Question: Rafael Ábalosis a Spanish author of the bestseller book, "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007, a ccording to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s 2003 mystery-detective novel?

Context articles: Bestseller
Rafael Ábalos
Tad Hills
One Ring
Alfred Kropp series
Rebecca Makkai
The Da Vinci Code
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
Delia Gallagher
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel)

A bestseller is a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.
 Some lists are broken down into classifications and specialties (number one best selling new novel, nonfiction book, cookbook, etc.).
 An author may also be referred to as a bestseller if their work often appears in this category.
 Well-known bestseller lists in the U.S. are published by "Publishers Weekly", "USA Today", "New York Times" and the "Washington Post".
 Most of these lists track book sales from national and independent bookstores, as well as sales from major internet retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Rafael Ábalos (born 12 October 1956 in Archidona, Málaga) is a Spanish author of the bestseller book "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007.
 The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity.
 According to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code"", and gave it a positive review.
 The book was published by "Random House".
Tad Hills (born April 1, 1963 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American children’s book author and illustrator.
 His first picture book, "Duck & Goose", a "New York Times" bestseller and ALA Notable Book for Children, is about a pair of feathered friends.
 In a starred review, "Kirkus Reviews" wrote that “readers will likely hope to see more of this adorable odd couple”—a hope that was realized.
 The Duck & Goose series now contains nine titles, including "Duck, Duck, Goose"; "Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin"; and "Duck & Goose, It’s Time for Christmas".
 Hills is also the author of "How Rocket Learned to Read", winner of the Irma Simonton Black & James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature and a "New York Times" bestseller.
 A sequel, "Rocket Writes a Story", was published to similar acclaim, debuting at #1 on the "New York Times Best Seller List" and named as a top picture book of the year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, "Publishers Weekly", and "School Library Journal".
The One Ring is an artefact that appears as the central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" (1954–55).
 It is described in an earlier story, "The Hobbit" (1937), as a magic ring of invisibility.
 In the sequel, "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien ascribes to the Ring a darker character, with malevolent power going far beyond conferring invisibility: it was created by Sauron the Dark Lord as part of his design to win domination over Middle-earth.
 "The Lord of the Rings" concerns the quest to destroy the Ring to keep Sauron from fulfilling his design.
The Alfred Kropp series is a series of critically acclaimed fantasy young adult novels by Rick Yancey.
 The first book, "The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp", received a starred review from "Publishers Weekly" and was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal.
 The second book, "Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon", received a positive review from "Publishers Weekly" and was released in May 2007.
 The third book, "Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull", was already written and on the store shelves for sale, but was announced by Yancey in "Publishers Weekly" in April 2006
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.
 Her first novel, "The Borrower", was released in June 2011.
 It was a "Booklist" Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an "O Magazine" selection, and one of "Chicago Magazine's" choices for best fiction of 2011.
 It was translated into seven languages.
 Her short stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship.
 Her fiction has also appeared in "Ploughshares", "Tin House", "The Threepenny Review", "New England Review", and "Shenandoah".
 Her nonfiction has appeared in "Harpers" and on Salon.com and the "New Yorker" website.
 Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's "Selected Shorts" and "This American Life."
 Her second novel, "The Hundred-Year House", is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in "Booklist", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal".
 It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.
 Her short story collection, "Music for Wartime", was published by Viking in June 2015.
 A starred and featured review in "Publishers Weekly" said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.”
 "The Kansas City Star" wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown.
 It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris, when they become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ having been a companion to Mary Magdalene.
 The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the finding of the first murder victim in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed similar to Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the "Vitruvian Man", with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on his chest in his own blood.
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.
 It is an annotated reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".
 Hammond and Scull proceed chapter-by-chapter from the original foreword through to the end of "The Lord of the Rings".
 Appendices, examining the evolution of the text, changes, inconsistencies, and errors, often using comments from Tolkien's own notes and letters.
 Other sections cover the numerous maps of Middle-earth, chronologies of the story and its writing, and notes on the book and jacket design of the first editions of 1954-55.
 The book includes some previously unpublished material by Tolkien.
 It also reprints part of a 1951 letter in which Tolkien explicates, at some length, his conception and vision of "The Lord of the Rings".
 Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" (previously referred to as "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings"), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.
 It is available in both hardcover and paperback.
Delia Buckley Gallagher (born 11 March 1970) is an American journalist based in Rome who currently serves as the Senior Editor for "Inside the Vatican" magazine.
 She formerly served as CNN’s Faith and Values Correspondent.
 Based in New York, Gallagher was a long time CNN Vatican Analyst, Vaticanologist, and religious journalist.
 Prior to joining CNN full time, she lived in Rome for 7 years.
 In Rome, she wrote a weekly column for Zenit News Agency and was a contributing editor for the magazine.
 The History Channel Documentary, "Angels and Demons Decoded" released by A & E Television Networks profiled Gallagher commenting on Dan Brown's bestseller book which was made into a movie.
 Subsequently, Gallagher moderated the Angels and Demons movie press conference film debut in Rome on stage with Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Dan Brown often speaking in Italian and English.
 She knows Pope Benedict XVI personally and travelled extensively with John Paul II, including his last trip to Poland.
 Upon the death of Pope John Paul II, she broadcast and commented for CNN Worldwide covering the unfolding event.
The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse (Spanish: "Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis" ) is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, first published in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.
 Its 1918 English translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan became the best-selling novel in the U.S in 1919 according to "Publishers Weekly", who hailed it as "a superbly human story told by a genius".
 The novel was included in the list of 100 best novels of the twentieth century by the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo".