel by British writer Ted Hughes, published in 1993. It is a sequel to \"\"The Iron Man\"\". \"\"The Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind for its thoughtless polluting of the seas, lakes and rivers\"\" says the introduction to the novel. It references sexism, in that the iron woman", "title": "The Iron Woman" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.81, "text": "much the humans should intervene on the planet. Questions are raised about the policy of intervention. Nia is the eponymous woman of the Iron People and a native of the alien planet. Li Lixia is a human from the expeditionary force to the planet; the bulk of the novel is written from her viewpoint. Derek is another human from the expeditionary force. He joins up with Nia and Lixia early on. The Voice of the Waterfall is a male of the same species as Nia. He joins Nia and Lixia when the spirit of his waterfall tells him to follow.", "title": "A Woman of the Iron People" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.67, "text": "racially diverse characters, including, but not limited to, a heroine of Chinese descent in \"\"A Woman of the Iron People\"\" and a Hispanic heroine in Ring of Swords. In addition, her Lydia Duluth stories present a future in which an overwhelming majority of humans have dark brown and black toned skins as the best protection against the radiation of many stars. Arnason had intermittent activist politics outside of her work as an author, working in a campaign office in New York, collecting and transporting supplies for striking coal miners in Kentucky, becoming a local and national official in the National", "title": "Eleanor Arnason" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 23.14, "text": "Woman of the Iron People\"\" is divided into two parts. The first primarily deals with Lixia's growing understanding and involvement with life on the planet. Soon after arriving on the planet she meets Nia and starts to pick up the \"\"language of gifts\"\", which is a sort of trade language, from her. They leave their current location and journey west, meeting Derek and the Voice of the Waterfall along the way. The second part of the novel deals primarily with the question of intervention. The various factions of humans, most of whom are still in space, disagree as to how", "title": "A Woman of the Iron People" }, { "hasanswer": false, "score": 22.69, "text": "The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman () is a 1984 picture book, ostensibly for very young children, written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Hamish Hamilton. It satirises the Falklands War. The book presents the story of the war in the format of a picture book for young children. It is written in a simple style with large, brightly coloured illustrations. Neither the Falkland Islands, the belligerent countries, nor their leaders are named in the text. Instead, the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the Argentine", "title": "The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman" } ]